The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1897-09-09
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AN ELOQUENT DISCOURSE.
,iscussing the Relations Between Capt.
tai and Labor-some Futile Remedies
Christ Was the Greatest Friend of
the Capitalist and the Toiler, Etc

Ntcueshn8 tne .neiouOne between Capt-
tai and Labor-soms Futile Remedies
Christ Was the Greatest Friend Of
the Capitalist and the Toiler, Etc
TEXT: Whatsoever ye would that men
should do TO you, do you even so to them. II
Matthew vii.. II.
The greatest war the world has ever seen
Is between capital and labor. The strife il
not like that which in history is called the
Thirty Years war, for It Is a war Of centur-
les, 1t is a war OF the five continents, it is a
war hemisphere. The middle classes in
| this country, upon whom the nation has de-
pended for holding the balance OF power and
Tor acting as mediators between the two
extremes, are diminishing, and II things go
| on at the same ratio as they are now going
il 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 pau
pers, and the country Will be given up to
palaces and novels.
upon each other. The Pennsylvania miners
strikes, the telegraph operators strikes,
the railroad employees strikes, the move
ments Of the boycotters and the dyna-
| miters are only skirmishers before a GEN
eal engagement, or, II you prefer 1t, es-
capes through the safety valves OF an i'm
prsoned force which promises the explo-
sion OF society. You may poohpooh it; you
may say that this trouble, like an angry
child, will cry itself to sleep; you may be-
little it by calling 1t Fouriersm or socinl-
ism or st. Simonism or nihilism or com.
munism, but that will not hinder the fact
| that 1t is the mightiest, the darkest, the
most terrific threat OF this century. All at
tempts at paciflcation have been dead fail
ures and monopoly Is more arrogant and
the trades unions more bitter. "Giye us
more wages" cry the employees. You
shall have less, " say the capitalists. "Com-
pei us to do fewer hours OF toll In day. -
"You shall toll more hours, " say the others.
"Then under certain conditions we will not
work at all, say these. "Then you shall
sarve,' say those. And, the workmen
gradually using up that which they ac-
cumulated In better times, unless there be
some radical change we shall have soon in
this country 1000 900 hungry men and wom-
en-. Now, 1900, 900 hungry people cannot
be kept quiet. All the enactments of leyis-
latures and oil the constabularies OF the
cities and all the army and navy of the
United States cannot keep 1900, 900 hungry
people quiet. What, then? Will this war
between capital and labor be settled by
human wisdom? Never. The brow of the
one becomes more rigid, the fist of the
ether more clinched.
but that which human wisdom cannot
achieve will be accomplished by Christianity
lit be given full sway. You have heard OF
medicines SO powerful that one drop will
stop disease and restore a patient, and l
haveto tell you that one drop Of my text
properly administered will stop ali these
woes OF society and give convalescence and
complete health to all classes "Whatso-
ever ye would that men should do to you,
do you even so them.'
shall first show you how this quarrel be-
tween monopoly and hard work cannot be
sttpped, and then l will show you how this
controversy will be settled.
FNile remedies. In the first place. there
will come no pacifcation to this trouble
through an outcry against rich men merely
because they are rich. There Is no member
Of trades union on earth that would not
be rich If he could be. Sometimes through
afortunate invention or through some acct
dent of prosperity man who had nothing
comes to large estate, and we see him
arrogant and superciious and taking peo-
pie by the throat. There is some
thing very mean about human ma
ture when it comes to the top. But It
Is no more sin to be rich than it is sin
lobe poor There are those who have
gathered great estate through fraud
and then there are millionares who have
gathered their fortunes through foresight
In regard to changes in the markets. and
through brilliant business faculty, and
every dollar OF their estate is as honest as
'he dollar which the plumber gets for
mehdlnS pipe or the mason gets for
building wall. There are those who keep
hpoverty because of their own fault. They
might have been we'll Off, but they gave
themselves to strong drink, or they smoked
prcheWed up their earnings, or they lived
beyond their means, while others on the
n fhn la
onlO competency. l know a man who il
althe time complaining Of his poverty and
CRYING out against rich men, while he him
sell Reepstwo dogs and chews and smokes
sha is llled to the chin with whisky and
beer. YAM
Micawber said to David Copperfleld:
,Ca0pperiield, my boy, E1 income, twenty
snllllhgs and sixpeAso expences; result.
misery But, Copperlleld, my boy, IL in,
some, expenses nineteen shillings and six
pence; result, happiness" And there are
vast multitudes ofpeople who are kent Door
BECAUSE they are the victims Of their own
;;amProvldence. 1t is no sin to be rich, and
~ .,is no sin to be poor. l protest against
Mas outcry which hear against those who
,uaiough economy and self denial and ASST.
tul.y, nave come to large fortune. This
pomDardment of commercial success will
never stop this ouarreI bat ,veon 40 nitoI WI w."
labor. "''A 0"p''"i "nu
NeIther will the contest be settled by
ai Tnrai ana unsympathetic treatment of
'uo iaporlnS classes. There are those who
speuk sp.a OF them as though they were only
,a,,Ie ,a,n, or draft horses. Their nerves are
I'i aIO'ihlhg, their domestic comfort Is nothing
uelt @ happiness is nothing. They have no |
Iofe sympathy for them than hound has |
T.. mare or hawk for hen or n tiger |
t AZ, a a. cali' When Jean Vatican the great. |
ifs nero ns OF Victor Hugo's writings after a |
D.. IN. ol suffering and brave endurance. goes
hno,. h.T 'hearceration and death they clap the |
s,o, SyvA smut and say, Good for himr' They |
rs, /, thelr feet with indignation and say |
css. s .he opposite OF Save the working |
Si,S =; They have all their sympathies
por.,a % shyiOck, and not with Antonio and
ssIin. m. they are plutocrats, and their
rr;,a.S; aSs are Internal. They are filed with
M loh a.n and Feasibility on this subject.
esn,%p %9p this awful imbroglio between
h" thu ,in hna labor they will lift not so much
NaI,t n up end Of the little finger.
bis bi'aner a. VIII there be any pacitication of
God "usry controversy through violence.
III Tha never blessed murder.
tiI pporest use you can put man to is
tountrr INF, nlm: Blow up tomorrow all the
Ind dIuy vi i,s seats on the banks Of the Hudson.
Ind u, p. Tue line houses on Madison SQUARE
HDd P1,...ooklyn Heights, and Bunker Hill
knd a,I''ehhouse MI ,l Square, and Beacon street
NJ, ah tne bricks md timhar ona 60, |