St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1897-10-09
TAlMAGE'S SERMON.

Interesting Discourse on the Rela-
tions Of Capital and Labor.
That Which Hamaa Wisdom Can Not
Achieve WIN He Accoopllshed BY
Christhaity-Ch Christ Has Showa
the 0olutson oe the Problen.
Rev. r. Dewitt Talmage. in the fol-
lowing discourse, sets forth the pan
he would adopt for settling the indus
trial troubles. The text is: @
Whatever yc would that men should do "a
you do you even SO 70 them.-Natthew vii, Il
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 50 years war, for it is .
war of centuries. It 10 war OF the
five continents, it Is war hemisphere.
The middle class in this country, upon
whom the nation has depended for
holding the balance Of power and for
acting a. mediators between the two
extremes. are diminishing, and it
things go on in the same ratio IS they
are now going it 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
the country will be given up 70 palaces
and novels.
But that which human wisdom can
not achieve will be accomplished by
Christianity if It be given full sway.
YOu have heard Of medicines 50 power
ful that one drop will stop disease
and restore . patient, and l have to tell
you that one drop Of my text properly
administered will stop all these woes
Of society and give convalesence and
complete health to al classes. ''What-
soever ye would that men should do to
you, do you even 20 them"
shall first show you how this quar-
rel between monopoly and hard work
can not be stopped, and then l will
show you how this controversy will be
q tiled.
Neither will the contest be settled by
cynical and unsympathic treatment OF
the laboring classes There are those
who speak Of them - though they
were only cattle or draught horses.
Their nerves are nothing, their domes-
tie comfort II nothing. their happiness
is nothing. They have NO more sym.
pathy for them than hound has for .
hare, or = hawk for = hen. or tiger
for |. calf When Jean Vatican. the
greatest hero Of Victor Hugo's writ
ings. after = life Of suffering and brave
endurance, goes into Incarceration
and death. they clap the book shut
and say: Good for him!" They stamp
their feet with indignation and say
Just the opposite of ''Ssve the work.
ing classes." They have all their sym
psthies 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 not lift SO much rs
the tip end Of the little finger.
Neither will there be any pacifica-
ton Of this angry controversy through
violence. God never blessed murder.
The poorest use You can put . man
to il to kill him. Blow mp tomorrow
Ill the country seats on the banks of
the Hudson, and al 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 ack on the bare head Of American
labor. The worst enemies of the work.
ing classes in the United States and
ireland are their demented c0adjut0rs.
Assassination - the assassination of
Lord Frederick Cavendish and Mr..
Burke In Phoenix park. Dublin, Ire
land, in the attempt 10 avenge the
wrongs Of Ireland, only turned away
from that ahlicted people millions of
sympathixer& The attempt to blow
mp the house Of commons in London
had only this effect-to throw out of
employment tens Of Thousands Of inno-
cent Irish people in England.
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
express 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 Of
ices the hour tho paper was 70 60 to
press. or in mines the day the coal was
to be delivered. or ON house scaffold-
inas 20 that the builder fails in keep
in9 his contract-all these are only .
hard blow on the head Of American Ia
Dor, and cripple its arms, and lame its
feet and pierce its heart Traps
sprung suddenly upon employers, aud
violence, never took one knot out Of
the knuckle of toll. or put one farthinR
OF wages into . callous palm. Bar
barism will never euro the wrongs Of
Mark that!
Frederick the Great admired some
land near his palace 1t Potsdam, and
he resolved to get IL. It was owned by
. miller. He offered the miller three
times the value Of the property. The
miller would not take il. because 1t was
the old homestead, and he felt about -
Naboth felt about his vineyard when
Aheb wanted It Frederick the Great
was rough and terrible man, and he
ordered the miller into his presence;
and the king, WITH , stick in his hand
- stick with which he sometimea
struck his officers Of state-said to this
miller: Now, l have offered you Tires
times the value Of that property, and
IL yoa won't sell It I'll take It any
how The miller said: "Your maies.
ty. You won't" 'sYes. said the king,
II viii take t." 'sThon,s said the mil
lsr, III year majesty doss take it
win sne you In the ehancery court
At that threat Frederick the Great
v3nldod his Infamous demand. And thG
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