The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1900-06-28
THE FIELD OF LABOR
Timely Discourse Of DR.. Talmage
on Industrial Troubles.

sermon Aimed to Bring About More
Friendly Relations Between
Employer and Employe-
Duty Of the Former.
copyright, 1900, by Louis Klopsch.l
Washington,
At a time when in various districts
labor troubles are existing or impend-
ing the effort DR.. Talmage makes in
this discourse to bring about better
feeling between both sides of this diff
ficult question is well timed; texts,
Galatians 5:15: "But if ye bite and
devour one another take heed that ye
be not consumed one of another" and
Philippians 2:4: Look not every man
on his own things, but every man also
on the things of others"
About every six months there is q
great labor agitation. There are vio-
lent questions now in discussion be-
tween employers and employees. The
present strikes" will go into the past.
OF course, the damage done cannot i'm
mediately be repaired. Wages will not be
SO high as they were. Systematically
they may be higher, but they will drop
lower. Strikes, whether right or
wrong, always injure laborers as well
as capitalists. You will see this in
the starvation of next winter. Boycott
ting and violence and murder never
Fay. They are different stages of an
archy. God never blessed murder. The
worst use you can put man to is to
kill him. Blow up tomorrow all the
country seats on the banks of the Hud-
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 the United States and Ireland
are their demented coadjutors. Years
ago assassination-the assassination
of Lord Frederick Cavendish and Mr..
Burke, in Phoenix park, Dublin, Ire
land, in the attempt to avenge the
wrongs of Ireland only turned away
from that afflicted people millions of
sympathizers. The attempts to blow
up the house of commons in London
had only this effect-to throw out of
employment tens of thousands of inno-
cent people in England. In this coun-
try the torch put to the factories that
have discharged hands for good or bad
reason, distractions on the rail tracks,
in front of midnight express trains be-
| cause the offenders do not like the
president of the company; strikes on
shipboard the hour they were going to
sail or in printing Offices the hour the
paper was to go to press or in the mines
the day the coal was to be delivered, OF
on house scaffoldings so the builder
fails in keeping his contract-all these
| are only hard blow on the head OF
American labor, and cripple its arms
and lame it's feet and pierce it's 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 callous palm. Barbar
ism will never cure the wrongs of civ
ilization. Mark that!
Frederick the Great admired some
land near his palace at Potsdam, and hi
resolved to get it. 1t was owned by &
miller. He offered the miller three
times the value of the property. Th'
miller would not take it because it wa'
the old homestead, and he felt about al
Naboth felt about his vineyard whel
| Ahad wanted it. Frederick the Grea
was a rough and terrible man, and h
ordered the miller into his presence
and the king, with a stick in his hand
stick with which he sometime
struck the officers of state-said to th
miller: "Now, 1 have offered you thre
times the value of that property, and
you won't sell it I'll take it anyhow.
The miller said: "Your majesty, yo
won't" "Yes," said the king, Il vii
take it," ''Then," said the miller, 81
your majesty does take it will sue yo
in the chancery court" At that threa
!, Frederick the Great yielded his in
, famous demand. And the most inper
Gus outrage against the workin
, classes will yet cover before the Law
, Violence and defiance of the law wi
! never accomplish anything; bu
. Righteousness and submission to th
law will accomplish it.
But gradually the damages done th
, laborer by the strikes will be repaire'
and some important things ought no
to be said. The whole tendency of OF
times, as you have noticed, is to NAL
, the chasm between employer and en-
ploye wider and wider. In olden tim'
5 the head man of the factory, the ma
4 ter builder, the capitalist, the hes
. mau of the firm, worked side by sit
I with their employees. working som
8 times at the same bench, dining at Il
E same table, and there are those he,
{ who can remember the time when Il
Y clerks of large commercial establis
8 ments were accustomed to board vii
. the head men of the firm.
All that is changed, and the te
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