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Show STRIKES ASI LVKORTItOUIlLEP. The-fallowing ia.talen.fnu.on exchange: 'This was tbe theme of Bev. Itobert Mclntyro at Grsco Methodist church In Chicago on Sunday list. Tho sermon ser-mon wa a vindication of labor; a calm dlnlon of tbe valno of strikes and what they accomplish from a man who was born poor, And who toiled! 13 a fa ory band and as a brick mown for fourteen years, who belonged be-longed to labor organizations, and who personally wint Oct on three different strikes. "Tbe reverend gentleman, now tho pastor of ono of Cnicagos leading churches, said of strikes that tbey weroa hopeful aign, a good thing-If carried on peaceably. It means much and accomplitnes a treat deal,' ho Id, nol In tbe way of shorter hours and belter wagra, but becauso It shows that our mechanics are hopeful.' Con-tinulcg Con-tinulcg he said: Tbe ierf neter struck, the fcllabeen cf Ecjpt.kioini so bopa ot better thiols, daro 001 manifest di contest, bat oar art! :, ?at far bclttr tfcitet, ipcik tbctr dttconicnt u4 demand vhat ther bclicre them tdres entitled to. I no rlad I iu born poor and verr poor. roTenj U rood la dUxnle, to it b nnneit porenr Hm people, the laborers as ett oibert,seed either the eUmnlna of a hope ahead or the hip of poverty behind them." "In answer to tho question, 'What Is tbe remedy for tho troublo between capital and labor? Mr. Mclntyro aid he did not believe strikes accom-plitbed accom-plitbed much toward tho solution of tho problem. It hurts labor more tban capital. 'A strike isllkoanold Queen Anno musket,' be said, 'it kicks harderthan il shoots.' "The remedies suggested by Mr.Mc-Intyro Mr.Mc-Intyro were: Tint; the elecum of men honest labor -tr-clea, ni-nrht men trho will see that honest taws are enacted aad executed; tho enactment of a nanoasl etgtt-boar lavr, and tbs restrtclioa or Ijimlgraiton. Neat, abolish tho saloons; an 1 last and areatest, lire p to he doctrines of ChrisUinttr.' The wage-wiirkcrs of tho country and tho farming clement havo it in their power to elect to public position any one npon whom tbey concentrate their vote. If tboy do not ixerctss that privilege tben they havo themselves them-selves chiefly to blame if laws are enacted en-acted which-they do not approve. They can control congress by tbclr votes, and send men to that body 'who will not only vote for a national eight-hour eight-hour law, but for other measures of relief. By their votes they can regulate regu-late the trafnc In whiskey, aud they would all find tho burdens of life easier if tbey became Christians. |