The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-07-02


as they are in the East, and the speaker wonld
' aayise every mnn ,r In that section who is sub.
rom i'm ana get two hours nearer sundown
iorthwith Men OF Kansas he saiu, III you do
done for you, you will be the Lords creatton1
Mr.; Wade pledged himself TO advocate the
natural rights of man boldly and persiStentlv.
spoke of the great mmercial results which
would inevitably flow from. the completion of
Ihe faclnc Railway. and then referred TO the
suIklDg iact That the excursion party had
during the two weeks of its journeyinR, accom-,
plished by rail distance which would have
taken year TO traverse by the old modes OF
conveyance. He concluded by thanking the
people OF Lawrence for the cordial welcome
ana Is kindIy eourtesies they had extended to the
Now, while the letter Of the Commercials
correspondent is used by the ultra radical
supporters Of Mr.. Wade to discredit this re-
port, and is made the pretext for an absolute
and sweeping denial of its accuracy. the letter
itself contains nothing Of the sort. Mr.. Wade
said nothing that can be twisted into such a
denial. On the contrary, the letter confirms
the substantial accuracy of the report. The
Senator repeats in the conversation what he
said in the Lawrence speech.
Mr. Wade at Lawrence said, now that
slavery has been destroyed Congress must
next ''grapple with the terrible distinction
that exists between the man that labors and
him that does not" The laborers, he said,
will soon demand of candidates on the eve of
an election, what will you do for us and they
.otH hare q satisfactory dns'Cer." He denounced
1t as neither just nor right that men should be
compelled to labor all their lives. Upon this
subject as upon all others, radicalism he said
was righteousness, while conservatism was
hypocrisy and cOwardice; and he meant on
this subject, as he had always done on others,
to keep in advance of the people," These
were his statements at Lawrence of the nature
of the coming struggle which must be met
which it was hypocrisy and cowardice to try to
shun, and which would speedily demand the
action of Congress; and he added, as further
statement of the evil and suggestion of the
cure, that property was not equally divided,
and more equal distribution of capital must
be wrought out"
We regarded and treated this as deolara-
tion that the Senator was in favor of ''more
equal distribution of capital" We cannot see
even now what other meaning could be at
tached to it. But Senator Wade now denies
that he advocated any such distribution of pro-
perty, and gives some very excellent reasons
why 1t should not be made. Nevertheless he
repeats all he said at Lawrence about the
coming struggle between capital and labor,
about the terrible condition of the laborer
and the absolute necessity of elevating his
condition and giving him share in the pro-
ceeds OF his labor. And when asked how
this is to be brought about, he confesses that
he don't know" he 'can't solve it, he has
many ideas on the subject, but none "worthy
OF so great subject" He thinks, on the
whele, the principle of cooperation about as
good as anything-at least it is Gas far as he
has got" U
We submit that Mr.. Wade in this does not
come up to his own pledge of keeping ahead
of the people," He is not even ahead of us
for we have advocated the principle of CO.
operation for years, wherever it can be pro-
perly and proftably applied. And he evil
IDENTIFY shrinks in this matter from the ''radi-
calism" which he declares to be righteous
ness, and falls back for safety on the conser-
vatism which he declares to be Hypocrisy
and cowardice."
We are glad to see even this evidence of
sanity and sense on the Senator's part. But
why should he fill the public mind with the
clamor and confusion of great struggle on
subject concerning which he confesses his
utter ignorance? Why parade and exaggerate
evils for which he says he knows no remedy
1t is only demagogues, selfish hunters after
Office through reckless and unscrupulous ways
that thus disturb the public peace without
definite object or aim. He did all in his
power to rouse the national feeling against
slavery-but he did that with a distinct and
practical purpose; he knew remedy for the
evil and he attained it. But why should he
rouse the laboring classes against the property
ana capital OF the country, when he cOntesses
that he knows no cure for the inequalities that
exist This is the work of a demagogue, of
an incendiary, and not of statesman.
The truth is, the evils depicted in such glar-
ing colors are in this country mainly imaginary.
Laborers here can make themselves sharers in
the property of the country-can become capi-
talists themselves-just as nine in ten of all
the capitalists in the country have done so
before them-by industry, frugality, and in
telligent enterprise. And it always has been,
is now, and always will be, impossible to pro-
vide any other means of getting rich by force
OF law, consistently with the existence of
society.
The Great Celebration at Roma.