Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-07-04

lightning rspidity. &c who wsnt not with
itbecans nonsntty. Millions we're gar
nered in 9 few years where onceit required
life time to gather Is many Thousands
The ambition for wealth was cultivated be-
yond al restraint because 80 many
roads lead to j. and the ease
of its acquisition. What is the result?
This furious speed eliminated in an In
tenssley hot box to the country. There
wasn't sufficient oil in all the land to keep
ii properly fabricated Over production
was bound to come, and come it did. The
capitalist and manufacturer had to take
care Of himself BY increasing his capacity
when squirt in business between
times admitted il. The work
man had not these advantages. Mostly
he organized where he could, but that at
best was an imperfect opposition. The Ia
bor-saying machinery of the farm sent thou
sands Of idle countrymen to the seductive
cities Tor work. The foreign labor coming
over in steam Arks generally knocked the
bottom out of organized unions in most
branches Of labor, so that The car Of swift
progress, so called, kept on and on, until to-
dsy we find in the cities the most discon-
tented and unhappy set Of people that has
ever existed in the United States, and main
IL because they are out of work at what they
consider fair wages.
How to remedy these conditions is the
problem of the hour. 1t is much easier to
tear down than to build up, we know, bat
there surely ought to be . way out of the
difficulty A friend says; There is relief
through proper Legislation" No doubt
there is, but how shall it be sttainedP One
workman is for sbolishing labor saving ma
chinery altogether through the interposition
of national law; another wants only certain
classes of machinery abolished. We opine,
we don't know whether one or the other, or
either, will help the difficulty, but this we do
know: That both State and national legis-
lators must give the whole question Of labor
greater consideration. They must make
study Of the needs of the great
mass of the population for
their betterment, and above all
they must be honest in what they do. All
classes of labor are growing each year more
and more suspicious of the politician, and
the day viii come, if either of the great pc.
li.icsl parties do not manifest more honesty
in their promises, when they will take the
bit between their teeth and ignore all par
ties except their own, and sweep the coun-
try. They have the numbers; all they lack
is the organization and unity Of purpose.
To the close observer, it is readily seen that
this condition Ofthings is approaching, and
that to dsy party ties are not near as bind
rig as formerly.
One oil er point and our Fourth of July
talk is ever. The workinguen Of the land
are not blsmeless FOR the condition of things
that exists. In the twenty years of the hot
house growth Of rh4 country, they have con:
tracted habits and ideas that are opposedto
prosperity under difficulties. They, when
ever possible, should economics and
forego unnecessary indulgences. When
times are good sufficient sacrifice ought to
be made to lay away something for rainy
day, and when times are bad reasonable
concessions ought to be willingly made to
the manufacturer. When difficulties arise
between the two, instead of lockouts, there
should be arbitration, and work continue
until settled either one way or the other.
Remembering always the old German
adsge, that idleness is the DEVILS cushion.