The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1899-11-17

fSlis How the Continual WAY Ne
tween Ihem Mag nc Endcd-
lessons Drawn from Rp-
cent Strikes.

capital and labor may De brought TO a
happy end. The text is I. Corinthians
1921; "Ihe eye cannot say unto the
hand, have no need of thee"
Fifty thousand worlmcn I'm Chicago
ceasiug work i'm one Cay. Brooklyn
stunned by the attempt to halt its rail-
road cars. Cleveland In the throcs Of
labor agitation and rcstlessness among
toilers AN over the land have caused am
epidemic of strikes. and somewhat TO
better things apply the Pauline
thought of my text.
You have seen am elaborate piece of
machinery, with thousand wheels and
a thousand bands and thousand pull
lcys. an controlled by one great water
wheel, the machinery SO adjusted that
when you jar one part Of it you jar all
parts of H. Wen. human society is a
great piece OF mechanism controlled 10y
one great and ever revolving force-the
wheel of Gods providence. You harm
one part Of the machinery and you
larm an PARTS. All professions. inter
dependent. All trades interdepeudent.
an classes of people interdependent.
Capital and labor interdcperdent NO
such thing as independence Dives can
not kick Lazarus without hurting his
own foot They who threw Shadrach
into the furnace got their own bodies
scorched. OR to come bacl, to the fig
urc of the tex. what strange thing IL
would eif The eve should say: over
-ee The entire physical mechanism. l
desrise the other members of the body.
M there is anything / ann disgusted
with. it is with those miserable. dow
lived hands, Orwhatifthc hand should
say. ] ann The boss workman of the
whole physical economy. I have no
respect for the other members of the
body. If there is anything despise. it
is the eve. seated under the dome Of the
forehead. doing nothing but look.
come in. and wave the flag Of truce
between The two contestants, and /
say. "The eye cannot say to the hand:
Il have ro need of thee
That brings me TO the first sueges-
ton. and that is. Rat labor and capital
are TO be brought 10 better under
standing by q complete canvass of the
whole subject. They viii be brought to
peace when they find that they are iden-
tical in tAcir interests When one goes
down, they both 20 down. When one
rises. they both rise. There viii be an
equilibrium after awhile. There never
has been an exception 60 the rule. That
which is good for one class of society
win De good for al and that which
IS bad for one class VIII event
ualy and I'm time he bad for ALL
Every speech that labor makes
against capital postpones the day OF
permanent adjustment. Every speech
that capital makes against labor post
pones the day of permanent adjust
ment. When capital maligns labor 1t
is the eve cursing the hand. When Ia
Dor maligns capital, it is the hand ours
ing the eye. As far as have observed
the vast majority of capitalists are sue
cessful laborers. If the capitalists
would draw their glove. you would see
the broken finger nail. the scar Of an old
blister, the stiIencd finger joint. The
great publishers of the country for the
most pal were bookbinders or type
settlers OF mall pay. The great car
rage manufacturers for the most part
sandrarered wagon bodies in wheel
wright shops
While. on the other hand. in all our
large manufacturing establishments
YOU will find men working on wages
who once employed 100 or 800 hands.
The distance between capital and labor
is not a great gulf over which is swung
a Niagara suspension bridge. tits only
"a step. and the capitalists are crossing
over TO become laborers, and the labor
ers are crossing over to become cap
italists. Would God they might shake
hands while they cross. On the other
hand. laborers are the highest style OF
CAPITALISTS. Where are their invest
ments? I'm banks? No. IN the rail
roads? No. Their nerve. their muscle
their bone. their mechanical skill. their
physical health. are magnificent cap
ital. Tie who has two eyes. two ears,
two feet two hands. ten fingers. has
machinery that puts into noihngness
carpet t.I.dscrew and cotton factory and
an the her implements on the planet.
The CAPITALISTS were laborers, the la
borers were capitalists. The sooner we
understand that the better
Again. there is 10 come relief TO the
Intermediates of this country through
cooperatiye associations. am not at
ibis moment speaking of trades unions,
but of that plan by which laborers put
their surplus together and become their
own capitalists. Instead of being de-
pendent upon the beck Of this capitalist
or that capitalist. they manage their
own affairs. I'M England and Wales
there are sl3 cooperative associations.
They have 10000 members. They have
a capital of SlS.000.00O. or what CORE
.nonds to our dona.s. and they do
business d. ually o'sG3-000.oo0. Thorn
as Bras.cv. o... Or the foremost men IN
the British r lament. ON The subject
says: cooperation is the one and The
only relief for the laboring populations.
This is the path" bee says "by which
they are 10 come up from the hand 10
the mouth style of living to reap the
rewards and the honors of our adj
yauced cieiIilation.' Lord Derby and
John Stuart Mid. who gave half their
lives TO the study of the labor question.