Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-12-29

and blood oi the people. Are the people
aafisfedi However. much the Germans
lie William, and the Spaniards like their
ybHng King. and England likes the
Queen. those stupendous govern
mental expenses are built on
A Gsoan as wide as Europe-
r. it were Iefi to the people Of England.
Sfain, Germany, Austria, Russinr whether
these expensive establishments should bs
kept ur, do yoz doubt at what the vote
would be? But these questions are not
lett to the ballot box Now, is it not better
that we be taxed and the surplus be dis
tributed all over the land among legisla-
lures and congresses and lobbymen than
that the people should be taxed and have it
piled all up inside yard Of palaces. In
our case there is more prospect that the
surplus may some day get back to its lawful
channel
Beside that, she domains of Europe and
Asia are already full, every place occupied
unless it be desert or volcano or condemned
barrenness, while here we have plenty of
room and the resources are only just open
ing. In other lands if fortunes fatten they
must fatten on others, but here they can
fatlen out Of illimitable prairie and out of
inexhaustible mines. We have, only just
begun to set the family table Of this coun-
tryx We have put on one silver fork and
one halt cellar and one loaf OF bread and,
one smoking platter. Wait till the fruits
come in from all the orchards and the
meats from all the markets, and the vege-
tables from all the gardens, and the silver
from ali the mines and the bell rings out,
saying: Come, all the people from between
the two oceansI Come from between the
Thousand Islands and the Gulf OF Mexicol
Come and dinel
This Christmas finds us
More Thoroughly at Peace
than any other nation of the globe. At
least fifteen million men belong to the
standing armies of Europe. Since our war
on this side Of the sea, on the other have.
occurred the Zulu war, the Afghan war, the
Egyptian war, the Russia Turkish war, the
German-F French war, and they have no GER
tainty about the future. AL the govern
ments of Europe watching each other lest
one of them come to much advantage.
Diplomacy all the time nervously at work.
Four nations we're ong,while watching the
Suez canal as carefully as four cats watch
ing rat. In order to keep peace inter
marriages of royal families; some bright
princess were compelled to marry some for
eign dignitsry in order to ensure the politi-
cal balance Of power, the Unmatched pair
fighting out on small scale that which
would have been an International contest,
Europes crowded cities, crowded govern.
ments, crowded learned institutions, crowd
ed nations, crowded, packed in between the
PYrenees and the Alps, packed in between
the Rhine and the Danube, packed in be-
tween English channels ard Adriatic SO close
" they cannot move without treading on
each others heels or toes, scepters clashing,
chariot wheels colliding, and the nations OF
Asia and Europe wondering what next
But on this continent plenty Of room and
no one to fight with. Eight million square
miles in North America, all but one-seventh
capable of rich cultivation, implying what
fertility and what commerce. -Four great
basins pouring their waters into the At
lantic, Pacific, Arctic and Mexican Gulf
Shore line of 29, 1863 miles. The one State
of Texas with more square miles than all
France, than all Germany. Peace all over
this continent Sumter and Moultr and
Pulaskie and Fort Layfayett and Fortress
Monroe and all the other shaggy lions OF
war asleep on their iron paws; the gunpow-
der out Of fashion save for sporting pur-
poses. The land is struck through and
through with peace. BY intermarriage the
North and the South
United as Never Before.
The child Of the coming generation, is half
Mississippian and half New Englander and
to make any division between the North and
the South possible you would have to do
with the new child as Solomon prophesied
with the child brought to him-divide it
with the sword, giving halft to the North and
half to the South. Mol mol The hardest
thing in the world to split is cradle. In
termarriage will go on and consanguineal
ties will be multiplied, and the generations
to come viii wonder that we of this genera
ton could have got in such an awful wran.
gle as that in which a few years ago we en-
gagged.
But while we thank God that amid so
many alleviating circumstances this nation
keeps holiday, l wish you an especial
happy time in your households. Merry
Christmas for all your homes! Let middle
and old age during these seven holidays
rally all their sprightly feelings to put them
selves in accord with the young. Make
such days for them bright memory. They
will soon have to put their shoulders under
the burdens of life and harness themselves
for the worlds battle. Help them gather
MP now surplus of exuberance for the
time when life shall become as serious for
them as it has become TO US. Prolong their
boybood and girlhood days as much as pos
sible Clear the way for them as long as
you can. When we are through
with the struggle and the holidays
of the far future come down, let not our
children think Of Us as grouty and dull,
sitting round with sour yisage discoursing
of our aches and pains. when we ought to
have been sympathetic in the merriments
of the holiday. And when these times of
household reunion and gift bestowment
shall have gone for us and gone fer them,
and we no more light the Christmas
candles, or on earth rejoice in the chill
dren's glee may it be because we are
come in our Fathers house, keeping eter-
nal celebratienl May not one Of the fam
lily group be absent but all there, safe and
blessed, because Of the birth and death Of
Him who was the Son of Mary, who was
the Son of God.
A Dismal Day In Chicago.
CHICAso, ILL.,, December 28.-The day
haa heen Of exframa discnmfnrf to. radea.