The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-06-20
Trains Ldst-His Speech at Pilot
Knob

7
by GEORGE Francis TRAIN, delivered
upon the summit of the mountain. The
eIratic orator pitched into England ant
the last Congress, advocated woman'l
suffrage, and pressed the tariff bill. We
are sorry that our limited space will not
permit us to give the speech entire. II
is, we believe, the most caustic produc
tion from TRAIN that we have yet seen
and although nobody will endorse tn.
sum total of its points, the style is as
pointed, terse and forcible as to deserve
universal admiration. We begin oul
extract with his remarks on female suf
frage:
"What about woman's suffrage" ask,
ed Senator.
~ am for it,"
Like Senator Wade, l 60 for them,
Applause 1t is the only safe-hedge
we can have OH the negro's voting. Oh,
and hisses.1 l believe with these dis
tinguished Senators, that q woman is a
man and brother. Loud cheers and
laughter.l Women are more virtuOus
than men; more moral, less brutal. Be-
sides, women rule their homes-why not
help save the nation: Applause. ]
Give us woman's suffrage and | will or
ganize q million of my Irish girls to
vote down Fifth avenue and vote your
speaker into the White House. Loud
cheers and some disseut.] Women
should vote. Why should the planta-
ton boor-the unlettered, ignorant
African, whose hair grows up and back
into his head like the Banyan tree
whose leg is set in the middle OF his
foot [laughtef]; who has nine cubic
inches less of brain inside his thick
skull [hisses]; who has only $50 pores
to the square inch of cuticle, which ac-
counts for us being able to smell him for
a halt mile daughter and hisses] ]; why
should this half-savage of the back
woods plantations make laws for Anna
Dickinson OF Harriet Beecher Stowe;
legislate for your wives, honorable Sen
ators, or mine. [Applause.
What man dare say his souls his own
at his own tablet How is it with
you. Train y | am the best managed
husband on he continent. Laughter.
| say AIN ready to take the stump for
woman suffrage. [Applause.] 1t will
purify the polls; they will vote down
houses of bad repute; vote down faro
banks, vote down groggcries; shut up
rum shops, and close the gin palaces.
[Loud applause They will vote for
men for office who are willing to preach
this sermon and practice it:
"DOn't drink; don't smoke; don't
chew; don't swear; don't gamble; dent
have but one wife; don't be David or
Solomon; ['Ohrl don't steal jewels,
like Moses. [Applause.] Don't cheat
Esau, like Jacob. Love God; but don't
love God so much that you have no
time to love your fellow man. Sensa-
toni Love truth, love virtue, and be
happy" Loud applause.
Women will vote, every time, for that
platform. Again, in our day, the mo-
ment man can borrow enough money
to settle it on his wife, he goes in for
the Bankrupt Law. Hence, the woman
needs votes to protect the property
that belongs to her husbands credit
itors. Applause and laughter.
A SENATOR-"What about the debtf'
Mr.. TRAIN-Do You want to know
Well, you shall have what you probably
have never seen before-a debit and
credit of the war, Il profit and loss ac-
count.
First, You should know that we har,
had a grand exhibition Of .frerorks, ana
mortgaged oar farm to pay for II. t"Oh"l
Second. The so-called wealth Of the
farmer consists in his having his soldier
boy in the graveyard and Il seven-thirty
in his pocket in exchange. Sensation.
But here is the account:
DEBIT.
|. $1,000, ,OO0, 900 of national debt-a
national curse to everybody but Jay
Cooke. p
=. SlOOO,OOO, 900 State, city and soun-
ty debt, born of the war.
3. 100000 able-bodied farmers, me.
chanics and other white men dead, worth
$40 900 a piece, So, 600, 100000.
a. 100000 black laborers, worth 81 ,0OC
each, S5O0.000,000. Hisses.l
). 100000 black laborers, men, wO'
men and children, that it took three
generations of white civilization t.
utilize into profitable labor-totally
demoralized and disorganized for the
time being. Applause and considera'
BILE dissent, the Radicals getting uneasy
and endeavoring to stop Trains expo.
sition" of national affairs. Traintalked
them all down, made fun of their misses
and carried his points, to the evident
disoust of MANY preSent
6. S5,O00,000 of shipping, that it took
us fifty years of American industry
since Waterloo, to whiten every ocean
with our commerce, completely wiped
out by England's neutrality. lap
plause, and "too true."1
7. S4,OOO,OOO 900 worth of plantations
houses, farms, factories, real estate, per.
sonal property, wasted, burned, wiped
out, completely destrOyed-the dccuma'
lated industry Of a hundred years.
8, and lastly, An amount of swearing
gaming. drunkenness, prostitution, de-
moraliZatiou, that cannot be enumer'
ated by figures.
This will do for the debit; and when
fanaticism sleeps for moment, the ma,
tons eyes will open and reaction VIII
set in that will emancipate my constitu'
ency, the white people of our land
TApplause and dissent. -...
So much for debit; what for credit
Gentlemen, / have no figures. You
must be content with ideas.
Here the audience, getting uneasy
over Trains expose of the debt of the
war, began to move off, and vainly tried
to stop him. But Train said:l
Gentlemen-I have refused to speak
at every station, Notwithstanding the
repeated calls for "Train." l have ap
plauded all your two-hour banquet
speeches. Laughter from some of the
bored.] Now You must listen, as yor
see nv voice will reach to the bottom
of the mountain. (Applause and laugh
ter. I Besides you will see this all IN
print. Here is Seymour, of the New
York Times, General Boynton, OF the
Cincinnati Gasette, Painter of the Phil
adelphia Enqairer, Mrs. -, OF thu
New York Tribune, Whitney OF the Chi
cago Repsblican, Rapp, of the st. Lo1i'
Dispatch, Colonel Grosvenor, OF th'
Democrat, and Fayel Of the Repabticda.
| all taking notes; and if they show then