Chicago’s Capital and Labor Conflict
A Chicago pastor, rector of St. James Episcopal Church, in a recent sermon, predicted that Chicago was destined to be a great storm center of the opposing forces of capital and labor. He warned the rich that they would be the ones to suffer most, and that, by their indifference to Christianizing influences and their failure to set a righteous example, they were sowing the seeds of bitterness, and would surely reap the whirlwind. As the members of this church are largely of the wealthy class, the address caused much comment among the membership. There is no doubt that in the large cities the opposing forces will focus their energies first. In the cities are the majority of the rich, and the wage-workers are crowding to the cities as never before. The contention is bound to grow keener until that time spoken of by the prophet, "Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you." James 5:1.