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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



July 15. 



but I would show her something higher, nobler, 

 purer, and a thousand times more satisfactory 

 than any enjoyment or comfort that tobacco 

 could give. You may suggest, that may be I 

 might slip up in my undertaking. No, I should 

 not., I am sure of it. God hclpimj inc. I should 

 succeed. Pardon me if I revertagain and again 

 to this matter of winning a companion for life. 

 No young man wins his girl by boycotting. 

 Why, the very minute be begins to use any sort 

 of threat he has lost his chance. A threat in 

 such a case would not do at all, especially with 

 a woman that is worth having. He must win 

 his prize by pleading; by kindness and gentle- 

 ness; by being a m<tn in the truest sense of the 

 word: and in just this way we are to win the 

 world to Christ. Yes. in just this way — at least, 

 so it seems to me — we are to win the (jredt wide 

 ti^orld to the desirability of keeping the Sab- 

 bath; and we need not go about it with trem- 

 bling knees and sinking hearts either; for every 

 good man — every one who loves purity and god- 

 liness and straightforwardness in its iaest sense, 

 should have reason to know by past experience 

 that he is more than a match for twenty men 

 who are bad and wicked. But he must preserve 

 his integrity; he must meet them with such 

 kindness and gentle bearing, that, even though 

 he is opposed to their plans and schemes, his 

 very demeanor commends itself to them. He 

 must be a pure man; and if he is obliged to use 

 force, or, in other words, to have recourse to 

 law, he must do it in such a gentle way that 

 those he punishes will feel as if he were a 

 friend and neighbor still. 



I do not know how the matter will turn out 

 about this Sunday opening at the Exposition, 

 eventually; but I do not believe that our nation 

 is going to go backward in such an important 

 matter. Neither do I believe that intoxicating 

 liquors will be sold on the grounds. With all 

 the good people we have in this United States of 

 America, the matter seems impossible. It is but 

 a few years since intoxicating liquors were sold 

 on our Medina fairgrounds; yet public opinion 

 is such that it would be next to impossible now. 

 I believe it was the county fairs that com- 

 menced to banish the beer-trade; then the 

 State fairs followed, one State after another. 

 You see, the movement for good commenced 

 with individuals; and it grew, and is going to 

 keep on growing. 



I am now going to touch upon something 

 more sad and alarming than the Exposition 

 question. In the great State of Pennsylvania, 

 just a few days ago there was an outbreak be- 

 tween capital and labor. The police regula- 

 tions were not sufficient to preserve law and 

 order. I may not be in possession of the full 

 facts in the case; but I believe it was some- 

 thing like this: The workmen of a certain large 

 manufacturing establishment either demanded 

 moi^e pay or else objected to a reduction in pay. 

 The result is about the same in either case. 

 The proprietors must either shut down or train 

 new men to till the places of the strikers. This 

 latter the strikers would not permit. And in 

 this they rebelled against the laws of the Unit- 

 ed States when they undertook to use force to 

 prevent others from taking the places they had 

 vacated. It was a rebellion on a small scale. 

 A rebellion of any sort should be put down; or, 

 better still, if it is a possible thing we should 

 avoid having a rebellion. In this case preven- 

 tion is certainly better than cure. Well, the 

 proprietors called for additional police force 

 and assistance. Our pastor, in referring to it 

 yesterday in his sermon, said that, under some 

 circumstances, calling for additional police 

 force is like loading the safety-valve to get 

 more work out of your boiler. It might get you 

 out of temporary embarrassment, providing the 



boiler did not burst and blow up the whole 

 ranch. Police force is all right and good so far 

 as it goes; but in this case, for some reason or 

 other the addi:ional force was not forthcom- 

 ing. Public sentiment was so against the pro- 

 prietors, or the millionaires, if you choose, that 

 they refused to arrest the strikers; oi-. if they 

 did not refuse to arrest them, they did it with 

 reluctance and a want of heartiness. If you 

 want a policeman to work effectually, you want 

 to give him a cause where he can have his 

 heart in his work, and where he feels sure that 

 he is working for the public good; then the 

 moneyed men, who doubtless thought niillions 

 would do every thing, sent for Pinkerton detec- 

 tives. But this so incensed the strikers that 

 they turned their whole spite on the Pinker- 

 tons, and a sad sight followed. When I heard 

 of it I said almost exactly as I did when I 

 heard of the good wife who left her husband 

 because he did not give up tobacco, "Poor de- 

 luded mortals on both sides I " 



Do you wish to know why I feel sorry for 

 them ? Well, I feel sorry for the millionaires 

 because they are so foolish as to imagine their 

 money was going to enable them to rule their 

 workmen by might and by power; or that they 

 imagined Pinkerton detectives were going to 

 bring peace and harmony into that community. 

 When the Bible says that five shall chase a 

 hundred, do you think it means that five Pin- 

 kerton men shall chase one hundred strikers? 

 Why, they might if they had rigJit and Justice 

 on their side. But even if they did, they would 

 have to do it over again every day or two. One 

 good earnest Christian ought to be able to do 

 more for peace and harmony at such a time 

 than all the Pinkertons in Chicago. May be 

 you think I do not know what I am talking 

 about. In my last talk, perhaps some of you 

 thought I was presuming a good deal in what I 

 said. I talked as if I were intimately acquaint- 

 ed with the prince of darkness. Well, I tell 

 you I ought to feel acquainted with him; yes, I 

 ought to feel that I know him better than any 

 other individual in this whole wide world. 

 Well, I am somewhat acquainted with detect- 

 ives too. Once or twice I have been persuaded 

 that it was well to do evil that good might come 

 of it. I have paid some hard-earned money to 

 detectives, and have had a glimpse of their way 

 of managing. Christ Jesus said, "In secret 

 have I done nothing;" and I do not see how a 

 follower of his can be in the detective business, 

 or help employ detectives. Well, what shall be 

 done in Pennsylvania? Why. it seems very 

 clear and plain that loading down the safety- 

 valve is not the way to run machinery: it is 

 behind the times. It is not in harmony with 

 the teachings of Him who said, ■' Love ye your 

 enemies." I have no sympathy with the strik- 

 ers, as you may well know; neither have I 

 sympathy with the millionaires, who think 

 tnat, because they control millions, they are 

 better than other people. I havi> been told that 

 the rebels in Pennsylvania (and thoy are rebels) 

 are not only skilled workmen, many of them, 

 but are among the better classes. This would 

 show that the provocation has been great and 

 severe. 



I have told you about a large factory where 

 they paid their men Saturday night 20 per cent 

 less than they had been in the habit of paying. 

 This they did without notice or consultation of 

 any kind with the workmen. When some one 

 had the " cheek," as the employers termed it, 

 to inquire about this reduction without notice, 

 all the reply he received was, "' If you don't like 

 our way of doing business, you know what to 

 do." This is what I should call loading the 

 safety-valve. Well, friends, you have probably 

 guessed that what I mean is, that five shall 



