The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1900-05-30
FIELD OF LABOR.
Or. Ta|mage On Relation Of Em'
ployer and Employees.
ATlMELY DISCOURSE.
Aimed 10 Bring About more
Friendly Relations Between
the Two-Rsnedy For
Industrial Troubles.

At a time when in various district
labor troubles are existing OF
impending the effort Dr.. Tslmage makes
in this discourse 10 b,irg about bet
ter feeling between both sides OF this
difficult question Is well timed; texts,
Galatians v. Is, But if ye bite sno
deyour one another take hee6 that ye DC
not consumed one of another, ana
pbilippisns ii, /, Look notevery man
on his own things, but every man also
on the thing Of others"
About every six months there Is
srest labor agitation. There are violent
questions now in discussion between
employers aud employees. The present
strikes" will 20 into the the past. VI
course, the damage coae cannot De re-
psired. Wages will not be so high as
they were. Spasmo6ieally they may be
higher, but they will drop lower
Strikes, whether night or wrong, always
injuce labore7s as we'll as capitalists:
You will see this In the starvation OF
next winter. Boycotting and violence
and murder never pay. They are oil
fegent stages of anarchy. God never
blessed murder, The worst use you
can put man to is to kill him. Blow
10 tomorrow all the country seats on
the the banks OF the Huison and the
Rhine aud all the 6ue houses on Mad.
ieoo SOU re aud Bcooklyn heights sno
Rlttenhou, ,quare aud Beacon street.
and all the bucks aud uuoeFa aud Stones
Will Just fall back on the bare hands OF
American and Europesn labor.
The worst eneuies Of the working
classes in the Un,ted States aud Ire
land are their dementeG coadjutors
Years sgo sssasaiuatiou-lhe asssSsina
ton Of Lord Freier,ck Cavendish and
MIR. B4rke in Pl ooiI park, Dublin,
Ireland, IN the sttempt TO avenge the
wrongs of Ireland only turned away
from lhat aHIcted people millions OF
synpsrhiz4rs. The attempts to blow
up the house OF commons IN London
had only this effect Ito throw out of
employment tens Of thousands OF inno-
cent Irish people in England. IN this
country the torch put to the factories
that have discharged hands for good or
bsd reason, distractions on the rall
tracks in iront Of midnight express
trains because the offenders do not like
the president Of the company; strikes
on shipboar6 the hour they were going
TO sail or in printing Offices the hour
the paper was to 60 TO press or IN the
mines the day the coal was to be de-
livered or on house scaHoldiDgs so the
builder fails in keeping his coutract-all
these are only hard blew on the head
of American labor and cripple its arms
and lame its feet and pierce its heart
Traps sprung suddenly upon employers
and violence never took one knot out Of
the knuckles Of toll or put one farthing
of wages into a callous palm. Bar
barisn will never cure the wrongs OF
civilization. Mark that!
Frederick the Great admired some
land aear his palace at Potsdan, and he
resolved to get it. 1t was owned by 8
miller. He offered the miller three
times the value of the property. The
miller would not take it because it was
the old homestead, and he felt about as
Nsboth felt about his vineyard when
Ahah wanted it. Frederick the Great
was rough and terrible man, and he
ordered the miller into his preseace,
and the king, with stick in his hand
"a stick with which be sometimes
struck the officers Of state-ssid to the
miller. Now, l have 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 ma
jesty, you won't" Eyes" said the
king, Il will take It" Then" said
the miller, IF your majesty, does take
il | will SUE you in the cnaacery court. "
At that threat Frederick the yielded
his infamous demand. And the most
imperiouS outrage against the working
classes viii yet c']er before the Law
Violence and deiauce OF tie Ia will
never accomplish anything; bu, rlgh;
eousness and submission 10 the lon Wi
accomplish it.
The behavior of q multitude Of Ia
borers toward the their employers dur
ing the last three months may have in
duced some employers to neglect the
real Christian outies that they owe to
those whom they employ. Therefore l
want to say to you whom I confront
face to face and those to whom these
words may come that all shipowners,
all capitalists, all commercial firms, all
master builders, all housewives, are
bound to be interested in the eutire
welfare Of their sabordinates. Years
ago some one gave three prescriptions
for becoming millionaire: ''FIr>t,
spend your life 10 getting and keeping
the earnings Of other people; secondly,
have no anxIety about the worrlments,
the losses, the disappointnents, OF
Others; thirdly, DO nor r4ind the fact
thstyearVss SeallhlmplieS the poverty
Of great many people. Now, there
is not man here who would corsent 20
go into lite with those three principles
10 earn fortune. 1t IS your desire to
Go your whole duty to the men and wo-
men IN your service.
First, of all, then, pay as large wages
IS are reasonable and as Your business
will aford-not necessarily what others
pay, certainly not what your hired help
say you must pay, for that IS tyranny
on the part of labor upoearable. The
right OF a laborer to tell his employer
what be must pay implies the right Of
an employer to compel man into ser
vice whether he will or not, either Of
those ideas IS despicable. When any
employer is allowed to say what he must
do OF have his business ruined and the
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