The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1897-09-17
TALMAGE'S SERMON.
Interesting Discourse on the Rela-
tions Of Capital and Labor.
That Which Human Wisdom Can Not
Achieve VIII BE Accomplished by
ChristIanIty-ChristH Has shown
heSoIutIon of the Problem,

ne WOuAu duODL sttlAlLS lLC AANAS
trial troubles. The text is:
Whatever We would that men should do to
you do you even so to them.--NIatthew viii, T.
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 so years war, for it is
war of centuries, it is a war of the
Eve continents, it Is a war hemisphere.
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 diminishing, and II
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, but 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 a 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 all classes. What
soever We would that men should do to
you, do you even so 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
settled.
Neither will the contest be settled by
cynical and unsympathic 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
hare, or a hawk for hen, or tiger
for a 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 saw: Good for himw They STAMP
their feet with indignation and say
Just the opposite of Save the work
| ing classes" They have all their sym
pathies with Shylock, and not with
| Antonio and Portia. They are pluto
Gratis, and their feelings are Internal
They are filled with irritation anC
irascibility on this subject. To stoI
this awful imbroglio be etween capita
and labor they will not lift so much a:
| the tlu end of the little finger
L. 600
ton of this angry controversy through
| violence. God never blessed murder.
The poorest use you can put maj
to is to kill him. Blow up tomorrow
all the country seats on the banks o
the Hudson, and all the fine houses OF
Madison square, and Brooklyn Heights
and Bunker Hill, and Rittenhous
square, and Beacon street, and all tn
bricks and timber and stone will JUS
fall back on the bare head of American
labor. The worst enemies of the work
ing classes in the United States an
Ireland ate their demented coadjutors
Assassina lion - the assassination @
Lord Frederick Cavendish and MI
Burke in Phoenix park. Dublin, Ire
land. in the attempt to avenge tn
wrongs OF Ireland, only turned ava
from that afflicted people millions
sympathizcrs. The attempt to bIo'
nm the house of commons in Londo
had only this effect-to throw out {
emplovment tens of thousands OF lnn'
cent Irish people in England.
In this coratry the torch put to tn
factories that have discharged hand
for good or bad reasons; obstruction
on the rail track in front of midnigf
express trains because the offenders
not like the president of the cOmpan.
strilxes on shipboard the hour the
were going to sail, or in printing o
fees the hour the paper was to go
} uress. or in mines the day the coal WI
TO be delivered, or on house scaffol'
, inps so that the builder fails in kee
ing his contract-all these are only
hard blow on the head of American
Dor. and cripple its arms, and lame
feet. and pierce its heart. Ira
: sprung suddenly upon employers, al
: violence, never took one knot out
d the knuckle of toll, or put one farthir
of wages into callOus palm ia
: barism will never cure the wrongs
|. | civilization. Mark that!
. Frederick the Great admired son
land near his palace at Potsdam, al
he resolved to get it. 1t was owned
a miller. He offered the miller thr
times the value of the property. L
J miller would not take it, because 1t w
the old homestead, and he felt about
Naboth felt about his vineyard VIII
Ahab wanted it. Frederick the Gre
was a rough and terrible man, and
: ordered the miller into his presen'
and the king, with stick IN his ha
y "a stick with which he sometin
struck his officers of state-sGld to Il
miller: Now, have offered you TIL
i times the value of that property, a.
if YOU won't sell it, I'll take it al
how" The miller said: Your maj
tv. YOU won't" Yes" said the kin
II will take it." Then" said the n
Ter, IF your majesty does take 1t
will sue you in the chancery cour
At that threat Frederick the CIR
Welded his infamous demand. And
most imperious outrage against
working class will yet cover Del
the law. Violence and contrary to
/ law will never accomplish alythi
- but righteousness and according to !
will accomplish II
Well, if this controversy 0etv
re capital and labor can not be settled
CO. human wisdom, if to-day capital z
L Il. Nlnww he ~ o.