Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1890-06-05

Tho subject OF DR.. Talmage's sermon Of
last Sunday was "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 7:12.)
Two hundred and fifty thousand labor
ers In Hyde Park, London, and the streets
OF American and European cities filed with
professions OF worAmen carrying banners,
brings the subject of Labor and Capital to
the front. That all this was done in peace,
and that as result in many places. arbi-
tration has taken place. q hopeful sign.
The greatest war the world has ever seen
10 between capital and labor. The strife is
not like that which in h istory is called tho
Thirty Years War, for it is a war Of cen
turies 1t is q war Of ths fivs continents, it is
war hemisphere. The middle classes
In this cou ntry, upon whom the nation has
depended for holding the balance Of power
and for acting as mediators between the
two extremes, are diminishing, and II things
go ON at the same ratio IA they have for the
last twenty years been going on, it will
not be long before there will be no middle
class in this country. but all will be very
rich or very poor, princes or p.upers, and
the country vii be given up to palaces and
hove.s.
The antagonistic forces have again and
again closed in upon each other. You may
poohspooa it; you may say that this trouble,
ke an angry child, will cry itself to sleep;
you may beli,tle it by calling it Fourier
ism, or Socialism, or St Simonism, or
Nihilism, or Communism, but that will
not hinder the fact that it is tie
ightiest the darkest, the most terrific
threat OF this century. Most Of the at
tempts at paciflcation have Teen dead fail
ures, ana monopoly is mora arrogant, and
the trades unions moro b tier. "Givs us
more wages" cry the employees "You
shall have less, say the cap. talistA "Com.
pei US to do fewer hours OF toll in day."
"You shall toll more hours" say the 9th.
ers. ''Then, under certain conditions, We
will not work at ALL" say Those. 'Then
you shall starve," say those and the work.
men gradually using up that which they
accumulated in better times, unless there
be some radical change, W. shall have soon
in this country three million hungry men
and women. Now, three million hungry
people can not he kept quiet. All the
enactments OF legislatures and all the con-
stabularies Of tho cities, and all the army
and navy OF the United States cannot keep
three million hungry people quiet What
thena Will this war between capital and
labor be settled by human wisdoma Never.
Inc brow OF the one becomes more rigid,
the Inst OF the other moro clinche1.
But that which human wisdom cannot
achieve will be accomplished by Christian.
lily II 1t be given full sway. You have heard
OF medicines 50 powerful that one drop
would stop disease and restore a patient;
and have to tell you that one drop of my
text properly admin stored will stop ali
these woes Of society and give cow Ales.
cence ami complete health to all classes.
Whatsoever We would that men should
DO to you, do ye even so to them"
shall first show you this morning how
this controversy between monopoly and
hard work cannot he stopped, and then /
Will show you how this controversy will be
settled.
Futile remedies. In the first place there
Will come no qualification to thus trouble
through an outcry against rich men merely
because they are rich. Thers is no labor.
ing man on earth that would not DO rich il
nc could be. Sometimes through fortu.
nate invention, or through some accident Of
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 people took him by the
throat There is something very mean
about human nature when it comes to the
top But 1t Is no more sin to be rich than
1t Ia sin to BE- po,r. There are those who
have gathered great estate through
fraud, and then there are miiionaires who
have gathered their fortune through fore.
sight in regard to change. in the
markets, and through brilliant b.si-
ness faculty, and every dollar OF
their estate Is as honest a. the
dollar which the plumber g,ts for IN End.
Ing pipe, or the mason gets for building q
wall There are those who keep in poverty
hQN0nRa fn,,I
have been we'll of, but they smoked or
chewed up their earnings, or they lived be-
You'd their means, while others on the
Same wages and on the same salaries went
on to competency. know man who il
all the time complaining of his poverty and
crying out against rich men, while he him
self keeps two dogs, and chews and
smokes, and is filed to the chin with
whisky and baer!
Micawbe- said to David Copperaeld:
"Copperheld, my boy, one pound income,
twenty shillings and sixpence EXPENSE:
result, misery. But Copperfsld, my boy,
one pound income, expenses ninete shil.
linRs and sixpence; result happiness.
Aud there are vast multitules OF people
who are kept poor because thoy are the
victims OF their own improvidence It ia
no sin to DO rich, and it is no sin 10 be poor.
protest against thi, outcry which hear
against those who, through economy and
self-denial and assiduity, have come 10
large fortune This BON bardment of com
merctal success will never stop this con-
troversy between capital and labor.
Neither will the contest be settled nv
cynical and unsympathetic treatment Of
the laboring classes There are those who
speak OF them as though they were only
cattle or draught horses. Their nerves are
nothing: their domestic comfort is moth.
ing; their happiness Is nothing. They have
no more sympathy for them than a hound
has for hare, or a hawk for hen, CT a
tiger for a calf When Jean Vatican. the
greatest hero OF Victor Huso's writing,
after life OF suffering and great endur.
ance,.goe into Incarceration and death.
they clap the book shut AMI say, "Good
for him" They stamp their feet with in.
dignation and say just the opposite of ..Saye
the work ng classes" They have all their
sympathies with Shylock, aud not with
Antonio and Portia- They are plutocrats.
and their feelings are internal. They are
filed with irritation and irasciblity on tbi.