The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-12-18
THE LABOR PROBLEM
Interesting Discourse By the
Rev. ]. W. Daily of Cen
tenary NJ. E. Church.
EFFORTS TO FOUND AN ARISTOCRACY
Quick Hanging For Anarchists
The Remedy For All Is In
the Golden Rule.

the Golden Rule.
Rev. J. W. Daily, of the Centenary Meth
odist Episcopal Church, last night, preached
from the following text:
$50 I returned and considered all the OPP
pressions that are done under the sun; and
beheld the tears of such as were oppressed,
and they had nc comforter" Ecclesiastics,
", /. Among other things he said:
'The labor problem is one that win con-
tinue to disturb politicians, make statesmen
sober, and carry anxiety to rulers, so long as
governments endure. Most people who OBJ
| tain wealth cut themselves off from the SYM
pathies of the poor by comical efforts at
superiority. Intelligent persons view these
vagaries with amusement. but the mass of
people are offended at the display Of egotism
more of in the United States
than in any other country simply
because he has a vote, but it is becoming
more and more evident that a certain frac-
ton of our population are hoping for birth
distinctions which shall perpetuate honors
and riches to remote generations. The
prevalence of this notion engenders bitter
ness among the masses. There is no aristo-
cracy except that of gentle anners and
any effort to found an aristocracy upon
rank and money will be met by stubborn
resistance in the United States.
REDUCTION OF WAGES.
"The reduction of wages on the part of
corporations is sometimes an absolute neceS-
sity, and yet every such move is regarded
with suspicion by the laboring men. A man
who is crowded into a tenement by slim
earnings is not regarding the rich corpora
ton for which he works as a friend when it
cuts dow his income ten per cent. Hence it
is that there can hardly be expected any
solution of the labor problem. There is no
sympathy between the rich and the poor.
Much Of the lauded charities of the rich
are only offensive advertisements
ANARCHY.
ANARCHY is the extreme wing of the
labor problem, developed from insane efforts
| to punish the follies of wealth. It has no
| chance for success, because it is lawless, but
it is human desperation that ought to teach
us the peril of trifing with our fellowman.
Anarchy is hopeless. Its moving spirit is
revenge. 1t is the deadly foe of the rich.
1t often has idle followers and wicked
b~lasphemers; it is invariably destructive.
1t is said that there is a halcyon time coming
When labor and capital will cease to quarrel.
There will require to be a mighty change in
human nature before that period arrives.
Religion is the Divine agency for producing
this social and commercial revolution.
ut is asserted by some ardent souls who
live in fine houses and fare sumptuously
every day that the millennium is right upon
us-the glad time of universal brotherhood;
but the poor souls whom l have seen strug-
Cling with high courage against a thousand
dis-couragetnents for years together, these
cannot see any traces of that time coming.
There are several thousand people in this
city who are fighting to keep the wolf from
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kindly toward the arrogant people who say
1T serves them rightp Under the circum-
stances affection is out of the question, and
there will often come times when the des-
pissed workingman will be wanted by the
supercilious upstart to keep his fortune from
floating off. Fools are a great blessing.
They prevent the monotony of too much
wisdom.
A QUICK G EDE
"No sympathy ought to be wasted upon
Anarchy. A man who will try to get even
with his enemy by throwing dynamite ought
to be hung as speedily as possible. There
ought to be a law for hanging Anarchists
quicker than murderers. They are the worst
enemies of the cause of labor. The laboring
man has a good case. He can confidently
appeal to the sense of justice among the
American people. God is always on his side
until he violates the laws human and
divine.
perhaps the effort to fix up the tariff too,
has something to do with the present uneasy
condition of things in the manufacturing and
commercial world, but it will not account
for it all.
oBsERvE THE GOLDEN RULE.
ssThe way out of our evils is not hard to
discover, but is very hard to apply. Peace
will be patched up between the poor and the
rich, and matters will move on again, and
people will say, Now the tariff is fixed we
shall be prosperous NOW the extravaganza
is stopped we shall be happy Now the
wages are better the danger of hard times is
overlp but in my opinion until capital can
make love to labor, and labor can truly be-
come the affectionate ally of capital, the
scheme of prosperity will never perfectly
appear at present. The Golden Rule is not
observed. Churches sin as much as
individuals. Christs law of love
does not hold or mould us.
The world is grooming under
the expressions of false maxims, so-called
business s~hrewdness. Weare leaving Christ
out of business to such a degree that defalca-
tions are encouraged, embezzlements fost-
cred, thieves are nourished, n the swind-
leIs multiply. False standards of business
are set up. Good men grieve, but the bad
rejoice. City treasures are emptied by bold
w~iekedness, legislatures are captured by
thimble riggers, tax payers are burdened
%scrupulous villains. We groan and stamp in
our rage, but the insinuating smile of the
sponge confronts us as he puts his finger
aside of his nose and informs us that re-
ligion is one thing and business is another
"Christ is needed in our affairs, in all of
them, in order to get any worth out of life.
No man liveth to himself alone, and no man
dieth to himself. Christmas bells should
herald the time of peace and good will
which began when Christ was born. Men
move slowly up to Gods high purposes, but
the world will never be beautiful until men
judge each other by the divine measure.
Whatsoever We would that men should do to