Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1897-09-10
Result OF Violence.

and labor they will lift not SO much as
the tip end Of the little finger.
Result Of Violence.
Neither will there be any pacifcation
Of this angry controversy through vio-
lence. God never blessed murder
The poorest use you can put man to
is to kill him. Blow up tomorrow all
the country seats on the banks Of the
Hudson, and all the fine houses OH
Madison square, and Brooklyn heights,
ard Bunker hill, and Rittenhouse
square, and Beacon street, and all the
bricks and timber and stone will just
fall back on the bare head Of American
labor. The worst enemies Of the work
ing classes in the United States and
Ireland are their demented cOadjut0rs.
Assassination, the assassination Of Lord
Frederick Cavendish and Mr.. Burke in
Phpnix park, Dublin, in the attempt
to avenge the wrongs Of Ireland, only
turned away from that afflicted people
millions Of sympathizers. The attempt
10 blow up the house Of commons in
London had only this effect-to throw
out OF employment tens Of thousands Of
innocent Irish people in England.
We'll, If this controversy between
capital and lator caIuot be settled by
human wisdom, il today capital and
labor stand with their thumbs on each
others threat, as they Go, it is time
for US to look somewhere else fer relief,
and it points from my text, rosC ate and
jubilant. and puts one hand on the
broadcloth shoulder of capital and puts
the other on the homespun covered
shoulder Of toll and says, with a voice
that will grandly and gloriously settle
this and settle everything, Whatsoever
ye would that men should do 10 you,
do you even 50 10 them that is, the
lady Of the household will say, Il must
treat the maid in the kitchen just as l
would like to be treated if | were down
stairs and it were ry work TO wash
and cook and sweep and il were the
duty Of the maid in the kitchen 10 pre-.
side in this parlOr The maid in the
kitchen must say: If my employer
seems 10 be more prosperous than /,
that is no fault cf hers. shall not
treat her as an encmy. | will have the
same industry and fidelity down stairs
as would expect from my subordinates
if happened TO be the wife Of silk
importer
The owner Of an iron mill, having
taken dose Of my text before leaving
home in the morning. will go into his
foundry, and, passing into what is
called the pudding room, he will see
man there stripped TO the waist and be-
sweated and exhausted with the labor
and the toll, and he will say 10 him:
"Why, it seems to be very hot in here.
You lock very much exhausted. l hear
your child is sick with scarlet fever II
you want your wages a little earlier
this week, so as to pay the nurse and
get the medicines, just come into my
office any tire.
In this country the torch put 10 the
factories that have discharged hands
for good OF bad reasons, distractions on
the rail track in front Of midnight ex-
press trains because the offenders do not
like the president Of the company,
strikes on shipboard the hour they were
going to sail or in printing offices the
hour the paper was 10 go to press, or IN
mines the day the coal was 10 be deliy-
cred. or on house scaffoldings so the
builder fails in keeping his contract
all these are only hard blow on the
head Of American labor and cripple its
arms and lame its feet and pierce its
heart Traps sprung suddenly upon en-
ployers and violence never took one
knot out Of the knuckle Ct toll or put
one farthing Of wages into callous
palm. Barbarism will never cure the
wrongs Of civilization. Marx that
Frederick the Great admired some
land near his palace at Potsdam, and he
resolved TO get it. 1t was owned by
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 Na5oth felt about his vineyard
when Ahab wanted it, Frederick the
Great was a rough and terrible man,
and he ordered the miller into his pres
ence, and the king, with a stick IN his
hand-a stick with which he sometimes
struck his officers Of state-said to this
miller, Now, have offered you three
times the value Of that property, and
if you won't sell it Il take it anyhow
The miller said, Your majesty, you
won't" Yes" said the king, II Will
take it. "TheD," said the miller, If
your majesty does take it l will sue you
in the chancery court ;" At that threat
Frederick the Great yielded his lnfa-
nous demand. And the most imperious
outrage against the working classes
will yet cover before the law. Violence
and contrary to the law will never ac-
compish anything, but righteousness
and according to law will accomplish IL
The Gospel and Work.
After awhile crash goes the money
market, and there is no more demand
for the articles manufactured IN that
iron mill. and the owner does not know
what 10 do He says. shall stop the
mill. or shall | run it on half time, or
shall cut down the mems wagesi" He
walks the floor Of his counting room
all day. hardly knowing what TO do.
Toward evening be calls all the labor
ers together They stand all around,
some with arms akimbo, some with
folded arms, wondering what the boss
is going TO do now. The manufacturer
says: Men, times are very hard.
don't make $50 where | used to make
500. Somehow. there is no demand
now for what we manufacture, or but
very little demand. You see, am at
vast expense, and | have called you to-
gether this afternoon TO see what you
would advise l don't want to shut up
the mill because that would force you
out Of work, and you have always been
very faithful. and like you, and you
seem to like me, and the BARNS must
be looked after. and your wife will
after awhile want "a new dress. don't
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