The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1900-06-23
TALMAGE SERMON.
UHOAY'S OlgCOURS5 BY TIE aBlF Of.
VINE
Subject: Labor Strises-A Question of
Present Import Treated in Way
Aimed to Bring About IL Ectter Feeling
Between Employer and Employe.
Copyright l.oO.l

WASHINGTON, ID. Cat time when
various districts labor troubles are eyIs
ing or impending the efforts DR.. Talmag
makes in this discourse to bring about
better feeling between both sides OF til
difficult question is well timed; texts, Gala
titns, v, Is, "But II ye b:to and devoUr on
another, tako heed that yo be not con
sutnei ono of another" and philippine
H., a, Look not every man on his oy
things, bnt every man also on tho thing
Of others"
About every six months there is n grea
labor agitation. There arc violent cues
lions now In discussion between cnplover
and employees. The present "strikes" vii
80 Into tho past. OF course tho damag
done cannot Immediately be repaired
Wages Will not be so high as they were
systematically they may be higher bu
they will drop lowor. Strikes, whethe
light or wrong. always inJure Iaborers n
well rs capitalists. You will see this II
the starvation Of next winter. Boyeotting
and violence and murder never pny. The,
hr" different stages of anarchy. God never
blessed murder. Tho worst use Won can
put man TO is to kill him.
Tho worst enemies of the WORKING classes
In the United States and Ireland are their
denentcd coRdiutcr-. Years ago assas-
sination-tho assassination OF Lord Fred
ctick Cavcndsh and Mr.. Burke In phpnix
Park, Dublin, in the attempt to nyengo tho
wrongs OF Ireland, only turned away from
that afflicted people millions of symnathiz
crs. Tho attempts to blow up the house of
common, in London, had only this effect
to throw out OF employment tens OF
thousands of innocent Irish people in
England. In this country the torch nut 70
the factories that have discharged hands
for good or bad reason, distractions on
the rail- tracks In front OF midnight express
trains because tho offenders do not like
tho president of the rDmrupy otr;l-,, a..
shipboard tho hour they wore going 70
sail, or IN printing Offices tho hour the
paper was TO 80 to press, or in the mines
tho day tho coal was to be delivered. or on
house scaffoldings so the builder fa.is In
keeping his contract all these nre onlyr
hard blow on the head OF American labor
ANA cripple its arms aud lamc its feet and
pierce its heart. Traps sprung Suddenly
upon employers and violence never took
one Knot out OF the Enuckles OF toll or nut
farthirg Of wages into ca,lous palm.
Frederick the Great admired some land
near his palace Mt Potsdam, ana he re-
solved TO get it. It was owned bya miller.
nc olicrcd mo miller tLrco times the value
OF the property. Tho miller would not
take 1t because it was the Old homestead.
md he fet about as Naboth felt about his
vineyard when Ahab wanted 1t. Frederick
tho Great WAS 4 rough and terrible man.
and he ordered tho miller into his pres
ence, and the king, with Il stick In his iand
"A stick with which ho sometimes struck
tho officers of statc-salI to tho miller
NOW, have offered iyou three times tho
Vaiuo OF that property, and il yon won't |
sell 1t I'll takcit anyhow" The miller said |
your majesty, you won't" Eyes" said |
tho king; II will take it," "Then, !" said |
the miller, "lf your majesty does tako 1t |
Nv! WIN sue you IN the chnncery court" At
that threat Frederick the Grcat Welded hi,
infamous demand. And tho most tmperi-
Gus outrage against tho working classes
Will yet cover before the law ,olence and
defiance OF tho law will never accomplish
anything, bnt righteousness and suDmis-
sion to tho law Will accomplish 1t.
But gradually the damages done tbe
laborcr by iho strikes will be repaired. ana
some important things ought now to be
said. Tho whole tendency OF our times. as
you have noticed, is to mako the chnsm
between employer and employe wi Ter and
wider. Id oldcn time the head mnn OF the
factory, tic master builder, tho Capitalist.
tho head man Of tho firm, worked side bv
sido with their employees, working some.
times ut tbe same bench, dining nt the
same table, and there are those hero who
can remember tho timo when the clerks Of
largo commercial establishments were no.
customed to board with the bend men OF
The firm.
All that is changed, and tho tendency is
10 MAKE the distance between employer $
lnd cmpoye wider and wider. Tho tan :
tency is to mako tho employe feel that I,o
. WronGod by the success OF tho capitalist I
and to make the capitalist feel: "Now NV :
aoorers are only beasts Of burden. must :
give so much money for so much drudvnry. i
ust SO many pieces OF silver for SO many :
'eaas Oh sweat. In ether words. the G
'nds. '' "o'n :
fRpinn W |
thomas Carlyle whom le said: "Pluuson
u 81. pony Undershot, buccancerlite,
avs TO his men: Noble spinrc-s tiis i, t
20 hhhdredth thousand we have gained II
wherein mean to dwell and plant nv h
lhevards. The hundred thousand pound y
NINE; tho daily WACO was yours: Alden. Il
oble spinners! Drink my health with this W
roat en:h, which 1 give you over and G
bove'" 49, anu N
NOW what We want IL to rebuild TINT fl
ridge OF sympathy, and put the trowcI h
y ono OF Tic abutmcnts 10 -lav. and I W
lehch more especially to employers ms s
ach, although what l have TO say will he u
lOycs. N ct
Inc behavior OF n multitude OF laborers tU
.Wnru thelr employers during the last 90
free months may have induced soma an | y,
loyers TO neglect tho real Christian duties ST
i ~ lhey oWo to those whom they employ. ar
lHcreiofe want to say to you whom I W
ohlront face to face and those to whom OF
lese words may come that all shipowners C;
! capitalists. all commercial firms Mi yc
aster builders, all housewives, arc bound IN
De Interested in the entire Welfar. Of tn
cir subordnates FRI
Tears ago some one Cavo three nresorip. 70
)hs Tor becoming II millionaire: .sFirst Sc
eha your life in getting and kceuip, ina M
rh'hSs or other people; secondly. have
anxiety about the worrimcnts tina wI
,ses, the disappointments of Others. Isl
iIdiy, DO not mind tho fact that your th,
81 wealth implies the poverty of Il great TO
my people," 7'~' r ~
NOW, there is not q man here who wouIl iel
hseht 10 so into life with those three | mr.,
'hcipies 10 earn fortune. It is your de | wi,
Q 10 DO your whole duty TO the men and
men in your service, e;o
'lrst OF All. then, pay rs large wages cs an,
reasonable and as your business will I'm,
ORC; not necessarily what others nav sto
,tainly not what your hired help saw Won tie.
st pay, for that is tyranny on tic BART sai
labor unbcara5ie. ~,
he right Ola laborer to tell his en,nlovor nm,
~. 80 f"y L,hpies tue right or m hit
=, ~. ~ eV,ipe. q man INTO service lep
:. u =. no "iii or not ana either OF those go
-. - "e'pie'o,e. the
~ "'S c"Vioser Knows lnborer to iHr
what he must do or lavs hi, business Xix.
led, ana the employer submits to il ho :, {
$ every business man N tho United | VIII,
rs wrong ana yields to the principle Wr,.
ch. carried ont. would dissolve socle,v. !ep,
ook over yonr affairs and put Your. OF G