The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1890-05-23

London, had only this effect-to thrc~
out OF employment tens of thousands OF
innocent Irish people in England
In this country the torch put to TIE
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 go to press, or in mines the
day the coal was to be delivered, or on
house scaffoldings so the builder fails in
keeping his contract-all these are only
hard blow on the head of American
labor and cripple its arms and lame its
feet and pierce its heart AS a result of
one of our great American strikes you
find that the operatives lost $500, 600
worth of wages and have had poorer
wages ever since. Traps sprung sud
denly upon employers and violence
never took one knot out of thu knuckle
OF toll or put one farthing of wages into
callouS palm. Barbarism will never
cure the wrongs of civilization. Mark
that!
Frederick the Great admired some
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 or
dered 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 this miller:
Now, l have offered you three times
the value of that property and if you
won't sell it I'll take it any how" The
miller said: "Your Majesty, You won't t. y
Eyes" said the King. 81 will take it,
Then" said the miller, ''if your MAJ
esty does take it, will sue you in the
Chancery Court" AT that threat Fred
erick the Great yielded his infamous
demand. And the most imperious out
rage against the working classes will
yet cover before the law. Violence and
contrary to the law will never accom-
plish any thing, but righteousness and
according to law will accomplish it
Well, if this controversy betweed 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 shou!-
der of capital, and puts the other hand
on the homespun covered shoulder of
toll and says, with voice that will
grandly and gloriously settle this and
settle every thing: Whatsoever we
would that men should do to you, do We
even so to them" That is, the lady OF
the household will say: II must treat
the maid in the kitchen just as would
like to be treated if l were down stairs
and it were my work to wash and sweep,
and it were the duty of the maid in the
kitchen to preside in this parlor." The
maid in the kitchen must say: "If my
employer seems to be more prosperous
than l that is no fault of hers; I shall
not treat her as an enemy. l will have
the same industry and fidelity down
stairs as l would expect from my sub
ordinates if happened to be the wife
of silk importer"
The owner of an iron mill having
taken a dose of my text before leaving
home in the morning, will go into his
foundry, and passing into what is called
the puddling-room. he will see a man
there stripped to the waist and be-
sweated and exhaused with the labor
and the toll, and he will say to him:
"Why, it seems to be very hot in here.
You look very much exhausted. hear
your child is sick with scarlet fever. If
you want your wages a little earlier
this week, so as to pay the nurse and
get the medicine, just come into my
Office any me"
After while crash goes the money
market and there is no more demand fol-
the articles manufactured in that iron
mill, and the owner does not know what
to do. He says: ''Shall stop the mill
or shall run it on half time, or shall
cut down the mems wages?" He walk!
the floor of his counting room all day
hardly knowing what to do. Toward
evening he calls all the laborer:
together. They stand all around, some
with arms akimbo, some with folded
arms, wondering what the boss is going
to do now.
The manufacturer says: Men, bust
ness is bad; don't make $50 where
used TO make $780, Somehow there il
no demand now for what We manufact
ure, or but little demand. You see an
at vast expense, and 1 have called yoi
together this afternoon to see what yol
would advise. / don't want to shut III
the mill, because that would force yol
out of work, and you have always beer
very faithful, and like you, and yoV
seem to like me, and the BARNS must b,
looked after, and your wife will afte
, awhile want a new dress. / don't know
what to do"
There is dead halt for a minute o
two, and then one of the workmen step
, out from the ranks of his fellows an,
says: Boss, you have been very good t
us, and when you prospered we pros
pered, and now you are in tight place
and am sorry, and we have got to sym
pathize with you. don't know how tn
others feel, Tut propose that we tax
off twenty per cent. from our wages, an,
that when the times get good you viii
remember us and raise them again.
The workman looks around to his com
| rades and says: Boys, what do you sa
to this? All in favor of my proposition
: will say aye" AYE! aye! aye!" shou
two hundred voices
But the mill owner, getting in som
new machinery, exposes himself YER
much, and takes cold, and it settles int
pneumonia, and he dies In the pro
cession to the tomb are all the workmen
tears rolling down their cheeks and OF
upon the ground; but an hour before tn
procession gets to the cemetery tn
wives and the children of those work
men are at the grave waiting for tn
arrival of the funeral pageant TIL
minister of religion may have Delivers
an eloquent eulogium before they starte'
from the house but the most impreSSiy
things are said that day by the worhin