The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1877-07-27
WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, w. VA, /
July %. 1877,

WHIrE SULPHUR SPRINGS, W. VA,
July %, 1877, {
At this writing the most intense ex-
element prevails al this place over the
news of the alarming spread OF the
strikers movement in the United States.
Around the office of the main hotel, on
the piazza, under the trees, Oh the lawn
everywhere, are congregated knot OF
men discussing in bsted breath and with
serious aspect the irightful condition OF
affairs. There are governors, congress
men, Judges, merchants, farmers, and all
classes representing wealth and inSelh-
gence, who gloomily anticipate the pros
pect.
When this reaches you for publication.
hope that reason will have resumed
her sway, snd that the storm will have
subsidized; but even then We can well i'm
sglne the prostrstion and desolation OF
the calm which follows such destruction.
Under the peaceful crust OF society
have been slumbering the volcanic fires
for years, ready at any moment to break
forth and cause instant destruction. Yet
how indifferent To the mutterings have
been those in authority and those who
had it within their power to prevent the
disaster The political Noahs have been
predicting the deluge, but the admins
t-a;ion and Wall street and the corpora
tions repoSiug in the luxury OF wealth
have failed TO heed the signs of the
times. and as in the days of the Flood
have continued with the dance and song
of mirth until the Deluge has come and
the bosom of destruction sweeps over the
land
The great disturbance may be quieted
snd the Instruction qdelled, yet We are
liable to a repetition of the fearful scenes
Of the last week, until the causes have
been removed. We all recognize the
fact that such things ought not to be,
but it Is folly to stop and take time to
inveigh against them or heap denunCia.
tions upon the perpetrators of the deeds;
the practical question for our determine
ton Is how to get rid of the causes.
Any man who has studied the philos-
ophy of our political condition will con-
cur with me- when l state that the
PRIME CAUSE OF this uphesgsl of Amer.
lean society can be traced to the one act
of the Government eXempting United
States bonds fIom taxation. Whatever
msy,have been III! motive or necessity of
the Government for that act, yet the
fact remains that violent shock
I, our social and financial system WAS
gwen when capital was exempted and
the burthen OF taxation was imposed
imposition would disorgsnize society
under any government but more par
ticularly under any government, but
more particularly under one OF our pc
culiar institutions. From that time
down to the present the policy of the
government has been controlled ~ the
brokers and railroad corporstions-s
10 70 % : Ia 10
richer and the poor poorer. To aid the
government t. bring about this cshmit-
Gus condition of affairs which its policy
would have inevitably produced under
anv circumstances, WAS strong Agra
rain feeling on this continent, alWal 5
here, but more fully developed by The
d emoralizlng influences OF the late war.
Just rs the tire eaters OF the South and
the Abolition fanatics OF the North pre-
viOus 10 the war, worked from opposite
directions andy contrary means 10 bring
about lhs same result, so have Agra.
r,auism and the financial policy
dictated by Wall street been working to
produce Communism in this country.
the great bulk OF the population of the
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have resisted it, and have tried TO stay
the great forces at work to produce these
re ans, but their efforts have been vain,
and they have been swept along by the
current. The immense popular majority
o. Mr. Niden, last fall, was not intended
10 compliment Tilden or promote the
success of u party SO much Us it was an
Oh. q - . hg
b hot that q change Of any sort would be
an improvem mt on the blinded policy
OF the past. But just here the monied
power and the influence of railroad cor
p,ratiors stepped in to thwart the peo.
pie. and in defiance of their will sci aside
th, popular verdict and installed the
minority candidate. Wall street and
the Texas Pacific road made Hayes
President. This WAS additional fuel to
tue fire, and a fresh impetus to the spirit
Of Agrarianism.
John Sherman may sit in his office
and write out his plans Tor resumption,
which, after all, sre only on paper, but
business Is Frustrated, manufactures are
lie, men are out OF employment, their
AillilltS oAt e'aA-s4 IA - ba-NHS aAO ulS
che Iuborng men paying the taxes, and
vet be seems to expect no CONFUSION to
follow from such M unnatural process:
Il is folly, II Il madness; yes, worse than
lpat, 1t Il criminal. In the light of I'M
partial history John Sherman drunk
with his Resumption WINE, will not be
guIltless of the blood of the men, women
and children shed in the streets of BalIi
more and Pittsburgh.
Thus it is that while the great mass of
the American people condemn the means
employed By the strikers to redress their
wrongs, yet they sympsthize with their
cause. Weare law abiding, yet we are
slso a liberty loving people. While We
Condemn lswleSSnesS, we Gespise despot-
ism, and there is no deSpotlsm
more guling than tina. exerted In
tlis country to-day The most dcspotIc
power Is that which deprives man from
earning an honest livelihood by his labor.
With all our vast resources ard COM
ps-a.ivcly small populstion there must be
something very rotten in the administra.
ton of public affairs, when the populs-
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