The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1897-09-15
pllcaticn OF the Gosp i.

For the Labor Troubles ssvo. by the Ap
pllcattcn OF the Gosp.l.
Dr.. Ta!mags's plan for settling 'he indus
trial troubles Of our dag is set torla III 1ass
SUNDAYS sermon. His text IS Natihe" VI,
u. whatsoever ye would that men sho"t0
do to you, do you eSen so to them
Tbs greatcst war the world has ever seen
& between capital and labor. The strife Is
not Ike that which IL history is called the
Tb;rtv yesrs' war. for 1t IS 3 war OF centU-
r;es. !, is . war Of the i've continents; II Is
war hemisphere. The middle classes III
This country. upon whom the nat!cn has oe-
nen3ed for holding the balance OF power and
for acting as mediatorS between the two eG-
tremes, are diminishing, and Il things so Ga
at the same ratio they are now gong, II WI!
not be very long before there will be no mld-
die class in this country, but ali Will be very
rich or very poor, princes or pauperS and
the country will be given up 10 palaces anu
novels
The antagonistic forces are c!osinsin upon
each other The Pennsylvania MINERS
strikes. the telegraph operators strikes tAe
railroad employees, strikes, the movements
of the boycotters and the dynamlterS' are
only skirmishes before general engage
ment. or, if you prefer 1t, escapes through
the safety valves of al explosion OF socIetg'
You may poohpooh it; you may say that 'n;S
trouble, ike an angry child, will cry l'se!.
to sleep: YOU may beli;tle it 6y calling i
Fourierism. or socialism, or ST. S!mon!sm, or
nih;,ism, or communism, but that VIII not
b;n5ar tbe fact that it is the nlight;est, the
darkest, the most terrific threat OF ihlS cen
tu-y. All attempts at pac!hcauon nave oeen
dead failures aud monopoly IS more arrogant
and the trades unions more bitter. u'e
us more wages cry the employees ~ ou
shall have less say the capitalists. "ooa.
pel Us to do fewer hours Of toll n day
..You shall toll more hours, say the o.lerS.
..Then. NJ der certain conditions, We will not
work at all say these. 'Toen you SHAH
starye." say those, and, the workmec gradu-
slly using up that which they accumulated
n better times, unless there be some r&dlca.
change we shall have soon IN this country
100000 hungry men and women: Now,
100000 hungry people cannot oe kept
quiet. All the enactments OF legislatures
and all the constabularies OF the cities. anu
all the army and navy Of the United States
cannot keep 100000 hungry people quiet:
What then? viii this war between capita!
and labor be settled by human wisdom,
Never. The brow of the one becomes more
rigid, the fist Of the other more clinche0.
But that which human wisdom cannot
achieve will be accomplished by Christianity
ifit be given full sway. You have heard Of
medicines 50 powerful that one drop will stop
disease and restore q patient, and have
to tell you that one drop Of my text, proper
" administered, will stop al these woes OF
society and give convalescence and complete
health to all classes. whatsoever ye WoGt0
that men should do to you, do you even so
to them"
I shall first show you how this quarrel
between monopoly aad hard work cannot be
stopped, and then l will show you how this
controversy viii be settled.
Futile remedies. In the first place, there
will come no pacifcation 10 this trooote
through an outcry against the 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 fortunate invention or tarougn
some accident Of prosperity man who mad
nothing comes to large estate, ana we see
him arrogant and supercilhous and taxing
people By the throat. There IS something
yery mean about human nature When II
comes 10 the top, but it is no more sin TO De
rich than 1t is sin TO be poor There are
those who have gathered s great estate
through fraud, and then then are million
aires who have gathered their fortunes
through foresight in regard TO changes N
she markets and through brilliant business
faculty, and every dollar Of their estate IS as
honest as tie dollar which The plumber gets
for mendirg a pipe or the mason gets 1or
building a wall. There are ttose VINO keep
in poverty because of their own fault. They
might have been well of, but they gave
themselves to strong drink, or they smoked
or chewed up their earnings, or they I7e'I
beyoud their means, while others on the
same wages and on the same salaries went on
to competency know man who IS all the
time complaining Of his poverty ana crying
out against rich men, while he himself Keeps
two dogs and cbews and smokes and Is h-Ied
to the chin with whiskey and beer
Micawber said to David Copperheld:
"Copperfeld, my boy, & income, 20 shlI-
ings and pence expenses; result, misery
But Copperfeld, my boy, & income, e1-
penses l9 shillings and 6 pence, result, hap:
piness.'' And there are vast mul:itndes OF
people who are kept poor because they are
the victims of their own improvidence. II
is no sin to be rich, and It IS no sin to be
poor. protest against this outcry which
hear again st those who through economy and
self denial and assiduity have come to large
fortune. This bombardment Of commercia!
success will never stop this quarrel between
espital 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 cat
tie or draft horses. Their nerves are moth.
ing, their domestic comfort Is nothing, the!r
happiness is nothing. They have no more
sympathy for them than hound has tor
hare, or hawk for g hen, or tiger for
calf. When jean Vatican, the greatest here
of Victor Hugo's writings, after lie OF sur
ferins and brave endurance, goes into IN
generation and death, they clap The ooos
shut end say, GOOD for him They stamp
their feet with Indignation and say just the
opposite of sSave the working classes.
They have all their sympathies with Shy'
lock, and not with Antonio and Porua. 1hey
are plutocrats, and their feelings are infer.
nal. They are filed with irritation and
SirsscibiIty on this subject. To stop this
awful imbrogio between capital and labor
they will lift not so much as The tip end o.
the little finger.
Neither will there be any paciicaion o
this angry controversy through violence
God never blessed murder.
The poorest use you can put man to :;
to kill him. Blow up tomorrow all the coQn
try seats on the banks Of the hudson, ana a!
the fine houses on Madison square, arc
Brooklyn Heights, and Bunker Hill, and Mt
tenhouse square, and Beacon street, and al
the bricks and tinbers and stone will JUS
fall back on the bare head OF American labor
The worst enemies Of the working classes II
the United S;ates sl3 Irelanl are their Ge: