The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-11-11
Dr.. Hills Wants a
Revival OF Ethics

4 SERMON was preached by Rev
| IL Dr. Hills In Plymouth church
III Brooklyn, Sunday morning which
| recalls the days when the pulpit
| of that famous church was power
| throughout the land. 1t was a sermon
| Oh the labor problem In the light Of
| the coal strike consideration, not Of
It's economic. legal or political aspects,
but from the point of view of the Ten
| commandments and the Sermon on the
| Mount A few extracts will best show
| it's trend.
During the past year we have made
| history rapidly" said DIR. Hills From
combinations of wealth that have les
| scned the cost of production We have
| gone swiftly to combina tions for plunder
| that represent stock. watered indefinite
| ly. and foisted upon the public by greedy
| and unscrnpulous stock jusglers From
| labor unions, also, that offer life ins,r-
! ance, unity of purpose. co-opera ton, we
have passed to labor unions that have
represented brutality. the hatred ard
murder of ilon-t,nion men.
'In discussion Of the laws of God
| ana the country, we are not concerned
| either with organized capitals struggle
| for larger dividends or organized lnbor's
| struggle for a larger wage. These are
| the two giants, and need no sympathy
| or justification. Every sensible man be-
ievns in capital and its honest combira
| tion. and every sensible man believes in
not simply the right of labor to organ
| ize, but its duty, in the interest of self
defence against oppressive employers.
And the history of trades unonism. its
gain In wages the Icssening of the hours
of labor. it's gains in intelligence, and
the character of many of its leaders,
have justified and vindicated the labor
movement: nor will l yield to any one
in my enthusiasm for the union, when
riahteo,isly conducted. Neither capital
nor the labor union. therefore. asks for
synna thy.
"The non-union men. who represent 50
per cent. of the trades. whose sons are
forbidden the right to become appren-
tees, and whose wrongs are above all
other wrongs whatsoever, Justify plea.
Organized capital has deserted non-union
men. Organized labor maltreats them.
And, just rs one hundred soldiers, or
garized and with a leader. can scatter
a crowd of ten thousand, so the twenty
men out of a hundred representing or
ganized labor, terrorize and browbent
the eighty non-,inon men. who are being
driven lower. made more and more ig-
norant. more poverty stricken. until at
last. in their despair. they are ready to
turn against the capitalist who will not
defend them, and the union men who
maltrcat them and the country, the pro-
lection of whose laws are refused them.
Some pulpits have fixed their eyes so
intcntly on the wrongs of the twenty
union men that they have no kind word
for the eighty non- union families. The
politicians will not speak; most papers
will not speak. Tomorrow this state
ment will be picked in pieces by some
editors who want to square themselves
with the union. instead of keeping square
with the laws of Almighty God ard
,il q f1n
word that stands: Thou shalt not KILL
There is another word that stands: Love
your enemies
DR.. Hills said that he had personally
but quietly investigated conditions in the
anthracite region. IN the anthraclte
coal country" he said. 1.-The school teach
ers. aggrcgating over two thousand. and
going 10 the schoolhouse at o'clock. to
remain until ) o'clock. receive N,D
day, for only 900 days. less than the
miners helper and less than one-hali
what the miner himself receives; While
the priests and the Protestant pastors
average two-thirds the miners wage
Far more pitiful the condition or the
non-unio.: men in the anthracite region.
| mention this phase of that trouble be-
cause the commission are reporting on
the relations between the mine workers
association and the operators, the non
union mer who worked during Ihe las.
summer having no standing III the pres
.mt non,, or commission. In that region
,ra twontv-,iye thousand men who have
haa, worl,ine, or irving to work Now
10 ,;ch nnnr,to,s have deserted them |
,rn,. .,nu,t affnrl IN hire troops. since
they mn.t nav dividcnds. The one hun
dral thousand union men have deserted
,hon,. rnr tho,. said onenly In the last
hn,n, of the;, Convention. .If the opera
tnr. an NOT v,ithdr,w the non-union men
v~'' w., MI, I'm tharo Two wae1,s ago T |
,[,,,.or.ad u,i,h some ron-union men
,bara IN. was nm old soldier. who had
hao,, II, the rninne for forty wears; his
con ro, nrorIv as long, lie had earned
$50 n month for wears. All summer they
T,',, on,rial rovoivnrs had bcen In daily
,'n,.u or cI,,h, of stones and noisou. and
~ ~ ,n, ,,.n,., ort viii, ,he nervous strain
a. ~, ,,,a F.i, c,mn.l,od ro occ. indeed,
,,,a.. ,ns nr no non-union men have already
at,,n
so ..r, roroto c,n,ta1 coull honestly
=; ~, siuht of man and Cod there
"', 49, AVA do,,,r or wotercd stool, In
-, 80 ~, nu -. IN o,r r,i,vav stocks the
,iies. l,'.:,, ni''' =. o;1 o thn absolute cost
~, ,,l i''e." ,'. ,ha s,.,nn,th,. or all the
my WIZ" ~" - ~, n,'inn mon would
pun''U , 49,, ,,ar,.. we osI, an
say: We 10 no''rn, ,,',, AN. s,,or. of the
noheNt ""S', wv, Wv m",,' 'n v,a meal to the
prou"e's -. az, r,ir n,or in onr feI-
sense ot Jos',v' anu ,lui al p'a' rn,,r m ,,iu
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