Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1890-05-23
CAPITAL AND LABOR.
Oh. TALMAGE BREACHES ON THEIR
PROPER RELATION.
10 tho Common Eye There seems Great
Conflict just Now, but the Eye ofFaith
Discerns n Remedy Near Straight
Road to Reconciliation

Academy Of Music but experts next Sep
ttepber TO have the main auditorium of
4he New Tabertiaclo ready for'u use in ythe
holdins; of services Afterttthe usual pre-
iiniuary exercises this morning, Dr. Tai
I,nage preached on The OK Fight to,Ee
sSettIcd." from the text: "WhatsUeyer ye
would That 1ntn should do to you, DO yo
even so to them MEET. vii, IL. Follow
ing Is the sermon in fClA
E Two hundred and iiftyithousand laborcrs
in HYDE park, London land tho streets of
American and European cities flied with
tpruce ssious Of woT6mon carrying banners,
Irings the sr)jeco of Labor and Capital to
The trout. That all thisTvas, done in peace
and thet cs a result in many places arbi
l1raiiop has Vaken place. is hopeful sign.
The greatest war the WORTH has ever seen
IS between capital and labor, The strife is
qilot Ike that which in history'is called the
-Thisty Yea1yS3 IYnr, 65r it is - WIZ of cen
ttlriesi, it is war Of Shr five-conti,lents, it
ia d svesr heIaisoherio The middle classes
IA thisc1entry, upon Y HON the n1tiOn has
t9epended FOR holding the balance OF power
and for acting as lnediators between tho
two extremes, axe diunpl Sung; and II
things 70 on al the snrnc ratio as they have
for the last twenty years been going on, it
will not be very long before there will be To
pn3@ale class in this country, but all viii be
very rich OF Very poor, Princes or penpers,
anS The cotntlvswiu beUiven up to palaces
and hovels.
DANGER IN PRESENT METHODS.
The antarpflistic forces have again and
again closed in upoh each other. You may
pooh poohit; you MAJ Say thai this Grcu-
Bile, like an angry child. wal cry Itself to
sleep; you may b0iittle libby calling 1t fou-
.1,ierism or .S1GcioliSm or 81. Sil2Drism, or
B.,
hinder tlfefac5 that IL IS the mightiost, the
darkest, the41BosttcrTjtjc tbreat of this cen
tury Most of the attempts at paciiication
hove been dead failures, aud monopoly is
anone arrogant and the Grades unions more
bitter. GIVE US more wages cry the en-
ployes "YOu shsi1 have less, saYthe CAPT
talists "Compdf us to DO fewer hours Of
toll in a day" You shall toll more
bo,lrs. saw the others ''rhen, under Ger
tom conditions. we will not work at Gll '
say tbeses "Then you shall stGrve,' say
those and the worSmeu gradually using
up that which they accumulated in better
times, unless there 1)esoDc radical change,
we shall haze soon in thisc0untry three
million hungry men and women Now,
threc million hungry people cannot he kept
Quiet Al the enGc-ollelts of legislatures
and all the cOnstGbila'ic. of the cities, ard
all the army and navy Of the United States
cannoo he- p '-fee lHl-Ioi nu-Jsly tl'i'e
quiet WhaV thelf WIZ 'Hi' W1r oel"e.u
doms Never. The brow OF the one be
comes more rigid, .theGisto of the other more
c.iDCE"G.
But that which human wisdom cannot
achieve VIII be accomplished Dy C.-i.stI;.a-
1iN II III DC gwen -.'-l N"'-l. i"t H'' &
heard Of nne!c-AeSs So roNti.'I lI.. ""'
drop would sop H:ei7t @'-'. fla'ofe q
pH,ieAt, HHc nave q" zen you '-I', Oh
ci'2 % my tlN' pH"p'-i| "'l.iil.-l '.'.' Al
sop al these woes Ga society ANA 64'' con,
NtltS'a'|c' '5u" ''" -i''- a.
c!a'.,' N"'7o11er S' "'"-'
should 90 to you 60 ic even So d. ...-''..'
shnA Hr7I Sho" you '-'' ii''.'i-. -''''
tLIS cph.FoNt'@! u-."e..4 3" -" '''',
hard WORK clh-"t Or s,'.a ' 'A,'
Will S!lr" S3u 40" t''9 '"''.''' ~'.A N''t ''
settled.
FUTILE rcne'Ie5. IN 'No hf7o ..ac' 'i'''
will come no P->LIcatDh 10 ans 'to~"!'
through an ou'cfF a-'l -', ,+'.' ''1-il I.!'''
~ because thoy arc fIc1. He-3 Is ''' H.. u.
ing man on earth thit Wo,Iu n"I DE- ven
he could be. sometimes tA'oA5h iori-
nate INVENTION or IAro0-n some acal.'A
o. prosperity, man VINO ma" ho'Alh,
comes to large estate, ana we see hih arr"
giant ana supercillous, ana taiHnS F@op!
by the tArodt 1uSt as o'her people to"A MN
by the THROAT.
There IS something very mean ahoat hu
man nature When 1t comes TO the top.. d"
dts no more SIN TO be r4cn than 10 IS a sli
TO be poor 4hsge are those VINO nav
gathered great estete through fraud, an
then there are mIlhoni2reS Who hay
gathered thelr forfnne thro4sh loreSi =
IN regard 10 changes IN tAo hl''ii1e0S' ant
through hTIlllant puSiheSs lacoNY' am
every dollar OF then estate 10 as honest a
the dollar " hlc4 the plumoer gets 10
intending Il pipe or the mason gets 10
building a wall There are those wa
keep IL poVeITy because OF 'neaf own iauU
lncy might pave neaA Weil OIL nuU tAe
SMOKED or choWeu up IAeH eErn-ng9'
they hVed beyond their mems Whiieo'ner
on the ap!e wages aaH On INC same sal@'
1es weneoA TO competency kno" d ma
VINO Is all Tue iIme ccuplGlhlh9 OF N