The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1897-09-10

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RESULT OF VIOLENCE.
Neither will there be any p~acifcation
OF this angry controversy through vio-
lence. God never blessed murder.
The poorest use you can put a man
to is to kill him. Blow up tomorrow all
the country seats on the banks Of the
Hudson, and all the fines houses on
Madison square, and Brooklyn heights.
and Bunker hill, n Rittenhouse
square, n Beacon street, and all the
bricks and timber and stone will just
fall back o the bare head of American
labor. The worst enemies Of the work
ing classes in the United States and
Ireland are the demented coadjutors.
Assassination, the assassination of
Lord Frederick Cavendish and Mr..
Burke in Phoenix park, Dublin, in the
attempt to avenge the wrongs of Ire
land, only turned away from that af-
ficted people millions of sympathizers.
The attempt to blow up the house of
commons in London had only this eff
fect-to throw out Of employment tens
Of thousands Of innocent Irish people
in England.
Well, if this controversy between
capital n labor cannot be settled by
human wisdom, if today capital and
ldDci SldIlu Will luclT lluIIlDS Oh each
others throat, as they do, it is time
for us to 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 covered
shoulder Of toll and says, with a voice
that will grandly and gloriously settle
this n settle everything. "Whatso-
e ye would that men should do to
you, do you even so to them"-that is,
the lady Of the household will say, Il
must treat the maid in the kitchen just
as 1 would like to be treated if I were
down stairs and it We're my work to
wash and cook and sweep and it were
the duty of the maid in the kitchen to
preside in the parlor." The maid in
the kitchen must say: IF my employ
er seems to be more prosperous than I
that is no fault of hers. I shall not
treat her as an enemy. 1 will have the
same industry and fidelity down stairs
as 1 would expect from my subordi-
mates if I happened to be the wife Of a
silk importer"
The owner of an iron mill, having
taken a 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 a
man there stripped to the waist n be-
sweated and exhausted with the labor
and the toll, and he will say to him:
why it seems to be very hot in here.
You look very much exhausted. I hear
your child is sick with scarlet fever. If
o want your wages a little earlier
this week, so as to pay the nurse and
get the medicines, just come into my
office any time"
In this country tile torch put to the
factories that hav: discharged hands
for good or bad reasons, Instructions
on h rail rae in front of midnight
express trains because the do
not like the president of the company,
strikes on the shipboard 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 builders fails in keeping his con-
tract-all these are only a hard blow
on the head of American labor and
cripple it's arms and lame it's feet and
pierce it's heart. Traps sprung sudden
ly upon employers and violence never
took one knot out of the knuckle of toll
or put one farthing of wages into a
callOuse 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 tt get it. 1t was owned
by a miller. He offered the miller
three times the value of the property.
The miller would not taxi it because
it was the old homestead, n he felt
about as NabOth felt about his vine
yard when Ahab wanted it. Frederick
the Great was a rough and terrible
man, and he ordered the miller into his
presence, and the king, with a stick in
his hand-a stick with which he some
times struck his officers of state-said
to this miller, Nov, I ave offered you
three times the value of that property,
and if you won't sell it I'll take it any
how" The miller said, your majesty,
you won't" Yes" said the king, Il
will take it," Them said the miller,
eff your majesty does TAX it l will sue
you in the chancery court" At that
threat Frederick the Great yielded his
infamous demand. And the most i'm
perious outrage against the working
classes will yet cover before the law.
Violence and contrary to the law will
never accomplish anything, but right
eousness and according to law will ac-
complish it
THE GOSPEL AND WORK.
After awhile crash goes the money
market, and there is no more demand
lOT the dIllCIeS IldliuldCluIC GU III lidl
iron mill, and the owner does not know
what to do. He says, Shall I stop the
mill, or shall I run it on half time, or
shall I cut down the mems wages?" He
walks the floor of his counting room
all day, hardly knowing what to do.
Toward evening he 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. l
don't make $50 where I used to make
500. Somehow, there is no demand
now for what. we manufacture, or but
very little demand. You, see, I am at
vast expense, and I have called you TO-
gether this afternoon to see what you
would advise. / don't want to shut up
the mill because that would force you
out of work, and you have always been
very faithful, n I 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. 1 don't