Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-07-18
BOTH SIDES BLAMED.

The Ideas Advanced Yesterday by . Pitts.
burg Divine-He Says the Homestead
Affair Is a Blot on the Pages OF Civiliza
tion.
"a blot upon the pages of civilization
was the Homestead affair."" said Rev. Robert
Cutler during his sermon upon the first
| great labor strike in the history of the
world, at the Central Christian Church last
| night. The minister thus stigmatized
the affair between the Pinkertons and
the laboring men at Homestead, and, while
he severely censured capitalists for oppres-
sion and for the abuse of men for the max
ing of money by men, he was none the less
lenient with the working people for their
part in the war on the Monongahela.
There is no excuse for bloodshed," he
continued; mo palliating circumstance to
cover the disgrace of such deeds. When a
resort to its strength and overstep all
bounds of Christianity, as well as humanity.
God Should Be Their Guide.
"Carnegie the Pharaoh OF the laboring
man, undoubtedly invaded the rights of his
workmen in order to satisfy his own greed
full gain that he might erect monuments to
his personal glory that are mortared
with the blood and sweat of his
workmen. He assuredly overstepped
the limits of their rights, but that is no rea-
son that they, the oppressed and downtrod-
den, should rise up and take the life of their
fellow men in their rage at him, the cause of
the trouble. So long as strikes continue in
this unlawful and barbarous method of deal
ing, just so long will they continue to be in
the position they now occupy.
"There is a brighter outlook for the op-
pressed if they will do as the first strikers,
the Children of Israel, did, let God be their
LEADER anS They 6ssr will occupy higher
will win. With God as leader they will
succeed as the Children did in the DAYS long
gone by, to the utter confusion of their OPP
presSors.
Men for Every Walk in Life.
God made men for every walk in life,
some to govern and some to be governed;
some to be rich and some to be poor. 1t is
just as wrong for the man who is en-
dowed with the power to make money
to bury that talent as it is for the minister
grandly endowed to bury his or others in
other vocations. Each mans duty is to
WELD the widest possible power in a Chris
tlan way. Every laborer is worth his hire,
the Scripture says. If laborer receives
certain wage for certain articles at a given
cost for production, then when that cost is
reduced and the selling price remains the
same the laborer is worth more than he for
merly was. If capital involved recognized
the justice of this, all would be well and the
would have no cause to strike,
Dut 1t does not, and as a result disgraceful
conflicts ensue. As an illustration of the in
justice of the capitalists was the refusal of
a member of the Carnegie firm to give the
cost of production upon which the sliding
scale was based to the Congressional COM
mittee. That speaks louder than words"
Ths Matter in a Nutshell
Summarizing, the pastor said: There are
five essential points that should be rerlem-
bered. The first of these is, If those in power
will deal fairly and honorablv with those
under them, then all will go well. The more
harshly man is treated the more easily
will he become discontinued. God uses the
folly of man for His own glory as He
used the folly of Pharaoh IN oppress-
ing the Children of Israel. The cry of
the people of God goes to God. God will
answer to-day as he answered the Children
of Israel. 1t is not the time for the op-
pressed to fight but to pray. God will lead
His people If they obey Him. If all man.
kind would obey. humanity would blossom
in the glorious happiness OF natures spring.