Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1897-09-11


sympatbies with Shylock, and not will
Antonio and Portia They are pluto
Gratis, and their feelings are informal
They are filled with irritation ant
irascibility OH this subject. To stol
this awful imbro=lio between capita
and labor they will lift not so much a
the tip end of the little finger.
Result of Violence.
Neither will there be any pacificatiol
of this angry controversy through VIC
lcnce. God never blessed murder.
Tie poorest use you can put man tc
is to kill him. Blow up tomorrow al
the country seats OIL the banks of the
Hudson, and all the fine houses OIL
Madison squire, and Brooklyn heights,
and Bunker hill, and Rittenhousc
square, and beacon street, and all tho
bricks and timber and stone will just
fall back OH the bare head of American
labor. The worst enemies of the work
ing classes i'll the United States and
Ireland are their demented conductors.
Assassination, the assassination of Lord
Frederick CaveudiSh and Mi. Burke in
Phoenix park, Dublin, III the attempt
to avcnge the wrongs of Ireland, only
turned away from that afflicted people
millions of sympathiZers. The attempt
to blow up the house of commons i'll
London had only this e1fect-to throw
out of employment tens of thousands of
innocent Irish people i'll England.
Well, if this controversy between
capital aid labor cannot be settled by
human wisdom, if today capital and
labor stand with their thumbs Oh each
others threat as they do, it is time
for us TO look somewhere else for relief,
and it points from my text. roseate and
iubilant, and puts one hand on the
broadcloth shoulder Of capital and puts
the other on the homespun covered
shoulder Of toll and says, with voice
that will grandly and gloriously settle
this and settle everything, Whatsoever
20 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 i'll the kitchen just us
would like to be treated if l were down
stairs and it were my work to wash
and cook and sweep and it were the
duty of the maid in the Kitchen TO pre-
side in this parlcr. " The maid i'll the
kitchen must say: If my employer
seems to lie more prosperous than |,
that is no fault of hers. [ shall not
treat her rs an enemy l will have tic
same industry and fidelity down stairs
as would expect from my subordinates
if I happened 10 be the wife Of Il silk
importer.
The owner of an iron mill, having
taken Il dose Of my text before leaving
homo in the morning, will go into his
foundry, and, passing into what is
called the pudding room, he will see a
man there stripped 10 the waist and be-
sweated and exhausted with the labor
and the toll, and he will say to him:
"Why, it seems to be very hot i'll here.
Ycu lock very much exhausted. l hear
your child is sick with scarlet fever. If
you want your wages Il little earlier
this week, so as to pay the nurse and
get the medicines, just come into my
office any tine"
In this country tie torch put to tho
factories that have discharged hands
press trains because the offenders 90 noU
like the president Of the company,
strikes OIL shipboard the hour they were
going to sail or in printing offices the
hour the paper was to go TO press, or il
mines the day the coal was to be dellv-
cred, or Oh house scaiToldings so the
builder fails in keeping his contract
all these are ouly hard blow Oh 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 ole
knot out CT the knucklo Of toll or put
ore farthing Of wages into callous
palm. Balbarism 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. twas owned by
miller. he offered the miller throe
times the value of the property. The
miller would not take it because 1t
was the cid homestead, and he felt
about as Naboth felt about his vineyard
when Ahab wanted it, Frederick the
Great was q rough and terrible man,
and he ordered tic miller into his pres
ence, aud the king, with q stick III his
hand-a stick with which he sometimes
struck his officers of state-said to this
miller, "Now, l have offered you three
times the value CT that property, and
if you went sell it II take it anyhow. "
The miller said, Your majesty, you
won't - Yes, )" said the king, Il will
take it, "Then, said the miller, if
your majesty dccs take it will sue you
in the charce1y court At that threat
Frederick tie Great yielded his infa-
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-
complish anything, but righteousness
and according to law will accomplish it.
The Gospel and Work.
After awhile crash goes the money
market, aid there is no more demand
for the articles manufactured i'll that
iron mill, and the owner does not know
what TO Go. He says, "Shall stop the
mill, or shall run it On half time, or
shall cut down the men s wages" He
walks the floor Of his counting room
all day, hardly knowing what to do
Toward evening lie 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 low Tie manufacturer
says: Men, times are very hard. l
don make $50 where used to make
$500. Somehow, there is 10 demand
now for what we manufacture, or bat
worry LITTLE demand. You see, am ct