Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-05-19
CAPITAL AND LABOR
DR.. TALMAoE breaches ON THEIR
PROPER RELATION.


Il Straight Road to Reconciliation,
BROOKLYN, May 1s-The Tabernacle
congregation is still worshiping in the
Academy Of Music, but expects next Sep
TENDER TO have the main auditorium of
the New Tabernacle ready for use in the
holding OF services After the usual pre-
liminary exercises this morning, DIR. Tai
mage preached on 1.-THE Old Fight TO BE
Settled, - from the text; Whatsoever ye
would that men should do TO you, DO We
even 80 to them. "-Matt vii, IL. Follow
ing is the sermon In full;
Two hundred and fifty thousand laborers
in Hyde park, London, and the streets Of
American and European cities filled with
professions Of workmen carrying banners,
brings the subject Of Labor and Capital 70
the front That all this was done 10 peace,
and that as q result, in many places, afbi
tration has 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 a war of cen
turiss Il Is a war OF the five continents, it
Il war hemisphere. The middle classes
In this country, upon whom the nation has
depended for holding the balance fspowera
and for acting MS mediators between the
two extremes, are diminishing; and II
things 20 on at the same ratio as they have
for the last twenty years been going on, IL
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 tho country win be given up TO palaces
and novels
DANGER IN PRESENT METHODS
The antagonistic forces have again and
again closed in upon each other You may
pooh pooh IL; you may say that this trou-
ble. like an angry child, win cry itself to
sleep: YOU may belittle it by calling it Four
rierism, or Socialism, or St Simonism, or
Nihilism, or Communism, but that win not
hinder the fact that 1t is the mightiest, the
darkest, the most terrific threat of this cen
fury. Most of the attempts at paciication
have been dead failures, and monopoly is
more arrogant and the trades unions more
bitter "Give us more wages, cry the en-
Moves ssYou shall have less, saythe caplr
talists "Compel US to do fewer hours OF
toll in day" "You shall toll more
hours" say the others. ~"rhen, under Ger.
tain conditions, we will not work NJ all
aav these. "Then you shall starve,n say
those. and the workmcn gradually using
nm that which they accumulated in better
times. unless there be some radical change
we shall have soon in this country thret
million hungry men and women. Now
three million hungry people cannot be KEEP
quiet All the enactments of legislatures
and all the constabularies of the cities, ane
all the army and navy of the United State!
cannot keep three million hungry people
quiet. What them VIII this war between
capital and labor be settled by human wis
domP Never The brow of the one be
comes more rigid, TIE fist of the other more
clinched.
But that which human wisdom cnnno
achieve will be accomplished by Christian
ity II it be given full sway. You hav
heard of medicines SO powerful that on
drop would stop disease ana restore
patient, and have to tell you that on
drop OF my text properly administered Wi
atom all these woes of society and give con
yalescence and complete health TO al
CLASSES. "Whatsoevor We would that me-
ahoI1id do to YOU, do We even so to them.
shall first show you this morning hoV
this controversy between monopoly an
hard work cannot be stopped and then
will show YOU how this controversy Will
settled. -, ,.
Futile remedies In the first place ther
will come no pacincaton to this troubl
through an cutlery against rch men mere
iv hoaause they are rich. There is no labo
tng man on earth that would not be rich
he could be Sometimes through fortt
nate invention, or through some accluel
of prosperity, u man who had nothih
comes to large estate, and we see MIN arr
cant and superciious, and taking poop
by the throat just rs other people took hi
by the throat. s.4-r.
There Is something very mean about III
4. "a t,Nf hn tntN
itis no more Il sin to be rich than it is a 81
20 Ia poor. There are those who ha'
gathered a great estate through fraud, an
them there are millionaires who ha'
gathered their fortune through foresigl
"a regard to changes in the markets, nj
thronuh brilliant business faculty. M
every dollar of their estate is as honest
the dollar which the plumber gets I
mending pipe, or the mason gets .
building wall. There are those WI
keen In poverty because OF their own TAU
They might have been well off, but TIL
annexed or chewed up their earnings,
they lived beyond their means, while othe
ON Che same wages and on the Same saH
tes went on to competency. know a M
who is all the time complaining OF
poyerty and crying ont against rlch me
while he himself keeps two dogs, ~
cheWA ana SMOKES, anu ID iiiiO' w 'HN ~
with whisky and beerl
POVERTY AND RICHES BOTH HONORABLE
Micawber said to David Copperlie
1Copperfed, my boy, one pound incon
twenty shillings and siNpence cNpens
result misery. But Coppertield my %
one pound income. expenses nineteen 81
unas and sixpence; result, happiness. a
there are vast multitudes OF people W
ara kept poor because they are the Nlcu
of their Swn improyidence. II Is no SIN
~ -ieh and IL is no sin to bo poor p
a.. .gainst this cutlery which Ii
Against those who, through economy
ssif deniel sRd assiduity, have come
large fortune. This bombardment Oh 90
,nArcial success will never stop TINS cont
versv between capital and labor.
Nc,theg will the contest be settled
.xyrical and unsyrapathetio treatment
- Iaboring classes There are those
aneak Of them as though they were
cattle or drnugbt horses, Ihelr nerves
nothiun. their domestic comfort - noun,
They have no morrsy mpathy iortheih u
= hound has for hare, or haWK Il
Ran ar a tiger for a calf. When Jean
iean. the greatest hero OF VICTOR 5iut
writings after a life Of suffering anu VI
endurance, goes into incarceration
death, they clap the book shut ana
aGood for himlN They stamp their
with indignation and say just the opp,
~ aSave the working classes. Ihey .
ali their sympathies with Shylock, ana
xyIth Antonio and portia- They are pl
,ra,si and their feelings are internal, 4