The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1877-08-01

cents per day. Let them also inquire
whether a man who carries like nre-
men his life constantly in his hand, ana
whose occupatian kills and disables IN
proportion more men than thst Of the
soldier in the field, can get along WIN
that pittance at the present cost OF llVihg.
Let Congress also look into the financial
management OF those rosds, and md oat
whether fraud and corruption exist there
in. For Congress IS bound to protect
the lsborer as we'll as the millionaire!
Both are citizens and mark that-each
Of them has ole vote!
II our best Eastern and Central rail-
roads are unable 10 pay their hands
living wages. then let us stop building
such MISUNDERSTANDING Institutions. Let,
by all means, Tom Scott desist from
pressing next winter his Southern Texas
Pacific Railroad subsidy, which road,
passing through uninhabited regions,
can certainty not pay hall rs well rs Rls
Pennsylvania Gem raj, sgd will only IN
crease the mum Der Of starving railroad
iaborers. At any rate We would not
like 10 be in the shoe: OF that member OF
Congress who will now vote tor that sub
sIdy and thereby increase the number OF
Tom Scots millions. but aiss, also that
OF his starving iaborcrs
Let Congress remrmbs that the rail-
road workmen are not the only sufferers
by these immense mJnJpolIes, but that
they enjoy the sympathles OF the farming
and iaboring element throughout the
country You cannot Pursusde them
that wrong Is right aud that in this
praised land ~ plenty hard working
men must be- KEEP, At starvation wages.
The sense o. right and justice Is not yet
extinct in the heart, ot the American
people.
Let the President and the State Gov
ernOrs remember thst the people would
have thanked them If they had induced
Garrett to deduct the annual difference
between himself and MS fremen, 10 VII,
$4,000, from mis- own immense salary,
the more So as that deduction would
not have caused him to s;srve and would
have saved many valuable and innocent
lives. But no effort has been made to
induce those railroad autoCrats 10 reIln-
quish an iota OF their recent orders.
I'VE command" they say, land YOU,
President and Governors, have to turn
ish the soldiers 10 shoot down the peo-
pie
The people know all that, and your
subsidized press cannot bind them
They know also that the moneyed aris-
tocracy OF the country wants a strong,
centralized government, with great
many soldiers and q Gar or Grant at
the mead to keep the people IN slavery
and misery.
Sooner let Us purify our social and poIt.
zeal atmosphere 10y sending ail the shoddy
rascals, who have 80 immensely swim
died the people, TO the pcnlLentiary than
that we should let them destroy our pop
ulsr government and deprive rs Of lib
erty and the republic OF our tatherf
The railroad monopollsts have already
DESTROYED the sanctty OF the Supreme
Court 10y putting their tools, Strong aud
ard Brady, into the same. Shall they
defle also the other coordinate branches
of the Government
The people have no lawful remedy
against them, for they control State
Legislatures sud even moro or less the
Congress OF the United States.
II you go further on that track you
will need standing army of 100000
men and, as history shows, that will not
always be strong enough to keep the PEG
pie down and quiet whilst those souIless
and grasping corporations snd scoun-
drels are fleeing and robbing them.
Give US justice for ali, the poor MS well
As the rich, and the old Government be-
queathed to US by our toretathers will be
strong enough to protect all without the
ultima ratio rcg,m (tbe last resort OF
kings the cannon.