. T. DeWitt Talmage : his life and work : biographical edition . ators had gone out from each side the difference could have beenadjusted and the smoke above Pittsburg and Cincinnati would have been as thickto-day as ever. The trouble will be ended by a compromise. \\ hy not end itat the start with a compromise? To every intelligent man, whether capitalist orlaborer, this state of things is deplorable. First, whole communities and largeclasses are made sour, irritable, and wrathful. Maledictions meet each other halfway between the manufacturers office and the home of the laborer. They wisheach
. T. DeWitt Talmage : his life and work : biographical edition . ators had gone out from each side the difference could have beenadjusted and the smoke above Pittsburg and Cincinnati would have been as thickto-day as ever. The trouble will be ended by a compromise. \\ hy not end itat the start with a compromise? To every intelligent man, whether capitalist orlaborer, this state of things is deplorable. First, whole communities and largeclasses are made sour, irritable, and wrathful. Maledictions meet each other halfway between the manufacturers office and the home of the laborer. They wisheach other ill. Another sadness is in the fact that the thrifty workman whohas a little money in the savings bank or out on bond and mortgage very soontakes it out, or takes it up, to meet present requirements. There must be breadon the table, the children must have shoes, there must be more than the usualappearance of thrift lest there be a prospect of giving in and a necessity of endingthe strike. A strike always means suffering. The blow comes hard both upon ~i. JERUSALEM FROM NEAR THE DAMASCUS GATE HIS VIEWS ON GREAT PUBLIC QUESTIONS 197 capital and labor, but heaviest upon labor. In all the labor strikes since the worldstood the workman gets the worst of it. Capitalists have money ahead and ifthey never made another dollar in all their lives they could live on a past surplus;but the vast majority of toilers, though they may have laid up something for arainy day, must have the rainy day too prolonged. I warrant you I could pick out ten representative capitalists and ten rep-resentative workmen who, in one afternoons session would settle this industrialgrief, save millions of dollars and suffering indescribable and illimitable. I cryout in behalf of the imperiled financial interests of the whole country for arbi-tration. Capital will never help itself by fighting labor, and labor will never getany advantage from combating capital. They go up together or they go downtogether. Sho
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