Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-09-05

Cudi nStcI. Dy ucI pIccCuCO IN tuc Cdpi-
tai Of the nation she had rebuked the
hollowness OF fashion and the womanly
extravaganza which more than once
have directly or indirectly plunged the
nation into bankruptcy. 1t was no easy
thing to be the successor OF Mrs. Presi.
dent Hayes. But this recent calamity
has
Made Dark Background
for the picture il heroism and devotion
and Christian courage that has moved
the admiration of all christendom.
These two queens of American society
will 20 down side by side through his.
tory. But what want to impress upon
you is the sense Of grand womanly be-
havior. In the capitol the last few weeks
are only q revelation OF what is in wo.
mans nature, and that there are tens ot
thousands OF women with just as much
faith in God, Just as much self sacrifice
and just as much endurance. OF course
there are failures among them as in our
own sex, but you know many a wife
who could watch for four months every
night without complaint by the bedside
OF a sick husband, giving all the medi-
cine and at just the RIG hit moment, with
her needle at the same time earning
bread for the household, coughing her
life away with slow consumption, dying
at last martyr in the loving service.
Do not talk as though the womanly
courage and devotion OF the White
House is exceptional. Greenwood is
full of them. Laurel Hill is full of
them, every graveyard and cemetery OF
the land.is full OF them women who
loved and suffered and toiled, and sacri-
feed and died for others.
There are FIVE hundred women in this
house to-day who
Have All the Elements of the Heroine.
Ida Lewises and Grace Darlings, not
with oar of life boat on the raging sea,
but on the surges OF domestic suffering.
| say this not in compliment, but that
every man may know what great gift
of heaven he has in good wife. She
may sometimes be little fretful and
nervous under the cares OF home life.
But you get down on your bac k with
fever or pneumonia, or under the hand
of a would-be assassin, and you know
who would be the best watcher, and
who would offer brighter encourage
ment, and who for you would drop dead
in her work. thank God for this rev.
elation OF woman's courage, and faith,
and self-sacrfice from the White House.
Another use of this national calamity
is to disgust the nation with the free
use of fire arms. There is too much
shooting going on all over the land. If
a man differs from you, shoot him; II he
does not do as you want him, shoot him !;
if man doubts your veracity, shoot
him; if a man stand in the way OF your
interests, shoot him, and all over the
land it is bang! bang! bang. Guiteau's
on a small scale in every city and village.
Pistols are entirely too common and
human life too cheap. Let this Wash
ington ruffian going about practicing at
a mark and sitting in parks with the
navy revolver in his pocket
Make the Business OF Carrying Firearms
Disreputable.
II man has to GO out on the frontier
among savages or as an officer oil the
law, be his work to arrest desperadoes,
let him 20 armed. Armed police officers,
armed sheriffs, armed jail-keepers are
well enough but il is high time that
private citizens snapped their sword.
canes in two and put up their deadly
weapons. No man that goes in reputa-
able society in Washington or Brooklyn
or New York or London needs other
weapon than those which God gave
him two honest fists, and they are
easily loaded. II you feel the need OF
a pistol in your pocket you are miser-
able coward. II you are afraid to go
down the street unarmed ask your
grandmother with her knitting needle
to go along with you.
Another use OF this national calamity is
the ordination OF suffering. II our Pres.
ident got well, and after all his
conquests OF relapse and collapse,
shall expect him to get well
un il / hear he Is buried-if be gets
we'll he will have an ordination such as
no President ever had, ordination not
BY human hands-which may be good
or bad and may mean much or nothing
but ordination by hands OF pain hands
of fever, hands OF midnight anguish, by
hands OF mercy, by hands OF national
solicitude, by both hands OF God. He
has during these awful weeks looked
over into the next world and feels his
responsibility. If he comes back to US
he comes
From the Immediate Presence Of God,
and though the whole year from March
4th to March 4th be given up to conval'
escence he will have three years left to
scourge the seven devils out OF Amer.
can politics and bury the putrescent car.
cass OF Mormonism where it can
no more poison the nations
The most OF our Presidents
have been elevated men. No nation on
earth ever had such long succession oi
honorable rulers, but they were for the
most part divided into two classes 90
far as needed reforms were concerned
Some OF them had the moral disposition
but not the courage; and others the
courage, but not the moral disposition
Mr.. Garfield has demonstrated within
the last eight weeks that he has un
bounded courage, for a man who is not
afraid OF death is not afraid OF anything
and his moral disposition is just as evi
DEBT. Now, getting up from this sick
bed with this ordination Of suffering
upon him, look out! Political corrup
;ion look out! Polygamy look out,
Many who are now praying for his life
will wish they had prayed for his death
With such an ordination. once fully re-
covered, he will be q
:Thundsrbolt from the Hand Of God
against the gigantic evils which have
for a long while afflicted the nation
But have we not all won this ordination
of suffering? Shall we not 90 forth tc
do better as patriots, as reformers, as
philanthropists, as Christians? Yes
yes. We must not let our suffer
ing national, or our suffer
ing financial, or our suffering
domestic be anything else than ordina-
ton. 1t is not love, not giadness, moi
prosperity that Qualities for special work,
but suffering, sharp sufferice, long suf.
fering, intense suffering. Fire Of pain,
fire OF persecution; fire Of bereavement,
mean ordination. Not until Beethoven
had become 90 deaf that he could no,