The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1877-08-04
What WOrkIngmen Can do for
Themselves.

have followed in their wake, great deal
Of cheap stuff has been uttered by both
uniformed and designing persons in re.
gard to the whole question Of labor.
The true friend Of labor is the citizen
who under all circumstances advocates
cOrreo! business principles, and its great.
est enemy is the demagOgue who misleads
it under the guise Of an assumed gush Of
sympathy.
There is no fact more familiar 10 the
daily observation Of all intelligent eyes
than that, as a rule, ii is in the power Of
every man who Is willing to work hard
for few years, willing TO deny himself
in the matter Of expenditures, willing to
be temperate and upright in his manner
Of life, 10 secure something ahead in the
world, which something II prudontly
husbanded Is bound TO grow in value and
prove at last a reliance in days Of ad.
verSity.
Akin 10 this we'll known fact is another
fact equally familiar to observing men,
and 1t is that wealth generally begins to
melt away and become redisLributed to
the masses from whence il came, once 1t
passes gu! Of the hands OF those who
earned it. So decidedly is this the law
oEall pOlitical.lnd social economy that the
legislative ingenuity Of monsrchial coun.
tries has been taxed to devise ways by
which wealth could be entailed on the
heads Of families, And, yet, despite such
legislation, We are constantly reading in
the English papers sketches Of noblemen
who have squandered their life interests
in vast entailmeutU, and become poor for
lack Of available means. The career Of
the present Prince Of Wales in this re.
spect is well known to all newspaper
readers, IA is also the careers Of many
other men in bigh position in Great
Britain. Money naturally, by divine
law, az it were, flows away from those
who have not learned it. Fortunes are like
the clouds that constantly absorb the
moisture Of the earth and redistribute it
in the shape Of rain.
The great underlying fundamental
trouble With most all men is that they
are not willing to comply with the con.
ditions prescribed by the Almighty as
preliminarles to the acquisition OF a
start in life. II is the very iewcst mum.
Der Of men who are willing TO deny their
passions and appetites. All that they
have will they willingly exchange, in
most cases, for the qualification Of those
two great enemies to health, wealth and
real enjoyment. 1t is well known that
enough money is spent by the working
masses Of this country in the matter Of
strong drink alone, to pay the interest on
all the national, state and city debts Of
the country, and support, in addition, all
the schools and many Of tue charitable
institutions Of the land. 1t was estimated
. in 1878 that 100000, 900 were spent, at
retail alone, for liquors, and that the loss
in wuges and time among employers and
employees amounted TO 100000, 900 more.
And yet strong drink is only one Of the
ways in which men who labor waste their
means. Solomon says that the man who
loves "oil and wine" shall not be rich,
meaning thereby that the man who is
given 10 indulgence, and who cannot for
the sake Of the future ioFego Indulgence,
will not accumulate much in life. This,
when the real trouble comes to he exam.
ined, is at the bottom OF almost every
mans financial digicuities. They who
will not save something when they can,
and put it by Tor season Of hardship, like
that through which We are now passing,
will always experience peculiar depriva.
tons, There is no patent plan by which
this result can be avoided. All theor-
izing that Overlooks as prime necessity
the practice Of industry, fruSality and
temperance on the part OF every man
who earns money by his work, is simply a
delusion, and amounts to nothing worthy
Of serious consideration.
There arc in the CITY of Wheeling u
large number Of people who few wears
ago were EMPLOYED in yariou, industries,
and who have achieved competence and
some few Of them wealth. There is one
very prominent manufacturing establish.
ment in our midst every original stock.
holder of which was an emplove of the
concern. They came here from Pitts.
burpb, where they bad all worked for
Others for ,cyerpl years. and where, bv
tho practice Of the virtues we have nam.
cd thew had each saved come money
ahead. The amounts were email, but
thew were sufficient by the aid Of the in.