The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-07-16

chooses, But he has no right 10 say that
 his next door neighbof. who has per
 haps a family on the verge or starva'
 ton. shall not take his vacant place,
 Organization is doing much that Is
 good beyond doubt, but when orgahi'
 zation becomes a tyrant ten fold worse
 than capital was ever accused of being.
 il is time for the working man to stop
 and to think.
 What is the history of the greatest
 strike of the century? A company in the
 west which had long been running It's
 works at a loss in the interest Of It's
 workmen. felt that it could not do so longer except on q lower scale of wages. Therefore n strike; n proposition by the company to show its books and con tracts to a committee Of the workmen: the offer rejected; an opportunity af- forded to the young railway union. be- cause of the peculiar relations of the Pullman company. for the most colossal strike in history. The Railway union saw here u chance to show its power and ordered a strike on all the railroads running Pullman cars. The city of Chicago. which had seen the red flag before (which indeed is the home of anarchy in this country) held its breath. Wild mobs rioted in the streets: the railways were blockaded; trains were wrecked the flare of the incen- diary's torch and the lurid light on the night sky reminded Chicago of It's bap- tism of fire more than twenty years ago: military forces were hurried into the city. and the end did not come until many lives had been lost.
 And what for? Just because one man
 determined that the Railway union
 should go out on a sympathetic strike. It had no grievance against the Pull man company nor against the railroads
 which 1t paralyzed. Indeed. Its >lnen and their families were dependent upon those roads for their daily food. But the organization has come to be such
 that a few men or perhaps one man can throw millions out of work and can
 keep them out as long as he chooses. In this case who was the man? A man
 who had been the helpless slave of H. quor and who had recently been under long course of treatment for alcohol ism.
 And here we come face to face with one of the gravest clements of the prob- lem. The worst foe of the working man and of the country to-day Is the saloon. Rum is consistently and persistently and forever a law-breaker. In that very city of Chicago few years ago the Chicago Tribune said: with us the saloonist is the leader in politics and socialism and his boozing ken is a full substitute for the church in the case of thousands of workers. In many cases he is the adviser of strikes and other combinations. The ordinances of Chi cago practically accord to the ordinary citizen no rights which the man who wishes to keep a saloon is bound to re- spect." For years Chicago has been sowing the wind. She has already reaped a zephyr; she will reap the whirlwind. The point to be noted here is the part which liquor plays in labor organizations and labor strikes. The best temperance man in labor union may, if he be not careful, resign his lib- critics into the hands of demon. When it comes to deeds of violence and law lessness, the one thing which is always counted on to dull mans moral sense, drive him to recklessness and nerve him to crime is rum. Here is the cancer which is eating out the life blood of the nation. Death by cancer is sometimes very slow and very painful, but it is appallingly sure.
 There has been one most encouraging ci If iS Q cipy thot in tions at least the tyranny of labor or ganizations has been broken. Some leaders have called to their men in vain to go out. This shows that the working man is beginning to do his own think ing. He ought to do it; he can think well enough. And every man is able to think far enough to apply the simple Golden Rule of Christ. Bishop Thoburn said at Northfield: "The poorest man who was ever in this world was the man who made it." But Christ never taught communism as we hear 1t advocated to-day. Yet, strange to tell, just in pro- portion as men felt Him and His love- they were ready if need be to make all things common for the sake of those in distress. E
 THE CHURCH: AND HER OPPORTUNITY.
 To-day in this storm center of social istic agitation the church has her chance. Will she see 1t? MT. Gladstone says: ''The Gospel will correct every thing needing correction" And Prof. Ely, engrossed in the study of political economy, looks up to say: "The remedy for social discontent and dynamite bombs is Christianity as taught in the New Testament" Now then, is the church of to-day living and giving to the world Christianity as taught in the New Testament? I believe we accept it in theory and, to too large extent, fail to put it in practice There is too much seltishness to-day among those who call themselves Christians. The utter self giving of Christ is not common among those who bear His name. Unless we accept fully this Golden Rule we can hardly expect the world to accept it; least of all, those who cherish stalwart against the church of Christ The lustrous achievements of Christian ity the world over in this waning cen tury have been stupendous. But they might have been ten fold or a hundred fold greater and more lustrous had the heart of. the Christian church uninter- ruptedly' kept it's beat with the true pulsations of its Masters heart. If cap- ital is in the church, let 1t think more of than it does of capital, and it's battle is won. If labor is in the church, let it remember that fidelity to its employer is a surer path to success tban roxyorra on6 fhof fhora or1