The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1897-09-10

hurke IN lhnnN PARK, Dubunt Ire
land, in the attempt 10 avsnge the
wrongs Of Ireland, only turned away
from that afflicted people millions OF
sympathizers The attempt to blow
up the house OF commons, in London
had only this effect. To throw out OF
employment tens OF thousands of limo
cent Irish people in England
In this country the torch put to the
factories that have discharged hands
for good or bad reasons; distractions
on the rail track in front OF midnight
express trains because the offenders DO
not like the president OF the company;
strikes on shipboard the hour they
were going TO sail, or in printing Offices
the hour the paper was to go To press,
or in mines the day the coal was to he
delivered, or on house scaifuldings 50
the builder fails in keeping his con
tract all these are only . hard blow
on the head OF American labor, and
cripple its arms, and lame its feet, aid
pierce its heart Traps sprung sud.
denly upon employers, and violence,
never took one knot out OF the buckle
OF toll, or put one farthing Of wages
into the callous palm. Barbarism will
never cure the wrongs II civilization.
Mark that
Frederick the Great admired some
land near his palace at Potsdam, and
he resolved 10 get it. Ii was owned 10y
a miller llc offered the miller three
times the value of the property The
miller would not take it because ii was
the old homestead, and he felt about as
Naboth felt about his vineyard when
Ahab wanted it. Frederick the Great
was a rough and terrible man. and or.
dercd the miller into Hs presence. and
the king with stick in his hand a
stick with which he sometimes struck
his officers Of state-said to this mil
Ter Now. ! have offered you three
times the value OF that property
and If you won't sell it, I'll take itany'
how The miller said: Your majes-
ty, you won't Yes, said the king,
Il will take it" Then, said the
miller II your majesty does take it,
will sue you in the chanccry court
At that threat Frederick the Great
yielded his infamous demand And
the most imperious outrage against
the working classes will yet cover he
fore the law Violence and contrary
to the law win never accomplish any
thing. but righteousness and according
10 law win accomplish it.
Well, II this controversy between
capital and labor can not be settled by
human wisdom, if to-day capital and
labor stand with their thumbs on each
others uhroat-as they dot is time
for ms 70 look somewhere else for re.
lief, and it points from my text roseate
and jubilant. and puts one hand on the
broadcloth shoulder OF capital. and
puts the other on the homespun-cov,
cred shoulder of toll, and says, with a
voice that will gladly and gloriously
settle this, and settle everything:
Whatsoever We would that
men should do 10 you, do Va
even so to them. That is, the lady OF
the household will say: Il must treat
the maid in the kitchen just as would
like to be treated if were downstairs
and il were my work TO wash, and
cook, and sweep, and II were the duty
of the maid in the kitchen to preside in
this parlor. The maid in the kitchen
must say: If my employer seems to be
more prosperous than |, that is nc
fault of hers; | shall not treat her as
an enemy | will have the same indus
try and fidelity downstairs as | would
expect from my subordinates il hap.
pened to be the wife of a silk i'm.
porter.
The owner Of an iron mill having
taken dose Of my text before leaving
home in the morning, will go into his
foundry. and, passing into what is
called the pudding room, he viii see q
man there stripped TO the waist and be,
sweated and exhausted with the labor
and the toll. and he viii say 70 him
why, il seems TO be very hot in here
You look very much exhausted, IheaI
your child is sick with scarlet fever II
you want your wages little earlier
this week. so as TO pay the nurse and
get the medicines, just come into my
Office any time.
After a while, crash goes the money
market, and there is no more demand
for the articles manufactured in that
iron mill, and the owner does not
know what 10 do. lie says. "Shall |
stop the mill or shall run il on hall
time, or shall l cut down the mems
wages?- lie walks the floor of his
counting room all day, hardly knowing
what TO do Toward evening he calls
all the laborers together They stand
all around, some with arms akin.
DO. some with folded arms, won.
dering what the boss is going to
do now The manufacturer says;
MEN, times are very hard; | don't
make $40 where ! used 10 make siOO.
Somehow, there is no demand now for
what we manufacture, OF but very lit.
tie demand You see am at vast ex.
pense, and have called you together
TO see what You would advise don't
want TO shut up the mill, because that
would force you out Of work. and you
AAafN ave go htNh W , AhAAhAhAf hhu 4
like you, and you seem TO like me, and
the BARNS must be looked after, and
your wife viii after while want a
new dress. don't know what to do. -
There is dead halt for a minute or
two, and then one of the workmen
steps ont from the ranks of his fellows
and says: Boss, you have been very
good to US, aud when you prospered
we prospered, and now you are in a
tight place and am sorry. and we
have got to sympathize with you.
don't know how the others feel. but !
propose that we take off 20 per cent.
from our wages, and that when the
times get good you will remember US
and raise them again. The workman
looks around 20 his comrades and says;
Boys, what do you say to this? All
in favor Of my proposition viii say ay.
"Ay! ayl ay.- shout 200 voices
But the mill owner, getting in some
new machinery. exposes himself very
much and takes cold, and IL settles in.
TO pneumonia, and he dies In the pro
eeSsion 20 the tomb are all the work.