Connecticut western news., 1897-09-09

labor. The wOrSt enemies or tne WoIh- ing classes in the United States and Ireland are their demented coadJutors. Assassination, the assassination of Lord Frederick Cavendish and Mir. Burke in Phoenix park, Dublin, in the attempt 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 effeot-to throw out of employment tens of thousands of innocent Irish people in England.
 We'll, 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, 1t 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 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 l would like to be treated if 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: If my employer seems to be more prosperous than l, that is no fault of hers. I shall not treat her as an enemy. will have the same industry and fidelity down stairs as I would expect from my subordinates if happened to be the wife of silk importer.
 The owner of an iron mill, having taken a 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 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 in here
 You look very much exhausted. l 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, instructions 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 em- ployers and violence never took one knot out of the knuokle of toll or put
 one farthing of wages into oallous
 palm. Barbarian will never cure the wrongs of civilization. Mark that. Frederick the Great admiredOeome land near his palace at Potsdam, and he resolved to get it. It was owned by a miller. He offered the 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 rough and terrible man, and he ordered the miller into his pres ence, and the king, with 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, II will | take 1t l" "Then," said the miller, ''if your majesty does take it will sue you | in the chanoery court. " At that threat Frederick the Great yielded his infa- nous demand. And the most imperious l outrage against the working classes will yet oower before the law. Violence and contrary to the law will never ac- .complish anything, but righteousness
 and according to law will accomplish it. The Gospel and Work.
 After awhile crash goes the money
 market. and there is no more demand 1 for the articles manufactured in that iron mill, and the owner does not know
 what to do. He says, ''Shall I stop the mill, or shall run it on half time. or shall cut down the mems wagesf" He walks the floor of his counting room | all day, hardly knowing what to do.
 Toward evening he calls all the labor CTS together. They stand all around, some with arms akimbo, some with folded arms, wondering what the boss | is going to do now. The manufacturer
 says: "Men, times are very hard. I
 don't make $20 where I used to make | $100. Somehow, there is no demand | now for what we. manufacture, or but
 very little demand. You see, am at
 vast expense, and I have called you to- | gether this afternoon to see what you
 would advise. I don't want to shut up
 the mill because that would force you
 out of work, and you have always been
 very faithful, and I like you, and you
 seem to like me, and the bairns must
 be looked after, and your wife will
 after awhile want new dress I don t
 know what to do''
 There is dead halt for a minute or
 two, and then one of the workmen steps Oub Irom tue Iduk5 OI n1S I6llOWS ana
 says: Boss, you have been very good
 to us, and when you prospered we pros-
 pered, and now you are in tight place
 and I am sorry, and we have got to
 sympathize with you. I 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 to
 his comrades and says: Boys, what do
 you say to thisf All in favor of my
 proposition will say aye"
 Aye, aye, ayep' shout 900 voices
 But the mill owner, getting in some
 new machinery, exposes himself very
 much and takes cold, and it settles into
 pneumonia and he dies. In the process
 sion to the tomb are all the workmen,