Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-12-29
The Nation Suffering From an Over
dose Of Politics.
WHERE TINE BLACK MAN GETS JUSTICE
A Prediction that the United States Is About
to Enter Upon an Era Of unparal-
leled Prosperity.
AmsRloa coNTaAsTEDwTH EUROPE.

three selections. The regular artists OF the
Church gave especial music. DR.. Talmage
read passages of Scripture, showing what
vet would be the improved condition of the
world. The opening Hymn was:
s.IIark the sound Of jubilee,
Loud es mighty thunders roar,
Or the violence Of the sea
When Il breaks upon the shore!"
The text was from Isaiah xxxv, 6:
"Then shall the lame man leap as hart
and the tongue of the dumb sing, for in the
wilderness shall waters break out and
streams in the desert"
Following is the sermon: For fourteen
Christmas times | have spoken to you OF
the spiritual results.of Christs birth. To-
day I speak of the temporal. Fertility to
the fields, health to the body, manumission
to serfs, homes for the shelterless, good
government for the barbaric, blessings for
this lie as we'll as for the next.
The Cradle of Christ
was as wonderful as his cross. Admitted
the first, am not so surprised at the Sec
ond. The door BY which he entered was as
tremendous as the door by which he went
out. Through that one stable gate OF
Bethlehem came in for Us more temporal
advantages than the world has vet cele-
brated in song or sermon or picture or
cathedral arch. "fhen shall the lame man
leap as a hart and the tongue OF the dumb
sing, for in the wilderness shall waters
break out and streams in the desert.
Banished erutch and accentuation Of spec
tacles, tongue and irrigated Saharas.
Amid a thousand mercies we give each
other the holiday congratulation, by long
established custom we exhort each other to
heartful merriment, by gift by household
games, by Christmas trees that blossom and
fruit in the same hour by long line OF
candles lit, by surprises, BY children's pro-
cession, by sound and instruments more
blatant than musical, we wake up the
nights and prolong the days.
A merry Christmas to the nation. No
land has so many happy homes rs America,
such varieties of food on the table, such ap
propriate family wardrobes or such health
ful domestic architecture. At the same time
we recognize that these holidays find vast
multitude of people without work, without
food, without apparel and without shelter.
Something Must be Awfully Wrong
as you viii see when / put two facts parallel.
More wheat ia Dakota and Minnesota than
they know what to do with. More cotton at
the South than they know what to do with.
In other words, a surplus OF bread and q
surplus of clothing has been provided by
Divine goodness, and yet multitudes of peo
pie halt starved and half clothed, and to
hundreds of these If is shivering and hun
CRY Christmas. think all the matter with
the nation is an overdose Of politics The
trouble is that so many public men spend
theil time in keeping the equilibrium Of
public affairs disturbed that business stag
gers and stops. The eloquent cam
paigners make US believe that
everything depends upon the
dominance of their party, when to the
great masses of the people it makes not two
cents difference for the next four years who
is President But this superabundance of
harves,s in wheat and corn and cotton and
rice must eventually be felt in better sup
ply of all our national wants. The present
national depression is not like that which
comes BY drought or deluge or plague. 1t is
mere ike that of man who has plenty of
money in safe, or like that of house
wife who has plenty Of food in pantry, but
they have lost the keys and they are trying
to find them and, though it will be an i'm
pertinent and irritating search, it will be
successful
But there are two things for the comfort.
able classes to do-one to
Help Those who Are Helpless,
and the other to talk cheerfully. This ex-
pertinent has been made by medical scien.
lists: dozen men agree to meet o man at
different points Of his journey and tell him
how very sick he looks; by the time he
has been accosted with the fourth melan-
choly sslutation he is ready to drop under the
impression that his doom has come, and the
twelfth man meets him Just in time to help
carry him home ON q stretcher. The
nation is only one man on large scale.
All you have to do to prostrate the business
of this country is to talk gloomily, and to
keep on talking in the same tone, let all the
merchants sign and all the editors prog
nosticate hard winter and all
the ministers groan in the great
chorus OF complainers. Those who play the
loudest troumbones are those who have the
fullest cellars and those who have the most
complete wardrobe They are mad because
they have to TALL back on the surplus OF
other years or cannot make as large invest
mems as they expected Artists tell us
that il is impossible to sing well on full
stomach, but there are thousands of men
to-day demonstrating that 1t Is possible to
groan well on full stomach. If Christian
people would for q few weeks exchange the
lame nations of Jeremiah for the exhultant
songs Of Daniel il would be well for the
country. ! wish . conspiracy might be
formed, and I would ike to belong to it-a
of all the business men and ed-
tors and ministers Of rekgioa-by which
they would have faith in God and talk
aud the revival Of prosperity
would be immediate and glorious. Stop
NAOMI" aud give Us "Coronatione Merry
Christmasl
lam glad that these holidays ind us
Nearing Rsshtssus solution
Df the question that has been dominant IN
politics and philanthropy and religion for
he last sixty yezrs--what Of the colored
mani Thai Was the question which dug
he grave trenches for a. million
,oldiers and has kept our national finances
. jangle ever SINCE. That question Igavc
most Of my time to asking and answering
Turing nv recent tour Of Eve thousand
niles up and down the States through the
south and Southwest have observed
hat the eolored man is better treated at the
south than at the North. The day | spent
n Montgomery, Alabams, the Legislature
,assed hw for the fan and thorough edu-
alton Of The celored people. As mechan-
CO they get all they csn.do. The colored
"A men Of New Orleans have their three
lollars day. The colored people havs the
,rsfercnce as hired help At hotels and board
ng houses and in steamers and rail trains.
They have their race represented in tha
Legislative Halls. The accomplished and
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