Owingsville outlook., 1897-09-09

Lord Frederick Cavendish and Mr..
Burke in PhTnix park. Dublin. Ire
land, in the attempt to avenge the
wrongs of Ireland. only turned away
from that afflicted people millions of
SympathizerS. The attempt To blow
up the house nf 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 >hipboard the hour they
were going to sail or in printing offices
the hour the paper was To go to press,
or in mines the day the coal was to be
delivered. or ON house scaffoldings so
the builder fails in keeping his con
tract-all these are only "A hard blow
ON the head of American labor, and
cripple its arms. and lame its feet, and
pierce its heart. Traps sprung sud-
denly upon employers, and violence,
never took one knot out of the buckle
of toll, or put one farthing of wages
into the Gallons palm. Barbarism 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. Ii was owned by
a miller lie offered the miller three
times the value of the property. The
miller would not take it because il was
the old homestead. and he felt about as
Naboth felt about his vineyard when
Ahab wanted it. Frederick the Great
was rough and terrible man. and or
dcred the miller into his presence; and
the king with a stick in his hand-a
stick with which he sometimes struck
his officers of Statc-Said To this mil
Ter: Now. have offered you three
times the value of that property.
and il you won't sell il. Ill take it any
how" The miller said: Your majes-
ty. you won't" Yes" said the king
Il will take it Then. said the
miller. 'if your majesty does take it,
will sue you in the chancery court.
At that threat Frederick the Great
yielded his infamous demand. And
the most imperious outrage against
the working classes will yet COVER be-
fore the law. Violence and contrary
tu the law will never accomplish any
thing, but righteousness and according
to law will accomplish it,
Well, if this controversy between
capital and labor can not he settled by
human wisdom. if to-day capital and
labor stand with their thumbs on each
others throat-as they dot is time
for us tn look somewhere else for re
lief, and it points from my text rOseate
and jubilant, and puts one hand On the
broadcloth shoulder of capital and
puts the other on the homeSpun-cov-
cred shoulder of toll, and says, with a
voice that will gladly and glOriously
settle this, and settle everything:
Whatsoever We would that
men should do tn you, do We
even 81 to them" That is, the lady of
the household will say: Il must treat
the maid in the kitchen just as | would
and it were my work tn wash, and
cook. and sweep. and il were the duty
of the maid in the kitchen to preside in
this parlor" The maid in the kitchen
must say: If my employer seems tn be
more prosperous than |, that is no
fault of hers; | shall not treat her as
an enemy. | will have the same indus
try and fidelity downstairs as | would
expect from my subordinates if hap
\. a,
porter.
The owner of an iron mill having
taken a dose of my text before leaving
home i'm the morning. win go into his
foundry. and, passing into what is
called the pudding room, he will see 8
man there stripped to the waist and be
sweated and exhausted with the labo;
and the toll. and he will say to him
why. il seems To be very hot in here
\ You look very much exhausted. Iheal
your child is sick with scarlet fever. |
this week, 81 a. To pay the nurse anC
get the medicines, just come into my
office any time.
After a while, crash goes the money
market, and there is no more deman,
| for the articles manufactured in tha
| iron mill. and the owner does no
know what To do. Tie SAYS. ''Shall
stop the mill or shall run it on hal
time. or shall | cut down the mem
wages" lie walks the floor of hi
counting room all day, hardly KNOWN:
what To do. Toward evening he call
all the laborcrs together. They stan'
all around. some with arms akin
bo, some with folded arms. won
dering what the boss il going I,
do now. The manufacturer says
"Mcn. times are very hard; l don
make $50 where used to make SlOO
Somehow. there is no demand now fo
what we manufacture, or but very lit
tie demand. You see | am at vast ex
pense, and | have called you togethe
to see " hat You would advise. don
want to shut up the mill. because tina
would force you out of work. and yol
have always been very faithful, and
like you. and you seem To like me. ant
the BARNS must he looked after. an,
your wife will after while want /;
new dress. don't know what to do.
/ mere IL u utdu ndli IOr minute o
two. and then one of the workmeI
steps out from the ranks of his fellow
and says: BOSS, you have been verl
| good to- us. and when you prospereC
we proSpered, and now you are in ;
| tight place and | am sorry, and W,
have got To sympathize with you.
don't know how the others feel, but
propose that we take off 20 per cent
I from our wages. and that when the
times get good you will remember u:
and raise them again" The workman
I looks around to his comrades and SAYS
Boys. what do you say tn this? Al
| in favor of my proposition will say ay.
''Ay. ay, ay." shout 200 voices.
/ hut the mill owner. getting in som,
new macl merry. exposes himself very
much and takes cold, and it settles in
/ tn pneumonia. and he dies. In the pro
cession to the tomb are all the work
men, tears rolling down their check:
and off upon the ground; hut an houl
before the procession gets to the GENE
terry the wives and children of thos,