The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1890-05-30
11ALMAGE'S SERMON.
The Brooklyn Preacher Discourses
on the Labor Question.
The Golden Rule Advocated as the Plan
for the Adjustment of DincuI-
ties-The Future of the
Laborer.

tlon in the Brooklyn Academy OF Music,
taking for his text:
Whatsoever We would that men should do
10 you, do you even so to them.-Matt. will,
TwC-hun3rec and ffs- thousand la
borers in Hyde Park, London, and the
streets of American and f Iropean cities
filled with professions OF workmen car
rying banners, brings the subject of la
Dor and capital to the front That all
this was done in peace, and that as
result in many places, arbitration las
taken place, is a hopeful sign
The greatest war the world has ever
seen is between capital and labor. The
strife is not like that which in history
is called the Thirty Years War, for it
is war of centuries it is a war of the
five centuries, it is war hemisphere.
The middle classes in this country, up
on whom the Nation has depended for
holding the balance of power and for
acting as mediators between the two
extremes, are diminishing; and if
things go on at the same ratio as they
have for the last twenty years been GO
ing on, it will not be very long before
there will be no middle class in this
country, but all viii be very rich or
very poor, princes or paupers, and the
country be given up to palaces and
novels.
The antagOnistic forces have again
and again closed in upon each other.
You may pooh-pooh it; you may say that
this trouble, like an angry child, will
cry itself TO sleep; you may belittle it
by calling it Fourierism, or Socialism,
or ST Simonism, or .Nihilism, or Com
munism, but that will not hinder the
fact that it is the mightiest the dark
est, the most terrific threat of the
century. Most of the attempts at
pacifcation have been dead failures, and
monopoly is more arrogant, and the
trades unions more bitter. Give us
more wages" cry the employees. You
shall have less" say the capitalists.
Compel us to do fewer hours of toll in
day" You shall toll more hours, "
say the others. Then, under certain
conditions, we will not work at
ALL" say these. Then you shall
starve," say those, and the wOrkmen
gradually using up that which they &C
cumulated in better times unless there
be some radical change, we shall have
soon in this country three million
hungry men and women. Now, three
million hungry people can not be kept
quiet. All the enactments of Legisla-
lures, and all the constabularies of the
cities, and all the army and navy OF
the United States can not keep three
million hungry people quiet. What
then? Will this war between capital
and labor be settled by human wisdom?
Never. The brow of the one becomes
more rigid, the fist of the other more
clinched.
But that which human wisdom can
not achieve will be accomplished by
Christianity if it be given full sway.
You have heard of medicines so power
full that one drop would stop disease
and restore patient; and | have to tell
you thst one drop of my text properly
administered will stop all these woes Of
society, and give convalescence and
complete health to all classes. what
soever We would that men should do K
you, do We even so to them"
/ shall first show You this morning
how this controversy between monopoly
and hard work can not be stopped, ant
then will show you hOS~ this contro
versy wiz be settled.
In the first place there will como nd
pacification to this trouble through ar
outcry against rich men merely be
cause they are rich. There is no Ia
boring man on earth that would not b.
-ich il he could be. Sometimes through
fortunate invention, or through some
accident of prosperity o man who haC
nothing comes to large estate and W,
see him arrogant and supercilious, anC
taking people by the throat just a
other people took him by the throat
There is something very mean abou
human nature when it comes to tn,
top. But il is no more a sin to be ricl
than it is a sin TO be poor. There arr
those who have gathered a grea
estate through fraud, and ther
there are millionaires who hav,
gathered their fortunes through
foresight in regard to change
in the markets, and though brillian
business faculty, and every dollar o
their estate is as honest as the dolla
which the plumber gets for mending
pipe, or the mason gets for building
wall. There are those who keep il
poverty because of their own fault
They might have been we'll off, but the,
smoked or chewed up their earnings, o
they lived beyond their means, Will
others on the same wages and on tn
same salaries went on to potency.
know a man who is all the time com
planning of his poverty and crying on
against rich men, while he himsel
keeps two dogs, and chews and smokes
and is filled to the chin with whisky an
beerl
well, IL this controversy between
capital and labor can not be settled b.
human wisdom, it is time for US 20 lool
somewhere else for relief, and it point
from my text roseate and jubilant ant
puts one hand on the broadcloth shoul
der OF capital, and puts the other han
on the homespun-covered shoulder @
toll, and says, with a voice that vii
grandly and gloriously settle this, an
settle every thing. Whatsoever v
would that men should do to you,
We even so 10 them" That is
the lady of the household vii
say: Il must treat the maid in tn
kitchen just as ] would like to b
treated If were downstairs, and i
were nv work to wash, and cook, an,
sweep, and il were the duty of the mai
in the kitchen TO preside in the parlor.
The maid in the kitchen must say; u
my employer seems to be more prosper
GUS than |, that Is no fault of hers;
shAll not treat her as an enemy. ] vii
have the same industry and fdelit
-, st,sra ~ I v-ou1d expact from m