The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1897-10-14
TALMAGE'S SERMON.
Interesting Discourse on the Rela-
tons Of Capital and Labor.
That Which Human Wisdom Can Not
Achieve Will BE Accomplished by
Christianity-ChristH Has shown
the Solution of the Problem.

Rev. 7. Dewitt Talmage, in the fol
lowing discourse, sets forth the p an
he would adopt for settling the indus
trial troubles. The text is:
Whatever We would that men should do to
you do you even SO to them. Matthew vii. 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 30 years war, for it is a
war of centuries, it is a war of thc
five continents, it is d war hcmi spher!c,
The middle class 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 dimini shing. and if
things go on in the same ratio as they
are now going it will not be very long
before there will be no middle class in
this country, bat all Will be very rich
Or very poor, princes or paupers, and
the country will be given up to 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 SO power
full that one drop will stop disease
and restore a patient and have to tel
you that one drop of my text properly
administered will stop all these woes
of society and give couvalcsence and
complete health to all classes. "What-
Eoever We would that men should do to
you. do YOU even SO them"
l 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
settled.
Neither will the contest be settled by
cynical and unsympa THE 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 domes-
tic comfort is nothing, their happiness
is nothing. They have no more SYM
pathy for them than a hound has for a
hare, or Il hawk for a hen. or tiger
for calf. When Jean Val lean, the
greatest hero of Victor IIugos writ
ing", after a 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 Save the work
ing classes They have all their sym
pathies with Shylocli, 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 as
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 a man
to is to kill him. Blow uD tomorrow
all the country seats on the banks of
the Hudson, and all the fine houses on
Madisou square, and Brook yn Heights,
and Bunker HILL, and Rittenhouse
square, end Beacon street, and all the
bricks and timber and stone will lust
fall back on the bare head of American
labor he worst enemies of the work
Ireland ate their dementcd coadjutors.
Assassina lion - the assassination of
Lord Frederick Cavendish and Mr..
Burke in Phoenix park. Dublin, Ire
land, in the attempt to avenge the
wrongs OF ireland, only turned away
from that afflicted people millions of
sympathlzrrS. The attempt to blow
up the house of commons in London
had only this etfect-to throw out of
employment tens of thousands of limo
cent Irish people in England.
In this coCntry the torch put to the
factories that have discharged hands
for good or bad reasons; distractions
on the rail track ia front of midnight
express trains because the offenders do
not like the president of the company;
strikes on shipboard the hour thew
were going to sail, or in printing Of
fees the hour the paper was to 90 to
press, or in mines the day the coal was
to be delivered, or on house scaffold-
ings SO that the builder fails in keep
ing his contract-all these are only a
hard blow on the head of American la
Dor, and cripple its arms, and lame its
feet, and pierce its heart. Traps
sprung suddenly upon employers, and
violence, never took one knot out of
the inuckle of toll. or put one farthing
of wages into callous palm. Bar
barlsm will never cure the wrongs of
civilization. Mark that,
Frederick the Great admired some
land near his palace at Potsdam, and
he resolved to get it. 1t was owned by
a miller. He offered the miller three
times the value of the property. The
miller would not take it, because 1t was
the old homestead, and he felt about as
Naboth felt about his vineyard when
Ahab wanted it. Frederick the Great
was a rough and terrible man, and he
ordered the miller into his presence:
and the king, with stick in his hand
"a stick with which he sometimes
struck his officers of state-scld to this
miller: Now, | have offered you three
times the value Of that property. and
II you won't sell it, I'll take it any
how" The miller said: Your males
". YOU WON'T YES said thu l.;,r