Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-12-07

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the common school to the college or uni.
versity than his mind was saturated and
imbued with this doctrine of Adam Smith.
fortified and supplemented with able lee
lures By smooth topgucd Professors on the
subject of sirikes-s subject that they
could know nothing about and were
not therefore, competent to teach
to those committed to their
care. The theories of Adam Smith might
have been all right o century or so ago,
when the conditions of life. were entirely
different from what obtained now, but IN
this age nothing could be more psrniclous
Then the great central occupation was
farming. Almost every nan was his "
employer, and the spectacle OF one mar
with thousands of men on his payroll was
uSHEARD OF AND UNKNOWN.
The "iolly miller Of fiction, the humble
shoemaker, the blacksmith and the unss-
suming Wsgonmsker-who often shared
the sameroof With the smith-wereth the chief
employees of labor, and tyranny and In
Justice were unknown.
Through every age there had been some
one controlling forces. In the Dark Ages
il was superstition. Then it was q per-
petual struggle for the survival OF the
| httest, and the weakest went to the wall
This fight left the monks in supreme con-
troll. In the Martial Age, might Makes
Right. iva the motto Of mankind. The
dawn of that age found mankind in much
the same condition that the dawn OF this
age found rs. Nearly every man possessed
his little home and happiness was all but
supreme. But the curse Of might makes
right" came forth to blight that hap
piness. The man on horseback
was then very much what
the man who has Q million of dollars ives
in this-hs trampled the common herd I'M
der his feet. And while speaking OF q
million Of dollars, the speaker desired to
say that, in his opinion, no man, in the
course of q single short life, could sccunu-
late so much money
HONESTLY AND FAIRLY.
It could not be done without defrauding
the nottingham and cheating the widow
and orphan. In the olden time it was said
that it was easier for q camel to pass
through the eye of a needle than for q rich
man to enter into the kingdom Of heaven,
and he believed it. But, according to the
modern Church, the eye Of a needle had
gradually become enlarged until now, in the
nineteenth century, q load o fhay could pass
through it with ease, and Vanderbilt
would, in the olsrgy's estimation, have no
trouble whateVeri npsssing through intothe
land ofrest. Applause.
Another illustration of the difference be-
tween the olden times and now was given.
Pope, in his excellent poems, had written
that worth makes the man, and the abb
sence of it the fellow" In Popes day, 8
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 enobling attributes. Nova.
days, they term man" to the average
mind, suggested
JOIN sILyERsPOoN,
whose wealth was $lO,O 900, 900, or James
ScsgVs President of the National Bank.
The Sfellow" was Tom Jones, the Rpnest
blacksmith, who had q hard struggle to
provide food for his wife aud children.
Tom would not lie or take advantage OF his
fellow creatures for ell the world.
he wrote q book that carried JOY and
peace into many homes, but Scsggs got 1t
for q song, and made another fortune out
of it. Tom invented q useful maehine,
but Si~lverspoon bought it of him for $500.
got it patented, and made q million to be
added to his other millions. This was the
modern idea of worth. In q word, 1t
meant money. Money makes the man,
the want Of it the fellow" would be a prop
er pharaphsse on Pope's lines. The cen
trsl thought of the age was money, and it
carried the man possessing it to the top,Just
a., in the older time, the mailed rider
forced aside ell opposition, and placed the
soldier in the foremost rank Of the worlds
people. Applause
The speaker gave q clear and concise
illustration Of the evils resulting from
Il CONSOLIDATION OF WEALTH
in Joint stock companies and corporations.
He regarded the first corporation law as
the first nail in the scsffold upon which
labor was slowly strspglirg. He knew
these laws were considered to be right by
business men and capitalists, and ne told
his hearers that unless Labor should take
advantage of similar laws, and band to-
getherf for protection the cause OF the wage
worker would stand no more chance of
success than q cat would have of passing
the whole length of the orthodox hell with
out being singed. Consolidation for the
lsborer was the only hopefor the escape Of
q serfdom which he felt to be impeding
and travelling fast toward contamination.
If laws for the combination and consolids-
ton of capital were right, why, in the name
of God, was it not right that Labor should
have the same privilege. [Cheers he
knew the papgs Of hunger; he had suffered
as keenly as any feeder IN the city
of Wheeling ever had, but he
desired TO say, before God and
before this people, that he would rather
die By the slow process OF starvation - he
would rather be torn limb from limb and
die in the gutter, than to 60 to work, in op'
position to the wishes of his fellow men
than to 20 to work as he had heard men
had gone to work in this city of Wheeling.
frantic cheers If he could not leave
his children wealth, he hoped he should be
permitted to leave them
HERITAGE Of HONOR.
ICheera If he had a son, and he should
20 to work in 9 mill or factory in opposi.
tion to the wishes of q majority, he would
curse God that he had ever been born.
[Cheers
BE had heard 9 great deal lately from
pulpit and press, Of the doiDgs Of socialism,
but he assured his hearers there was moth
ing to fear from that quarter. The danger
was the other way. Rockefeller and the
Standard Oil Company was one OF the
prime movers which waste usher in the
Age of Monopoly. He skstched the rise Of
the Standard Oil Company, and the great
row it created among the workingmen d
Pennsylvsnia. They rose up in their might
and burned wells and tanks, tore up pipe
lines and raised hob generally, continuing
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