Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-06-09

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and when nobody is looking just shoulder
the ham, or the spare-rib, and in modest
silence steal away? That would be less
criminal, because in the other way You take
not only the mans goods, but you take the
time of the merchant and the time of his
accountant, aud you take the time of the
messenger who brought you the goods.
Now, if you must steal, steal in way TO do
as little damage to the trader as possible.
John Randolph arose il the American SEN
ate when question of national finance was
being discussed, and stretching himself to
his full height, in a shrill voice cried out
"Mr. Chairman, have discovered the phi
losopher's stone which turns everything into
gold:
Pay as You Cor
You have no right to ride in carriage for
which you are hopelessly in debt to the
wheelwright who furnished the landau. The
finer the carriage the better l like it; the
quicker the horses YOU have the better |
like it, but if you are hOpelessly in debt for
them, get down and walk like the rest of
US. God has promised us house, but not
a palace; raiment, but not chinchilla food
but not canvas-back duck. / am yet to see
one of these great panics, or one of these
Wall street defalcations which is not con-
nec;ed sin some way with extravaganza.
National Finances.
ExtravaganCe accounts for the disturb
amCe OF national finances. AggregatlonS
are made up of units, and when one,half of
the people of this country owe the other half,
how can YOU expect financial prosperity?
Every four wears we get SpaSm OF virtue,
and when a President is to be elected, We
say: Now. down with the old administra-
ton and let us have anew deal of things, and
then we will get over all our perturbation.
do not care who is President or who is
Secretary of the Treasury, or how much
brcadstuffs goes out of the country, or how
much gold is imported; until We learn
TO paw our debts and it be-
comes a general thing in thiss, country
that men must buy no more than they can
pay for-untl that time comes there will
be no permanent prosperity Take the one
fact that New York every year pays two
million dollars for theatrical amuscments.
While once in while Henry Irving, or an
Edwin Booth, or Joseph Jefferson thrills a
great audience with tragedy, you know as
well as do that the vast majority of the
theatres of New York are as debascd rs de-
based they can be- Two million dollars
the vast majority Of these dollars going up
in a wrong direction. Ninety-hve millions
paid in this country for cigars and tobacco
year. One thousand FIVE hundred mil
lion dollars paid for strong drink in one
year in this country. With such eXtrava-
gancc, pernicious eXtravagance, can there
be'any permanent prosperity?
Accounting for Crime.
These extravaganceS also account rs |
have already limited, for the positive crimes
the forgcrics, the abscondings of the officers
of the banks The father $, the husbands
craft capsized by carrying too much domes-
tic sail That is what springs the leak IN
the merchants money till That Is what
cracks the pistols OF the suicide. That is
what tears down marine banks That is
what haIts this nation again and again in
its triumphal march of prosperity. In the
presence of this audience to-day and the
American people, so far as | can get their
attention, / want to arraign this monster
curse of extravaganza. and / want you to
pclt it with your scorn and hurl at it your
anathema. Look at the one fact that II is
a matter of solid statistics that in this coun-
try in the cities of New York and Brooklyn
Il will narrow it down-in the cities OF
New York and Brooklyn, n is estimated
that there are now over 5000 women whose
apparel costs them over 81 900 year each.
Things have got to such pass that when
We crv over our sins in church we wipe the
tears away with $50 pocket handker-
chief. show you a domestic
Tragedy in Five Acts.
Act the frst-A home plain and beauti-
ful. Enter newly-married pair. Enter
contestment. Enter as much happiness as
ever gets in one home.
Act the second-Enter discomfort. Enter
desire for larger expenditure Enterenvy
Enter jealousy. -
Act the third-Enter the queenly dress
maker Enter the French milliners. En-
ter all costly plate and all great extrav"-
gance,-
Act the fourth - Tiptop of society.
Princes aud princeSses of New York AMI
BROOKLYN floating i'll and out. Everything
on large and magnificent scale. Enter
contempt for other people
Act the fifth and last-Enter the assignee
Enter the sheriff Enter the creditors. En-
ter humiliation Enter the wrath OF God.
Enter fhe contempt of society. Enter
Death and He'll. Now, drop the silk cur
tain The farce is ended and the lights are
out
call Ii, q tragedy. That is misnomer.
1t is farce.
Extravaganza accounts for much OF the
pauperism. Who are the people you have
TO keen. Many of them are the children OF
parents who had plenty; lived in luxury, had
more than they needed spent all they had,
spent more too, then died and LEFT their
family in poverty. Some of those who call
ON YOU now for aid had an ancestry that
supDed on Burgundy and wOodcOck. Now
the death of such men is a grand larceny.
He swindles the world as he goes into his
coffin and he deserves to have his bones
sold 10 the medical museum for anatomical
specimens. the proceeds to furnish bread Tor
the children. know it cuts close. ! did
no; know but some of you in high dudgeon
would get up and 60 out. You stand It
well! Some Of you make great swash OF
life, and after a while you will die and
ministers viii be sent for to come and
stand by your coffin and lie about your eX
eellences out they viii not come. II you
send for me will ten you what my text Will
BE-: He that proyideth not for his own,
and especially for those Of his own house
hold. is worse than an infdel.' All my
friends. this extravaganza accounts for a
grea, deal of what the cause Of God suffers.
And the desecratiOn goes on even 10
The Funeral Day.
You know very well that there are men
who die solvent, but the expenses are so
great before they get under ground they are
insoivent There are families who go into
penury in wicked response TO the demands
Of this dsy. They put in casket and tomb
stone that which they ought to put in bread.
You would give them tombstone. One
would think that the last two obligations
people would be particular about would be
to the physician and the un1ertaker. Be