The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1900-05-30
FIELD OF LABOR,
Or. Talmage On Relation Of EN-.
ployer and Employee.
4 TIMELY DISCOURSE.
Aimed to Bring About More
Friendly Relations Between
the Two-Remedy For
Industrial Troubles.

lndustrial Troubles.
@ At time whom in various district
labor troubles arc existing or
impending the effort DR.. Talmage lnakos
in this discourse to bring about bet.
ter fcoling between both sides of this
difficult question is we'll timed; texts,
Galatians v, 10, "But if ye bito aud
devour ono another tako heed thnt 70 be
not consumed one Of another" and
Philippians ii, 4, Look not evory man
on his own things, but every man also
on the thing Of others"
About every six months there Is a
grcat labor agitation. Thcrsnro violont
questions now in discussion botwoon
cmplo, crs aud employees. The present
strikes will go into tho the past. or
course, tho damage douo cannot be re.
paired. Wages will not be so high as
thoy wore. Spasmodically they may bo
higher, but thcy will drop lower
Strikes. whether right or wrong, always
I injure laborcrs as wcll as capitalists.
You will SEQ this in the starvation of
next winter. Boyootting and violence
and murder novor pay. They are diff
ferent stages Of anarchy. God nevcr
blessed murder, The worst use you
oan put man to is to kill him. Blow
up tomorrow all tho country seats on
the tho banks of the Hudson and the
Khino and oil the fiao houses on Mad
ison square and Brooklyn Heights and
Rittonhouso square and Beacon street,
and all the bricks and tim ber and stones
will just fall back on tho baro hands of
American and European labor.
The worst onomios of tho working
Glasses in the United States and Iro-
land are their dcmcntcd coadjutors.
Years ago assasaination-tho assassina-
tion Of Lord Frederick Cavendish and
MIR. Burke in Phsnix park, Dublin,
lrcland, III the attempt to avongo tho
wrongs OF Ireland only turned away
from that afflicted people millions Of
Bympathizcrs. Tho attempts to blow
up the house of commons in London
had only this ctfeot Ito throw out of
employment tons of thousands Of inno-
cont Irish people in England. In this
country the torch put to tho factories
that have discharged hands for good or
bad reason, distractions OH the rail
tracks in front Of midnight expross
trains because the offenders do not like
the president of the company; strikes
on shipboard tho hour thoy were going
to sail or i'll printing offices the hour
tho paper was to 60 to pross or in tho
mines the day the coal was to be do
ilvcred or on house soatfoldings 80 the
builder fails in keeping his contract all
these arc only a hard blow on tho head
Of American labor and cripple its arms
and lame liz feet and pierce it's heart
Trars. sprung suddenly upon employers
and VIOLENCE never took one knot out of
tho knucklcs Of toll or put one farthing
OF wages into a oallous palm. Bar
barism will never euro the wrongs Of
civilization. Mark that!
,,. Frederick the Great admired somo
land near lis palace at Potsdam, and ho
resolved to got it. 1t was owned by a
miller He offered the miller three
times tho value Of the property. Tho
miller would not take it booauso it was
tho old homestead, and he felt about as
Nabcth felt about his vineyard whom
Ahah wanted it. Frederick tho Great
was a rough and terrible man, and ho
ordered tho miller into his presence,
and the king, with stick in his hand
"a stick with which he sometimes
struck the officers Of stato-said to the
miller. Now, | have offered you
three timos tho value of that property,
and if you won't sell it Ill tako it any
how" The miller said Your ma.
jesty, you won't" yes" eaid tho
king, II will take it." '.Then," said
the miller, "if your majesty, does take
1t will sue you in the chanoory court"
at that threat Frederick the yielded
his Infamous demand. And the most
lmperlous outrage uyainht the working
olasscB will yet cover before the law
violence and dcsianco Of tie lag will
never accomplish anything; but right
eousness and submission TO tho law VAL
accomplish it.
The bonayior Of multitude Of Ia.
borers toward the their employers dur
Ing tho last three months may have in
duocd somo employers to neglect tho
real Christian duticE that they owe to
those whom thoy employ. Therefore
want to say to you whom I confront
face to faco and those to whom these
words may como that all shipowners,
oil capitalists, all commercial firms, ali
master builders, all housewives, arc
bound to bo in.orosted in the entire
welfare OF their subordinatcs, Years
ago somo ono gave three prescriptions
for becoming millionaire: First.
spend your lifo IN getting and kccping
tho earnings of other people; secondly,
have no anxiety about the worrimente,
the losses, tho disappointments, Of
others; thirdly, do NOT mind tho fact
that your vast wealth implies tho poverty
OF great many people," Now, there
~ not man here who would consent to
go into life with those threo prinoiplcs
TO earn fortune. 1t is your desire to
40 your whole duty to the mon and wo.
mon in your service.
First, Of all, then, pay as large wngos
as are reasonable and az your business
Will aiford-.not necessarily what others
pay, certainly not what your hired holp
say you must pay, for that is tyranny
on tho part OF labor unboarablo. The
right OF laborer to tell his employer
what ne must pay implios tho right Of
an employer to compel q man into ser.
vice whether he will or not, either Of
those ideas is despioablo. Whom any
employer is allowed to say what ho must
do or have his business ruined and tho
employer submits to it, no docs evory
business man in tho United States a
wrong and yields to tho priaoiplo which.
carried out, would dissolve society.
LOOK over your affairs and put your