The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1890-06-04

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death, they clap the book shut and say,
Good for him." They stamp their feet
with Indignation and say just the OPP
posite Of Save the working classes
They have all their sympathies with
Shylock, and not with Antonio aad
Portia They are plutocrats, and til cir
feelings are internal. They are filled
with irritation and Feasibility on this
subject. To stop this awful imbroglio
between capital and labor they will lift
not so much as the tip-end of the little
finger.
Neither will there be any pacifcation
OF this angry controversy through vio-
lence. God never blessed murder.
Blow up tomorrow the country seats on
the banks OF the Hudson, ana all the
fine houses on Madison Square and
Brooklyn Heights and Brooklyn Hill
and Rittenhouse Square and Beacon
street, and all the bricks and timber and
stone will just fall back on the bare
head of American labor
The worst enemies of the working
classes in the United States and Ireland
are their demented adjutors. A few
years ago assassination-the assassina-
tion Of Lord Frederick Cavendish and Mr..
Burke in Phoenix Park, Dublin, Ireland,
in the attempt to avenge the wrongs of
lreland-only turned away from that
afflicted people millions of sympa:hizers.
The attempt to blow up the House of
Commons in London had only this effect,
to throw outof employment tens of thou
sands OF innocent Irish people in Eng
land.
In this country the torch put to the
factories that have discharged hands for
good or bad reason; distractions on the
rail-track in front of midnight express
trains because the offenders do not like
the president of the company; strikes
on shipboard the hour they were going
to sail, or in printing offices the hour
the paper was to 60 to press, or in mines
the day the coal was to be delivered, or
on house scaffoldings so the builder
fails keeping his contract-all these are
only hard blow on the head of Ameri-
can labor, and cripple its arms, and lame
its feet, and pierce its heart. As re-
suit of one Of our great American strikes
you find that the operatives lost $500, 900
worth Of wages, and have had poorer
wages ever since. Traps sprung sudden
ly upon employers, and violence, never
took one knot out of the knuckle of toll
or put one farthing of wages into cal
lous palm. Barbarism will never cure
the wrongs of civilization. Mark that!
Frederick the Great admired some
land near his palace at Potsdam, and he
resolved to get it. 1t was owned by a
miller. He offered the miller three
times the value of the property. The
miller would not take it, because it was
the old homestead, and he felt about it
as Naboth felt about his vineyard when
Ahab wanted it. Frederick the Great
was rough and terrible man, and he
ordered the miller into his presence;
and the King, with stick in his hand
"a stick with which he sometimes
struck his officers of state-said to the
miller: Now have offered you three
times the value of that property, and if
you don't sell it I'll take it anyhow"
The miller said: "Your Majesty, you
won't" YES" said the King, 81 will
take it," Then, said the miller, iii
Your Majesty does take it, will sue you
in the Chancery Court"
At that threat Frederick the Great
yielded Instantaneous demand. And the
most imperious outrage against the
worl1ing-classes will yet cover before
the law Violence and contrary to the
law will never accomplish any thing,
but RICH teousness and according to law
will accomplish it.
Well, if this controversy between cap
ital and labor can not be settled by hui
man wisdom it is time for us to look
somewhere else for relief, and it points
from my text roseate and jubilant, and
puts one hand on the broadcloth shoul
der of capital, and puts the other hant
onlthe homespun-covered shoulder of toll
and says, with voice that will grandly
and gloriously settle this, and settle
every thing: ''Whatsoever ye would d.
that men should do to you, do We ever
so Them That is, the lady of tn,
household will say: 81 must treat thu
maid in the kitchen just as | would like
to be treated if | were downstairs, ant
it were my work to wash, and cook, ant
sweep and it were the duty OF the mai'
in the kitchen to preside in this parlor.
Tho maid in the kitchen must say: 81
my employer seems to be more prosper
GUS than |, that is no fault of hers,
shall not treat her as an enemy. will
have the same industry and fidelit
downstairs as would expect from m
subordinates if happened to BIO the wifi
of a silk importer.
The owner of an iron mill, havin
taken dose OF my text before Leaving
home in the morning, will 60 into hi
foundry, and, passing into what is calle
: the pudding room, he will see ma
there stripped to the waist. and besweat
ed and exhausted with the labor an
the toll, and he will say to h!m: why
: it seems to be very hot in here. 70
look very much exhausted. hear you
child is sick with scarlet fever. II 20
, want your wages little earlier thi
week, so as to pay the nurse and get tn
medicines, Just come into my office an
time"
| After awhile. crash goes the none
. market, and there is no more deman
: for the articles manufactured in tina
: iron mill, and the owner does not kno'
/; what to do. He says: shall / sto
t the mill, or shall I run it on half-tim,
r or shall ! cut down the mems wagesr
+ He wa ks the floor of his cOuntinQ-rOol