Connecticut western news., 1897-09-09
TROUBLES OF LABOR.
REV. DR. TALMAGE'S PLAN FOR SET FLING THE GREAT WORK CONFLICT.

REV. DR. TALMAGE'S PLAN FOR SET FLING THE GREAT WORK CONFLICT. He Says That if Things Go on at the Pres ent Ratio It VIII Not Be Long Before All VIII Be Either Princes or Paupers.
 His Remedy.
 l WASHINGTON, Sept. 5.-Dr. Talmage's plan for settling the industrial troubles of our day Is set forth in this sermon. His text Is Matthew vii, 12, "Whatso- ever ye would that men should do to you, do you even so to them. Y"
 The greatest war the world has ever seen Is between capital and labor. The strife Is not like that which in history is called the Thirty Years war, for it is war of centuries, it is war of the i've continents, it is war hemispheric. The middle classes in this country, upon whom the nation has depended for holding the balance of power and for acting as mediators between the two extremes, are diminishing, and if things 20 on at the same ratio as they Are now going 1t will not be very long before there will be no middle class in this country, but all will be very rich or very poor, princes or paupers, and fhe country will be given up to palaces and hovels
 The antagonistic forces are closing in upon each other. The Pennsylvania miners strikes, the telegraph operators lstr1kes, the railroad employees strikes, the movements of the boyootters and khs dynamiters are only skirmishers be- fo9e . general engagement, or, if you preter 1t, escapes through the safety valves of an imprisoned force which promises the explosion of society. You nay poohpooh it; you may say that ehis trouble, like an angry child, will kcfy. itself to sleep; you may belittle 1t by calling 1t Fourierism or socialism pr 6t Stmonism or nihilism or com lmunim. but that will not hinder the fact that 1t is the mightiest, the dark sst, the most terrific threat of this cen- kury. All attempts at qualification have been dead failures, and monopoly ie more arrogant and the trades unions more bitter. "Give us more wages, !" nry the employees. "You shall have 1ess." say the capitalists. Compel ua eo do fewer hours of toil in day. " fsYou shall toll more hours," say the others. "Then under certain conditions we will not work at all," say these.
 Then you shall starve," say those. And, the workmen gradually using ur that which they accumulated in better times, unless there be some radical lchange we shall have soon in this country 4,0OO, 900 hungry men and women. Now, 4, 900. 900 hungry people cannot be kept quiet. All the enact ments of legislatures and all the con- stabularies of the cities and all the army and navy of the United States cannot keep 4,00O, ,000 hungry people quiet. What, then? Will this war be- tween capital and labor be settled by human wisdom? Never. The brow o1 the one becomes more rigid, the fist o1 the other more clinched.
 mot achieve will be accomplished by Christianity if it be given full sway. rYou have heard of medicines SO power 4ul that one drop will stop disease and restore patient, and I have to tell you that one drop of my text properly administered will stop all these woes o1 society and give convalesoenoe and com plete health to all classes. "Whatsoeve, ye would that men should do to you, ds you even 90 to them"
 Futile Remedies.
 shall first show you how this quarrel between monopoly and hard work oan- not be stopped, and then I will show you how this controversy will be settled.
 Futile remedies. In the first place there will come no paoification to thil trouble through an outory against riot mon merely because they are rich. There is no member of trades unior on earth that would not be rich if ht could be. Sometimes through fortu. mats invention or through some acci dent of prosperity man who had noth ing comes to Q large estate, and we sex him arrogant and superoilious and talk ing people by the throat just as othe, people took him by the throat. There ii something very mean about human na ture when 1t comes to the top. But il as no more sin to be rioh than it is { sin to be poor. There are those wht have gathered great estate through fraud. and then there are millionaire who have gathered their fortunei through foresight in regard to changei in the markets. and through brilliant business faculty, and every dollar o their estate is as honest as the dollar which the plumber gets for mending , pipe or the mason gets for building { wall There are those who keep in pov erty because of their own fault They might have been we'll off, but they gay. themselves to strong drink, or they smoked or chewed up their earnings, ol they lived beyond their means, while others on the same wages and on ths same salaries went on to competency. know man who is all the time com plaining of his poverty and crying ou against rich men, while he himsel. keeps two dogs and ehews and smokes and is filled to the chin with whisky and beer.
 Aicawber said to David Copperfeld "Oopperfield, my boy, e1 income, 2( shillings and sixpence expenses; result misery. But, Copperfield, my boy, el Income, expenses 19 shilhngs and six pence; result, happiness !" And there are vast multitudes of people who art kept poor because they are the victiml of their own improvidenoe. It is no sir to be rich, and it is no sin to be poor protest against this outcry which hear against those who, through econo my and self denial and assiduity, have oome to large fortune. This lombard ment of commercial success will never stop this quarrel between capital ant labor.
 Neither will the contest be settled bJ cynical and unsympathetic treatment oi tho laboring classes. There are those who speak of them as though they were only cattle or draft horses. Theil nerves are nothing, their domestic com fort Is nothing. their happiness is noth