Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-06-07
WHEELING W. VA. MONDAY MORNING, JUNE T. 1886

Louis fsw days sgo. and that burned IN
railroad property at Pittsburg during tn
great riots; il was Nihlism that slew blscl
/ people in our Northern cities during tn
war; it was Nihlism that again and again
4 in San Francisco and in New York maui
ed to death the Chinese; it is Nihilism ths
glares out of the windows of the drunkerie
upon sober people as they go by. All! it
power has never yet been tested. 1t would
if it hsd the power, leave every church
chapel, cathedral, schoolhouse, college ant
home in ssces
! Let me say, it is
THE WORST ENEMY OF THE LABoRINC
CLASSES
in any country. The honest cry for reform
lifted by oppressed laboring men il
drowned out oy the vociteratioDs for An
archy. Tue criminals and the vsgabond
who range through our cities talking abou
their rights, when their first right is tht
peniteutiary-if they could be hushed up
and the down.trodden laboriDg men of thil
country could be heard, there would be
more bread for hungry children. In thiI
land riot and bloodshed never gained any
wages for the people, or gathered up any
prosperity. In this land the best weapon
is not the clGb, not the shillsleh, not fire
arms, but the ballot. Let not our op
pressed laboring men be beguiled to com
ing under the bloody banner Of Nihilism
1t will make your taxes heavier. your
wages smaller, your table scsntier, your
children huDgrier, your suffering greater
Yet this Nihilism, with feet red of
slaughter, comes forth and offers its hani
for the republic Shall the banns be pro-
claimed? If 80 where shall the marriage
altar be? and who will he the officiating
priest? And what will be the music
That altar will have 10 be white with
oIeached skulls, the officiating priest must
be q dripping assassin the music nust he
the emotbered grosn OF multitudincus
victims, the gsrlauds must be twisted OF
niehtshsde, the fruit must be apples of
Sodom, the wine must be the blood OF St
Bartholomew's massacre. No! IL is not
to Nibilism, the ssnguinital monster, that
tbis land ia 10 be married.
Another suit0r for the hand Of this ma.
uon is
lNFIDELITY.
Mark you that all Anarchists are infdels.
Not one of them believes in the Biole and
very rarely any Of them believe in God
Their most conspicuous leader was
the other day pulled by the
leg from under bed in house
OF infamy cursing and disappearing. The
police OF Chicago, exploring the dens Of
the : anarchists, found dynamite and yitriol
and Tom Paine's Age Of Reason" and
obscene pictures, and complimentary biog-
rsphies of thugs and asssssins; but not one
Testament not Que OF Wesley's hymn
books. not one Roman Catholic brevisry.
There are two wings to In6dellty-the one
calls itself I.iberalism and appears in
highly literary magazines, aud is for the
educated and refined; the other wing is in
the form of Anarchy, snd is for the vulgar.
But both wings belong to the same old
filthy vulture, Infdelity Elegant lnfdel.
ity proposes to conquer this land to itself
by the pen; Anarchy proposes to conquer
it bv bludgeon and torch.
When the midnight rnffisns despoiled
he grave of A. T. Stewart in s., Marck's
church. yard, everybody WAS shocked; but
lnfdelty proposes something worse
han that - The robbipg Of all the
graves Of christendom of the hope of q res
direction. It proposes 10 chissl out from
the tombstones of your Christian dead the
words, ASLEEP in Jesus," and substitute
the words, Observation-Disclosures.
Iufdelitv proposes to take the letter from
the worlds Father. inviting the nations to
virtue and happiness, and tear 1t up into
fragments so small that you cannot read II
word of it. II proposes to take the consola.
ton from the broBen-hesrted, and the
soothing pillow from the dying Iufdeliry
proposes to swear In the President OF the
United States, and the Supreme Couct, aud
the Governors of States, and the Witnesses
in the court room, with their right hand on
Paines Age OF Reason" or Voltaire's
Philosophy of History" II proposes TO
take away from this c)uRtry the book that
makes the difference between the United
States and the United Kingdom CT DahO-
,ov hatzann American civilization and
RSTnesian canibalism. Ifin6dslity could
destroy the Scriptures it would in two hun
drsd wears turn the civilized nations back
70 semi barbarlsm, aud then from Eeml,
barbarian into midnight sAvsgery, until
the morals of a mensgerie OF tigers, rattle
snakes aud chimpanzees would be better
,bap the morals Of the sbipwrecked human
race
The only impulse in the right direction
that this world has ever had, has come
from
THE BIBLE.
II was the mother Of Roman law and OF
healhful Jurisprudence. That book has
been the mother OF All reforms and al!
chsri,iss-mothtr Of EagGsh Magma Charta
and American Declaration OF lndepen-
dence. Benjamin Franklin holding that
holy book in his hand, stood before an in
fdel club at Paris and read to them out Of
the prophecies OF Habsk&uk, and the mn
dels, lot knowing what book 1t was, de-
clsrsi it was the bsst poetry they had ever
heard That book brought George Wash-
inpton down on his knees in the snow at
Valley Forge, and led the dying Prince
Consort to usk some one TO sing Rock OF
Ages."
itell you that the worst attempted crime
of the century is the sttemp todestroy TINS
book: yet Ip6de i;y, loathesome, stenchiu'
leprous, pestiferous, rotten monster, stretch
es out i's hand. ichorons with the second
death. 10 take the hand Of this reprblic.
Il stretches it out through seductive mag
azines and through caricstures Of religion.
Il asks for all tpst part OF the continent
already fully settled, aud ihe txo''hirds hot
vet occupied. 1t say: Give me all east
of the Mississippi with the keys OF the
Church aud the Christian priniiog presses
then give me Wyoming, give me Alaska
Give me Montana, give me Colorado give
me all the S,ates aud Territories west Of
the Mississippi, and | will take those
places and keep them by right Of possession
iong before the Gospel can be fully Ell
trenched"
And this suitor
PRESSES BIS CASE AFPALLINGLT.
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