The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-01-26

HIGH RENrs.-4 Remedy for the Era.
The present high rates of rents asked
for dwelling houses in Wheeling and
the surrounding boroughs, is the theme
of conversation among our people. The
fact is patent to all, that with the stop
page of our iron mills, glass factories,
&C., added to the present and prospective
pulling down Of wages, the laboring
man cannot pay the tariff attempted to
be assessed upon him in the shape OF
rent. For the time the result will be that
whole families will be compelled to bur.
row, as it were, in contracted apart
ments, situated in undesirable and I'M
healthy locations, thankful even for
such shelter. But why this state of
thingsi Surely there is q cause for
them, and if so is it not possible to
discover and remedy it One man
will gravely assert that landlords have
right to ask just what they please for
their houses, just the same as the mer-
chant for his wares. Another that the
increased price of real estate, building
material and labor so enhances the cost
of erecting houses, that owners cannot
take less than the rates demanded.
Some patriotic (O individual will
lay the blame on the bounty tax, assess
ed to carry on tho war, and save them
from the draft, and which it is now
sought to reimburse from the pockets,
in many cases, Of the very men who
bore the brunt of battle on many holly
contested field. Many believe that the
wild fanaticism and reckless disregard
of the rights Of the people on the part
of the dominant party in Con-
gress has much to do with the present
state,of affairs which threatens to rem
ders so many families houseless. There
is still another class, who contend, and
with plausability, that no one or all
the classes assigned combined, has
caused the present exhorbitant renis;
that in this, as in everything else, the
prices are regulated solely by the sup
ply and demand. When houses are in
excess of the demand, say they, rents
will rule low-when they fall short of
the demand the reverse will be the
case.
Now, whether any one of the causes
enumerated or all combined have SUI
perinduced the state of things of which
the laboring men universally complain,
is matter for political causists to set
tie. The present is known and fully ap-
preciated-the future, by many peered
into with dark forebodings. What coun-
sci, then, should be given under the cir
cumstances' Suppose we counsel ev-
cry man to become his own landlord.
ALI, says A., am too poor to buy 4
lot and build even shanty. No such
thing. Cardinal Richelieu says: "In
the bright vocabulary Of youth There is
no such word as FAIL" Nor should
there be in that of those more advanced
in life. Few men in the land blessed
with health but could, in few brief
years, become possessor of their own
house, humble though it be. The thing
is easy of accomplishment. The first
step is to resolve that you will become
your own landlord, and then instantly
set about looping off any and every
useless expenditure of money and time.
Revolvo over in your mind every pos
sible leak in your finances and stop
them. Buy lot somewhere, on hill
side if need be-make small advance
payment on it-be ready with the next
and the next. Where there is will
there is way. The money will come
the lot be paid for and the house built
in an astonishingly brief space OF
time. This is no idle advice. What
has been done may be doneagain. Help
yourself before calling on Hercules for
assistance is good advice. Then let
every working man in the land make
the attempt to procure home and not
stand with folded arms and complain OF
high rents and hard-hearted, rapacious
landlords.