The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1877-08-09
Thank God.


Brick Pomeroy has grown pionsr
and writes his leading editorial fol
last week on the subject Of the strike
and sets itnnder this head; buttherc
is something in it to think about.
A--THANE GoDl
Not for the destruction ofproperty
or for thsloss of that life which is
sweet to the poor man as ill-gotten
wealth is to the rich man, but for the
! honoring of the law implanted by
God Almighty in the hearts of hu'
mainly for self-protection and pres
ervation. We thank God that the
labor element of the United States
has dared to stand in the road
and dispute the way Of the wealth
that ro6s industry, strips enterprise
of its reward, sucks the life out Of
children, and makes haggard the
faces of theaged. We thank God for
this evidence that not all of theYork-
ing men of America are slaves and
towards, possessed OF no higher ambi-
ton than to whine and grovel at the
feet of the Money Power.
Do not understand usas encourag-
ing riots; for they are terrible things,
as we have seen and do know; but
We do thank God that there is in the
atmospI be an element that dares
reach hand, aye, and its clenched
fist; up h the, faces of those who
look at laBir only as something to
sheer at, to spurn, to kick, TO over
work and to destroy,
We thank God that the procession
of plundering money. getters has halt
ed, if only for moment; for it has
shown to the European Money Power
that controls American railways, that
those who operate American railways
are not only free, but intelligentciti.
zens, and that they are not, and will
not be, the silent, plant tools of that
Money Power which looks upon
American industry as nothing more
than an adjunct Of Great Britain, to
to be raked by those who seek to in
vest money, not to encourage man
hood, but to rob manhood Of that
which it desires and is entitled to,
the same being protection and en-
couragement, but to fattcn itself.
For the life of us we cannot see
where it is any more wrong for rail
road employees, who have been over
worked and underpaid, to burn the
property of their employers, than it
is for the employees of the Govern
ment to burn the greenback money
of their employers-the people
Like begets like the world over. Dis
aster is followed by disaster. De
moralization is followed by democrat.
ization. The wealth of the poor man
is in his muscle, his power to think,
his willingness to work, his patient
perseverance in whatever he has to
engage his attention, and in his
health, which it is his duty to pre-
serve. When the government of the
people makes war upon the wealth
of the poor man, or upon those ele,
mcnts which inspire labor, which
are the only promises of wealth to
the poor man, then it begets a disas.
ter which will as surely return upon
the heads or interests of those who
beget it, as the pendulum which
swings to east will swing back to the
west.
The railroad strike in the east, and
its elimination for the time ut Pitts.
burg, is the result of most unnatural
causes. 1t is not the result Of in
herent wickedness or malevolence on
the part of thcopcratiycs of the roads
which have suffered, but is natur'
al sequence to the long continued OPP
preston of lahoring men by those
who have been more anxious to have
large dividends for their well water
ed stock than they have been to adj
vance the material interest Of a coun'
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