The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1886-11-26

the very able discourse delivered, was
1.-THE Gospel and the Future olOur Coun-
try the text being from Eph. B;l0-"To
make known the mystery ii the Gospel"
II was a sermon full Of questions Of NC.
ment that were deserving OF thoughtful
and careful confederation, and they were
presented in q most iolCibIs manner, The
following extract Is made from 1t;
THE SERMON,
There arc three or four facts which may
we'll make us solicitious for the 10 morrow
Of our country. One Is the vast extent Of
our territory, TeleGraphs and atesm
power and rapid printing have done much
to modify the disadvantages OF mere
siSs; hut 1t Ia still a long distance from
Now York to San Francisco and from
lBshIing Straight 10 Cape Sable, II 10
easy to conceive OF circumstances In
which the domain might break along the
line oil the Rocky MountainP. A second
i0 IL universal ballot-not that
the ballot 10 not good. That right
to tho ballot and tho policy Of
granting the ballot are facts, generally con-
coded. There is an educating power in
the ballot. There 10, too, o reason for look
log alter men when they come to have
ballots In th8lv hBnds, 10 sec what they
are thinking about, and what they arc de-
ing, which otherWiGe might not 10 re0oS.
nizsd.
PERIL IN AN EXTENDED SUFFRAGE,
At the same time, 1t is no! to be dis.
guised that there Is peril in au extended
aulffsge. Ballots welded by men who are
continually ignorant,o or whoare vicious and
british, or Hhoars merCensry, or who are
full OF ambitious sohemGS, Rre not a%uspicl-
uusof wise andpuresnd Just ,pubIlcEollclPs.
To attempt 10 control sixty millions OF
people, to cay nothing Of the one hundred
millions or the five hundred millions OF o
time, by no neAns remote, and to pre-.
rOiye and foster all their interests by CIV
ing 10 every maj In the land o voice In
determining what the laws and who the
TRleTB shall he, la q grave matter. No
stAtesmRrship oil which the books make
note, has ever ventured on this expert
ment.
4 third Is our large hospitality. Orr
latch string Ia ont to all the world. We
even 20 on tho house,top, trumpet IN
hand, and blow our invitation TO every:
body 10 come to us and our poIterg stand
at the gate and say Welcome 10 our
broad fields, and u industries and our
schools and our citizenship" It Is too
lato to repeat the experiment of Chinese
wall against anybody. Men and women
who wiph to take up their residences
amongst US must be allowed 10 GONE, Il
they behave themselves.
SUBJECTED TO A STRAIN.
But 1t iB not to be overlooked that all
this subjects IL Institutions to an i'm.
mense strain. Our cities are morediAlcult
to govern in consequence OF this constant
influx Of strangers, who arc unframed 10
the methods and uses Of freedom. More
than once has The riot act been called into
reuuiEiliou to quell dislurbauOrs invited
by men who had been here hardly long
enough for their names to bs known. Tho
Gaze is aggravated by the characters
OF many OF these new corners.
They are q perpetual hlsnGao
to order and thrift and property rights.
Mon used to come from the Old World to
the New because they loved liberty; now
a good many come because they have Ii.
cense to do az they plesse, Men used 10
come In order TO have free scope 10 ypr.
ship God according 10 the dictates Of their
own c%onSCienCesI now 4 good many come
in order 10 more efectually dishopOr the
name OF God. Men uhedto come that
that they might build up homes and 90.
cure q competency for their families now
q good many como in order to disturb the
peace In which others toll, Rnd
rob tho industrious and prudent
Of their pStient e4FniDgs. In some
o / our cities inGdel societies meet on
the Sabbath and pass resolutions, whosO
sole object seems TO be 70 tear down the
edifces ofcspltal which others have sue
ceeded in rearing.
Apdin this vaIley,the Trades Assembly
holds It's meetings on Sunday, as the An.
afCbiRts Of Chicago hold theirs, instead Of
selecting q more Citing time. They have
what might be called the wCalth-bhobia;
and the sight oil q dollar sets them into
spasna.
SOMETHING NOT EASY TO no.,
Finding occasion for their assaults in the
growing power Of mOnopolies, and the
conspicuous injustice which many monop.
olies are working TO the community, and
fed continually with contributions from
tho turbulent and distinctive social.