Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-12-12

Ism Is
Abfe-Bodied Begsary.
such men propose to live by their wits
Ihey are trying to see what they cas picl
up, They hang sround the headqusrter
OF the political perties to see il there ar,
any crumbs, and hurrah for the candidat,
whom they think will be successful. They
are hearty Republicans or boisterous Dem
ocrats, as the occasion demands. Washing
| ton is full of them. All the trees around
the White House were full OF these crows
when Garfield was shot. That frightened
them OF of their roosts. but they are there
now as thick as ever. They are as strong
and enthusiastic now for Arthur as they
were Tor Garfield then. Oh, they are pre-
clous group! Their chief apostle is Gui-
leau. The moat of them will soon be des-
pondent and mad enough to shoot any.
thing, from President down to a sapling.
The most of them will come home with no
ofhcial appointment, and without cent in
their pocket. What then will they dor
Borrow! OF course, borrow! They will
not think OF getting work 1t is only us
vulgar people who work. Guiteauism is
able-bodied beggary. The curse of this age
is the people who think themselves gent
uses. They imagine themselves Lord By
rons because they have
His Vices and His " Large Shirt Col.
lar.
Genius for hard, practical work is the
only genius that is worth anything. II you
have two hands and two feet and GOOD
There is iNfSi 81 haHee! 1Hsv VINO
start at thetop. Those have the best OPP
nortunity yho start at the bottom. Copper
IScns starpd from baker shop, Michael
Faraday fom a blacksmith's anvil, and
Shakespeae held horses at the door OF a
theatre beore he held the attention OF the
ages. Geirge Peabody endows library In
the yillae where he once sawed wood. The
sboemakr's last would have been the ap-
propriati coat-of-arms for William Cary,
the missionary, and Claudesley Shovel, the
admiral, md Clifford, the famous editor;
The butchers stall started kirk%ood ana
Akensideand Cardinal Wolsey. The path
of life opened for Robert Burns in
plowboy's furrow. Herschel from
PLAYING il q brass band, came up to listen
to the misic of the spheres. The BARRIERS
shop furnished the world Arkwright, the
inventor Jeremy Taylor, the great ecclesl-
astic, anG Tenterden, the Lord Chief JUS
tice of England. The mason's trowel was
the only weapon with which the learned
Ben Johnson, and Hugh Miller. the
geologist began the battle of life, with the
shuttle Columbus, the discover, DIR. Liv'
ingstone the explorer, John Foster, the
essayist, and Wilson, the ormtholog1st, hrst
began To weave their fortune. Out OF the
hardest position in life there are fifty doors,
which, to the tap of the
Hard KnuckIes OF Toll.
swing wide open. Do not join the great
army of able bodied beggary following
Guiteau, the champion of dead beats. When
you get to the point that you stand with your
idle hands on your hips, saying, the world
owes Inc a living" il owes you halter.
Again, J remark that Guiteauism il
cruelty unmitigated. Standing in the Balti-
more depOt saw star in the floor which
marks the place where the Presidents head
lay after he had fallen. saw also beapti,
full memorial to Garfield against the wall
with the Presidents name and July z. 1881.
There in recess which looks as if just
made for the villains hiding place, | saw
where the assassin stood But all this I'M
pressed me not as much with the crueltles
of the massacre as the story of an employe
of the White House who told me he used
TO sit with the dying Presidents foot in his
hands, pressing it so as to alleviate the pain:
| said: "Did he grOan muChT' "Oh,' said
he, "he did not groan so much as he breathed
hard. 1t was awful, Sill
1t Was Awfnf!''
There is only one book that has the story
of suffering last summer at Washington
and at ElberOn, and that is the book OF
| Gods remembrance. 1t is all down there
| IN indestructible letters. The first sting OF
the pain and all the probings, and the
wound dressing, and the surgery, and
| the nervousness, and the sleeples:
| nights and the dying pang-what caused
It? Guiteauism, which is mutilating, agon
| iZing ana deaTfrui vruuity. JuTueS n. uaI
field has been dead nearly three months
and his assassin still lives! But to under
stand the worst Cruelties of the case you
must look upon beClouded Mentor and the
| closed blinds of that beautiful home. The
photographers have given no idea of its ap
| pearance. 1t was, as / saw it last autumn
| not merely comfortable, but eSquisitely
beautiful. The family that passed every
| winter there has gone. All gone. The
heart of it in the Cleveland cemetery, and
the living members gone to be as near the
| grave rs possible. 1t is no small affair tC
take a man at fifty years of age from his
| wife, Just before the evening OF life comes
on. when his strong arm is the more needed
and from undcvcloped children at time
when they require fathers wisdom and
protection. The country has done all
| il could to alleviate the domestic
| calamity. CYRUS w. Field did no
grander thing when he put the telegraphi'
| girdle under the sea, connecting all nations
| with the sensitive nerve Of sympathy. thar
| when he put under the ocean of this ma
| tons sorrow that
| Cable OF Gold
along which the sympathy OF the world
flashed unto the heart of that agonized Gar
field household. But, after all the alleyi
atoms, the domestic grief is immeasurable
| Rather than half a million dollars in thei
orphanage and widowhoOd would th'
| broken-hearted family have had log cabir
in the West, with two rooms, and fathe
and husband home with them. What broke
up that domestic felicity? Guiteauism
But the murder of James A. Garfield wa!
not the worst part Of this business. II
show what Guiteauism is, look in upon th'
court room at Washington and see the at
tempt made by Guiteau and his counsel Il
defame the entire family, father and sons
and daughters and uncles and aunts, Will
the charge of insanity, to save that mur
derer. They began with the fathers gray'
-ghouls at work in a cemetery. Hi
neighbors for the most part eulogized hin
as one OF the most intelligent citizens ant
a good Christian. But Guiteauism smite
the dead cheek and
Splits on the Coffin.
Again Guiteauism stands for revenge
This man wanted to be Minister to Austr
or TO have a consulship in Paris. What
splendid representative of the Unite'
States government he would have made
Not able to obtain from the President wha
he wants he takes his pistol, gritting hi
teeth together. and says within himself
II will pay him for this denial he will b
sorry enough for this. Revenge! Revenge!
That at every step Of the asSassin's trial
shown TO be his dominant characteristic
He would have taken the life Of his cross
examiner if deadly weapon had been
hand the other day while seated on th
witness stand when the potent finger o
John h. Porter, the king Of the American
court room was put into the vestments
the murderer, ripping open the hell o
iniquity confined there till its fires bla1e'
forth. How the cobra bit the bars OF hi
cage! On what stage was there ever such
drama enacted as when that tiger trappe'
in the jungle glared upon his master. Re
venge, Othcllo's
Dagger Was spoon
compared with it.
But does the doctrine of Divine forgiven
ness teach rs the assassin should go free?
No: that would be cruelty 70 others, tha