The advocate and Topeka tribune., 1893-07-05
TEE AGRICULTURAL INTEREST
Following in the Wake Of the LabOrers
and TnilAra on the Road 70 Rnin.

the length Of my two previous communi-
cations on the subject OF labor and it's
subordination to capital, thus disquslify-
ing it for the exercise Of an independent
suffrage and rendering it unfit for SOW
ereignty, l did by no means exhaust the
SUBJECT. Before proceeding to my next
point, therefore, allow me to cite two
very high authorities in the professional
and business world, in justification Of
my position, as well as TO show that l am
no mere pessimist in my views and appre-
tensions, foreboding evil and unduly ex-
ercised as to the situation in the country.
In q sermon Of the great preacher, the
Rev. De Witt Talmage, Of May 18, 1890,
he says:
''The streets of American clties filled with
professions Of workmen carrying banners
brings the subject Of capital and labor TO
the front. The greatest war the world has
ever seen ls being wsged between capital
and labor. The middle GLASSES Of this ooun-
try, upon whom the nation has depended
for holding the balance Of power and for
acting as mediatOrs between the two OK
tremes, are diminishing; and IL things go
on at the same ratio that they have for the
past twenty years, it will not be long before
there will be no great middle GLASS in this
country; but all will be very rich or very
poor, princes or paupers; and the whole
country will be given up TO palaces and
novels. . You may pooh-pooh it,
calling IL socialism or communism, but that
will not hinder the fact that il is the might
lest, the darkest and most terrific threat Of
the century. Most Of the attempts at paCif-
cation have been dead failures; and mo-
nopoly is more arrogant and the trades
unions more bitter every day. Give US more
wages cry the employees. You shall have
less,' respond the capitalists. You shall
BtarVe,' say those; and the woFkmen, grad
ually using up what they have accumulated
in better times, unless there be some radical
change, we shall soon have in this country
100000 Of hungry men and women. And
that number Of hungry people can't be kept
quiet. All the enaotments Of legislatures
and all the Oonstabularies of the cities and
all the army and navy of che United States
can't put 100000 Of hungry people down
and preserve the peace. What thenP Will
this war be settled by human wisdomP
Never. The brow Of the one becomes more
rigid and the 6st of the other Hrmer
clinched. 'Ohl says some wise
acre, the law of supply and demand will
finally regulate things,' No, il will not. Do
you know who supply and demand RreH They
have gone into partnership, and they pro-
pose TO Swindle this earth, and are swindling
il. You are drowning; supply and demand
stand on the shore, one on one side and one
on the other, and they CRY out to you; Nov,
you pay US what We ask for getting you TO
shore, or 60 to the bottom Ifyou can bor-
row $500 or 5000 you can keep from fail
ing in business. Supply and demand say:
'Now, you pay US exorbitant usury for the
money or 60 into bankruptcy This rObber
firm Of supply and demand say TO you; The
crops are short, and we have all the old
wheat in our bin; you can pay our price or
starve.' This is your magnificent law Of
supply and demand. Supply and demand
own the largest mill on earth; all the rivers
roll over their wheel, and they are grinding
the men, women and children Of the world
to powder. That diabolicsl law of supply
and demand will have TO stand aside, and
instead thereof will come the law Of love,
fraternity and humanity-the law Of CO.
operation"
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