Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1900-05-24

\ Timely Discourse Aimed to Bring
About More Friendly Relations Ne
tween the Two-The Christian Rem
cdy For Industrial Troubles.
WASHINGTON, May 2O.-At n time
when in various districts labor troubles
ire existing or impending the effort Or.
ralmage makes in this discourse to bring
tbout better feeling between both sides
of this difficult question is well timed;
lCXtS. Galatians v -, "But if We bite
and devour one another take heed that ye
be not consumed one of another and
Philippians ii, 4, Look not every man on
his own things, but every man also on
he things OF others"
About every six months there is a great
labor agitation. There are violent qucs.
lions now in discussion between employ
PRS and employees. The present "strikes"
will go into the past. or course, the dam
age done cannot Immediately be repaired.
Wages will not be so high MS they were.
Spasmodically they may be higher, but
they will drop lower. Strikes, whether
right or wrong, always injure laborcrs ms
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 anarchy.
God never blessed murder. The worst
use you can put a man to is to kill him.
Flow mp tomorrow all the country seats
on the banks of the Hudson and the
Rhine and all the fine houses on Mad
ison square and BROOKLYN Heights and
Nittcnhouse SQUARE and Beacon street,
and all the bricks and timber and stones
viii Just fall back on the bare hands of
American and European labor.
The worst enemies of the working
rlasscs IN the United States and Ireland
are their dcmcutcd conductors. Years
ago asSasSinatiou-the assassination OF
Lord Frederick Cavcndish and Mr..
Burke in Ph0niX park, Dublin, Ireland,
in the attempt to avenge the wrongs of
Ireland only turned away from That al
hicted people millions OF sympathlzers.
The attempts to blow up the house OF
commons in London had only TINS effect
to throw out Of employment tens of
thousands of innocent irish people IN
England. In thlS country the loren put
10 the factories that have discharged
hands for good or bad reason, obstruc-
lions on the rail tracks, in front of mo
night express trains because the offenders
do not like the president of the company:
strikes on shipbonrd 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 de-
lvered or on house scafoldingS 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 its feet and pierce its heart.
Traps sprung suddenly upon employers
and violence never took one knot ont of
he knuckles of toll or put one farthing
Of wages into a callous palm. Barbarism
will never cure the wrongs of civilization.
Mark that.
Defiance of LAW.
I,reder;cl, tho Greot admired sono land
7eor his noloce ot Potsdom. and he re-
solved n ret II II was owned bv n nit.
ler re otfared the miller three times the
raIra Of tho nronertr The miller would
not take il because il was the old home
s+aod and no felt about as Nohoth felt
about his vineyard when Ahab wanted il.
Frederick rho Great was n rough and ter
rible man. and he ordered the miller into
his presence. and the king. with a stick
in his hand-a stick with which he some
times struck the ofhcers or state-snd 10
the miller Now nave onered you
three times the value OF that property
and II you won't sell II ~ take IL any
how. Inc miller SAID, our majesty,
you won t. Yes, SAID the king, 1
VIII take H. Ihen, SAID the iniiier'