Epidemic Of Strikes
T. DeWitt Talmage
I Cor., 12: 21: "The eye cannot say to the hand I have no need of thee."
Fifty thousand workmen in Chicago ceasing work in one day; Brooklyn stunned by the attempt to halt its railroad cars; Cleveland in the throes of a labor agitation; and restlessness among toilers all over the land have caused an epidemic of strikes; and some- what to better things I apply the Pauline thought of my text.
You have seen an elaborate piece of machinery with a thousand wheels and a thousand bands and a thousand pulleys all controlled by one great water- wheel, the machinery so adjusted 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-revolving force-the wheel of God's providence. You harm one part of the ma- chinery of society, and you harm all parts. All pro- fessions interdependent. All trades interdependent. All classes of people interdependent. Capital and la- bor interdependent. No such thing as independence. Dives cannot kick Lazarus 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 physical economy; I have no respect for the other members of the body. If there is anything I despise it is the eye seated under the dome of the forehead doing nothing but look." I come in and wave the flag of truce between these two contestants, and I say: "The eye cannot say to the hand, 'I have no need of thee.' "
That brings me to the first suggestion, and that is that Labor and Capital are to be brought to a better understanding by a complete canvass of the whole sub- ...
T. DeWitt Talmage
I Cor., 12: 21: "The eye cannot say to the hand I have no need of thee."
Fifty thousand workmen in Chicago ceasing work in one day; Brooklyn stunned by the attempt to halt its railroad cars; Cleveland in the throes of a labor agitation; and restlessness among toilers all over the land have caused an epidemic of strikes; and some- what to better things I apply the Pauline thought of my text.
You have seen an elaborate piece of machinery with a thousand wheels and a thousand bands and a thousand pulleys all controlled by one great water- wheel, the machinery so adjusted 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-revolving force-the wheel of God's providence. You harm one part of the ma- chinery of society, and you harm all parts. All pro- fessions interdependent. All trades interdependent. All classes of people interdependent. Capital and la- bor interdependent. No such thing as independence. Dives cannot kick Lazarus 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 physical economy; I have no respect for the other members of the body. If there is anything I despise it is the eye seated under the dome of the forehead doing nothing but look." I come in and wave the flag of truce between these two contestants, and I say: "The eye cannot say to the hand, 'I have no need of thee.' "
That brings me to the first suggestion, and that is that Labor and Capital are to be brought to a better understanding by a complete canvass of the whole sub- ...
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