Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-05-13
DEMOCRACY The CoUNTRYs HOPE,

VIII Thinking Men Not stop and Think,
or shall Disc ension Prevail i'm the Ranks
of that Party Which Can To-day Alone
Preserve American Liberty aud Ameri-
can Institutions.
Editor Of ne REGISTER:
PoINT PLEASANT, May ll.-Dispatches
from the mining regions OF the Upper Kan
swha Valley bring the news that 5000 10
BOXERS have quit work because o! the star
gatlon wages tor which. they are compelled
10 work or stsrVe. One stands on the point
where two great rivers meet, aud on the
historic ground on which, more than a
century ago, daring band OF pioneers
stood lace 10 face with the savage allies o.
treat Britain and fought the first battle Of
the Revolution. Thus standing aud gaz-
lpg up the River of the Woods, what
thoughts rush through the mind Along
The banks Of thstriyer stand s .OOOldle men.
the wheels OF progress, are locked; the IN.
dustry of a great valley is paraIyzed, and
men are asking What will the end ber
Here should be one OF toe busiest and most
contented people on the continent, bat ln-
,,eaI. to-day 5000 laborers, reduced 10
poverty through enforced idigness, walk
about amid the wreck OF the most extern
slys salt manufactures ever erected IN this
country. 49,,
This state Of affairs is but result. What
then il the cause2 Is it not plainly visible
TO every one not totally Blind TO the age IN
which be hves2
The answer is to be foPd in the class
legislation of the past twenty five years
LEGISLATION which srraysi in opposition the
greatest factors OF civiizatiOn-capital aud
,.boy On the one hand slsnls powerful
- -Asping moueyed arls;ocracy which
a au <. -. II labor to al European Oasls
turned lis attention ~ - o,roge5 a
ment' On Tue o,net neLe a. ~ding
employment at sufficient wages to secure
the uecessaries Of life.
Why are they not employed? Because
every manufacturing industry is psEalyled
And why paralyzed? Because the unjust
tariff laws of the Republican party drove
from the high seas Our commercial marine
and destroyed our trade upon the OCEAN
lost to US the avenue through which the
products of American labor could De dis
posed. Thus our factories are oVerstoeked;
there is an over production, because We
have no foreign market, and million un-
employed lsborers is the grand total OF TWO
decades Of Republican Legislation.
Under that same legislation the STOCKS
OF gigantic corporations have been turned
INTO the dignitaries of the chess,board, and
gambling operations surprising South
Sea Baubles" are carried on In which
honest men are attracted and swept down
t. ruin.
Uader Republican rule the Nation gave
away Of the public domain to railroad
companies an area nearly equal to that OF
the great States of Missouri, Iowa, Wis
consin. Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio
and Pennsylyanis, aud nearly three times
greater than the total land surface OF
ENGLAND, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales.
Thus were created millionsires made such
such by donations from the nations landed
wealth-the whole OF which should have
been reserved tor homes tor Americas Ia
boring masses-the men who filled the tor
ests, covering twenty-five great States, who
built our cities and constructed thousand
miles of canals and a hundred thousand
miles of railroad.
But why enumerste the tollies OF that
party which enacted them and are there
tore responsible for them. 1t Is not with
the past, but the present with which We
have to do. MANY CuItius stand today
and asks where Rome shall find jewel OF
sufficient value 10 throw in aud save the
ci,v How shall the Western Republic be
saved from the revolutions which sTep'
Rome out of existence, raysgsd France
and deluged other lands in blood2 How
shall that harmony and uuity which ooc'
sxi4ted beswse n capital and labor, be sgalr
res,ored2 Where can an answer De found
thai when made known will soothe snC
quiet the forces now arrayeG
against each other, and Whiel
NAV in few years result DIS
as,rously to American liberty. Republic
have come aud gone-gons because mel
were slow to discover the many detail
which must be combined to make the per
fact and enduring State. Have We on TIN
continent formed that Repubhcsnlsm tina
will epdure2 That we have discovers
mauy of the elements Of endurance an'
rover all admit, but may there not b
some defect, some lurking cause which er
another century passes away will cause on
grand liberty tree to drop lts leaves
midsum mer, never to bud again,
Where then shall We SEE K shelter fror
the perils which beset our national exls
s,ce3 The answer is in the principles {
Democracy, the same which broaght ID
Nation into existence and safely guide
. the ship of State for nearly three quarter
: If a esntury-that hsrmonized opPosin
: sIsnsnts that routed Mediterranean pirate
|, and com PEELED our flag to bs respected
the pcrts of the Lsyant; that preserve
American honor in the war OF 1917; TIL
4 extended our territorial limits southSsl
5 to the gulf and westward from the Missi
! sipui 70 the shores Of the PsciGc, and tn
: 6ilsd the ranks of the Union army duriT
the civil war and Would have made Il
:. wilderness campaign Of 1862 the last
e. that struggle, had not the leader OF L