The L'Anse sentinel., 1900-05-26
THE FIELD OF LABOR
Timely Discourse of DR.. Talmage
on Industrial Troubles.
Sermon Aimed To bring sb"gt More
Friendly Relations Between
Employer md Employee
Duty of the Former.
Copyright, 1900, by Louis N'opsch.l

labor troubles are eNlStlllB OF liIpchu-
ing the effort DIR. Talmagc makes in
this discourse to bring about "A better
feeling between both sides of this diff
ficult question is well timed; texts,
Galatians 5:1j: But if ye bite and
devour one another take heed that yc
be not consumed one Of another" and
Philippians "a: Look not every man
on his own things, but every man also
on the things of others"
About every six months there is a
great labor agitation. There are rio2
lent questions now in discussion be-
tween employers and employees. The
present strikes" will go into he past.
or course, the damage done cannot inn
mcdiately be repaired. Wages wiLlno be
SO high as they were. Spasmodically
they may be higher, but they will drop
lower. Strikes, whether right or
wrong, always injure Eborcrs as well
as capitalists. You will see this in
the starvation of next winter. Boycott
ting and violence and murder never
Pay. They are different stages Of an
archy. God never blessed murder. The
worst use you can put man to is 10
kill him. Blow up tomorrow all the
country seats on the banks of the llud-
son and the Rhine and all The fine
houses on Madison square and Beacon
street, and all the bricks and timber
and stones will just fall back on the
bare hands of American and European
labor.
The worst enemies of the, working
CLASSES in thcUnited States ana Ireland
are their Gcmcuted coadjuturs. Years
ago assaasination-ihc assassination
of Lord Frederick Cavendish and Mr..
Burke, in Phoenix park, Dublin, Ire
land, in the attempt to aNcuge the
wrongs Of Ireland only turned away
from that afflicted people millions OF
sympathiHcrs. The attempts 10 blow
up the house of commons in London
had only This ciTtct--to throw out Of
employment tens OF thousands of inno-
cent people in England. In this coun-
try the torch put 10 the factories ti.at
have discharged hands for good or bad
reason, distractions on the rail tracks,
in front Of midnight express trains be-
president Of the company; strikes on
shipboard the hour rhcy We're going to
sail or in printing offices the hour he
paper was o 70 o press or in lhcanincS
the day the coal was to b. delivered. or
on house scaiIolGiugs so the builder
fails in keeping his contract-ail those
are only IL hard blow on the head Of
American labor, and cripple its arms
and lame its feet and pierce il heart
Traps sprung suddenly upon employers
and violence never took one knot out OF
the knucllics of toll put one farthing
of wages into Il calous palm. Earbar-
ism will never cure the wrongs Of civ
iIization. Mark that. -
Frederick the Great admired some
land near his pal%ce at potsdam. and he
resolved to get it. II was owned by a
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
Naboth felt about his vineyard when
Ahad wanted it. Frederick the Great
was a rough and terrible man, and he
ordered the miller into his presence.
and the king, with stick in his hand
a stick with which he sometimes
struck the officers of state4-Sai9 to the
miller: "Now, | have offered you three
times the value of that property and If
you won't sell it I'll take it anyhow"
The miller said: Your majesty, you
won't" YES" said the king, II will
take it," Then" said the miller, IF
your majesty does take it will sue you
in the chanccry court" At that threat
Frederick the Great yielded his in
famous demand. And the most impcri-
Gus outrage against the working
.classcs will yet cover before the law.
Violence and defiance of the law will
never accomplish anything; but
righteousness and submission to the
law will accomplish it.
but gradually the damages done the
Iaborcr by the strikes will be repaired,
and some important things ought now
to be said. The whole tendency Of our
times. as you have noticed, is to make
the chasm between employer and en-
Dloyc wider and wider. In oldcn times
the head man of the factory, the mas
ter builder, the capitalist the head
man Of the firm, worked side by side
with their employees. working some
times at the same bench, dining at the
same table, and there are those here
who can remember the time when the
clerks of large commercial establish
ments were accustomed to board with
the head men of the firm.
All that is changed, and the ten
dency is to make the distance between
employer and employe wider and wider
The tendency is to make the employ'
feel that he is wronged by the success
Of the capitalist. and TO make the cap
itnlist feel: "Now, my laborers are
only beasts of burden; j must give
them so much money for so mucf
drudgery, just 50 many pieces of silve
for so many beads of sweat In othei
words the bridge of sympathy is brok
en- down at both ends. That feelint
was well described by Thomas Carlyl
when he said: "Plugson, of ST. Doll,
Undershot, buccaneerlike. says to hi
men: Noble spinners, this is the hun
.dredth thousand we have gained
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