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THE LFTHIEK: GAFFNEY. S. C., SEPTEMBER 0. 1807 4 • TROUBLES OF LABOR. ! | nerves ai KEvj DR. TALMAGE'S PLAN FOR SET TLltoG THE GREAT WORK CONFLICT. | Ilf Says That If Things Go on at tliol’ros* •■lit Ratio It Will Nut IJe I.nnc Bcforo All Will Itc Killu-r I’riiicea or l'au|><:r8. His Kciiiptly. Washington, Ki'pt. 5.—Dr.Talmr.se’R | Ian for Kettling tin* industrial troubles nf our day is set forth in this aennou. His test is Matthew vii, 12, “Whatso ever ye wnuhl that men should do to you, do yon even so to them.” The gn atest war tho world has ever seen is between capital and labor. The strife is net like that which in history is tailed the Thirty Years’ war, for it is a war of centuries, it is a war of the live continents, it is a war hemispheric. The middle classes in this country, upon whom tho nation has depended for holding the balance of power and for acting as mediators between the two extremes, are diminishing, and if things go on at the same ratio as tin y are now going it will not be very long before there will be no middle class in this country, but all will be very rich or very poor, princes or paupers, and the country will be given up to palaces and hovels. Tho antagonistic forces are closing in upon each other. The Pennsylvania miners’ strikes, the telegraph operators’ strikes, the railroad employees’ strikes, the movements < f tho boycotters and the dynamiters are only skirmishers be fore a ge neral engagement, or, if you prefer it, escapes through the safety valves of on imprisoned force which promises the explosion of society. You may poohpooh it; you may say that this trouble, like an angry child, will cry itself to sleep; you may belittle it by calling it Fourierism or socialism or St. Simouism or nihilism or com munism, but that will not hinder the fact that it is the mightiest, the dark est, the most terrific threat of this cen tury. All attempts at pacification have been dead failures, and monopoly is more arrogant and the trades unions more bitter. “Give us more wages,” cry the employees. “You shall have less,” say the capitalists. “Compel us to do fewer hours of toil in a day." “You shall toil more hours, ” say the others. “Then uudercertuin conditions we will not work at all,” say these. ‘Then you shall starve,” say those. And, the workmen gradually using up that which they accumulated in better times, unless there be some radical change wo shall have scon in this country 4,000,000 hungry men and women. Now, 4,000,000 hungry people cannot bo kept quiet All the enact ments of legislatures and all the con stabularies of the cities and all the army and navy of tho United States cannot keep 4,000,000 hungry people quiet. What, then? Will this war be tween capital and labor be settled by 'human/wisdom? Never. Tho brow of tli one becomes more rigid, the fist of the other more clinched. Put that which human wisdom can not achieve will be accomplished by Christianity if it be given full sway. You have heard of medicines so power ful that out drop will stop a disease and restore a patient, and I have to tell you that one drop of my text properly administered will stop all these woes of society and give convalescence and com plete health to all classes. “Whatsoever yo w ould that men should do to you, do you even so to them. ” Futile Kemcdips. I shall fir.-t show you how this: quarrel bet we* u monopoly and hard work can not bo stopped, and then I will show you hew this controversy will be settled. Futile remedies. In tho first place, there will come no pacification to this trouble through an outcry against rich men merely because they aro rich. There is no member of a trades union on earth that would not he rich if ho could be. Sometinn s through a fortu nate invention or through some acci dent of prosperity a man who had noth ing conu s to a large estate, and wo eeo him arrogant and supercilious and tak ing people by the throat just as other people took him by the throat There is something very mean about human na ture when it comes to tho top. But it is no more u sin to be rieli than it is a sin to bo poor. There aro those who have gathered a great estate through fraud, and then there are millionaires who have gathered their fortunes through foresight in regard to changes in the markets, and through brilliant business faculty, and every dollar of their estate is as honest as the dollar which the plumber gets for mending a pipe or the mason gets for building a wall There are those who ke< p in pov erty because of their own fault They might have been well off, but they gave themselves to strong drink, or they sniok* d or chewed up their earnings, or they lived beyond their means, while others on tho same wages and on the same salaries went on to competency. I know a man who is all the time com plaining of his poverty and crying out against rich men, while he himself k< eps two dogs and chews and smokes and is filled to tho chin with whisky aud beer. Mieawbcr said to David Coppcrficld: "Copperfield, my boy, il income, 20 shillings aud sixpence expenses; result, misery. But, Copperfleld, my boy, £1 income, expenses 10 shillings and hx- p< nee; result, happiness. ” Aud there aro vast multitudes of people who aro kept poor because they are the victims of their own improvidence. It is no sin to be rich, and it is no sin to be poor. ] protest against this outcry which I hear against those who, through econo my and s< If denial and assiduity, have come to large fortune. This bombard* u: ut i f commercial success will never stop thin quaircl between capital aud labor. N< ither will the contest be settled by cynical and unsympathetic treutiu*utof tic or draft horses. Their are nothing, their domestic com fort is nothing, their happiness is noth ing They have no more sympathy for i them than n hound has for a hare or u | hawk for a hen or a tiger for a calf. When .lean Valjcau, the greatest hero of Victor Hugo’s writings, after a life j of suffering and brave endurance, goes into incarceration and death, they clap i the book shut and say, “Good for him!” They stamp their feet with indignation t.nd say just the opposite of “Save the working classes.” They have all their sympathies with Shylock, and not with Antonio aud Portia. They are plnto- | ersits, and their feelings are infernal. They are filled with irritation and irascibility on this subject. To stop this awful imbroglio between capital ! and labor they will lift not so much as tho tip end of the little linger. RfHult of Violence. jthe laboring * Jus e-. Thrio ate those vho speak of tin m as though they v. ere Neither will there beany pacification of this angry controversy through vio lence. God never blessed murder. The poorest use you can put a man to is to kill him. Blow up tomorrow all the country seats on the banks of the Hudson, and all the fine houses on Madison square, and Brooklyn heights, aud Bunker hill, and liittenhouso square, and Beacon street, and all the bricks and timber and stone will just fall back on the bare head of American labor. The worst enemies of the work ing classes in the United States and i Ireland are their demented coadjutors. Assassination, the assasunation of Lord Frederick Cavendish and Mr. Burke in Phoenix park, Dublin, in tho attempt to avenge the wrongs of Ireland, only turned away from that afflicted people millions of sympathizers. The attempt to blow up the house of commous in Louden had only this effect—to throw out of employment tens of thousands of innocent Irish people in England. Well, if this controversy betweer capital and labor cannot be settled by human wisdom, if today capital and labor stand with their thumbs on each other’s threat, as they do, it is time for ns to look somewhere else for relief, and it points from my text, roseate and jubilant, aud puts one hand on the broadcloth shoulder of capital aud puts tho other on the homespun covered shoulder of toil and says, with a voice that will grandly and gloriously settle this and settle everything, “Whatsoever yo would that men should do to you, do you even so to them”—that is, tho lady of the household will say, “I must treat tho maid in the kitchen just as I would like to b<* treated if I were down stairs and it were my work to wash and cook aud sweep and it were the (luty of the maid in the kitchen to pre side in this parlor.” Tho maid in the kitchen must say: “If my employer seems to be more prosperous than 1, that is no fault of hers. I shall not treat her as an enemy. I will have the same industry ami fidelity down stairs as I would expect from my subordinate s if I happened to bo the wife of a silk importer. ” The owner of an iron mill, having taken a dose of my text before leaving homo in tho morning, will go into ins foundry, and, passing into what is called the puddling room, he will see a man there stripped to the waist and bo- sweated and exhausted with the labor and the toil, and he will say to him: “Why, it seems to be very hot in here. Yen look very much exhausted. I hear your child is sick with scarlet fever. If you want your wages a little earlier this we< k, sc) as to pay the nurse and get the medicines, just come into my office any time.” In this country tho torch put to the factories that have discharged hands for good or bad reasons, obstructions on the rail track in front of midnight ex- press trains because the offenders do not like the president of the company, strikes on shipboard the hour they were going to sailor in printing offices the hour the paper was to go to press, or in mines the day the coal was to be deliv ered, or on house scaffoldings so the builder fails in keeping his contract— all the so are only a hard blow on the head of American labor and cripple its arms and lame its feet and pierce its heart. Traps sprung suddenly upon em ployers and violence never tcok one knot out of the knuckle of toil or put one farthing of wages into a callous palm. Barbarism will never cure the w rongs of civilization. Mark that Frederick the Great admired some land near his palace at Potsdam, and ho resolved to get it. It was owned by a miller. He offered the miller thme times the value of the property. Tho rnilhr would not take it because it was the old homestead, and he felt about us Naboth felt about his vineyard when Ahab wanted it. Frederick tho Great was a rough and terrible man, and he ordered the miller into his pres ence, and the king, with a stick in his hand—a stick with which ho sometimes struck his officers of stati—said to this miller, “Now, I have offered you three times the value of that property, and if you won’t sell it I’ll take it anyhow. ” The miller said, “Your majesty, you won’t.” “Yes,” said the king, “I will take it.” “Then,” said the miller, “if your maje) ty does take it I will sue* yon in tho cbancery court. ” At that threat Frederick the Great yielded his infa mous demand. And the most imperious outrage against the working classes will yet cower before the law Violence and contrary to tho law will never ue- ce.mplish anything, but righteousness and according to law will accomplish it. Tli« and Work. Aft**r awhile crash goes tho mone y market, and there is no more demand for the articles manufactured in that iron mill, aud the owner does not kneiw what to do. Ho says, “Shall I stop the mill, or shall I run it on half time, or shall I out down tb*' men’s wages?” Ho walks the flenr of bis counting room all day, hardly knowing what to da Toward evening he calls all the labor ers together. They stand all around, some with arms akimbo, some with foJde-el arms, wondering what the boss is going to do now. The manufacturer says: “Men, times aro very hard. I don’t make .$20 win to I used to make $100. .Some how, there is no demand now for what we manufacture*, or but ve ry little demand. You see, l tun at vast expe nse, aud 1 have called y*»u to gether this afternoon to see* what you would advise. I don’t want t*> shut up the mill because that would force you out of work, and you have always be en very faithful, and I like y*m, and you seem to like me, and th*' bairns must ho Jookeel after, and your wife will after awhile want a new dress. I don’t know what to do. ” There is a deael halt f ir n minute or two, and then one of t ie workmen ste ps out from the ranks of his fellows and says: “Boss, you have been very good to us, and when you prospered w* pros pered, and now you are in a tight place anti 1 am sorry, ami we have got to sympathize with you. I don’t know how the others feel, hut I propose that we take off 20 per cent from our wages lire boat, and they cry out to yon, “Now, you pay us what we ask you for : getting you to shore or go to the beit- I tom!” It you can Itomw $5,0i () t you i can keep frem failing in business. Sup ply anti demand say, “Now, you pay us exorbitant usury or you go into bank ruptcy. ” This robber firm of Supply unel demand say to you: “Tho crops ; are short. We benight up all the wheat r.nei it is in our hin. Now, you pay etur price nr starve.” That is your magnifi cent law of supply and demand. Supply and demand own the largest mill on earth, aud all the rive*rs rtdl ! over their wheel, and into their hoppt r they put all the men, women ami chil dren they can shovel out of the centu ries, nml the* blood and the bones reelden the valley while tin* mill grinds. That diabolic law of supply and demand will yet have to stand asielc, and instead thereof will come tho law of love, tho law of cooper, t.on, the? law of kind ness, the law of sympathy, the law of 0 WILL CONSTIPATION KILL? 6? it ordinarily it i.. not ’.VfVcr, the CAUSE of Under unusual circumstances yes, fatal, because it is not a disease, it is h* several dangerous diseases, hence prudence would surest it: prompt removal. PRICKLY ASH BITTERS n/ o remedy In till:', fll^ /rdcr It r. ' e ;.ly iclloves pation but It exercises curative it I tonic pro- it! stomach. Tims ))> rcvulatlnij an t s. imuint- /G rls the tr< cbie, wards « tr ill-* a;..* unit!. • j. 11.0 '&/ Is an appropriate* a*i<l valuable amt permanently cun s cemstljx pertfes In tin- kidneys, liver ant! s fim tile whole stein, it corre body strong and heal:by. PRICE $1.03 PER BOTTLE. P: ;sirci Lv TIUCr.LT ASH EITTTrJ SOLD DY ALL DRUGGISTS. St. and that wheu the times get good yon j Christ. Have you no idea of the coming t will remember us and raise them again.” The workman locks around to his comrades and says: “Boys, what do yon say to this? All in favor of my proposition will say aye.’’ “Aye, aye, at*!” shout 200 voices. But the mill owner, getting in some new* machinery, exposes himself very much and takes cold, aud it settles into pneumonia and he dies. In the proces- siou to the tomb are all tho workmen, tears rolling down their cheeks and off upon the ground, hut an hour before tin* procession gets to the cemetery tho wives aud the children of those work men aro at the grave, waiting for tho arrival of tho funeral page*ant. The minister of religion may have delivered an eloquent eulogium before they start ed from the house, but the most impres sive things are said that day by the working classes standing around the tomb. That night in all the cabins of the working people where they have family prayers the widowhood and the orphan age in the mansion are remembered. No glaring populations look over the iron fence of the cemetery, but, hover ing over the scene, the benediction of God and man is coming for the fulfill ment of the Christlike injunction, “Whatsoever yo would that men should do to you, do you even so to them. ” Friciiilly FeotlngH. “Oh,” says some man hero, “that is all Utopian, that is apocryphal, that is impossible. ” No. I cut out of a paper this: “One of the pleasantest incidents recorded in a long time is reported from Sheffield, England. The wages of the men in the iron works at Sheffield are regulated by a board of arbitration, by w’hose decision botli masters aud men are bound. For some time past the iron and steel trade has been extremely un profitable, and the employers cannot, without much loss, pay the wages fixed by the board, which neither employers nor employed have the power to change. To avoid this difficulty the workmen in one of the largest steel works in Sheffield bit upon a device as rare as il was gen erous. They offen d to work for th' ir employers cne week without any pay whatever. ” But you go with me, and I will show yon—not so far off as Sheffield, Eng land—factories, banking houses, store- houkcs and costly enterprises where this Uhristlikt: injunction of my text is fully kept, and you could no more get tho employer to practice an injustice upon his men, or the men to conspire against tho employer, than you could get your right hand aud your left hand, your right eye and your left eye, your right ear and your h^t ear, into physiological antagonism. Now, where is this to tie- gin? In our homes, in our stores, on our farms—not waiting for other people to do their duty. Is Bure a divtrgtnco now between the parlor aud tbe kitchen? Thi n there is something wrong either in tho parlor or the kitchen, perhaps in Lot!). Ate the clerks in your store irate against the firm? Then there is some thing wrong i ither. behind the counter cr in tho private cilice, or pi rhaps in both. The great want of tho world today is the fulfillment of this Christlike in junction, that which ho promulgated in his si rmou Olivetic. All the political economists under tho archivault of tho heavens in convention for 1,000 years cannot settle this controversy between i monopoly and hard w ork, between capi tal and labor. During the Revolutionary war there was a heavy piece of timber to he lifted, perhaps for somu fortress, and a corporal was overseeing the work, and ho was giving commands to some soldiers as they lilted: “Heave away, I there! Yo heave!” Well, the timber i was too heavy; they could not get it up. There was a gentleman riding by on a horse, and he stopped and said to this corporal: “Why don’t you help them lift? That timber is too heavy for ’ them to lift. ” “No,” ho said, “I won’t. I am a corporal. ” Tbe gentleman got off his horse and came up to the place. “Now,” he said to the soldiers, “all together—yo heave!” and the timber went to its place. “Now,” said tho i gentleman to the corporal, “when you ; have a piece of timber too heavy for the men to lift, arid you want help, you 1 genu to your commander in chief." It was Washington. Now, that is about all tbe gospel I know*—the gospel of giving somebody u lift, a lift out of darkness, a Jiftontof earth into heavi n. i That is all the gospel 1 know—the gos pel of helping Hom< body i Iso to lift I upply ami IVinanit. “Oh,” says some wiseacre, “talk as you will, the law of de mand and sup ply will regulate these tilings until the ! end of time.” No, they will not, unless God dies and the batteries of the judg ment day are spiked, and Pluto and Proserpine, king and queen nf tin* in fernal regions, tuk'i full jioisession of this world. Do you know who supply and demand an ? They have gone in(*o partnership, and they propose to sw in dle this earth and are swindling it. You are drowning. Supply and de mand sisud on the shore, one on one side, the other on the other side of the of such a time? Then yon do not believe tho Bible. All the Bible is full of promises on this subject, and as tho agi s roll on the time will come when men of fortune w ill be giving larger sums to humanitarian and evangelistic pur poses, and there w ill be more Janies Lenoxes and Peter Coopers and William E. Dodges and George Piabodys. As that time comes there will be more parks, more picture galleries, more gar- ’eus thrown open for the holiday peo ple aud the working classes. I was reading in regard to a charge that had been made tu England against Lambeth palace that it was exclusive, and that charge demonstrated the sub lime fact that to tho grounds of that wealthy estate 800 poor families have free pasresand 40 croquet companies,and on the half holidays 4,000 poor people recline on the grass, walk through the paths and sit under the trees. That is gospel—gospel on the wing, gospel out of doors worth just as much as indoors. That time is going to come. That is only a hint of what is going to be. The time is going to come when, if you have anything in your house worth looking at—pictures, pieces of sculp ture—you are going to invito me to come and see them, you aro going to in vite my friends to come aud see them, and yon will say: “See what I have been blessed with. God has given mo this, and, so far as enjoying it, it is yours also. ” That is gospel. A Glaure Ahead. In erorsing the Alleghany mountains many years ago the stage halted, and Henry Clay dismounted from tbe stage and went out on a rock at the very verge of tbe cliff, and he stood there with his cloak wrapped about him, and ho seemed to be listening for some thing. yeme one said to him, “What are you listening for?” Standing there on the top of the mountain, he said, “I am listening to the tramp of the foot steps of the coming millions of this con tinent." A sublime posture for an American statesman! You aud I today stand on the mountain top of privilege and on the rock of ages and we look off and we hear coming from the future the happy industries, and smiling popu lations, and the consecrated fort lines, and the innumerable prosperities of tbe closing nineteenth and tho opening twentieth centuries. The great patriot of France, Victor Hugo, died. The !?10,000 in his will given to the poor of the city was only a hint of the work he did for all na tions and for all times. I wonder not that they allowed 11 days to pass be tween his death and his burial, his body meantime kept under triumphal arch, for the world could hardly afford to let go this man who for more than eight decades had by his unparalleled genius blessed it. His name shall be a terror to all despots and an eucourage- m< nt to the struggling. Ho made the world's burden lighter and its darktu *s less dense and its chain less galling and its thorns of iniquity less secure. But Victor Hugo was not the over- towering friend of mankind. The great est friend of capitalist and toiler and tin one who will yet bring them together in complete accord was born one Christmas night while the curtains of heaven swung, stirred by tho wings angelic. Owner of all things—all tbe continents, all worlds and all the islands of light. Capitalist of immensity, cross ing over to our condition. Coming into our world, not by gate of palace, but by door of burn.* Spending his first night amid the shepherds. Gathering after- , ward around him the fishermen to be his chief attendants. With adze aud saw and chisel and ax and in a car- ! pouter shop showing himself brother with the tradesmen. Owner of all 1 things, aud yet on a hillock back of | Jerusalem one day resigning everything 1 for others, keeping not so muf*h as a shekel to pay for his obsequies, by charity buried in the suburbs of a city that had cast him out. Before tho cross of such a capitalist and such a carpen ter all men can afford te shake hands and worship. Here is the every man’s j Christ. None so high but he was high er. None so poor but he was poorer. At his feet the hostile extremes will yet renounce their animosities, and counte nances which have glowered with the prejudices aud revenge of centuries shall brighten with the smile of heaven as be corf)mauds, “ Whatsoevt r ye would that men should do to you, do you even so to them. ” “I crave but one minute,” said the piihiie speaker in a httskey voice; and then he took a dose of One Min ute Cough ( tire, and proceeded with his oratory. One Minute Cough Cure is unequalled for throat and lung trubles. Cherokee Drug Com- ! p»ny. ^^“Oheroko Dnio Co. Special Agents. co » ♦•<>•■ ••♦■a m9m m wo-Tver •-*-«>•«►■» KEEP_YOUR BOWELS A STRONG ALL SUMMER ! -w sir " “ , CUR£C0riS7IPATICH SO* 25* 50* i rf •M A tablet now anil then will prevent results. Sample and booklet ft t* •i'vent diurrtiers.dyfrntrrr, -ill • ummertaint*.cMrtnff aaly.Mtvn) ■ «•- Atl. STEKU1XO KF.MKhY ('<).,Cnlcajro, Montreal, < an., orNew Yoi k. *70 X The ” Bank of Gaffney. S'O.OOO. This bank is now open for business anti solicits tbe patrona.*" "f and surrounding country. It will extend to its customers every sistent wit h safety. .Money to loan on approved security. the poop « of Gaffney .ovotnreoikil ion eon- i». e. J- Giiwliier. O. WTVKDI A W i>n< tocrroi*©. r\ o. sttvcv', Vic-e-I I ’ icsicl«*nt. .1 A. C’AKRObL, President Cherokee Falls .1. I s \ m* xt-t Merc!, • : and F irmer. Mfg. Co. II. It. WHEAT, Treasurer Gaffney Mfjr. Co. K. M. WILKINS, Late of WilkinsUros . Mer chants. W. C. CARPENTER, of Carroll A Carpenter, Merchants. .1. G. WARHLAW, Sec’ry, Gaffney Manf. Co. i Gaffney. Hon. W M. .1EEEERIES. Farmer. Home. S. O. lion. <W. WH 1SNA NT. Merchant anti Fann er. Wilkinsville. > c. HENRY M. McA I >EN Capitalist. McAtlens- vilha N. C. O. E. WILKINS, oft . E. Wilkins & Bro., Gaff hey. S. C. E. G’. STAGY. Carioli S. Stacy, Gaffney.,S. C RESIDENCE LOTS FOR SALE BY Cherokee Land Company. We have some of the most desirable lands for residences any where to he found. You can select just what you want. You will uol be surrounded by disagreeable neighbors. You can se lect it so that you will have no town taxes to pay. It is located within 2o0 yards of Southern depot. Cheap prices and easy terms. N. II. LITTLEJOHN, Mgr If you want The Best Bread and Cakes to lx you money on I Yours trub found in the city call kincv Groceries. All < us. We Is deliv( re id also save tree. Lipscomb & Flocken 5 Prop’? ■rokee liakerv. ; Tlie Gaffney City Land and Improvement Company, Offer for Sale Building Lots in this Flourishing Town, OALF'F'IVISY CITEY. Also Farms near by and in reach of the schools of Limestone Springs and of this place in lots of from 30 to 100 acres on liberal time rates. Also Agricultural Lands to rent for farm purposes. For f-11 particulars apjdy to MOSES WOOD, Agent. X. B.—All trespassing on lands of this Company cutting and removing timber, fishing or hunting are forbidden under Dcnaltv of law. pon’t Forget to Recollect vi i WALTER BAKER & CO., are laving in an immense stock of fall and winter goods in DRY GOODS, CLOTHING, SHOES and GROCERIES and want your trade, and expect to get cheap and looking after your interests us. it by selling goods generally. Call on WHEN YOU SEND Geo. Blanton, of Shelby was in th** eitv Sundae. X. C., Down town, up town or across town for Groceries REMEMBER that the best and cheapest place to buy them is at Burning, itching skin diseases in stantly relieved by Do Witt’s Witch Hazel Salve unequalled for outs, bruises, burns. It heals without leaving a scar. Cherokee Drug Com pany. I 5a •'in iC-vc'liiHivo C*rooor , j3.