Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1899-08-19
CAPITAL AND LABOR.
Industrial Problem the Theme Of DR..
Talmags's Sermon
Ts2is Kew the cestfssai wsr Me-
tween rhe~ May Ne Ended
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tcopyright. 1899. by Louis Kiopseh.l
Washington. Aug II


capital and labor msy be brought TO .
happy end. The text is l. Corinthians
i2:2l; The eye cannot say unto the
hand. I have no need OF thee"
Fifty thousand workmen in Chicago
ceasing work IN one day. Brooklyn
stunned by tho attempt 10 halt its rail-
road cars. CleYclsnd in the throea OF
labor agitation and restlessness among
toilers ali over the land have caused an
epidemic OF strikes. and somewhat 20
better things / apply the Pauline
thought Of my text.
You have seen an elaborate piece Of
machinery. with . thousand wheels and
thousand bands and n thousand pull
leys. all controlled by one great water
wheel. the machinery 30 adjusted that
when you jar one part OF II you jar all
parts OF a. Well. human socicty is =
great piece OF mechanism controlled by
one great and ever revolving fOrce-the
wheel of Gods providence. You harm
one part Of the machinery and you
harm ali parts. AL professions. inter
dependent. All trades interdependent
All classes Of people intcrdependent
Capital and labor interdcpsndent. No
not kick Lazarus without hurting his
own foot. They who threw Shadrach
into the furnace got their own bodies
scorched. Or 20 come back 70 the hg-
ure of the text, what a strange thing IL
would be u the eye should say: over
see the entire physical nlechanism- 1
despise the other members OF the body.
II there .is anything am disgusted
with, IL ts with those miserable. low
lived hands. Or what II the hand should
say: l am the boss workman OF the
whole physical economy. / have no
respect for the other members OF the
body. II there is anything despise. IL
fs tho eye. seated under the dome OF the
forehead. doing nothing but look.
come In, and I wave the hag Of truce
between the two contestants, and
say: The eye cannot say TO the hand: /:
Il have no need OF thee.
That brings me % the frst Eugges-
zion. and that 10. that labor and capital
are % be brought 20 q better under
standing by complete canvass of the
whole subjeet. They will be brought to
peaoe when they find that they are iden
xicaI In their interests. When one gOei
down, they both 60 down. When one
rises they both rise. There will be ar
equilibrium after awhile. There never
has been an exception 90 the rule. Tha'
which 10 good for one class OF society
will be good for all. and that which
10 bad tor one class Will event
ually and IN time be bad for al
Every speech that labor make
against capital Postpones the day o
-
shat capital makes against labor post
pones the day Of permanent adjust
nent. When capital maligns labor. 1
s. the eve c1rxing this hand. when ID
Dor maligns capital, IL Is the hand ours
ing the eye. As far Rs have observed
the vast majority Of capitalists are sue
cessfuI iaborers. II the capitalist
would draw their glove. you would sc
abe broken nnger nail. the scar OF an oil
blister, the stifened finger Joint. Th
great publishers OF the country for IN
msst part were bookbinders OF typ'
settsrs on ANAL pay. The great ca
riaxe manufacturers for ths most pal
sandpspered wagon bodice In whee
wright shops
while, on the other hand. In AN on
large manufacturing establishment
you will fnd men working on wag'
who once employed 100 or 500 hand
The distance between capital and lab
"a not great gulf over which is swur
A. Nisgars suspension bridge. tits on
O step. and the capitalists are crossir
over 20 become laborers. and the lebo
era are crossing over 90 become CO
ttsAsts. Would God they might shall
hands while they cross. On the 9th
hand. iaborers are the highest style
capitalists. Where are their inve'
mcrts? In banksf No. In the To
roadsf No. Their nerve. their mus
their bone, their mechanical skill. th<
physicai health. are magnificent CO
ftni. He who has two eyes, two eel
two feet, two hands. ton fingers. b
machinery that puts into nothingns
carpet and screw and cotton factory a
all the other implements ON the plan
The capitalists were iaborers. the
korsrs were capitalists. The sooner
understand that the better.
Agsir. there 10 60 come relief 20
isboring Of this country sArou
cooperative associations 1 am noe
fhis rnonfsnt spcaking of trades unio
but of that plan by which iaborcrs !
their surplus together and beeoms tn
own capitalists. Instead of being
pondent upon the beck Of this capital
or that capitalist. they manage th
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