Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-06-01

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parlor or the kitchen. Are the clerks of
your store out of patience with the firm?
Then thereis something wrong either at the
counter or in the private Office. What the
world wants most grievously, wants to-day
and wants everywhere, is the golden rule
that Christ promulgated in his sermon OH.
veto. All the political economists under
the archivsult Of the heavens in convention
TOR thousand years viii never silence this
msddened controversy between fist aud
brain, between operative and monopohst.
A Lift.
During the revolutionary war q piece Of
tim Der was being raised for army purposes
and corporal WAS overseeing it done,
shouting to the men who were lifting:
"Heave away! Yo, heaver' A horseman
riding along said to him: Why don't you
lay hold yourself and help those men lift, it
is more than they can doT' oh" replied
the officer, Il am corporslr Then the
man on horseback iismounted and laid hold
Of the timber and lifted with all his might
The work done, the man said: Corporal,
when you have not men enough to attend
to q job like that, send for your Commander
in.Chief" 1t was Washington. Oh, let u
give each other lift!
You say the law of
Supply and Demand
will control everything to the end Of time.
No; it will not unless God dies and the bat.
teries of the judgment are spiked and the
throne OF the universe is taken by Pluto and
and Proserpine, the King and Queen OF the
internal world. Supply and demand have
joined partnership and put their wits togeth.
er to rob the world. You are drowning and
they stand on the shore beside the only
boat and say: PAY what we ask or 60 to
the bottom| You are failing in business
for lack of FIVE thousand dollars They
say: "Pay US usury or become bankrupt"
This robber firm Of supply and demand
says: The wheat crop is short and we
have bought it up and put il in our bin.
Pay our price or starver' Supply and de-
msnd own the largest mill on earth, and it
rolls over its wheel all the rivers and puts
into the hopper as many men, women and
children as it can scoop up out of the cen.
turies, and their blood and bones redden oil
the valleys as the grinding goes on. AS
sure as the ages roll toward millennial re-
lease that disbolical firm will have to step
aside from the law Of love, the law Of CO.
operation, the law Of mercy,
The Law of Christ.
AZ thar law takes place you will see more
men consecratng their lives TO humanitar-
IAN and evangelical purposes, like James
Lepnox and Vim. f. Dodge and Peter
Cooper and George Peabody, more parks
and gardens opd picture galleries will be
opened for the peoples holidays, The pal.
lor will 90 out of the cheeks Of the work
man and the frown Of his brow aud the
guashing out of his teeth. That day will
surely come. Once, crossing the Allegheny
mountains, it WAS said that Henry Clay,
while the stage coach WAS hating, went TO
the edge Of the mountain and put his hand
behind bis ear as if to listen, and someone
asked him what he was listening for and he
said. Il am listening to the coming on OF
the future millions Of this country. To-day
] stand on this mountain top OF Christian
privilege and on the Rock Of Ages aud lis
len to the coming on Of the happy industries
and the consecrated fortunes of the closing
nineteenth and the opening twentieth cen.
turies."
While speak there lies in state the great
author aud patriot OF France,
Victor Hugo.
The ten thousand dollars he left to the poor
of Paris in his will, were only hint Of the
grander work he has done Tor all Nations
and all ages. No wonder they allowed ten
days TO elapse between bis death and his
burial, keeping him under triumphsl arch,
for neither France nor the world can hardly
afford to let him go, though for more than
eight decades his unparalleled genius has
blessed it. His name shall forever stand
the terror of despots, the encouragement Of
the struggling. He has made the worlds
burden lighter and it's darkness less dense,
and its chain less CALLING, and its thrones Of
iniuuity less secure. But after all he was
not the great and overtowering friend OF
mankind.
The Greatest Friend
Of capitalist and toiler and the one who
shall bring them into complete accord was
born on Christmas night while the cur.
tains Of the sky swung as there moved
among them the wings angelic. Owning
all the universe, the great continents Of
worlds and the isles Of light, the Capitalist
OF Immensity he crosses over TO the poor
man condition, coming into our world not
by palace gate but door Of barn, spending
his first night among shepherds and after
wards calling fishermen from their nets to
he his Chief attendants with the hammer
and adze and cav and axe and chisel OF
carpenters shop, showing himself 10 bea
brother tradesman, accepting enter.
,sinment at the house Of one who
tauned hides for living, and, though
having owned all things surrenderpg
everything for others on the hillock back OF
lerLfalem and without sheckel left TO p,y
for his nhsequies was buried by charity in
The suburbs of city which bad cast him
out. Assuredly, at the cross and grave OF
such q capitalist and carpenter all men can
afford 10 shake hands and worship. Here
is an every man Christ. None 30 high but
he was higher None 50 poor but be was
poorer At his feet the hostile extremes Of
society will renonnce their animosities and
countenances that glowed in the prejudices
and revenges Of centuries Fhall brighten
into the smile Of heaven as he says 10 them:
Whatsoever ye would that men should do
to you, do ye even 30 to them"
BELLAIRE.