The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1877-08-21
THE SPEECH OF JUDGE wEST.

Ex-Judge WEST, the Republican can
didate for gubernstorial honors IN ONO
this TALL, is receiving good deal of un-
C mplimentsry notice rom his friends as
well AS his enemies. The Radical press
over the countr, do not hesitate TO crit,-
ciZe his remarks at BellefontsIne last
Thursday right, and the more the
,psecD is a.rc aud ana!yzed, the severer
becomes t.. criticism He is now dubbed
~ the "BC-s' Communist OF the country.
With sucu ,. furious send-oti as this so
early in ;h" campaign, it will DO really
hard to suin'se what his status will be
ere It Is nsit over. The following para
graph from bis speech will explain his
views on the labor question::
Il would go further, aud try the ex-
perlmeut-blt ! do not know that 1t
would succecd--I would arrange and
fxa minimum o! prices for all who
l4hor IA The mtues and upou the rail-
roads, and tn"n require tn,t OF all the
vel receipt. aud proceeds OF tha capital
invested tne labOrtr ~ the end Oi the
year should, in addition TO his fixed com
pensation. receive certain per cent OF
the pre- hts. IApplause, and cries OF
'That's the msn.
The Cincinnati Enquirer III reverting
- this language comments upon It in
this wise
"He-e Is positive plan. 1t is easily
understood tie would arrange 1t. To
inv.,e the employers and the employed
.p arrange It means nothing. they are
,lready invited. \ very urgent invita-
ton has been extended TO the parties OF
both parts TO arrange it. Starvation,
want, the militia, the Federal army,
wages lest profits destroyed, the bodies
of the slam, pubic sentimcnt-all have
been urging the employed and the en-
ployers to arrange these difficulties more
e!olu entity than Judge " vest can possibly
DO and in vain.
Mr.. West so far modifes his Cleve-
land speech IS 70 demand the exhaus
ton OF sll peaceful appliances before
beginning TO arrange by :orce; but he
adds. indicating that he still clinss to
his Cleveland doctrine: IL these shall
,all 10 protect the rights and maintain
Lbc relations of labor and capital, Men,
and then only, must the OH WORTH ms
torn be suffered to repeat ttSet on inner
ican soiL In harmony with the same
q crime, he proposes to 'dPPty some
method of intermansgement Ihls is tn"
ides-to march IN aud arrange,
Tntermanage apply something
Becoming frightened, however, at IT,"
reception his theory has met he def
n,teiy recommends the application OF but
ore remedy-that 'Buresu of Industry.
Hes4ys: This is the bursting OF the vo-
cano bcs cath our feet let us gather some
statistics. This threatens with annlhlls-
,on the fabric of industrial and CONNER
ciaI freedom, and men, women and chill
dren are starving; let us have Bureau
of Industry In So far ~ he det nes ms
method of acknowledgement 1t con-
>I.:s of adopting and applying IN cur
crest industrial enterprises graduated
scale OF compensation, conditioned on net
average earnings Who Is to
apply it? Suppose the managers Of
these great industrial enterprises do not
choose to adopt and apply the graduate
scale Il the - ter managers" Is 1t still
u be applied? 1t not, Mr.. West pre-
poses n solution Of the problem which
ne calls the overshsdowing Issue OF the
hour. Ii it Is. he proposes the most
radical communism, The widest an
arcnV."