The Bossier banner., 1894-07-26
Sermon on the Strikes


pastor of the Memorial Baptist |
Church, at Philadelphia, delivered a
stirring discourse on the 18th inst,
his subject being "the part Joseph |
played in the administration of Egyp-
tian affairs and it's bearing on the
present labor troubles" In substance
DR.. Brown said:
"Joseph's administration in Egypt
must be judged by the conditions of
that day, not of our own. Joseph's
administration was Egyptian. He was
a foreigner, but he wore Egyptian
dress, spoke the Egyptian tongue,
married an Egyptian wife and worked
for Egyptian prosperity. He was in
all things Egyptian but religion. He
was not only naturalized but nation
allied. There is q difference. You
may put naturalization papers and
ballots into the hands of the hordes
who land at Castle Garden, but you
do not thereby turn French and
italian Anarchists, or German Social
lists, or Russian Nihilists or Polish
and Hungarian insurrectionists into
loyal Americans, or criminals into
honest men, or chronic paupers into
producers.
STRIKES ONLY DESTROY.
"Joseph's administration was thrift
ty, 1t was provident, that it might be
benefcient. It had to be thrifty or
the people would have starved, for
the people were thriftless. Part of
the trouble with the working classes
is the thriftlessnes that too largely
: prevails. Strikes are not thrifty
they destroy, they do not produce.
They are the seven lean kline eating
of the fat ones and then, as lean as
ever, eating of themselves. Not that
strikes are always unjust and bad; !;
they are sometimes righteous and
good. That, average higher wages,
the right OF association, the imita-
tions on the labor of women, and
children, the payment of wages in
money not in truck. shorter hours of
labor, 4healthful and safe conditions
of work, have been won for the labor
er by strikes and the fear of them
. against the bitter. opposition of the
employing classes, are facts which no
man familiar with economic: history
will pretend to deny. Yet, on the
whole, the strike is unthrifty, and the
!, sympathetic strike, the boycott strike
is seventy lean kline all In one. It is
a large anaconda gorging itself upon
the Nations bread. It is wrapping
it's vast folds about the Nations life.
When every muscle in its writhing
form moves, all at once there is total
paralysis of the Nations industry and
death to every form Of freedom 1t
. is un-American, inhuman, ,intolerable,
and ought to be destroyed. What
/, then? Mutual Cancellation, if you
can have it; if not that, voluntary
. arbitration; if not that, compulsory
State Investigation.
:, THE HUNGRY TRUSTS.
"We must not forget, however,
that among the tendencies to-day is
4 the tendency of the fat kind to de.
y your the lean ones. Look at your
/ vast combinations, not always un
economical, yet often tyrannical; lool
how sugar trusts, and whisky trusts
a dictate tariff legislation. Look al
o. the wrongs the average workman anc
}. the average poor man endures. The
true function of civilization is to ele
vate, not to destroy; ;. the true func
70 tion of Christianity is,to protect tn
% weak. The thrift of Joseph was fo1
J. the sake of the people, and any thrift
3 tiness that does not have other pee
y pie in view that we may bless, then
with employment, and education, ant
\ refinement, and comfort and religion
whatever other sort of virtue it be, i