Connecticut western news., 1890-05-21
In this country the torch put to the that have discharged hands

for good or bad reason; obstruc- tions 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 off ces the hour the paper was to go to press, or in mines the day the coal was to be delivered, or on house sca,foldings so the builder fails in keeping his contract-au these are only hard blow on the head of American labor, and cripple its arms, and lame it's feet, and pierce its heart. As result of one of our great Amer ican strikes you find that the opera tives lost four hundred thousand dol lars worth of wages, and have had poorer wages ever since. Traps sprung suddenly upon employers, and vio- lence, never took one knot out of the knuckle of toll, or put one farthing of wages into callous palm. Bar barism will never cure the wrongs of civilization. Mark thatl
 THE ETERNAL LAW OF RIGHT.
 Frederick the Great admired some land near his palace at Po.sdam, and he resolved to get it. It was owned by miller. He offered the miller three times the value of the property. The miller would not take 1t, because 1t was the old homestead, and he felt about it as Naboth felt about his vine- yard when Ahab wanted it. Frederick the Great was a rough and terrible man, and he ordered the miller into his presence; and the king, with a stick in his hand--a stick with which he sometimes struck his officers of state-said to this miller: ''Now, I have offered you three times the value of that property, and if you won't sell it I'll take it anyhow" The miller said: "Your majesty, you won't. J "Yes," said the king, II will take it. J ''Then," said the miller, eff your majesty does take it, I will sue you in the chancery court" At that threat Frederick. the Great yielded his infa- nous demand And the most imperi- ous outrage against the working classes will yet cover before the law. Vio lence and contrary to the law will never accomplish anything, but right eousness and according to law will ac. complish it.
 Well, if this controversy between Capital and Labor cannot be settled by human wisdom. it is time for us te look somewhere else for relief, and il points from my text roseate and jubi lant, and puts one hand on the broad cloth shoulder of Capital, and puts the other hand on the homespun covered shoulder of Foil, and says, with g voice that will grandly and gloriously settle this and settle everything Whatsoever ye would that mer should do to you, do ye even so te them" That is, the lady of the house hold will say: II must treat the maie in the kitchen just as I would like tt be treated if I were down stairs, and i were my work to wash, and cook, ane sweel. and it were the duty of th' maid in the kitchen to preside in thi. parlor." The maid in the kitchen must say: If my employer seems te be more prosperous than I, that is nc fault of hers. I shall not treat her ai an enemy. I will have the same in dustry and fidelity down stairs as would expect from my subordinates ii 1 happened to be the wife of a silk i'm porter"
 The owner of an iron mill, having taken dose of my text before leaving home in the morning, will go into hi foundry, and, passing into what il called the pudding room, he will SC, man there stripped to the waist, ant besweated and exhausted with the la bor and the toll, and he will say te him: "Why, it seems to be very ho in here. You look very much ex hausted. I hear your child is sick with scarlet fever. If you want you wages little earlier this week, so a to pay the nurse and get the medi cines, just come into my office an! time"
 KINDNESS INsUREs FAITHFULNEss.
 After awhile, crash goes the none, market, and there is no more demand for the articles manufactured in tha iron mill, and the the owner does no know what to do He says: Shall stop the mill, or shall run it on hal time, or shall 1 cut down the mem wages2" He walks the floor of hi counting room all day, hardly know ing what to do. Toward evening h. calls all the laborers together. They stand all around. some with arm akimbo, some with folded arms, won dering what the boss is going to d' now. The manufacturers says: "Men business is bad; I don't make twent, dollars where fused to make one hun dred. Somehow there is no demand now for what we manufacture, or bu very little demand You see, am a vast expense, and I have called yol together this afternoon to see wha you would advise. I don't want t. shut up the mill, because that woul' force you out of work, and you hay always been very faithful, and I lik you, and you seem to like me, and tn bairns must be looked after, and you wife will after awhile want a nev dress. I don't know what to do."
 There is a dead halt for minute o two, and then one of the workmel steps out from the ranks of his fellow and says: Boss you have been yer. good to us, and when you prospere
 we prospered, and now you are in
 tight place, and am sorry, and W have got to sympathize with you.
 don't know how the others feel, but
 propose that we take off twenty pc cent from our wages and that whe, the times get good you will remembe us and raise them again." The work
 man looks around to his comrade