TALMAGE ON THE LABOR QUESTION.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXII, Issue 7526, 28 August 1886, Page 3

TALMAGE ON THE LABOR QUESTION.

Dr Talmage is preaching a series of lectures on tbo labor question, and in ono occurs the following paragraph: — I have a right to resign my pastorship of this chinch and say to tho peoplo, " I decline to work for you any longer : I am going Good-bye." Rut I havo no right, after I have quit tho pulpit, to linger around the doors on Snnday morningand evening wiifc a shot-gun, to' intimidate or hinder, the minister who comes to take my place. I may quit the place and continue to he it gentleman, but when I interfere with my successor in this pulpit I become a criminal,'and deserve nothing better than soup in a tin bowl in Sing Sing Penitentiary./ Hon. is a stalement that I would havo every laborer put "in his memorandum booli or paste in his liat, and every nowspaper put at tho top of itn columns. There aro now about 'twelve million people hi this country receiving wages, and about six hundred thousand, belonging fo organisations thai cp,% ! 6l their' labor, I

would have all the six hundred thousand do as they ple.ise, and I. would have all the other eleven million four hundred thour sand do as they please. You will admit that the six hundred thousand m such or--1 ganisations ought not to control the eleven 1 million four hundred thousand laborers not i with them. Your first duty, O laboring ! man, is to your family. Let no one but Almighty "God dictate to you how yon ! shall support them. Work when you please, where you please, and allow no ono for a hundred millionth part of a second to interfere with your right.