Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1890-05-22

he Hudson, and all the fine houses on
Madison square and Brooklyn heights and
Brooklyn hill and Rittenhouse square and
Beacon street, and all the bricks and tim
Der ard 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 de-
mented coadjutors. A few years ago as
sassination-thea assassination of Lord Fred
erick Cavendish and Mr. Burke in Phoenix
park, Dublin, Ireland, in the a--ampt to
avenge the wrongs of Ireland-on-N 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 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 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 scaffold-
ings so the builder fails in keeping his con-
tract-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
American strikes you find that the opera
tives lost four hundred Thousand dollars
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
farthing of wages into callous palm.
Barbarism will never cure the wrongs of
civilization. Mark that
ETERNAL JUSTICE COMMANDS.
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
1t, because it was the old homestead, and
he felt about it as Naboth felt about his
vineyard 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 banda
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 1t I'll
take it anyhow" The miller said: Your
majesty, you won't" Eyes" said the king,
Il win take it," "Then,n said the miller,
''if your majesty does take it win sue you
in the chancery court AT that 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 righteousness and according TO law
will accomplish 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 iubilant, and puts one hand on
the broadcloth shoulder of capital, and
puts the other hand on the homespun COW
cred shoulder of toll, and says, with voice
that will grandly and gioriously settle this
and settle everything, Whatsoever we
would that men should do to you, do We
even so to them" That is, the lady of the
household will say: Il must treat the maid
in the kitchen just AS | would like to be
treated if were downstairs, and it were
my work TO wash, and cook, and sweep,
and il were the duty of the maid in the
kitchen to preside in this parlor." The
maid in the kitchen must say: IF my EN-
Btb1Ni NttAlH " bG i4fRtS tAAo-fSAVtA9 NAAfiA -
that is no fault Of hers shall not treat
her as an enemy. J will have the same in
dustry and fidelity downstairs as would
expect from my subordinates If happened
to be the wife of "A silk importer
The owner Of an iron mill, having taken
a dose Of my text before leaving home in
the morning, VIII 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 viii 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 want your wages little earlier this week, |
so as to pay the nurse and get the medi- |
cines, just come into my Office any time"
After awhile, crash goes the money |
market, and there is no more demand for
the articles manufactured in that iron mill, |
and the owner does not know what to do. |
He says, ''Shall stop the mill, or shall l |
.un it on half time, or shall cut down the |
mems wagesg" 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
folded arms, wondering what the boss is
going to do now. The manufacturer says:
"Men, business is bad; don't make twenty
dollars where used to make one hundred.
Somehow, there is no demand now for
what we manufacture, or but very little
demand You see, am at vast expense,
and have called you together this after
noon 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 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.
don't know what to do"
THE GRATEFUL WORKMAN.
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 propose that we take off twenty per
cent from our wages, and that when the
times get good you will remember US and