The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1890-05-28
THE GOLDEN RULE.
TIE CONFLICT BETWEEN.: LABOR
ANC CAPITAL.

TIE CONFLICT BETWEENs: LABOR
ANo CAPITAL.
Dr. Tai,..acc characterizes the Var es the
Creates: the World fias Ever >eeia--A E"ie
TI,st WI smooth Many OF the Wrinkles
asut o$ lie
Or sunday morning Dr.. Talmage
creacl.>,; cn The Old Fight 10 be
Settled" from the text: "Nhatsoves
We would that men should do you, &C
Sc even so them" lMatt. VII, ~
Following is the sermon:
Two hundred &nd fifty thousand
laborers in Hyde Park, London, and
the streets Of America and European
cities filled with professions OF work
men carrying banners, brings the
subject of labor and capital to the
front. That all this was done IN
peace, aad that as q result, IN many
places, asbitration has taken pl&ce,
is hopeful sign
frhe greatest war the world has
ever seems between capital and labor.
The strife is no! like that which II
history is called the Thirty Years
Var, ior j: IS war of centuries, it Is
q s.sr OF the five continents, it IS q
war hemisphere. The middle classes
IN this country. upon whom the na-
zion has depended for holding the
balance ci power and for acting as
.nediators between tire two extremes,
are diminishing: and if things so on
at the same ratio as they have for the
last twenty years been going on, It
gill not be very long before there
viii be nomiddle class in this country,
aut all will be very rich or very roor,
princes or paupers, and the country
viii be given up to palaces and
novels.
Tho antsgonistic forces have again
and again closed IN upon each other.
You may pcoh-hooh It; you may say
that this trouble. like an angry child,
Will cry itself to sleep; you may BELT
sie it by calling it Fou,ierism, or So
cialisc,. or St. Simonis1n, or Nihilism.
orCon.,aunism. but that will not him
der the facS that it is the mightlest,
The darkest, the most terrific threat
of this century. Most OF the at
iempts at paciication have been dead
teiaures. and monopoly is more AFRO
CANT, snd the trades unions more
bitter. Give Us more wages, cry
the employees. .You shall have less.
say the capitalists Compel Us TO
fewer hours of toll in g day: You
shall toll more hours" say the others.
Than, under certain conditions, we
viii not work at all, "saythesa, ''Ihen
you shall starve," say those, and the
workmen gradually using up that
which they had accumulated in better
times, unless there De some radical
change, we shall have soon IN this
country 100000 hungry men and
women. Now, 100000 hungry peo-
p:e can not be kept quiet. All the
enact,aents Of Legislatures and all the
constabula1ies Of the cities, and al
the army and navy IN the United
States cannot keep 100000 hungry
reetie quiet What then? VIII this
war between capital and labor be set
lied by human wisdom? Never. The
brow Of the one becomes moro rigid,
the fist Of the other more chnchea.
I shall first show you this morning
how this controversy between monop-
lyand hard work cannot be stopped,
end then I Will show you bow this
controversy VIII be settled.
Futile remedies. In the first place
there viii come nopacifcation to this
trouble through al outcry against
rich men merely because they are
rich. There is no laboring man on
earth that would not be rich if he
could be. Sometimes through for
Sunate invention, or through some ac-
cident OF prosperity, 3 man who had
nothing comes to large estate, and
we see him arrogant and superclllous,
and taking people by the throat Just
rs other people took him by the
throat. There IS something very
mean about human nature when 1t
comes to the top. But it IS no more
8 sin to be rich than it is sin to be
Door. There are those who have
gathered great estate through fraud,
end then there are millionaires who
have gathered their fortune through
foresight in regard to changes II the
markets, through brilliant business
faculty, and every dollar OF ther es-
tate is as honest as the dollar which
the plumber gets for mendine a pipe
or the mason gets for building a
wall. There are those who keep IN
poverty because OF their own fault.
-fhey might have been well of, but
they smoked or chewedup their earn
ines, or they lived beyond their
means, while eothers on the samewages
and on the same salaries went on to
competency. I know man who IS
all the time complaining OF his pov-
erty and crying out against rich men;
while he himself keeps two dogs, and
chews and smokes, and is filed to the
chin with whiskey and beer.
,Micawber said to David Copper
perield-"Copperield, my boy, one
pound income, twenty shillings and
sixpence expenses; result, misery:
But. Copperfeld, my boy, one pound
income, expenses nineteen shllllngs
md si1pence; result, happiness.
And there are vast multltudes OF
people who are kept poor because
they are The victims OF their own I'm
providence. It is no sin to be rich
ind it no sin to be poor. I profess
against this outcry which l hea!
against those vino, through economy
and self-deial and assiduty, have
come to large fortune. This bonn
bardment OF commercial success vii
novar stop this controversy between