The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1897-09-10
sALMAGE,s PLAN
For Settling industrial Troubles Set
Forth in His Sermon.
HWhatsoever lie Would That Men should
DO 20 You, DO You Even 80 TO Them
n Followed. This Rule Would settle
strikes and Place Both Sides on
the Way to Happiness.

vii, u: Whatsoever ye would that
men should do TO you do We even SO 20
them
The greatest war the world hss ever
seen is between capital and labor. The
strife is not like that which in history
is called the Thirty Years War, for il
is a war Of centuries, it is a war Of the
I've continents. IT is war hemisphere.
The middle Glasses in this country, up
on whom the nation has depended for
holding the balance q power and for
acting as mediators between two ex-
tremes, are diminishing, and if things
90 on in the same ratio as they are now
going, IL will not be very long before
there viii be no middle class in this
country. but all viii b. very rich or
very poor princes or paupers, and the
country will be given up to palaces
d novels
The antagonistic forces are closing
upon each other The Pennsylvania
ners' strikes, the telegraphic opera
RS strikes. the railroad employees
'rikes, the movements of the boycott
RS and the dynamiters are only
furnishes before a general engage
Z Gent, or, IL You prefer it, escapes
y ough the safety valves Of an i'm
.risoned force which promises the ex-
plosion of society. You may pooh
pooh il; you may say that this trouble,
like an angry child, will cry itself to
sleep; you may belittle it by calling it
Fourierism or Socialism, or St Simon
ism 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 at
tempts at pacifcation have been dead
failures, and monopoly is more AFRO
CANT and the trades unions more bit
ter. Give us more wages, cry the
employees. You shall haze less, say
the capitalists compel US to do
fewer hours of toll in day" You
shall toll more hours, say the 9th
ers. Then, under certain conditions,
we will not work at all, say these.
Then you shall starve,r say those,
and the worltmen gradually using
up that which they accumulated in
better times, unless there be some rad
ical change, we shall have soon in this
country 100000 hungry men and
women. Now, 1000, 600 hungry people
can not 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
can not keep 100000 hungry people
quiet What then? VIII this war be-
tween capital and labor be settled by
human wisdom? Never! The brow OF
one becomes more rigid, the fist Of the
other more clinched
But that which human wisdom can
not achieve win be accomplished by
Christianity il il he given full sway.
You have heard of medicines so power
full that one drop will stop a disease
and restore patient; and have TO tell
You that one drop of my text properly
administered will stop all these woes
of society and give eonvalescence and
complete health 10 all classes.
Whatsoever We would that men
should do to you, do We even so to
them
| shall first show you how this quar-
rel between monopoly and hard work
can not be stopped. and then will
show Won how this controversy will be
settled
Futile remedies In the first place,
there will come no pacifcation 20 tliis
trouble through an cutlery against rich
men because they are rich. There is
no member of trades union on earth
that would not be rich if he could be.
Sometimes through fortunate inven-
ton. or through some accident Of pros
perity. a man who had nothing comes
to large estate, and we see him AFRO
CANT and snpercilious. and taking peo-
pie by the throat Just as other people
took him by the throat There IS some
thing very mean about human nature
when il comes 70 the top. BIT
il is no more sin TO b. rich than il is
a sin to be poor. There are tho5e who
have gathered a great estate through
fraud. and then there are millionaires
who have gathered their fortunes
through forethought in regard 70
changes in the markets, and through
brilliant business 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 wall There
are those who keep in poverty be-
cause Of their own fault They might
have'aeep well of, but they gave them
selves TO strong drink, or they smoked
or chewed up their earnings,
or they lived beyond their
means, while others on the
same wages and on the 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 himself keeps two dogs
and chews and smokes, and is filled to
the chin with whisky and beer
Micawber said to David Copperfeld:
sCopPerfeld. my boy, 81 income, 30
shillings and sixpensc expenses; result,
misery. But. Copperfeld, my boy, 81
income. expenses 10 shilling and six
pense: result, happiness" And there
are vast multitndes Of people who are
kept poor because they are the victims
Of their own improvidence. 1t is no
sin to be rich, and il Is no sin to be
poor. protest against this cutlery
which l hear against those who,
through economy and self-denial and as
siduity, have come to large fortune.
This bombardment Of commercial sue
cess win never stop this quarrel be-
tween 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 comfort Is nothing,
their happiness is nothing. They have
NO more sympathy for them than a
hound has for d hare, or hawk for a
hen. or a tiger for calf When
Jean Vatican. the greatest hero If
Victor Iipgos writings, after a life
Of suffering and brave endurance,
goes into incarnation and death, they
elan the hook shut and say. Good