The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-07-09

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evergreens, national emblems, etc.
were plentiful. The pastor, Rev. j. D
Nutting, preached on Lessons Of the
Great Strike" from the text, Look not
every man on his own things. but also
on the things Of others" Some of the
points were as follows:
ours is u mighty country. L is
mighty in its opportunities. good and
bad, IL It's diversities of interests and
needs, in its dangers in its demands
for ability and character in people and
rulers-So mighty as if OF late to sug-
gest the query whether it can be held
together till the mighty rightful future
can be achieved. Besides this. we seem
to have reached another Of those
mighty epochs in history when 4
mighty Question must be settled for
all the world and for all
time -- the question of the
rights and duties Of capital ard OF la
Dor These have TaSu.cel in what Is
probably jne greatest labor uphe5N
ever known, and one flaugllt VITA
menace :UG danger. Tia greatest ned
Of the lcG, IS Cie2c Thinking and :.i.i.l
acting. Enc H.1ie vas written ~ an
age when sirilec wero u57y3laar OF,
but again and ar.t.a y'ear.E lays daWn
those truths which are The only settle
nlent o. such GUest.ons
Human s5lhshue5s is at the bottom
of al Labor troubles. Monopolies are
instances Of enc q few people get
ting control Of q. product 50 n II eX-
tort more thar its natural price from
Others. MCroNulies are concentrated
selhshness. and in one form or an her
are directly Al fault in almost every
labor trouble The Pullman business
Is generally considered such monopo-
~, though certainly one CT the least
harmful which could be named.
This is an era Of myn3p3iie7 and
trusts, as The oil. sugar and cC-dage
trusts. and the e. that we pay fully
twice as much To- crackers as seven
years ago east while the lou" lard,
machinery and labor used to make
them are all much cheareH-a fact
which we have been made to feel IF
late in our own city. Railroads COM
bne. telegraph combine. telephones
combine and each and all Turn Nj
agard of water into their stock.
Even labor has its combines and mono
poles: ard it would be hard To say
wherein The American Railway union IS
not as much an effort to corner and
monODolize labor as any wheat deai
ever engineered in the Same sDecGia
tive city. Monopoly Cf any kind is eS-
sentially a selfish disturbance Of Gods
laws of trade. AMI works evil c0ntinu-
ally wherever X is found.
Any wrong IDEAS help vastly n caUs-
ing labor trOubieS-pn one side as much
as Oh the other The class" or casIe
IDEA makes the rich feel above the poor
LIS much in cas- Of q poor nan be-
come suddenly rich as in any nthsr
The word --scab" is an insult to the
human race as 50 freely used IN
Strikes. God made all men brothers and
taught fi- each II have u care ior
Others and IT, estimate e1rh other by
character NOT by any artificial 'ircum-
stances Of dollars, trades union or no
membership, or even bT Drains ard cdu-
cation. CRom Xii, 81 Tn * reno '-
DIVIDING the whole community into
classes for and against strike. ana
bovcottinc one which may be in very
rssDect The most worthy Of support, :
an illustration Of this Worng idS3.
The "brute force idea is responsible
for almost all strikes and for all me
violence occurring in them. Inc gre a.
esr general If earth. Napoleon l., said:
s.Pbvsical force settles nothing. That
is the truth Only truth, under G2d.
settles any dispute finally; all 0tnef
settlements are temporary and nave 10
Re settled over again. strikes IRE
sometimes necessary evils. temporarily
and locally. but no student Of them in
The Dast can possibly fail ID see that
as whole the Dian has been niser-
able failure Forty wears ago duelS
were thought essential 70 the sette-
ment of personal difficulties: now we
call them murders. Twenty years
hence l expect to see strikes IS much
out of date and equally called murder
Of industry and commerce
The better way mas recently been
illustrated by the Mobile & Ohio rail
road, in which = lieuten ex-governor,
the president Of the St Louis Ene!c-l-
ants exchange and a minister aTbt-ra-
l,.,A
satisfactorily Fistcufrs must give
way to brains and heart and the gospel
teachings
Anarchistic ideas and lack of respect
for civil authority have been greatly
concerned in causing the present trou-
be. This is the most on;n Gus sign OF
the times The stabbing of President
Can0J in France. the hO0tinS and
St1niHg of civil and military repre- /
sentatives Of the government in Chica- /
90. ogden and elsewhere. the aun:ng
of strikers and others with clubs and
deadlier weapons for which there was
10 possible Use. bat against lawless au-
thority. these are own brothers to ona
another and 40 the terrible Haymarket
scenes Of 1885 Il the law is overturned
all is gone and woe to labor 4 blue
uniform ought always to be the syno-
nym Of justice and right: IL The one
VINO wears it is moi considered to be
such, let rs still obey! If l were IN
authority as officer Of striking unions,
] would insist on any member disra-
garding this duty being expelled in
st2ntly, for the success of the strike if
for no other reason.
Wrong ideas of government are re-
sponsible for much trouble In con
Nersadon with members Of the com
n-onWeal army, recently camped here,
was astonished TO find every one in
lerviewed fun of the ideas or Bellamy.
or worse Governments can ny no pos
sibie means make life easy for every
body. There is not enough property
~ the country to very greatly Increase
the happiness of poor people if every
Collar were put at interest at per
cent and the proceeds distributed
equally. {Sae June FORUM. Govern
T1ent IS ordained of God to repress
crime. encourage Righteousness, and
open the way for each individual to
work out his own life problem without
interference. and that is slll
The reemdy for al labor troubles is
then TO be found. first, in getting rid
OF the selhshness which leads to disre-
e ard Of the rights Of the poor by the
Jich. ana vice versa. Let each "lOoIz
not upon his own things, but also upon
those Of others and all viii be vel
\ cry shortly. Cultivate true ideas on
al essential points, with Gods word
Tor The guide. L is a painful fact that
5 ONE workingnen keep aloof from the
B.b.e and Gods church. II there be no
God. as one striker averred to US late
lN. then woe to the under man in the
worlds struggle. The sheet-iightning
denunclations in the Bible Of him that
Expresses ana defrauds the poor are {
simply terrific. and If stronger proof
or God sympathy with every Just