Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1881-06-20

Attach Price to Many Of the Legislators
lust as Kentuckian puts price upon
his race horse, this one worth one thou'
sand dollars, that one worth hve.
Unless a man have large wealth ne
cannot afford To run for Congress or
any other position. The question asked
before nomination is how much money
has he and how much will he spend Tor
his election or how much will bis
friends subscribe i pity that little
orphan ned $1,000 wandering about the
streets of Albany and finding no par
entsge. Ii strayed oil from the big lam
ily OF big brothers who ought to take
charge Of the
Founding Laid at the Legislative Door.
What striking phenomenon, in the last
fifty wears among the millions OF dollars
az pended. in the. Nev. Yprk~ Legislature
only s., 600 have miscarrled! Ii shows
that il there were no God and no Judg-
ment day the safest business IN the
United States is bribery. What other
great enterprise, what other great busi'
ness, involving millions OF dollars can
be carried on for ten years with only
loss OF 5000? ,
All this contention for the spoi's OF
Office, which kept the Senate OF the
United States for four months playing
the fool and for the last one month has
made the private psrlors OF the Delavan
House the centre OF national interest, Is
only another phase ot bribery. 1t Is not
so much bribery in cash paid down but
Bribery in the Way Of Offices Promised
"You help me into one office and /
will help you to another Office. IL Is
often true that by the time that man
is sworn in he has pledged all the patron
age OF that office The trouble comes from
his unwillingness or incapacitv to de-
liver the goods he sold the first Tuesday
in November. The machinery OF bad
American politics just now consists oil
500 wheels, but the cogs OF these wheels
play into one great wheel and that great
centre wheel has tire made out OF rail-
road iron, and on that wheel is crank
and on that crank is the hand OF Satan,
and as he moves the big wheel all the
smaller wheels spin round in the manu-
factory. We have too many men worth
SIC, ,OOO, 900, and $4,000, 900, and S5O,-
OOO, 900, and SS0,000,000 and they put
the Legislature into one pocket and the
Congress Of the United States in the
other pocket.
Revolution is Just Ahead Of Us
and pray God it may be peaceful
and at the ballot box where
this great wrong is TO be corrected, II
corrected it will be. We had a forty
years quarrel about black slavery. What
We must have now is a twenty years
contest about white slavery. We must
have the emancipation OF American la
bor from the curse OF monopoly. We
must send men to State and ma.
tional legislatures who cannot be sub.
Orned by bribery either in the shape rf
or dollars do not believe
10 union OF church and state, but | do
believe that unless the church OF God
-ises up and shows herself the friend OF
he people as well as the friend OF God,
md proclaims her sympathy for those
who are with their families at their
packs fighting that great battle Tor
bread, she will become defunct insti'
;ution.
Christ VIII Again Go Down on the
Beach,
ana will invite twelve plain, honest
fishermen TO come forth in the apostle.
ship OF a new dispensation OF righteous
ness man-ward as we'll as Cod
ward. What is the present disgraceful
phase of state and national politicsp
y on and | are paying to-day the board
and washing, and cigars and whisky
bills of the legislature OF the State of
New York while they are lowering over
the spoils OF office. No one suppOses
that the fifteen or twenty candidates
over which they are contending are the
Dnlv men fit for the Senate OF the Uni
ted States.
nominate William f.. Dodge, the
great Christian philanthropist Of New
York, and George J. Seney, the great
Christian philanthropist OF Brooklyn. |
10 not know whether they are Conkling
men or anti Conkling men | only know
they are
Anti-Rum, Anti-Ignorance.
But no such nominations will be ratified
The time has not yet come for the ele.
yation OF such men. But it will come.
God did not make the Atlantic ocean
lor few great whales TO swallow up all
the small fish. Nor did He make this
continent to furnish few fat magnates
with blubber. The greatest blessing OF
this country is the railroads, made Tor us
10 ride over, but We must not lie down
as the 'sleepers" and let the railroads
ride over us. "Oh," says some one,
''there is no need OF talking against bri,
berry, whether OF office or cash, Tor cash,
Tor every man has his price" don
believe it. Even heathen lands and
lark ages have given us specimens OF in
Caii at smyrna had
case brought before him for trial On
Of the parties, to win his case, gave thr
Cadi 500 ducats. A half dozen witnesses
testified in behalf of the briber. The
poor man opposed had no witnesses
rhsp the Cadi pulled out from under
the Ottoman the bag OF ducats, and said,
This poor man has been able 10 furnish
no witness, but / will produce on his
side five hundred Witnesses" AMI
throwing the ducats aside in disgust the
Csdi decided for the poor man.
In all departments OF life steer clear
Of bribes. Not one OF them, man or
woman, but will be tempted to 90
wrong lor compensation. Let us re
member that the dsv comes when the
most secret Transactions OF private AMI
official life, unless repented OF, will
come to apprehension. We cannot bribs
Sickness We cannot bribe Death. We
cannot bribe the judgment OF that God
y no thunders in the text:
~Pire Shall Consume the Tabernaolss OF
6ribery."
"Fie." cried Cardinal Bradford, when
diving, "6e, Will not death be hiredH
VIII money do nothing? Wherefore
should l die, being so richf II the
whole realm would save my life, am
able, either by policy to get it or by
riches to buy it." Men bemoan thar
they have to leave their wealth on
earth. But have to tell The taker OF
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