St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1900-06-23
THE FIELD OF'LABOR
Timely Discourse Of DR.. Talmage
on ,Iadpst1ial Troubles -

H2-l l-I- -taJS :
Sermon Aimed - Brins About Nor
Friendly Relations Between
Employer And EApleye-
sDaty Of fhe Former. F
Copyright, $780, by Louis Kfopsch.l
Washington,
AT time when in various district
tabor troubles are existing Or impend
ing the effort DIR. Talmage makes il
this discourse to bring about bette
feeling between both sides of this dif
tcu,t question is we'll timed; texts
Galatians Sis: But if We bite an,
devour one another take heed that V,
be not CONSUMED one of another" ant
Philippians 2:4: Look not every maj
on his own things, but every man ais,
on the things of Others
About every six months there is ;
great labor agitation. There are vic
lent questions now in discussion be
tween employers and employees. Tn,
present strikes" will go into the past
of course, the damage done cannot i'm
mediately bercpaired. Wages VIII not b<
SO high as they were. Systematically
they may be higher, but they will droI
lower. Strikes, whether right OF
wrong, always injure laborers as vel
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-
som and the Rhine and all the fine
houses on Madison square and Beacon
street, and all the bricks and timber
aud stones will just fall back on the
bare hands of American and European
labor.
The worst enemies. of the working
classes ip The Upited States ami Ireland
are their demented coadjutors.s 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 IrelaAd~only turned away
from that afflicted people pillonssot
sympathizers. The Sattenpts 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
the hour they were going to
sail or in printing offices the hour the
paper was to 90 to press or in the mines
the day the GOAL was to be delivered, or
on house scaffoldngs SO the builder
fails in keeping his contract-all these
are only a hard blow ION. the head. Of
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. Barbar-
ism will never cure the wrongs of civ
Iization. Mark that!
Frederick the Great admired some
and near his palace at Potsdam. and he
to get it. 1t was owned by .
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
vas a rough and terrible man, and he
ardered the miller into his presence,
ind the king. with stick in his hand
/ stick with which he sometimes
struck the officers of state-said to the
miller: Now, have offered you three
lines the value of that property, and if
ou won't sell it 1H-take it anyhow"
The miller said: "Your majesty, you
WON'T" YES" said the king. Il will
axe it." "Then," said the miller, IF
our majesty does take it 1 will sue you
n the chancery court" At that threat
frederick the Great yielded his in
amous demand. And the most imperi-
'us outrage against the working
lasses will yet cover before the law.
'iolence and defiance of the law will
ever accomplish anything; but
righteousness and submission to the
aw will accomplish it.
But gradually the damages done the
lborer by the strikes will be repaired,
nd some important things ought now
0 be said. The whole tendency of our
ines. as you have noticed, is to make
he. chasm between employer and en-
loye wider and wider. In olden times |
,e head man Of the factory. the mas
r builder, the capitalist, the head
IAN of the firm, worked side by side
'ith their employees. working some
mes at the same bench. dining at the |
lme table, and there are those here |
ho can remember the time when the |
erks of large commercial establish |
tents were accustomed to board with
le head men Of the hrn. t
All that is changed, and the, ten
.Rcy is to make the distance between
nployer and employe wider and wider.
he tendency is to make the employe
el that he is wronged by the success
the capitalist, ,'and to make the cap
alist feel: Now. my laborers are
1ly beasts of burden; 1 must give
lem SO much money for SO much
'udgery. just SO many pieces of silver
r SO many beads of sweat" In other
ords. the bridge of sympathy is brok-
! down at both ends. That feeling
as well described by Thomas Carlyle
hen he said: "Plugson, OF st. Dolly
ndershot. buccaneerike, says to his
en-: Noble spinners, this is the hun
edith thousand we have gained,
herein mean1to dwell and plant my
neyards. The s 100000 is mine, the
lily wage was yours. Adieu, noble
inners! Drink my health with this
oat each, which give you over and
ove.'" Now, what we want is to re-
lid that bridge of sympathy, and III
t the trowel to one of the abutment6l i i
day. and preach more especially to
,ployers as such, although what / /,
We to say will be appropriate to both
lployers and employees.
The behavior. Of = rnulfifnS1e of In.