Owingsville outlook., 1897-09-09
TALMAGE'S PLAN
For Settling Industrial Troubles Set
Forth in His Sermon.
Nv hat-orNrr Ne Would That Men should
do tn Nuu. Do You Even 80 tn Them
If Follow ed, This Rule Would settle
strikes aud Place Both sides on
III" Way tn Happiness.

/ Dr Talmagr'> text sunday was Matt.
3 vii, ~. Whatsoever We would that
men should du I" you do yc even 81 To
them
/ The greatest war the world has ever
seen iS between capital and labor. The
strife il not like that which III history
j. called the Thirty Years War. for il
/ il "a war of centuries. il i Il war of the
five continents. it i u war hcmi>phcric
The middle CLASSES in this country, up
on whom the nation has depended for
holding the balance II power and for
acting a. mcdiators between two ex-
trcmcS. are diminishing. and if things
90 on in the same ratio as they are now
going. il will not bc very long before
there will hc NO middle class in this
country. hut al will he very rich or
very poor. princes ar paupcrS. and the
country will hr given up tu palaces
and novels
The antag"niNtic forces are closing
in upon each other. The Pcnn>y lvania
miners strikes, the tclcgraphic opera
tors strikes. the railroad employees
| strikes. the movements of the bovcut-
tcrS and the dynamitcrS are only
~llirmishcS before a general engage
mcnt, nr. if You prefer il, escapes
through the safety valves of an i'm
priSnncd force which promises the rN-
plo>inn of society. You may pooh
pooh it; you may say that this trouble,
like an angry child. will cry itself to
sleep: you may hrlittle il by calling it
I fouricriSm or Socialism. or ~. Simon
ism or nihiliSm or communism, but
that viii not hinder the fact that il is
the mightic>t the darkest, the most
terrific threat of this century. All at
tcmptS at pacifcation have been dead
failures. and monopoly is more AFRO
giant and the trades unions more hit
ter. Give Us more wages. cry the
employees. "luu shall have 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 Starvc,' say those,
and the wurkmcn gradually using
up that which they accumulated in
better times. unless there bc some rad
ical change. We shall have soon in this
country 4.OOO.OO0 hungry men and
women. Now. 1000. 900 hungry people
can not hc kept quiet. MI the enact
mcntS of legislatures and all the con
StahularieS of the cities and all the
army and navy of the 'nitcd States
can not keep i.On0.0o0 hungry people
quiet What then? Will this war he
| t,-.,r Al aud l., h,.. h.. l,.H hY
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 will be accomplished by
Christianity if it he given full sway.
You have heard of medicines 81 power
full that one drop will stop IL disease
and restore a patient; and have to tell
-ou that one drop uf my text properly
administered will stop all these woes
of society and give convalcsccnce and
complete health to all classes.
Whatsoever We would that men
should do To you, do We even so tc
them.
shall first show you how this quar-
rel between monopoly and hard work
can not be stopped. and then will
show YOU how this controversy will bt
settled.
Futile remedies In the first place
there will come no pacitication tn this
Trouble through an outcry against ricf
men because they are rich. There il
no member of a trades union ON eartl
that would not bc rich if he could be-
4 IL i,,,r
tion, or through some accident of pros
pcrity. man who had nothing comes
to large estate. and we see him AFRO
giant and supcrcilious. and taking peo
pie by the throat uSt aS other pcopl,
took him by the throat. There is some
thing very mean about human nature
when it comes To the top. Bu
il il no more Il sin To- bc rich than il i
, sin to bc poor. There are those VIII,
have gathered a great estate through
fraud. and then there are millionaire,
who have gathered their fortune:
, through forrthought in regard t
changes in the markets, and through
brilliant business faculty. and every
dollar of their estate is as honest a.
the dollar which the plumber
, gets for mcnding a pipe, or th'
, mason gets for building wall. Their,
are those who keep in poverty he
cause of their own fault They nigh
, have been well off. but they gave them
/, selves To strong drink, or they smoked
Or chcwed up their earnings
, or they lived beyond thei1
means, while others ON tn,
same wages and ON the salarie
went on tn competency. | know MAJ
. who is all the time complaining of hi
poverty and crying out against ricl
men. while he himself keeps two dogs
and chcws and smokes. and is filed t.
the chin with whisky and beer
Micawber said to David Coppcrteld
"Copperfcld. my boy. II income. y
shilling> and sixpense expenses; result
misery. But. Copperfield, my boy. Z
income. expenses ~ shilling and six
pcnse; result, happiness. And there
are vast multitudcs of people who arr
kept poor because they are the victims
of their own improvidcncc. 1t is M
sin To be rich. and il is no sin To u,
poor. ] protest against this outcrN
which hear against those who
through economy and >elf-denial and a.
siduitv. have come to large fortune
This bombarimcnt of commercial sue
cess will never stop this quarrel he
tween capital and labor.
Neither will the contest he settled b,
cynical and unsympathctic treatment
If the laboring classes. There ar,
those who speak of them ~ though
they were only cattle or draugh'
horScs Their nerves are nothin ?
their domestic comfort is nothing
their happiness is rothing. They have
no more sympathy for them than ;
hound has for hare, or Il hawk for ;
hen, or II tiger for calf. Nhei
Jean Vatican, the greatest hero %
Victor lIugos writings, after lif'
of suffering and brave endurance
goes into incarnation and death, they
clap the book shut and say: "Goot
for him." They stamp their feet will
Indignation and say just the opposite
of Save the working classes They
have all their sympathies with Shylocll
] IsA,.tia Hhat