The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-10-28

what each one can by fair effort and maxi
ing all stewards of their holding for the
general good
Sectionalism is bad enough along
geographical lines: IL is indescribably
runous along financial lines. This war
is interminable and will be urged in ev-
cry church, city and family where one
has more than the others. We must cul-
tivate the sense of solidarity remember
ing that these millions of citizens want
cementing and not cleavage. Divided we
fall. When the thinker and the toiler.
fae ana sne
against each other civilization retires,
savagery returns, the river will turn to
blood and the star of our nations glory
fade into an endless night.
IT IS INGRATITUDE.
After the west has been developed by
the gifts and loans of the east, first in tae
strong arms of the pioneers and then in
needed treasure for improvements, 1t is
ineratitude TO turn and declare that We
are u lot of monsters only appeased by
the ruin of our industries. l never trem-
bled more than to read as l have about
coercion of voters. l have asked where?
l find only one instance, 1t is a terrible
outrage on our republic. l don't be-
lieve it is much attempted for it Is
myth and that will not work. Toilers are
They believe as the Scotch tutor taught
Sir William Wallace when boy in the
reformation days:
II tel the truth to thee
There's naught like liberty
They will not drop their necks for cap.
ital to put its foot upon them. They Will
not be driven to the polls like serfs.
Then they hold their ticket in the hands.
straighten to their tallest and with their
right of suffrage come themselves as they
say: I'VE are the equal of any No
one buying labor ever supposed he bought
h.a lnh lAN hot tn
be construed into Intimidation of the
hirer so that he dare not give council to
his workman. He has as much right to
inform them as to what he considers
best for all as any candidate has 10 say,
Vote for my principles" when he knows
that so doing Will put him in the proudest
position on earth.
l believe in the laborers, have had
much larger number of those under my
care than of those who were not wage
earners-and hundreds in humble places.
! have met these doube-faces who march
in parades against their viii lest they
lose their position. 1t is a libel on Amer
lean employers and American employees.
Those toilers have hard hands with
bravest hearts and are ready to die for
their rights. They fear no man. To say
10 them vote as you think and not as
your capitalist orders is to suggest sus-
picion when none should exist. To inti-
mate they VIII wear the button 10 suit
th;eid wage-payer ana then intend to
vote contrary to their declared allegiance
IS to make them traitors to truth. | never
met such workmen. To intimate that to
use argument to instruct your la borers Is
AN attempt 10 buldoze them Is against
the freedom of speech which Is the twin
OF the freedom Of the press. Both are
essential To American greatness and prog
fessl III l was the trustee of a financial
institution l would he as justified in sub
scrihing TO fund 10 circulate sound
money literature as in hiring extra po-
lie" II I suspected an assault was 10 he
made on our vault.
WE ARE BRETHREN.
In conclusion the doctor advises that
more gospel be taken and employees be
taught to deal generously with the
toilers and laborers. to be ready to so
act with their hirers, producers. sell at
honest prices and all join hands and
hearts and say fervently: I'VE are
brethren" for his plan was to enrich
and not pauperie. to better all and
break none. He said as his last words:
II denounce as Internal mischief the
proclamation of hate between the
classes that will and can only end in
the madness that will pull down our
national temple and kill the occupants,
because some of them wear good
clothes and do not have to sleep upon
dump. We believe in lifting all and
lowering none. As in this house we
are here tOnight-the rich and the poor
meet together and one Lord is the
maker of uS all ~