The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-06
THE GOLDEN RULE OF LIFE.
DO UNTO OTHERS A. YOU WOULD
BE DONE BY.

strife of Capital and Labor.
washington. Sept 5.-Dr. Taimage's plan
for setting the Industrial troubles of our
dav IS set forth in this sermon. His text
is Matthew 7l2: Whatsoever We would
that men should do to you, do you even so
TO them.
The greatest war the world has ever
seen is between capital and labor. The
strife is not ike that which in history is
called the Thirty Years War, for it is a
war Of centuries it is "a war OF the i've
continents. il is "a war hemisoheric. The
middle classes in this country, upon whom
the nation has depended for holding the
balance Of power and for acting as media
tors between the two extremes. are dimin-
ishing: and if things so on at the same "a
ito as they are now going. it viii not be
very long before there viii he no middle
class in this country, but al will be very
rich or very poor, princes or paupers. and
the country will be given up TO palaces
and novels
The antaEonistic forces are closing in up
on each other. The Pennsylvania miners
strikes, the telegraph operators strikes,
the railroad employees strikes. the move
ments of the boycotters and the dynamit-
ers are only skrmishes before a general
engagement, or if you prefer it, escapes
through the safety-valve of an imprisoned
force which promises the explosion of So
ciety. You may pooh-pooh it; you may say
that this trouble. like an angry child, will
cry itself to sleep; you may belitde it by
~, ipIf
Simonism, or nihilism, or communism; but
that will not hinder the fact that it is the
mightiest, the darkest, the most
terrific threat of this century.
All attempts at pacifcation
have been dead failures, and monopoly is
more arrogant, and the trades unions more
bitter "Give US more wages" cry the
employees. you shall have less" say the
capitalists. Compel US to do fewer hours
of toll in a day. "You shall toll more
hours" say the other. Then, under GER
tain conditions, we win not work at all"
say these, Then you shall starve," say
those, and the workmen gradually using
up that which they accumulated in better
times, unless there be some radical change,
we shall have soon in this country four
million hungry men and women. Now,
four million hungry people cannot be kept
quiet. All the enaCtments of legislatures
and all the constabularies of the cities,
and all the army and navy of the United
States cannot keep four million hungry
people quiet. What then? VIII this war
between capital and labor be settled by
human wisdom? Never. The brow of the
one becomes more rigid, the fist of the
other more clinched.
But that which human wisdom cannot
achieve will be accomplished by Chris
tianity if it be given fun sway. You have
heard of medicines so powerful that one
drop viii stop a disease and restore a
patient; and I have to tell you that one
drop of my text properly administered viii
stop all these woes of society and give
convaIescence and complete health to all
classes. Whatsoever we would that men
should do to you, do you even so to them"
I shall first show you how this quarrel
between monopoly and hard work cannot
be stopped and then i viii show you how
this controversy will be settled.
Futile remedies. In the first place
there will come no pacifcation to this
trouble through an cutlery against rich
men merely because they are rich There
is no member of a trades union on earth
that would not be rich if he could be.
Sometimes through a fortunate inven ion
or through some accident of prosperity. a
man VINO has nothing comes to a large
estate. snd we see him arrogant ami su
perciliuus. ana taking peoDle by the tn b, 70
1lst as Cther people took him by the
throat There is something very mean
about human nature when it comes 10 the
Ton Bat il is no moro & sin to be rica
than 1t is a sin to be poor. There are
those who have gathered a great estate
through fraud, and then there are Million
aires who have gathered their fortunes
e H..
the markets. and through brilliant BUSH
ness faculty, and every dollar of their
estate is as honest as the dollar which the
plumber gets for mending a pipe or the
mason gets for building a wall. There
are those who keep in poverty because of
their own fault They might have been
well off but they gave themselves to
strong drink, or they smoked or chewe4
up their earnings, or they lived beyond
their means. while others on the same
wages and on the same salaries went on
to competency. / know a man who is all
the time complaining of his poverty and
crying out against rich men, while he him
self keeps two dogs, and chews and
smokes and IS filled TO the chin with
whisky and beer!
Micawber said to David Copperfeld.
"Copper1eld, my boy, one pound income,
twenty shillings and siXpence expenses;
result misery. But. Copperfeld my boy,
one pound income, expenses nineteen
shillings and siXpense; result, happiness"
And there are vast mulutudes of people
who are kept poor because they are the
victims of their own improvidence. 1t is
no sin to be rich. and and il is no sin to be
poor I protest against this outcry which
hear gainst those who, through econo,
my and self-denial and assiduity, have
come to large fortune. This lombard
ment q commercial success win never
stop this quarrel between capital and
labor.
Neither will the contest be settled by
cynical and unsympathetic treatment Of
the laboring classes. There are those
WHO speak of them as though they were
only cattle or draught horses. Their
nerves are nothing, their domestic com
fort is nothing their happiness is moth.
irg They have no more sympathy for
them than a hound has for "A hare, or a
hawk foI a hen, or a tiger for a calf
when Jean Vatican, the greatest hero o.
Victor. Hugo's writings, after a life Of suf-
fering ana brave endurance, goes into in-
generation and death, they Clap the book
shut ana say, Good for himw They
stamp tier feet with indignation and say
just the opposite Of Save the working
classes" They have all their sympathies
L nd not trrff N