Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1894-10-03

Cardinal Gibbons on 'The Dignity and
Rights of Labor"

At Frasburg, Md, last Sunday Car
dinal Gibbons confirmed $50 children
and 20 adults, and delivered sermon
on The dignity and rights of labor"
We have space for only few brief ex-
tracts
Before the coming of Christ manual
labor was held in degradation and rele-
gated to slaves as being unworthy of
freemen. Christ our Savior has digni-
fed and ennobied labor by word and
example. He was pleased to devote
many years of his life to mechanical
pursuits, and ever since he worked in
the carpenter shop he shed halo
around the workshop.
Labor has also its rights, chief
among which is the privilege of organ
izing and forming into society, calling
themselves mutual protection societies.
Our modern labor organizations are
the legitimate source of our American
labor grievances,
Zone of the most difficult questions
of our time to discuss is the question
of strikes. Perhaps this is not an I'M
favorable time to allude to this subject,
as the great strike is ended and men
are disposed to be more dispassionate
in their judgments than they were some
months ago. Strikes, as experience has
demonstrated, are very questionable
for the redress of the laborers' griev-
ances. They check industry, excite
passion. They often lead to the de-
struction of property and they result
in indicting many injuries by the la
borer being kept in idleness, while his
mind is clouded by discomfort and his
family not unfrequently suffering fol-
the comforts and necessaries of life. In
the statistics furnished by Carroll D.
| Wright for the eight years ended De
cember 1, 1888, we find that the loss to
the employees by strikes amounting to
nearly $4,000, 900, while the employers
| lost only one-half this amount.
81 earnestly hope that some efficient
remedy will be found to put an end to
our recurring strikes. Arbitration
seems to be the most potent method
that can be conceived of. If in modern
| times territorial difficulties among
Christian nations are settled by the
pen, rather than by the sword; settled
in the cabinet instead of on the battle
field, why should not minor difficulties
be settled by arbitration. A
|
not the best means of adjusting labor
grievances. A plan that will carry
with it good and true Christian civil
zation should be sought for and adopt
ed.''
George W. McCabe shot his brother
B. f. McCabe, with double barrele6
shotgun, near Charleston, S. c., an6
then committed suicide by drinking 6
tumbler of whisky and strychnine.-
The shot was not fatal.
Governor Turney, of Tennessee, can
didate for reelection, opened the demo
cratic campaign at Murfreesboro
Saturday. He approved the new tariff
bill as step in the right direction AND
said he was for the use of both metals
for money, as called for in the demo
cratic platform.
i A passenger train on the Wabash
Railroad was wrecked by train-wreck.
ers near Maumes, Ohio, Sunday. The
i engineer was killed and the fireman
| fatally hurt. Several passengers were
injured. A rail had been removed and
a switch thrown.
The formula of Ayers Sarsaparilla is well
known to the medical profession. and univer-
+ sally approved. The reputation of the firm
medicine and the worlds experience for
nearly half a century has fully demonstrated
its value.