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- - .? i THE FLAG. OF TRUCE. drtalmage suggests a remedy FOR STRIKE EPIDEMICS. Interests of Capital and Labor.Aw Identical, and When They Ceaie to LitagonUe Each Other Strife Will Ceaae Benefit of Co-operation. Copvrisrht, Louis Klopsch, 1S99. Washington, Aug. 13. In this dis course Dr. Talmage suggests how the everlasting war between capital and labor may be brougllt to a happy end. The text Is I Corinthians xii, 21, ."The eye cannot say unto the band, I have no need of thee." ;-v"l ' ifty thousand workmen In Chicago ceasing work In one day; Brooklyn stunned by the attempt to halt its rail road cars; Cleveland In the throes of of 'labor agitation, and restlessness among toilers alf over the land have caused an epidemic of strikes, aid. somewhat to better things, 1 apply the Pauline thought of my text. iYou have seen an elaborate piece of machinery, with a thousand wheels and a thousand bands and a thousand pulleys all controlled by one great waterwheel, ,the machinery so ad justed that when you jar one part of it you Jar all parts of It. Well, human society is a great piece of mechanism controlled by one-great and ever re volving forceF-the wheel of God's prov idence. You harm one part of the ma chinery of society, and you harm all parts. All professions Interdependent. All trades interdependent. All classes of people interdependent Capital and labor interdependent No such thing as Independence, Dives cannot kick Laza rus without hurting his own foot They who threw Shadrach into the furnace got their own bodies scorched. Or, to come back to the figure of the text What a strange thing It would be If the eye should say: I oversee the entire physical mechanism. I despise the other members of the body; if there is anything I am disgusted with. It Is With those miserable, low lived hands. Or, what if the hand should say: I am the boss workman of the .whole physic al economy f I have no respect for the other members of the body. If there la anything I despise, it is the eye seated under the dome of the forehead doing nothing but look. I come in, and I wave the flag of trace between these two contestants, land I say, "The eye cannot say to the hand, 'I have no need of thee.' " Labor and Capital, j That brings me to the first sugges tion, and that is, that labor and capital are to be brought to a better under standing by a complete canvass of the Whole subject They will be brought to peace when they find that they are Identical in their interests. When one goes down, they both go down. When one rises, they both rise. There will be an equilibrium after awhile. There never has been an exception to the rule. That which is good for one class jof society eventually will be good, for jail classes of society, and that which is bad for one class of society will even tually and in time be bad for all. Every Speech that labor makes against capi tal postpones the day of permanent ad justment Every speech that capital makes against labor postpones the day of permanent adjustment When capi tal maligns labor, it is the eye cursing the hand. When labor maligns capital, jit is the hand cursing the eye. As far; as I have observed, the vast majority! of capitalists are successful laborers. If the capitalists would draw, their glove, you would see the broken finger nail, the scar, of an old blister, the stiffened finger Joint The great pub lishers of the country for the most part were bookbinders, or typesetters, on small pay. The great carriage man ufacturers for the most part sand papered wagon bodies in wheelwright, phops. While, on the other hand. In all jour large manufacturing establish jments you will find men on wages who once employed a hundred or five hun dred hands. The distance between capital and labor Is not a great, gulf over which Is swung a Niagara sus pension bridge; it Is only a step, and the capitalists are crossing over to be come laborers, and the laborers are crossing over to become capitalists. Would God they might shake hands while they cross. On the other hand, laborers are the highest style of capi talists. Where are their investments? In banks?- No! In the railroads? No! Their nerve, their muscle,, their bone, their mechanical skill, -their physical health are magnificent capital. He who has two eyes, two ears; two feet two hands, ten fingers, , has machinery that puts into nothingness carpet and screw and cotton factory, and all the other Implements on the planet. The capital ists were laborers, the laborers were capitalists. The sooner we understand that tue better. Co-operative Associations. Again, there is to come relief to the laboring classes of this country through co-operative associations. I Jim not at this moment speaking of trades unions, but of" that plan by which laborers put their surplus to gether and become their own capital ists. Instead jof being dependent upon the beck of this capitalist or that capi talist they manage their own affairs. In England and Wales there are 813 co-operative associations. They have 840,000 members; they have a capital of. $18,000,000, or what corresponds to our dollars, and they do a business annually of $03,000,000. Thomas Bras sey, one of the foremost men In the British parliament on the subject says: "Co-operation Is the one and the nly relief for the laboring populations: This is the path," he says, "by which they are to come up from the hand to the mouth style of living, to reap the rewards and the honors of our ad vanced civilization." Lord Derby and John Stuart Mill, who gave half their lives to the study of the labor question, believed ..to , co-operative Institutions. "But" says some one, "haven't these institutions sometimes been a failure?" Yes. Every great movement has "been a failure at some time. Application of the steam power a failure, electro telegraphy a failure, railroading a fail ure, but now the chief successes of the -world. : j:vv';'- i "But" says some one, "why talk of surplus being' put by laborers Into co operative associations when the vast multitude of toilers of this country are struggling for their daily bread and have no surplus?" I reply, put into my hand the money spent by the laboring classes of America for rum and to bacco, and I will establish co-operative associations In all parts of this land, some of them mightier than any finan cial institutions of the country. We spend In this country over $100,000,000 every year for tobacco. We spend over $1,500,000,000 directly or indirectly for rum. The laboring classes spend their share of this money. Now, suppose the laboring man who has been expending his money in those directions should, just add up how much he has expended- during these past r few ( years, and then suppose that that money was put Into a co-operative association, and then suppose he should have all his friends in toil, who had made the same kind of expenditure, do the same thing, and that should be added up and put Into a co-operative association. And then take all that money expended for overdress and overstyle and overliv ing on the part of toiling . people In order that they may appear as well, as persons who have more Income gather that all up and you could have co operative associations all over 'this land. ; Trades Unions. I am not saying anything now about trades unions. You want to know what I think of trades unions. I think they are most beneficial in some directions, and they have a specific object and in this day, when there are vast monopo liesa thousand monopolies concen trating the wealth of the people into the possession of a few men unless the laboring men of this country and all countries band together they will go under. There Is a lawful use of a trade union. If it means sympathy In time of sickness, if it means finding work for people jvhen they are out of work, if it means the improvement of the financial, the moral or theTeligious condition of the. laboring classes, that is all right Do not artists I band to gether In an art union? Do not singers band together in Handel and Hadyn societies? Do not newspaper men band together In press clubs? Do not min isters of religion band together in con ferences and associations? There Is not in all the land a city where clergy men do. not come together, many of them once a week, to talk over affairs. For these reasons you. should not blame labor guilds. When they are doing their legitimate work, they are most admirable, but when they come around with drum and fife and flag from their scaffoldings, from their fac tories, then they are nihilistic, then they are communistic, then they are barbaric, , then they are a curse. If a man wants t6 stop work, let him stop work, but he cannot stop me from work. But now suppose that all the laboring classes banded together for beneficent purposes In co-operative association, under whatever name they put their means together. Suppose they take the money that they waste in rum and tobacco and use It for the elevation of their families, for the education of their children, for their moral, Intel lectuaT and religions Improvement what a different state of things we would have In this country and they would have In Great Britain! Do you not realize the fact that men work better without stimulant? You say, "Will you deny the laboring men this help which they get from strong drink, borne down as they are with many anxieties and exhausting work?" I would deny them nothing that is good for them. I would deny them ' strong drink, if I had the power, be cause it is. damaging to them. My fnthf.r said: "I became a temperance man In early life because I found that In the harvest field, while I was natu rally weaker than the, other men, 1 could hold out longer than any of then. They took stimulant and I took none." ! : Everybody knows they cannot en dure great fatigue men who indulge in stimulants. All our young men un derstand that. When they are prepar ing for the regatta, or the ball club, or the athletic wrestling,; they abstain from strong drink. Now, suppose all this money that is wasted were gath ered together and put into co-operative institutions. Oh, we would have a very different state of things from what we have now. ,- Practice Economy. I remark again, the laboring elapses of this country are to find great relief when they learn, all of them learn, forecast and providence Vast num bers of them r put down their income and they put down their expenses, and if the income meets the expenses that is all that is necessary. I know labor lug men who are in a perfect fidget until they have spent their last dollar. They fly around everywhere until they get it spent A case came under my observation where a young man was receiving $700 a year and earned it by very hard work. The marriage day came. The bride had received $500 as an inheritance from her grandfather. She put the $500 in wedding equip ment Then the twain hired two rooms on the third story. Then, this man. who had most arduous employ ment, just as much as he could possi- bly endure, got evening employment so he could earn a few dollars more and by this extra evening employ ment almost extinguished his eye sight Why did he take this extra evening employment? Was It to lay by something for a rainy day? No. Was it to get a life Insurance so that if he should die his wife would not be a pauper? No. It was for the one purpose of getting his wife a $150 sealskin sacque. I am just giving you a fact I know. The sister of this wo man, although she was a very poor girl, was not to be eclipsed, and so she went to work day and night and toiled and toiled and toiled almost in to the grave until she got a $150 seal skin sacque! Well, the news went abroad all through the street 7 Most of the people on that street were la boring, hard working people, and they were not to be outshone in this way, and they all went to work in the same direction and practically said, though not j literally, "Though the heavens fall, we must have a sealskin sacque!" j A clergyman in Iowa told me that his I church and the entire neighbor" hood had been ruined by the fact that thei people mortgaged their farms in order, to go down to the Philadelphia Centennial in 1S76. First one family would go, then another family, and Anally it was not respectable, not to go to the Centennial at Philadelphia, and they mortgaged their farms. The church and the neighborhood ruined in that way. "Now, between such fools and pauperism there is only a very short step. In time of peace5 prepare for! war; In time of prosperity prepare for adversity. Yet how many there are who drive, on the verge of the precipice, and at the least touch of ac cident or sickness over they go. Ah, my friends, It is not right, it Is not honest! He that provldeth not for his own, and especially those of his own household, is worse than an infideL A man has no right to live in luxury and hate all comforts and all brightness around him, taking his family with him at that rate everything bright and beautiful and luxurious until he stumbles against a tombstone and falls ln,! and they all go to the poorhouse. That is not common honesty. I am no advocate of skinflint saving. I abhor it But. I plead for Christian provi dence , - I Savingra Banks. Some of the older persons remem ber very well Abraham Van Nest of New York, one of its Christian mer chants. He was often called mean because he calculated so closely. Why did he calculate closely? That ho might have the more to give. There wis not a Bible society or "a tract so ciety or a reformatory Institution in the city of New1 York but he had his hand In supporting it He denied himself many luxuries that he might give to others the necessities.- He has been many years reaping his reward in heaven, but I shall never forget the day when I, a green country lad, came to his house and spent the evening, and at the close of the evening, as I was departing, he accompanied me to the door, accompanied me to the steps, came down off the steps abd said: "Here, De Witt is $40 for books.-Don't say anything about it" It is mean or It is magnificent to save, according as you save for a good or bad object 2 I know there aie many people who have much to say against savings banks and life. Insurances. I have to tell you that the vast majority of the homesteads in this country have been the result of such institutions, and I ua.vc w icii juu txiau mai iue vaoi ma jority of the homesteads of the future for the laboring classes will be the result of such Institutions. It will bo a great day for the working classes of England and the United States when the workingman can buy a barrel of flour Instead of flour by the small sack; when he can buy a barrel of suar instead of sugar by the pound; when he can pay cash for coats and hats and shoes rather than pay an ad ditional amount for the reason that he has to get It all charged. Again I remark: Great relief is to come for the laboring classes of this country by appreciation on the part of employers, that they had better take their employees into their confidence. I can see very easily, looking from my standpoint, what is the matter. Em ployees, seeing the employer In seem ing prosperity, do not know all the straits, all the hardships, all the loss es,' all the annoyances. They look at him, and they think, "Why, he has it easy, and we have it hard." They do not know that at that -very moment the employer Is at the last point of des peration 'to meet his engagements. I know a gentleman very well who, has over 1,000 hands in his employ. I I said to him. some years ago when there wasjrreat trouble in the labor market1 "How are you getting on with your men?" . "Oh." he said. "1 have no trouble!" "Why," I saia, "have not ypu had any strikes?" "Oh. no!" he said. "I never had any trouble." "What plan do you pursue?" He said: "I; will tell you. All my men know ev ery year just how matters stand. Ev ery little while I call them together and say: 'Now, boys, last year I made so much. This year I made less. So you see I cannot pay you as much as I did last year. Now, I want to know what you think I ought to have as a percentage out of this establishment and what wages I ought to give you. You know I put all my energy in this business, put all my fortune in it and risked everything. What do you real ly think I ought to have and you ought to have? ;By the time we come out of that consultation we are nnani mous. There has never been an excep tion. When we prosper, we all pros per together. When we suffer, we all suffer together, .and my men would die for me." Now, let all employers be frank with their employees. Take them Into your confidence. Let them know Just how matters stand. There Is an immense amount of common tense In the world. It is always safe fo appeal to it j To the Capitalist. I remark again: Great relief will. - w e Are tne iilxclusive Agents for Union, of coarse. 19 yemre In botlaeng, and never bad a strike theft our labor record. It your dealer don't keep Keyatooe good; eend In his name. - CLEVELAND & WHITEHILL CO., Newburgh, N. Y. IF THEY RIP AQTY1 ATI J W. Crawford, W.jH. uiuvoiuvu w in. xt. ixanjcin, i orz. x. itee. come to the laboring classes of this country through the religious rectifica tion of it. Labor is honored and! re warded in proportion as a community Is Christianized Why Is It that our smallest coin In mis country is a pen ny, while in China It takes a half dozen pieces of coin or a dozen to make one of our pennies in value, so the Chinese carry the cash, as 'they call it like a string of beads around the neck? We never want to pay less than a penny for anything In this country. They must . pay that which is worth only the sixth part or the twelfth part of a penny. Heathenism and iniquity and infidelity depress ev ery thing. The gospel of Jesus Christ elevates everything. . How do I ac count for this?' I account for It with the plainest philosophy. The religion of Jesus Christ is a democratic re ligion. It tells the employer that he is a brother to all the operatives in the establishment made by the same God, to lie in the same dust and to be saved by the same supreme mercy. It does not make the slightest difference how much money you have, you cannot buy your way into the kingdom of heaven. If you have the grace of God in your heart you will enter heaven. ' j Let me say a word toTall capitalists. Be your own executors. Make invest ments for eternity. Do not be like some of those capitalists I know who walk around among their employees with a supercilious air or drive up to the factory in a manner which seems to Indicate; they are the autocrat of the universe, with the sun and moon In their vest pockets, chiefly anxious when they go among laboring men not to be touched by the greasy or smirch ed, hand and have their broadcloth in jured. Be a Christian employer. He member those who are under your charge are bone of your bone and flesh of your flesh; that Jesus Christ died for them and that they are Immortal. Divide up your estates or portions of them for the relief of the world before you leave it Do not go out of the world like that man who died in Ifew York, leaving In his will $40,000,000, yet giving how much for the church of God; how much for the alleviation of human suffering? He gave some mon ey a little while before he died. That was well, but in all this will of $40, 000,000 how much? One million? No. Five hundred thousand? No. One hundred dollars?" No. Two cents? No. One cent? No. These great cities groaning In anguish, nations cry ing out for the bread of everlasting life. A man In a will giving forty millions of dollars and not one cent to God. It Is a disgrace to our civiliza tion. Or, as illustrated In j a letter which I have concerning a man who departed this life, leaving between five and eight millions of dollars. Not one dollar was left this writer says, to comfort the aged workmen and work women, not one dollar to elevate and Instruct the hundreds of pale children who stifled their childish growth ln the heat and clamor of his factory. "Jls It strange that the curse of the chil dren of toll follows such Ingratitude? How well could one of his many mil lions have been disbursed for the pres ent and the future .benefit j of those whose hands had woven literally the fabric of the dead man's princely for tune. Oh, capitalists of the United States, be your own executors. Be a George Peabody, if need be, on a small scale. God has made you a steward. Discharge your responsibility. j t A Word to Labor, j f My word is to all laboring men in tils country: I congratulate you I at your brightening prospects. I con gratulate you on the fact that you are getting your representatives at Al bany, at Harrisburg and at Washing . : " . i leyston Hero-ftp N WEAR, YOU GET Bees, Harry S. Donnell, ton I have only to mention such a man of the past as Henry Wilson, the shoemaker; as Andrew Johnson, the tailor; as Abraham Lincoln, the boat man. The living Illustrations easily occur to you. This will go on until you will have representatives at all the j headquarters, and you will have full justice. I congratulate you also on your op portunities of information. Plato paid $1,300 for two books. Jerome ruined himself financially by buying one vol ume of Origen. What vast opportuni ties1 for intelligence for you and your children." A working man goes along by the show window of some great publishing house, and be sees a book that costs $5. He says: "I wish I could have that information. I wish I could raise $5 for that costly and beautiful book." A few months pass on, and he gets the value of that book for 25 cents In a pamphlet There never was such a day for the wockingmen of America as this day and the day that is coming. I also congratulate you because your work Is only prefatory and introducto ry. I You want the grace of Jesus Christ the carpenter of Nazareth. He tolled himself, and he knows how to sympathize With all who toil. Get his grace In your heart, and you can sing on the scaffolding amid the storm, n the ishop shoving the plane. In the mine plunging the crowbar, on shipboard climbing the ratlines. He will make the drops of sweat on yourtrow glit tering pearls for the eternal coronet Are1 you tired, he will rest you. Are you1 sick, he will give you help. Am you1 cold, he will wrap you in the man tle of his love. Who are they before the throne? "Ah," you say, "their l a J n wot. aaHahhaI mtfK svt1 V Yesi they were. You 6ay, "Their feet were never blistered with the long Journey. Yes, they were, but Christ raised them to that high eminence. Who are these? "These are theythat came out of great tribulation and had their robes washed and made white In the blood of the Lamb." 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