Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1890-05-19
THE GOLDEN RULE.
THE PREACHER OF THE TABERNACLE WOULD
CURE ALL ILLS
Of Which the Financial and Labor World Complains
The Struggle Between Capital and
LabOr-How Their Interests
May Be Welded.
Speeial 7slsaram to ne Rsaister.

Special telegram 10 the Register.
BROOKLYN, May lS.-The Tabernacle
congregation is still worShipping in the
Academy of Music. but expects next
September to have the main auditorium
OF the New Tabernacle ready for use in
the holding OF services. After the usual
preliminary exercises this morning, DR..
Talmage preached on The Old Fight
TO be Settled" from the text: "What-
SOever ye would that men should do to
You, do you even so to them" Matt.
7;l2.) Following is the sermon in full:
Two hundred and fifty thousand labor
erS in Hyde Park, London, and the
streets of American and European cities
filed with professions of wOrkmen car
rying banners, brings the subject of
Labor and Capital to the front. That
all this was done in peace, and that as Il
result in many places, arbitration has
taken place, is 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 Il war of centuries, il is war of the
five continents, it is a war hemisphere.
The middle classes in this country upon
whom the nation has depended for hold
ing the balance of power and for acting
rs 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 going on, it will not
be very long before there will be no
middle class in this country, but all will
be very rich or very poor, princes or
pauperS, and the country will be given
up TO palaces and novels.
TIE ANTAGONIsTIC FORCES
have again and again closed in upon
each other. You may poOh-poOh il;
you may say that this trouble, like an
angry child, will cry itself to sleep; you
may belttle it by calling it FourieriSm,
or Socialism. or st. SimoniSm, or Nihi-
liSm. or Communism, but that will not
hinder the fact that it is the mightiest,
the darkest, the most terrific threat Of
this 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
i'm day." "YOu shall toll more hours, 5"
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 ac-
cumulated in better times, unless there
be some radical change, we shall have
soon I'm this country three million hun
gry men and women. Now, three mil
lion hungry people cannot 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 cannot keep three million
hungry people quiet. What then? VIII
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 elinched.
But that which human wisdom cannot
achieve will be accomplished by Christi
anity if it be given full sway. You have
heard Of medicines SO powerful that one
drop would stop a disease and restore a
patient: and have to tell You that one
drop Of my text properly administered
will stop all these woes of society and
give cOnValeScence and complete health
to all classes. Whatsoever ye would
that men should do to you, do ye even
so to them." l shall first show YOU this
morning how this controversy between
monopoly and hard work cannot be
stopped, and then l will show you how
this controversy will be settled.
REMEDIES THAT ARE FUTILE.
In the first place there will come no
pacitication to this trouble through an
outcry against rich men merely because
they are rich: There is no iaboring man
on earth that would not be rich if he
could be. Sometimes through FORUM
ate invention, or through some accident
or prosperity, man who had nothing
comes to large estate, and we see him
arrogant and SuperciliOuS, and taking
people by the throat just as other peO-
pie took him by the throat. There is
something very mean about human ma
ture when il comes to the top. But IL
is no more n sin to be rich than it it a
sin TO be poor. There are those
who have gathered great eS-
tate through fraud; and then
there are milliOnaires who have gath
cred their fortunes through foresight in
regard TO changes in the markets, and
through brilliant business faculty, and
every dollar of their estate is as honest
rs the dollar which the plumber gets
for mending pipe, or the mason gets
for building n wall. There are those
who keep in poverty because of their
own fault. They might have been well
of, but they smoked or chewed up their
earnings. or lived beyond their means,
while others OH the some wages and on
the same salaries went on 10 compe-
tencv. know q man who is all the
time complaining of his poverty ana
CRYING out against him, while he himself
keeps two dogs, and chcwS and smokes,
and is filled To the chin with whisky and
beer.
Neither will the contest be settled by
cynical and unSympathctic treatment OF
the laboring classes. There are those
who speak Of them as though they were
only cattle or draught-horSes. Iheir
nerves are nothing, their domestic COM
fort is nothing, their happiness IS moth
Ing. They have no more sympathy lor
them than a hound has for hare, or a
hawk for hen, or tiger for cai'
When Jean Vatican, the greatest nero
of Victor HugO's writings, after lie OF
suffering and brave endurance, goes into
incarceration and death, they clap tne
book shut and say. Good for him
They stamp their feet with indignation
and say Just the opposite OF save the
working classes" They have all their
sympathies with Shylock, and not with
Antonio and Portia. They are pluto
Gratis. and their feelings are Internal
They are filed with irritation and lraS-
cibility on this subject. To stop TINS
awful imbroglio between capital and Ia
Dor they will lift not SO much as the TIP
end of the little finger.
No PEACE THROUGH BLOODSHED'
Neither will there be any paciiicatlon
OF this angry controversy through ylo-
lence. God never blessed murder. Blow
up tomorrow the country-SeatS on the
banks Of the Hudson, and all the fine
houses on Madison Square and Brooklyn
Heights and Brooklyn Hill and Beacon
street, and all the bricks and timber and
stone will just fall back on the bare
head of American labor. The worst
...,,,,,. of tho working classes in the