The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1897-09-10

hawk for a hen or tiger for a calf.
When Jean Vatican, the greatest hero
of Victor Hugo's writings, after life
of suffering and brave endurance, goes
into incarceration and death, they clap
Che book shut and say, Good for him -
They stamp their feet with indignation
and say just the opposite of "Save the
working classes. " They have all their
sympathies with Shylock, and not with
Antonio and Portia. They are pluto
Gratis, and their feelings are Internal.
They are filled with irritation and
Feasibility on this subject. To stop
this awful imbroglio between capital
and labor they will lift not so much as
the tip end of the little finger.
Result of Violence.
Neither will there be any pacification
of this angry controversy through vlo-
lence God never blessed murder.
The poorest use you can put man to
is to kill him. Blow up tomorrow all
the country seats on the banks of the
Hudson, and all the fine houses on
Madison square, and Brooklyn heights,
and Bunker hill, and Rittenhouse
square, and Beacon street, and all the
bricks and timber and stone will just
fall back on the bare head of American
labor. The worst enemies of the work
ing classes in the United States and
Ireland are their demented coadjutors.
Assassination, the assassination of Lord
Frederick Cavendish and Mr.. Burke in
DbOn,,ixy rorlz nI,hli,r in tho attnn T1f
to avenge 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 etfect-to throw
out of employment tens of thousands OF
innocent Irish people in England.
Well, if this controversy between
capital and labor cannot be settled by
human wisdom, if today capital and
labor stand with their thumbs on each
others throat, as they do, it is time
for us to look somewhere else for relief,
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 covered
shoulder of toll and says, with a voice
that will grandly and gloriously settle
this and settle everything, Whatsoever
ye would that men should do to you,
do you even so to them that is, the
lady of the household will say, II must
treat the maid in the kitchen just as
would like to be treated if I were down
stairs and it were my work to wash
and cook and sweep and it were the
duty of the maid in the kitchen to pre-
side in this parlor. The maid in the
kitchen must say: eff my employer
seems to be more prosperous than |,
that is no fault of hers. l shall not
treat her as all enemy. / will have the
same industry and fidelity down stairs
as / would expect from my subordinates
if happened to be the wife Of silk
importer.
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 will see a
man there stripped to the waist and be-
sweated and exhausted with the labor
and the toll, and he will say to him:
"Why, it seems to be very hot i'll here.
You look very much exhausted | hear
your child is sick with scarlet fever. If
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.
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 ex-
press 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 be deliv-
cred, or on house scaffoldings so the
builder fails in keeping his contract
all these are only hard blow on the
head of American labor and cripple its
arms and lame its feet and pierce its
heart. Traps sprung suddenly upon en-
ployers and violence never took one
knot out of the knuckle of toll or put
one farthing of wages into callous
palm. Barbarism will never cure the
wrongs Of civilization. Mark that.
Frederick the Great admired some
land near his palace at Potsdam, and he
resolved to get it. 1t was owned by a
miller. He offered TIE miller three
times the value of the property. The
miller would not take it because it
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 he ordered the miller into his pres |
ence, and the king, with a stick in his
hand-a stick with which he sometimes
struck his officers of state-said to this |
miller, "Now, have offered you three
times the value of that property, and |
if you won't sell it I'll take it anyhow"
The miller said, Your majesty, you
won't " Yes" said the king, Il will
take it. - "Then," said the miller, ''if
your majesty does take it l will sue you
in the chancery court. " At that threat
Frederick the Great yielded his infa-
nous demand. And the most imperious
against the working classes
will yet cover before the law. Violence
and contrary to the law will never &C