Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-06-07
MONOPOLY VS.. COMMUNISM
StrugaIing for the Possession of
this Country.
SERMON OF GOOD CHEER
By Monopoly the 0VershadOw'
ing Curse Of the United States---
NihiIism, Communism, etc.
Special 10 the RsgigteT.

series of sermons on The Labor Que'
tion." His subject was. Monopoly an
Communism Struggling for the Possessio
OF This Country" Before beginning hi
sermon he announced that the congregs
ton would make a trip to the Thousan'
Isles on the 26th inst
The text was Isaiah, ch. xiii, v 4
The Lord delighteth in thee, and thy LAM
shall be married" FolIOwiugis
The SERMON IN FULL:
As the greater iucludes the less, so doe
the circles Of future joy around our entir'
world include the epicycle of our own re
public. Bold, exilarant, unique, divine
imagery Of the text So many are de
pressed by the labor agitation aud think
everything in this country is going Il
pieces. | preach this morning @ sermon
of good cheer aud anticipate the time
when the Prince of Peace and the Heir o.
Universal Dominion shall take possession
OF this nation and Thy land shall be mar
ried."
In discussing the fusl destiny OF this
nation it makes oil the difference III the
world whether we are on the way to q
funeral or wedding. The Bible leaves
no doubt on this subject. In pulplts aud
on platforms aud in places OF public con,
course, hear so many OF the muttled
drums of evil prophecy sounded, as though
we were on the way 10 nstiorsl interment
aud beside Thebes, and Baby lon and
ryre in the cemetery Of dead nations our
republic was 10 be entom5ed, that Wish
YOU 10 understand it is not TO De obsequies
but nup,ials; not mausoleum but carpeted
alrsr; not cypress but orange blossoms;
not requiem but wedding march for Thy
Iard shall he married" " | propose 10
name come of the suirors who are claiming
the hand of this repablic. This land is So
fair, so beautiful, so stillsnt, that 1t has
many suitors, aud it will depend much
upon your advice whether this or that shall
DC accepted or rejected.
In the FIRST place, remark: THERE'S
A GREEDY, ALrGRAsPING MONSTER,
Who comes in as suitor seeking the hand OF
this republic, and that monster is known hy
the name of Monopoly. His scepter is made
out of the iron of The rail track and the
wire of telegraphy Hs does everything
for mis- own advantage and for the robbery
OF ths people. Things have gone on trom
bad 10 worse, until in The three Legislatures
Of New York, New Jersey and Pennsy!-
ysnis, for the most part, Monopoly decides
Everything. If Monopoly favors q law 1t
passes. If Monopoly opposes 4 law 1t Is
rejected. Monopoly stands in this railroad
depot putting iGto his pockets in one year
tvn hundred millions Of dollars IN excess
of charges fos reasonable service. Monop'
oly holds in his one hSpd the steam power
locomotives, and in the other the electricity
~ swift communication. Monopoly decides
nominations end elections-city elections,
State elections, national 6iecronS. "ith
oribes he secures the votes OF leglsiators-
giving them frss passes, giving appoint
ments TO needy relatives TO luerauVe posi-
tioas, employing them as attorneys II they
are lawyers, carrying their goods fifteen
pgr cent less it they are merchanisi and
| # he finds a case very stubborn as we'll as
very important, puts down before MIN tne
hard cash OF bribery.
But Monopoly is not 80 easily csuP -,
now as when during the term OF Mr..
Buchanan, the legislative conHitrss in
one OF our States expressed and exposed
the manner in which certain railway
COMPANY procured donation Of public
land, 1t was found out that thirteen OF
the Senators Of that State received $l75,-
OO0 among them, sixty members OF the
lower houss of that State received five
thousand aud ten thousand dollars each,
the Governor of the State received fifty
thousand dollars. his clerk received five
thousand dollars all the clerks OF the leg,
islature received five thousand dollars
each while Gtty thousand dollars were
divided amid the lobby agents.
That thing on larger or smaller scale
is all the time going on in some OF the
States OF the Union, bat it is no so blunder-
ing as it used to be, and therefore not q:
easily exposed or arrested.
tell you that
STATES TO-DAY
is Monopoly. He puts his hand upon every
oushsl of wheat, upon every sack OF salt
uoon every ton OF coal; and every man
woman and child iu the United States teei'
the touch o, that moneyed desPo1sm.
Irsioice that in tTenty-four States OF tht
Uoio3 already Anti Monopoly Lesgust
have been established God speed treu
in the work of liberation. wish that thit
question might be The question at oul
| Presidential elections, and that We compe
the political parties to recognize 1t IN theli
platforms.
| have nothing to soy against capitalists
A man has right TO all the money be cs'
make honestly There IS not laoorer II
the land who would not De worth mliiior
dollars if he could. have nothing to 81!
AGAINST corporations, as such. Wl,hou
them no great enterprise would De pos
siole. But what | do 50!
ia thst the same prin
| ciples are to be applied to capitalists and t
generations that are spphed 10 the poores
man and the pls,nest lAborer. What /
wrong for me is wrong for great corpora
tions, fl take f:om you your propsrt,
without adequate compensation ] sm
thief, and if railway damage the propert
Of the people without any adequate com
pspsstiou that is gigantic theft Whs
"a wrong on a small scale is wrong on
| large scale. Monopoly in England hs
orouud hundreds and thousands OF he
best people into semi-starvstion, and |
Ireland hiss driven mulutudinous tenant
almost to madness.
EXAMPLES.
! Five hundred acres IN this country MAX
an immense tarm. When you read ths
in Dakota Territory Mr.. Cass has tsrI
ot Il. 600 acres, sad Mr.. Grandson z5,U
acres and Mr.. Dalrymple 10000 acre
vour ewes dilste, even though these fsru
3 are in great regious thia!y 'uhaoits'
Bat what do you think OF tn
which take from Doomsdsy hook, shown
. what Monopoly is on the other sidethe se'
I | give il as 8 warning OF what 1t would
on this side the sea if in some lawful wi