The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-05-19

attempt 10 DloW up the mouse OF Commons,
in London, had only this effect: to throw
cut of employment tens of thousands of
innocent Irish people in England.
In this country the torch put to the fac
tories that have discharged hands for good
or bad reason; Instructions on the rail-
track In front of midnight express trains
because the offenders do not like the presi-
dent Of the company; strikes on shipboard
the hour they are going to sail, or ia print
ing offices the hour the paper was to go to
press, or in mines the day the coal was to be
delivered, or on house scatfoldings 50 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 fad that the operatives lost S4O0, 600
worth of wages, and have had poorer wages
ever since. Traps sprung suddenly upon
employers, and violence, never took one
knot out of the knuckle of toll. or put one
ferthing of wages into a callous palm.
Barbarism will never cure the wrongs of
civilization. Mark thatl
Frederick the Great admired some land
near his palace at Potsdam, and he resolved
to get it. 1t was owned by miller. He
offered the miller three times the value of
the property. The miller would not take
it, because 1t was the old homestead and he
felt about as Naboth felt about his vineyard
when Ahab wanted it. Frederick the Great
was rough and terrible man, and he
ordered the miller into his presence; and
the king, with stick Ia his hand-a stick
with which he sometimes struck his officers
of state-said to this miller: "Now, have
offered you three times the value of that
property, and If you won't sell it I'll take it
anyhow" The miller said, "Your majesty,
you won't.n "Yes." said the king, II will
take it," "Then,n said the miller, IF your
majesty does take it / will sue you in the
chancery court" Atthat threat Frederick
the Great yielded his infamous demand.
And the most imperious outrage against the
working classes will yet cover before the
law. Violence and contrary to the law
will never accomplish anything, but right
eousness and according to law will accom-
plish it.
Well, if 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 jubilant, and puts one hand on
the broadcloth shoulder of capital and puts
the other on the homespun-coyered shoulder
of toll, and says, with voice that will
grandly and gloriously settle this, and settle
everything, Whatsoever We would that
men should do to you, do ye even 80 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 downstairs, and it were my work to
wash and cook. and sweep, and it were the
duty OF the maid in the kitchen to preside
in this parlor.h The maid in the kitchen
must say: "lf my employer seems to me
more prosperous than l, that is no fault of
hers; L shall not treat her as an enemy. l
will have the same industry and fidelity
downstairs as | would expect from nv
subordinates if / happened to be the wife Of
a silk importer
The owner of an iron mill, having ftaken
a dose OF my text before leaving home in
the morning. will go into his foundry, and,
passing Into what is called the pudding
room, he will see man there Stripped TO
the waist, and besweated and exhausted
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.
Ii you want your wages little earlier this
week, so as to pay the nurse and get the
medicines, just come into my office any
time.n
After awhile, crash goes the money mar
ket, and there is no more demand for the
articles manufactured in that iron mill. and
the owner does know what to do. He saws.
'Shall stop the mill, or shall run it on
half time, or shall l cut down the mems
wagesW He walks the floor of his counting
room all day, hardly knowing what to do.
Toward evening he calls all the laborers
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, business is
bad; l don't make twenty dollars where
used to make one hundred Somehow
there is no demand now for what we manu-
facture, or but very little demand. You
see, am at vast expense, and have called
you together this afternoon to see what you
would advise. don't want to shut up the
mill, because that would force you out of
work, and you have always been very faith
full. and like you, and you seem to like me,
and the BARNS must be looked after, and
your wife will after awhile want new
dress. | don't know what to do.n
There is dead halt for minute or two.
and then one Of the workmen steps out
from the ranks Of his fellows and says:
"Boss, you have been very good to us, and
when you prospered we prospered, and now
you are In tight place and am sorry, and
we have got TO sympathize with you. |
don't know how the others feel, but pro-
pose that we take off twenty per cent. from
our wages. and that when the times get
good you will remember us and raise them
again" The workman looks around to his
and says: "Boys, what do you
say to this2 All in favor of my proposition
will say aye" "Ayel aye! ayep shout two
hundred voices.
But the mill-owner, getting in some new
exposes himself very much, and
takes cold, and it SETH into pneumonia.
and he dies. In the procession to the tomb
are all the workmeD, tears rolling down
their cheeks, and off upon the ground: but
an hour before the procession gets to the
cemetery the wives and the children of
those workmen are at the grave waiting for
the arrival of the funeral pageant The
minister of religion may have delivered an
eloquent eulogium before they started from
the house, but the most Impressive things
are said that day by the working classes
around the tomb.
That night in all the cabins Of the work
ing people where they have family prayers
the wfdowhood and orphanage ia the man
sion are remembered. No gleripg popula-
tions look over the iron fence of the ceme-
terry; but, lowering over the scene. the
of God and man is coming for
the fulhllment Of the Christlike injunction.
Whatsoever ye would that men should do
to you, do ye even 80 to them"
20" says some man here, "that Is all
Utoplan, that is apocryphal, that IS impos-
slble." No. | cut out OF paper this:
zone Of the pleasantest Incidents recorded
In long time is reported from Sheffield,
England. The wages of the men in the
iron works at Sheffield are regulated by a
board of arbitration, by whose decision
both masters and men are bound For
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