Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-11-15
A STERLING ADDRESS
by Mr.. DePew Upon the Tendencies an
Needs Of the Present Time.

BY Mr.. DePew Upon the Tendencies and
Needs OF the Present Time.
PITTSBURG, PA, November l4.-Chaun-
cey NJ. Depew, of New York, delivered a
lengthy address tonight at the 20th ami
yerSary of the Pittsburg Branch of the
Young Mems Christian Association. In
the course of his remarks Mr.. Depew spoke
of the great good the Y. NJ. c. A. was
doing among railroad men. In ten years
the effect upon the employees of the New
York Central K. K. was so marked that it
can be seen all over the road. In
stead of spending their time in bar rooms,
pool rooms and other places where their
manhood was destroyed, they spend their
time in improving themselves, and their
money goes to their families, the savings
banks and into homes. The association
is creating that which will ultimately be
the safety of the country-eyery man
owning the roof which covers him.
mo man, =" said he, who has money in
his home, who has capital invested, goes
to bed without fear that something is
going to happen. Why are men afraid
of the line being drawn through the
community; afraid Of civil war;
afraid of SOcialistic riot?
Why? Because the developments of the
century are greater than the church and
its influence can take care Of
The speaker referred to the differences
that have come in the last hundred years;
to the advance IN civilization and in pro-
duetiye power.
We boast, " he said, ''of our sixty mil
lions OF people, at having Outstripped all
countries, of our productive power. But
we must face the fact that
grave perils are at our doors. At arecent
election in the largest city of the
country, One-third of the people voted for
a man who declared that We are on the
eve of another Frenth revolution, with all
its horrors. OF the O., 900 men who voted
for George, not one in q hundred believed
what George said. He don't believe it
himself. They are not Anarchists or So
cialists. What did they mean? They
meant something; they meant that they
have a grievance. We don't exactly know
what il is. They can't clearly express it,
but it exists"
The rapid development of the century,
the speaker said, had dried up the springs
of common humanity and men no longer
understood each other as they once did.
He spoke of the time when an employer
knew all his employees. when their joys and
sorrows were held in common. This has
gone by. The keenneSS of competition left
so small q margin that profit only existed
in large operations which required more
capital than one person could furnish.
This called into existence corporations.
Then the distance between the employer
and employees grew greater. How could
this he avoided? Labor organized, hut
this only arrayed two hostile armies, and
made war between capital and labor,
which should be aS the brain and stomach.
The solution would he in organization
within and without the church to teach
the true relation between labor and capi-
tai.
In conclusion Mr.. Depew said an organ
ization like the y. NJ. T.. \. takes man to
a place where he finds sympathy, where
ne is taught, where blood thirsty teachings
are diSpelled, where ne is not asked about
his creed, where he meets men who feel
for him, who will visit him when he feels
the current of humanit.