The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1870-04-23
CanifaI md Labor.

OF Your connection Win the DTdNe ltEu-
lister, you have been Jealous and watch
full of the interests of the people, nor
could ] see in one single instance that
party politics has blinded your Judg-
ment or warped the generous instincts
of the man. You lave always regard
ed the press as mighty power to be
used with discretion and impartiality
for the elevation of man, for the main
tainanee of order in society and for the
safety and independence Of the country.
TO correct error, to reprove wrong in its
incipiencv. to heal the wound inflicted
by mahgnancy, to soothe public and
private irritations, TO guard and foster
pure public opinion, TO dry the tears Of
the mOurner and bid the PROSTATE wretch
arise from the dust-these you have
honestly considered your duty. To
exalt the nation in the individual and
fling around the latter the agis of the
nation; to watch every approach to the
temple and see that none entered whose
offerings were not acceptable according
to the law-these hold as the highest
incentives TO honorable action in the
field of public journalism. Could the
press all over the country feel a proper
appreciation Of such high and delightful
duties, the poor man would not have TO
say be al the mercy Of that ruthless de
stroyer, organized capital, nor would
ignorance and tyranny hold with their
foul Hands the throat of the once proud
republic. You may sit down TO write
an article or letter for paper with a
discrimination not to merge into, or even
touch politics, but before YOU go the
length Of what | have now written YOU
find yourself in some way or other en-
tangled in the meshes Of the widespread
net.
We are living under system of tyran-
nv the most oppressive ever known, !or
in no other country was the transition
so rapid from unparalleled prosperity
and power 10 selfabascment and clank-
ing chains. We degraded liberty to
utter PROSTITUTION and then inSulted her
for being nude, and 80 arose on our
ruin q form OF Government the most
degrading and corrupt that ever rose or
tell. Oppressive taxation and the mon
opolv of wealth, reckless and incapable
men at the head of affairs, who lavishiy
appropriate the money and public do
mains of the country for the sole benefit
Of q class-these are working with ruth
less effect our utter ruin. And the
people, the hard-worked, suffering peo-
pie, paw for all. They are taxed for
everything worn and eaten, for every
thing useful to body and soul, for all
things of utility and taste, from a few
grains of garden seed to the revealed
book of God With centralized Gov
eminent, a consolidated monopoly and
a united national church the future
looks gloomy indeed.
In nv last told your readers that
the rights of labor will be vet the great
issue. Unless this question is fairly
and firmly settled the rights of property
cannot be secure, and society itself rest
on verv unsafe foundation. Make
known 10 the toiling masses the real
and true extent of their grievances, the
wrongs perpetrated on them. Goad
them on until they fling the horrible
incubus of sickening inertness off them
and our chance NAV vet hc good Let
the people Int be stirred up and the
thin guaze hiding the face ofour yelled
prophct" and his villianous associates
at Washington will lose it, fearful
spell, The bond holder can no longer
shuttle off the coil of taxation, insisting
on his bond and on the bond only, leav-
Ing us poor stricken dupes painting in
painful lethargy to support the whole
damning burden. A reaction Is fast
setting in and ] am much mistaken if
the people will he daggled by the
treasury gold or bamboozled by the
heroic barney OF "our boys in blue.
Your spectral grand armies of to-day
are all bosh. Rattling the Wondering
bones that lie beneath many a battle
field is played out" and spread eagle
bolderiash" even, has lost its potency
on the stump at the forum and in the
pulpit.
There is only one grand army to-day
in the Countrywide army Of labor. In
this army of ours there are master
minds who can drill and decipline the
mighty hosts We study our duty at
the Preside, the workshop and the field
in the swamp that Yields malarious
ooze through channels made 10y spade
and pick and shovel Our duty we
know, our rights we will have.
| have been always impressed with
the opinion that those OF our race who
are susceptible of improvement ought to
be improved 1t is very wrong to look
on any class as invitably doomed to the
degrading servitude of unremunerative
and unexpected labor Labor is al
ways enoblcd by being industrious, but
where it is entirely controlled by arbi-
trary DEGREES of capital, it has not one
true characteristic Of industry. y man
so held in thrall is but human ma
chine, but where there is an object in
volving duty to his family and to soci-
etv, having claim on his higher aspi-
rations. he must, to Il certain extent, be
free and independent. To educate his
family, to have voice in the councils
of the State, to feel the happy con-
seriousness of having loved his country
and served his kind to look upon
a cheerful, smiling household and
sec blooming around him beauty and
virtue, are the grand living motives of
true manhood,
Employers as a general thing mark
out for themselves a certain profit on a
given amount of labor Time, mate
rial and machinery and implements