Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1890-05-23

Beacon street, and all the bricks and tim
Der and stone will lust foil back on the
bare head of American labor. The worst
enemies " the working classes in the
United States and Ireland are their de
mcnted CONDUCTORS. A few years ago as
saqsination-th be ASSASSINATION Of Lori Fred
crict Cavcndish and Mr.. Burke in PhUniX
park. Dublin. ireland, in the attempt to
avenge the wrongs of lroland-Only turned
away from that afflicted people millions of
syrnpathizers. The attempt TO blow up
tbs house Of commons, in London, had only
this effect. to throw out Of employment
tens OF thousands of innocent Irish people
in England.
In ths country the torch put to the fac
tories that have discharged hands for good
or bad reason: distractions on the rail
truck in front Of midnight express trains
because the offenders do not like the pres-
dent of the company; strikes on shipboard
the hour they we're going to sail or in
printing offices the hour the paper was to
90 So press. or in mines the day the coal
was to be delivered, or on house scoifold-
ings so the builder fails in keeping his con
truct--aU these arc only a hard blow on
the head of American labor, and cripple
its arms, and lame its feet, and pierce It's
heart As result of one Of our greut
American strikes YOU find that the opera
tives lost four hundred thousand dollars
worth Of wages and hove had poorer wages
ever since. Traps sprung suddenly upon
employers and violence, never took one
knot out Of che knucGle of toll, or put one
farthing OF wages into a callous palm.
Barbnrism will never cure the wrongs Of
civilization Mark that
ETERNAL. JUSTICE COMMANDS.
Frederick the Great admired some land
near his palace at POtsdam and he resolved
TO get IT, 1t was owned 10y miller. lie
offered the miller three times the value Of
the property. The miller woulu 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 miiierinto mis- presence;
and the king, with stick in his hand-a
sticS with which he sometimes struck his
officers of statc-said to this miller: Nov,
/ have offered you three times the value Of
that property, ana If you won't sell it I'll
take it ANYHOW" The miller said: "Your
majesty, you won't" Yes. sai the king,
81 will take it.. Then, said the miller,
"if your majesty does take it l will sue You
in the chanccry court" At that threat
demand. And the most imperious outrage
against the workiGs classes will yet cover
before the law. Violence aud contrary to
the law will never accomplish anything
but Righteousness and according to law
vii accomplish it,
Well il this controversy between capital
and labor cannot be settled by human wis
dom, it is time for Us to look somewhere
else for relief, and it points from my text
roseate and jubiant, and puts one hand Oh
the broadClOth shoulder of CAPITAL, and
puts the other hand on the hOme.pun coy
cred shoulder Of toll, and says, with a voice
that will grandly and eiorio,.sly settle thi.
and settle everything. "W hatsoeVer yt
would that men should do to you, do "
even so to them" That is. the Lady of The
household will say: ~ must treat the maiC
in the kitchen just rs | would like TO be
treated if ! were downstairs, and it Wer,
my work to wash, and cook, aud sweep
and it We're the duty of he maid in TIL
Kitchen to preside ia this parlor' Th'
maid in the kitchen must say: IF my en-
uioycr seems TO be more prosperous than
that is no fault of hers; | shall not trea
her as un encmy win have the same in
Gustfy and fidelity downstairs a | wOulc
expect from my subogdinates if happcne,
to he the wife Of a silk importer.
The owner OF an iron mill, having takel
dose of my text before leaving home il
! the morning, will 80 into his foundry, and
passing into what is called the padding
room, he will see man there stripped t.
the waist, and besweated and eXhauste,
with tho labor and the toll, and he will sa
to him: why, it seems to be very hot il
here. You look very much exhausted.
I,o, x-p,,,. child * eigls With gcA1,ipt fpvpl
Ifwant your wages little earlier ,his week
50 70 to pay the nurse and get the med
cincs, Just come into my office ANY time,
After awhile, crash goes the none
market. and there is no more demand TO
the articles manufactured in that iron mil
and the owner does not know what 10 dc
He saws, "Shall | stop the mill. or shail
run it on halt time, or shall | cut down til
meus wages?" He walks the foor Of hi
counting room all day hurdly KNOWN
what to do Toward evening he calls a
the laborers together. They stand q
around, some with arms aEimbo, som
folded arms, wondering what the boss
going to 90 now. The manufacturer say
"Men, business is bad; | don t make twent
dollars where used to make one hundred
Somehow there is no demand now f.
what we manufacture, or but very lit
demand You see | am at vast eXpens
and have callYd you together this afte
noon TO see what you would advise.
/ don't want 10 shut up the mill, becaus
that would force you out Of work, and 20
have always been very faithful, and | hA
you, and you seem to Like me, and tt
J BARNS must be looked after, and your vii
win after awhile want a new dress.
don't know what to do"
THE GRATEFUL WORKMAN.
, There is a dad halt for a minute or tw
and then ono of the workmen steps OF
from the ranks of his fellows and say
Boss, you have been very good to US, ar
when you prospered we prospered, ar
now you arc in tight place, and I a
s sorry, and we have got to sympathiZo wit
. you. / don't know how the others fee
b but propose thet we take eff twenty p
! cent. from our wages, and that whom IL
4 times set good you will remember us al
0 raise them again" Tho workman lool
+ around TO his comrades, and says: boy
y what do you say to thisS All III favor
my proposition will say ay," "Ay' ayl ay
J shout two hundred voices.
i But the mill owner, getting in some ne