Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1890-05-19


Brooklyn heights and Brooklyn hill
and Rittenhouse square and Beacon
street, and all the bricks and timber
and stone will just fall back on the
bare head of American labor. The
worst enemies of the working classes
in the United States and Ireland are
their demented coadjutors. A few years
ago assassination-the assassination of
Lord Frederick Cavendish and Mr.
Burke in Phoenix park, Dublin, Ire
land, in the attempt to avenge the
wrongs of Ireland-only turned away
from that afflicted people millions of
sympathizers The attempt to blow
up the house of commons in London,
had only this effect: to throw out of
employment tens Of thousands of in
nocent Irish people in England.
In this country the torch put to the
factories that have discharged hands
for good or bad reason; obstruc-
tons on the rail track in front of
midnight express trains because the
offenders do not like the president of
the company; strikes Oh shipboard
the hour they were going to sail, or
in printing offices the hour the paper
was to go to press, or in mines the
day the coal was to be delivered, Or
on house scaffoldings SO the builder
fails in keeping his contract-all these
are only a 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 Amer
lean strikes you find that the opera
tives lost four hundred thousand dol
lars worth of wages, and have had
poorer wages ever since. Traps sprung
suddenly upon employers, and VIC
lence, never took one knot out of the
knuckle of toll, or put one farthing
of wages into a callous palm. Bar
barism will never cure the wrongs of
civilization Mark that
THE ETERNAL LAW OF RIGHT.
Frederick the Great admired some
land near his palace at Po:sdam, and
| he resolved to get it. l. was owned
| by a miller. He offered the miller
| three times the value of the property.
The miller would not take it, because
| it was the old homestead, and he felt
| about it as Naboth felt about his vine
| yard when Ahab wanted it. Frederick
| the Great was a rough and terrible
man, and he ordered the miller into
| his presence; and the king, with a
| stick in his hand-a stick with which
| he sometimes struck his officers of
| state-said to this miller: Nov, [
| 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"
yes" said the king, II will take it."
''Then," said the miller, eff your
majesty does take it, will sue you in
the chancery coHrt." At that threat
Frederick the Great yielded his infa
nous demand. And the most imperi-
Gus outrage against the working classes
will yet cover before the law. VIC
lence and contrary to the law will
never accomplish anything, but right
eousness and according to law will &C
complish it.
Well, if this controversy between
| Capital and Labor cannot be settled by
human wisdom, it is time for us to
look somewhere else for relief, and it
| points from my text roseate and Jubl-
liant, and puts one hand on the broad
cloth shoulder of Capital, and puts the
| other hand on the homespun covered
shoulder of Toll, and says, with a
voice that will grandly and gloriously
settle this and settle everything,
Whatsoever We would that men
should do to you, do ye even SO to
them" That is, the lady of the house
hold will say: II must treat the maid
in the kitchen just as l would like to
be treated if [ were down stairs, and 1t
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" The maid in the kitchen
must say: eff my employer seems to
be more prosperous than [, that IS no
fault of hers. [ shall not treat her as
an enemy. I will have the same in
dustry and fidelity down stairs as [
would expect from my subordinates if
[ happened to be the wife of a silk inn
porter.
The owner of an iron mill, having
taken dose of my text before leaving
home in the morning, will go fnto his
foundry, and, passing into what is
called the pudding room, he will see
a man there stripped to the waist, and
besweated and exhausted with the la
Dor and the toll, and he will say to
him: ''Why, it seems to be very hot
in here. You look very much ex-
hausted. [ hear your child is sick
with scarlet fever. If you want your
wages a little earlier this week, SO as
to pay the nurse and get the medi-
cines, just come into my office any
time"
KINDNESS INSURES FATTHFULNESS.
After awhile, crash goes the money
market, and there is no more demand
for the articles manufactured in that
iron mill, and the the owner does not
know what to do. He says: ''Shall
stop the mill, or shall run it on hall
time, or shall I cut down the mems
wages?" He walks the floor of his
counting room all day, hardly know
ing what to do Toward evening be
calls all the laborers together. They
stand all around, some with arms
akimbo, some with folded arms, won
dering what the boss is going to dc
now. The manufacturers says: MEN,
business is bad; [ don't make twenty
dollars where [ used to make one hun
dred. Somehow there is no demand
now for what we manufacture, or but
very little demand. You see, [ am al
vast expense, and [ have called you
together this afternoon to see what
YOU would advise. [ don't want tc
shut up the mill, because that woulo
force you out of work, and you have
always been very faithful, 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. I don't know what to do
There is dead halt for minute Oh
two, and then one of the workmer
steps out from the ranks of his fellows
and says: "Boss, you have been very
good to US, and when you prosperec
we prospered, and now you are in {
tight place, and I am sorry, and we
have got to sympathize with you
don't know how the others feel but
propose that we take off twenty pei