Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1882-11-26

commercial world, all enterprise and spec
ulation win cease, and all hilarity be
stricken out OF the social circle. There
Is no warrant for such an absurd snticipa-
ton. suppose that when society is re-
constructed, where there Is now, In the
course Of a year, one fortune msde there
will be hundred fortunes made. Every
one knows that the commercial world
thriyesin proportion as there is confidence
between man and man: and the extirpation
of all double dealing and fraud from society
will increase this confidence, and hence
greater prosperity. The heavy commercial
disasters that have Smitten this land were
the work of goddess spectators and infa.
nous stock gamblers. It is crime that Is
the migbtiest foe to business, but when the
right shall hurl back into ruin the plots of
bad men, and purify the commercial code,
and thunder down fraudulent establish
mentS and put into the hands OF honest
men the keys of commercial prosperity,
blessed will be the bargain makers OF the
city. That will be prosperous time, for
taxes will be q mere nothing.
livery style OF Business IL Taxed
now to the utmost, city taxes, county taxes,
State taxes, United States taxes, license
taxes, manufacturing taxes, stamp taxes
taxeSl taxssl taxesi Our citizens must
make small fortune every year to meet
these exsctions. What hand fastens to all
Of our great industries this tremendous
load? Crime! We have TO pay the board
OF every man and woman who, by intem-
peTsnce, is cast into the alms-house. We
have to support the orphans of those who
plunge themselves into their graves by
beastly indulgences. We support from our
pockets the large machinery of municipal
government, which is vast in proportion
rs the criminal procliyities OF the cities are
great. What makes necessary hospitals,
houses OF refuge, police stations and aims
houses, the tOmbs, Sing Sing and Moya-
mensiDgP
Politicians have been figuring ever since
the morning Of the Sth of November as to
what meant the revolution in American
politics. In some cities and States it may
have had some meaning peculiar to them
selves, but | tell you what IL meant all over.
lt meant that the people OF the United
States are infuriated at the way the taxes
are kept up when they could be lowered.
A hundred million dollars extracted from
the hard earnings Of the people to be
stored up as a temptation to public oth-
cials. The only way to keep public men
from
Stealing from the Treasury S5O,O0O,000
is not to leave any surplus to steal. Dur
ing the coming session OF Congress the Re-
publican party will have another oppor-
tunity to take of the blood-suckers from
the body polite, and if they fail to do it
the verdict of the people in Mass Ichusetts
and New York Is only a snow axe COM
pared with what will be the avalanche
of popular indignation. IL neither
of the parties of the day do
the work of emancipation from
taxes then a new party will do it. Ii you
r epublicars and you Democrats do not do
your duty in this regard, We will after
swhile form party Of our own, and put
men in position pledged to anti-eNces-iye
taxation, Anti-rum, anti-dirt, anti nuis-
ancsS, anti-mOnopolies, and will give those
Of you, who have been so long feeding on
public spOils careless of public morals, not
so much as the wages of street sweeper.
In that good time coming there shall be no
exhaustive taxation; no orphans homeless,
for parents will be able to leave their chill
dren a competency; no prisons, for crime
will have given place 10 virtue. In the
happy time coming there will be no voting
Of pubic money that, on its way TO some
clly improvement, falls into the pockets OF
those who voted il. No courts OF Oyer and
Terminer at vast expense to the people.
No empanneIling of jaries to inquire into
theft, arson, murder,
SIander and BIaesmail.
In that day of redemption there will be
better factories, grander architecture, finer
equl pages, larger estates, richer oPulence.
Aga n, when our cities are purified the
churches will be multiOliei, purified and
strengthened. Now denominations and
the individuals of different sects are often
Jealous Of each other. Christians are not
always kindly disposed toward each other;
al i ministers of the gospel sometimes for
get the bond OF brotherhood. In that day
they will be sympathetic and helpful.
There may be differences of opinion AM
sen ment, but no acerbity, no hypercrii-
cism and no e1clusiveness. In that day
all the churches will be filled with wor-
shippers. We have not to-day in the cities
church room for one fourth Ot our popula-
ton. and yet there is great deal more
room than the people occupy. The
churches DO not average an attendance OF
! 500 people. The vast majority do not at
tend public worship. But III the dav ot
which [ speak there will be enough church
room to hold alfHhe people, and the 10 I'm
| will be occupied. In that time what rouS-
| irg songs will lie sung! What earnest
Sc mons will he preached! What
| (e vent PRAYERS will be offered! In these
d-ys fashionable church is y
n sce'where, after careful toilet, few
D ople come in, sit down, and what time
| ev can get their minds off their stores or
Z e new style of hat in the seat before
| them, listen to the minister, warranted 20
htno nsn's sins, and to the choir, wno
| a > ygrped 10 sing tunes that nobody Knows
| and having passed al hour IN Dreamy
| loupging. 90 home refreshed. pronounce
| much OF what is called chuIc - music IL our
| day
Though have neither a cultured voice
nor cultured ear, no man shall do my
singing. Nothing can take the place OF
! artistic music. The dollar which pay to
hear Miss Thursby or Miss Abbott sing is
| far from being wasted. But when the
! HYMN is read and the angels OF God stoop
from their thrones to bear.uPon their wings
the praise of the great congregation, let u'
/, not drive them away with our indifference.
have preached in churches wheie iaou'
lous sums of money were paid 10 perform
| prS and the harmony was as exquisite rs
| any harmony that ever went up from any
academy of music and yet for all the pur-
| roses OF devotion would prefer the hearty
oulbreskIng song of q backwoois Metho-
dist camp-meetlng, When these fancy
starveling songs get up to the gate 0t
heaven, how do you suppose they look,
standing besi de the great doNologies oil The
glOrifed? Let an operate performance,
floating upward, get many hours the start
and it Shall be caught and passed by the
Hosanna of the Sabbath school children.
know a church where there was no sing
ing, except that done BY the choir, save one
old Christian man; and they waited upon
him by a committee and asked him u he
would not stop singing for he disturbed the
choir!