The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1890-05-28


little finger.
Neither viii there be any paciflca-
ton Of thisang1y controversy through
violence. God never blessed murder.
Blow up tomorrow the country seats
on the banks OF she Hudson, and I'll
the fire 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
Oh tie bare head OF American labor.
The worst enemies Of the working
classes IN tne United States and
Ireland are their demented co-adiu-
tors. : few years ago assassination
the assassination Of Lord Frederick
Cavendish and MI. Burke IN Phoenix
park, Dublin. Ireland, IN the attempt
to ayenge the wrongs OF Ireland
only turned away from that afflicted
people millions Of sympathizers. The
sttemvt to blow up the house Of COM
nous, in London, had only this effect:
to throw out Of employment tens Of
thousands of innocent Irish people in
England.
In this country the torch put to the
factories that lave discharged hands
ior good or bad reason; distinctions
On the rail track IN front Of midnight
express trains because the offenders
do not like the president of the COM
nany: strikes on shipboard the hour
tney were going to sail; Grin printing
offices the hour the paper was TO go
10 press, or in mines the day the coal
was to be delivered, Or on house
scaffoldinss 50 the builder fails in
keeping his contract--ail these are
only q hard blow On the head Of
American labor, and cripple its arms,
and lame It's ieeS. aid pierce its
heart. As result Of one OF our great
American strikes you find that the
operatires lost 100000 worth OF
ges, and have had poorer wages ever
since. Traps sprung suddenly upon
employers, and violence, never took
one knot out OF the knucllles OF toll,
OF put one farthins OF wages into .
cal1ous palm. Earbar;s,4 VIII never
cure the wrongs OF civilization. Mark
that.
r this controversy between Capital
and Labor Cannot be settled by human
wisdom, it is time for US to look
somewhere else for relief. and 1t
points from my text roseate and jub,-
liant, and puts one hand on the broad
clJth shoulder OF Capital, and puts
the other hand of the Aomespun-
covered shoulder OF Toll, and says.
with voice that will gaadly and
gloriously settle this, and settle every
thing, "Whatsoever ye would thatmcn
should DO to you. do We even so to
them
The owner OF IN IRON mil. having
taken dose Of my text before leav-
ing home in the morning, Will so
into his foundry, and, passing into
what is called the pudding room, he
will see man there stripped to the
waist, and besweated and exhausted
with the labor and the toll, and he
Will say to hin: why, it seems 70
be very bot in here You look very
much exhausted. I hear your child
IS sick with scarlet fever. # you
want your wages g little earlier this
week so as to pay the nurse and get
the medicine just cone into my Office
any time
After awhile, crash goes the money
market, and there is nomore demand
for the articles manufactured in that
iron mill, and the owner. does not
know what to do. He says, Shall I
stop the mill, or shall I r,n it on
half-tine, or shall I cut down the
mems wagesb?" He walks the floor
of bis counting-room all day, hardly
knowing what to do. Towards eEec
ing he calls all the laborers together.
They stand al around, some with
arms ahmbo, some with folded arms,
wondering what the boss is going to
do now. The manufacturer says:
sNIen, business is bad; I don't make
$50 where I used to make one hun
dred. Somehow there is no demand
now for what we manufacture, orbut
veryi little demand. You see, am at
vast expense, and 7 have called you
together this afternoon to sec what
you would advise I Idont.Tant to shut
up the, mill because that would force
YOU out of work and you havealways
been very faithful, and I like you,
and you seem to like me, and the
BARNS must be looked after, and your
wife will after awhile want g new
dress. I don't know what to do.
There is a dead halt for s. minute
OF two, and then one Of the workmen
steps out from the ranks OF his fel-
lows, and says: BOSS, you have been
very good to us, and when you pros
pered we prospered, and now you
are..in tight place, and I am sorry,
and we have got to sympathize.. with
you. T don't know how the others
feel, but L propose tnat We take OIL
20 per cent. from our wages. and that
when the times get good you will re
member us and raise them again:
The workman looks around to his
comrades, and says: "Boys, what do
you say to this! All in favor Of my
proposition Will say ay.
SAY: ay! ay." Shout two hundred
voices
| But the mill-ovner, getting in some
new machinery, exposes himself very
| much, and takes cold, and it settles
into pneumonia, and he dies, In the
procession to the tomb are all the
workmen, tears rolling down their
cheeks, and of upon the ground, but
an hour before the procession gets to
the cemetery the wives and the chill,
dren OF those worlmen are at the
grave waiting for the arrival Of the