Waterbury Democrat., 1901-05-27
DR PARRY ON LABOR.
His Discourse Last Evening Was Di- rected Toward the Workingmen.

His Discourse Last Evening Was Di-
 rected Toward the Workingmen.
 In his sermon last night at the First Baptist church, the pastor, Rev Dr Parry, said:
 .'Some one once asked President Lincoln what was his coat of arms. He replied, "A pair of shirt sleeves A pair of shirt sleeves worn by a work ing man is a better coat of arms than all the lions rampant, or calves dor mant that decorate the shields carried by those whose bearing maxes us think of the missing link. The Bible puts special honor everywhere on toll. The only person who had the power to choose his own percentage, selected the wife of carpenter to be his mother, and after working at the trade him. self, called into his apostleships hum ble fishermen, and the most gifted of his followers was tent maker. Jesus ever magnified the individual. In his day organization was everything, and the individual nothing. Hence the misery and slavery seen everywhere. And one of the greatest dangers of our day. is the trend towards great organi- zation.
 Labor organizations doubtless ex- fsted in the time of Christ. In the great synagogue at Alexandria, the various. crafts had assigned to them different parts of the building and when stranger arrived, he was seat ed in the proper section and supported by his brother workmen until he ob- ffliT, af1 that kingly soul who lived such a noble and unse1fsh life, once began a speech by saying, I am not the friend of the workingman, I am the friend of man. which was the sentiment also of the carpenter of Nazareth
 "ETer since the days of Christ in Christian lands the position of the working man has been rising higher. While it is true that labor does not to- day receive its full share of the bene- fits which it deserves, yet compared with the times of Charles the Second and Edward the Third and other periods, the position of the, working man is higher than ever before.
 Tt is much to be regretted that the erroneous conception has gotten abroad that capital is the enemy of labor, and labor the enemy of capital
 Tt is sad to think that in this United States, which is the worlds paradise for the working man, and in our favored Waterbury, which is one of the choice spots of the worlds garden, that the spirit of unrest should have entered in and disturbed this national relationship of capital and labor.
 We can only hope that each one. whether he be in the ranks of the employed or the employer will be just in all things. We should aim. in every thing to be fair in considering the rights of each, only thus can we help the coming of the day when conflicts between capital and labor shall be over, and when. the two, who are by nature friends, shall no longer be pitched in separate armed camps, sus- plciouS of each other.''
 The rights of the working man to a fair and equitable remuneration for. his services, and his right to shorter hours, and honorable treatment and various other specific rights were then considered, and in speaking of inn Engagement of these rights, it was said that the remedy could be found only in the fair, frank, honest bearing on the part of the working man. joined to a just and equitable temper on the part of the employer.