Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1897-09-15
REV. DR.. TALMAGE


Hah anu A-anor-SOme Fut 1e Remedies
Christ Was the Greatest Friend oi
the Capitalist and the T.iier. Etc
TEXT: .'Whatsoever ye would that men
shouid do 10 you, do you even so to them. -
Matthew vii. r.
The greatest war the world has ever seen
IS between capital and labor The strife Il
not like that which in history Ia called the
Thirty Years war, for it Is a war of eentur-
les, 1t is war of the five continents. il Is n
war h.mispheric, The middle Glasses IN
this country, upon whom the nation has de-
pended for holding the balance OF power and
Tor acting as medtators between the two
extremes, are diminishing. and II things 90
on at the same ratio they are now going
1t will not be very long before there will he
no middle class in this country, but all with
be very rich or very pa9r, prii.oss ar pau
pers, and the aeunlry will be given up to
palaces ana novels,
upon each ether. The Pennsylvania miners
strikes. the telegraph operators strikes,
the railroad employees strikes the move
ments of the boycotteIS and the dyna-
miters ar" onls sktr;nishers' before a gem
fr;.i engagement, or, il YOU prefer it. os-
eapes through the safety yalNes Of an i'm
trisoned force which promises the axpIo-
sion at society, YoU may poohpooh it; you
may hay that this trouble, like an angry
child. Will cry itself to sleep: yo,, NAV be,
little It by calling it 'Fcgyierism or social
Ism or st. SimcniAn, or nihflism or ccm-
mun!sH., but that will not hinder che fact
that It Is the miGhtie-. She darkest the
most terrific th,sat Of this century. All at
teEpte ~ Paciication have bean 1aa fail
pres, and monopoly Is moro arrogant and
the trades unions more bitter, "0tve us
more wages, cry the employees, ''You
shall have less, say the capitalists. Com
pei US To do fewer hours OF toll in n day ;,
n hon .,
"Then under certain conditicE,s we. VIII not
work at all, - say thess Then You shall
starve." say those, And, the ;rorkmen
gradually using up that Witch they sc-
cumulated IN tet,er times, unless tbeFe ha
some RADICAL change wa shall have soon in
this country i,eo0, ,Oa9 hungry men and wom-
en. Nav, a,oOa, 600 hungry people cannot
he kept quiet, All the enaetments Of l.gis-
latares and all the eonstabularles of the
cities and all the army and navy of the
United States cannot keep 4, ,0OO, 600 hvne.v
people quiet. What, thenl wiz iais war
between capital and ,sb6r he settled by
hum%;;S: .AdoRP Never. The brow of the
one bsceuaes more rigid, the fist of the
other more clinched.
But that which human wisdom cannot
achieve vii, bo accomplished BY Christian nity
Il II be given full sway. You have heard Of
medicines so powerful that enc drop will
stop disease and restore a patient, and l
-" No ~, lcN Stsu shitt ONE. urOp OF nv text
property administered will stop ali these
woes OF society and give conyslescence and
complete health Ia all Glasses. "whatso-
ever ya would that men should do to you
ia you even so them.''
l shaH first show you how this quarrel be-
tween monopoly and hard work cannot be
stopped, anS then l will show YOU how this
controversy will be settled.
Futile remedies. In the first place there
will come no pacitcation to this trouble
through an outcry against rich men merely
because they are rich. There Il no member
Of trades union on earth that would not
pe fieii II ht. could be-. Sometimes through
a fortunate invention or through some acci-
dent of prosperity n man who had nothing
comes to large estate, and We see him
arrogant and supercilious and taking peo-
pie by the throat. There is some
thing very mean about human ma
ture when it comes to tho top, But il
is no more q sin tn be rich than 1t Is sin
to be poor, There are those who have
gathered great estate through fraud
and then there ara milliOnaires who have
gathered their fortunes through foresight
In regard to changes in the markets, and
through brilliant business faculty, and
every dollar of their estate is as honest as
the dollar which the plumber gets for
mending pipe OF the mason gets for
building q wall; There are those who keep
in poverty because of their own fault, They
might have been Well off hut they gave
themselves to strong drink, or they smoke ed
or chewed up their earnings, or they lived
beyond their means, while Others on the
same wages and on the same salaries went
on to competency. l know man who is
all the time complaining Of his poverty and
crying out against rich men, while he him
self keeps two dogs and chews and smokes
and Is filled to the chin with whisky and
beer.
Micawber said to David sopperiield:
"Copperfleld, my bay. FL income twenty
shiilings and sixpense expences; result,
misery. But, Copperlleld, my boy, Fl ia
come, expenses nineteen shiIl;Iess and six
pence; result, hanpiness.r And there are
vast multitNdes Of people who are kept poor
because they are the victims of their own
improvidence. 1t Is no sin to b. fich, and
this o9torf which hear against those who
through economy and self denial and ASST
duty, have come to large fortune. This
bombardment of commercial success will
never stop this quarrel between capital and
labor.
cynical and unsympathetic treatment OF
the laboring classes. There are those who
speak of them rs though they were ONLY
cattle or draft horses. Their nerves are
nothing, their domestic comfort is nothing
their happiness is nothing. They have nc
more sympathy for them than hound has
for a hare or a hawk for q hen or a tiger
for a calf, When Jean Vatican, the great
est hero of Victor Hugo's writings, after d
life of suffering and brave endurance, goes
into incarceration and death they clap the
book shut and say, Good for himl' They
stamp their feet with Indignation and say
just the opposite OF Save the working
with Shylock, and not with Antonio and
Portia. They are piutocrats, and theil
feelings are Internal. They are filed with
irritation and irascibility on this subject
To stop this awful imbroglio, between
capital and labor they will lift not Sc. much
as the tip end Cf the little finger
Neither will there be any pacification o.
this angry controversy through violence
God never blessed murder.
The poorest use you can put q man to h
| to kill him. hlow up tomorrow all til,
| country seats on the banks of the Hudson
and all the fine houses on Madison Square
| and Brooklyn Heights and Bunker Hill
and Rittsnhouse Square, and Beacon street
and all the bricks and timber and ston,
will just fall back on the bare head o
American labor. The worst enemies OF tn,
working classes in the United States ant
Ireland are their demented coadjutors
Assassination, the assassination of Lor,
Frederick Cavendish and Mr. Burke fl
Phoenix Park, Dublin, In the attempt t,
avenge the wrongs of Ireland, only turne,
away from that afflicted people millions o
| sympathizers. The attemIH to blow up tn
House Of Commons in London ha onl
this effect-to throw out of emplcymen
tens of thousands of innocent Irish peopl
in England,
Well, II this controversy between capita
and labor cannot be settled by human wis
dom, il to-day capital and labor stand wit
their thumbs on each others throat, n
they do, ii is time for US to look somewher
else for relief, and it points from my text
roseate and jubilant, and puts ono hand o
| the broadcloth shoulder of capital and put
the other IN the homespun coyere
shoulder Of toll and says. with voice tha
will grandly and gloriously settle this an
settle everything, Whatsoever ye woul
/ that men should do to you, do you even 8
to them''-that is, the lady of the hous,
hold will say, Il must treat the maid
/ the kitchen just as would like to be trea
ed II were down Stairs ana II were m
work to wash and cook and sweep and
We're the duty of the maid In the kitchen
preside In this parlor." The maid In th
kitchen must say: "If my employer seen
to be more prosperous than /. that is n
! fauI. of hers shall not treat her as q