Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1885-12-06

q labor crisis, the solution OF which Is to
} of the greatest concern to all. SwAyed
: the false political economy, legislation
b Disseminated against the wage work
g. Adam Smith fret directed the minds
men in the wrong direction, and it
sems impossible to get our legislators
ut Of the rut made by him. Adam Smith
ad taught that the man with money was
AN AUToCRAT,
nd that labor was q commodity to be
ought and sold, and that Visw of the doc
-ine has been the cause of untold misery |
nd crime. Cheers
No sooner did boy or girl pass from
be common school to the college or uni.
srsity than bis mind was saturated and
nbued with this doctrineof Adam Smith,
orti6ed and supplemented with able lee
ures by smooth tongued Professors on the
inject of strikes-a subject that they
ouId know nothing about and were
lot, therefore, competent to teach
o those committed to their
are. The theories of Adam Smith might
lave been all right q century or so ago,
ghen the conditions of life were entirely
lifferent from what obtained now, but IN
his age nothing could be more psEnicious
Then the great central occupation was
arming. Almost every man was his own
Employer, and the spectacle OF one man
With thousands Of men on his payroll was
USHEARD OF AND UNKNOWN.
The Jolly miller" Of fiction, the humble
the BLACKSMITH and the unas-
,umiDg wagonmsker-who often shared
he same roof With the smith-werethe chief
employees of labor, and tyranny and III
ustice were unknown.
Through every age there bad been some
one controlling forces. In the DARK Ages
It was superstition. Then it was per-
petusl struggle for the survival Of the
6ttest. and the weakess went to the wall
This fight left the monks in supreme con-
troll. In the Martial Age, might Makes
Right" was the motto Of mankind. The
dawn Of that age found mankind IN much
the same condition that tue dawn OF this
age found Us. Nearly every man possessed
his little home and happiness was all bot
supreme. But the curse Of might makes
right CANE forth to blight that har-
piness. The map on horseback
was then very much what
the man who has million Of dollars was
in ,his-hs trappled the common herd uu'
der his feet, And while speaking of
million Ct dollars, the speaker desired TO
say that, in his opinion, no man, in the
course of single short life, could accumu'
late go much money
HONESTLY AND FAIRLY.
1t could not be done without defTsuding
the workingmsn and cheating the widow
and orphan. In the olden time it was said
that it WAS easier for a camel to pass
through the eye of needle than for rich
man to enter into the kingdom Of heaven,
and he believed it. Bot, according TO the
modern Church, the eye Of needle had
gradually become enlarged until now, in the
nineteenth century, load of hay could pass
through it with ease, aud Vanderbilt
would, in the clergy's estimation, have no
trouble WhsteveriD passing through into the
land ofrest Applause.
Another illustration Of the difference be-
tween the olden times and nov was given.
Pope, in bis excellent poems, had written
that worth makes the man, and the OBJ
seuce Of it the fellow" In Pope's day, q
being possessed of honesty and virtue and
ability was a man in every sense OF the
word, while the fellow was possessed OF
none of these euobliUg attributes. Nov q
days. they term man, 10 the average
mind, suggested
JOHN sILvERSPOoS,
whose wealth was $lO0OO,OOO, or James
Scsggs, President Of the National Bank.
The fellow" was Tom Jones, the honest
blacksmith, who had hard struggle to
provide food for his wife and children.
Tom would not lie or take advantage ofbis
fellow creatures for all the world
He wrote book that carried joy and
peace into many homes, bat Scaggs got it
for q song, and made another fortune out
of it. Tom invented o useful machine,
bat SilVerspoon bought it of him for $500,
got it patented, and made o million to be
added TO his other millions This was the
modern idea of worth. In a word, il
meant money. Money makes the man,
the want OF it the fellow" would be prop
er pharsphsse on Pope's lines The cen.
trail thought of the age vas money, and it
carried the man possessing 1t to the topJust
as, 10 the older time, the mailed rider
forced aside all opposition, and placed the
soldier in the foremost rank of the worlds
people. [Applause
TIE speaker gave . clssr and concise
illustration Ct the evils resulliDg from
THE CONSOLIDATION OF WEALTH
Iu Joint stock companies ana eorporst!oDs.
he regarded the first corporation law IS
he FIRST nail in the scsffold upon which
abor was slowly strsngling. He knew
.hese laws were considered to be right by
business men and capitalists, and be told
his hearers that unless Labor should take
advantage of similar laws, and band to.
yetherfCr protection the gauge OF the wage
worker would stand no more chance Of
success than g cat would have of passing
he whole length of the orthodox hell with
put being singed. Consolidation for the
sborer was the only hope for the escape Of
, serfdom which be felt to be impeding
md travelling fast toward q contamination.
Il laws for the combustion and cousolida-
ion of oapitsl were right Why in the name /
If God, was it not right that Labor should
,ave the same privilege. Cheers He
KEW the papgs Of hunger; he had suffered
IS keenly as any feeder 10 the city
If Wheeling ever had, but be
desired to say. before God ard
,efore this people, thst he would rather
lie BY the slow process OF Starvation he
would rather be torn limb from limb and
lie in the gutter, than to 60 to work, in op
,osi,ion 10 the wishes ct bis fellow men
han 10 90 10 work as he had h's:d men
.ad gone to work ir this city of Wheeling.
Frantic cheers Ii he could act leave
is children wealth, be hopsd be should be |
'ermired 10 leave them
HERlTAGE OF HONOR.
Cheers If he had soc, and he should |
o to work 10 mill or factory in oppOsi.
on to the wishes of msjoriry, he would |
urse God tina; be had ever been born.
Cheers