Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-12-06
O SHORT,
He Talks About Strikes and Wheeiing's
Future as n Railroad Center.

He Talks About Strikes and wheeling's
Future as n Railroad Center.
In the last issue of the Age Of Seef
''Cold Short" Mr.. Philip Henry Moore,
writing from this city, says:
1.-THE printers strike is still on IN
Wheeling and all the terrors, penalties
prescriptions and threats have been called
into full swing, and these weapons OF the
~unriphteous avail not. The papers, the
hteVioeucer and the REGISTER, seem to
thrive on the diet. This attempt to boy
colt il an illustration of the old Latin
phrase, Mons parturient, etc. Wheeling
has suffered some in reputation by these
labor disturbances They have been
well calculated to repel enterprise and
to make capital avoid the city,
Int it should be borne In
mind that the good sense of the people,
the solidity and solvency of her establish
ments. and the manliness and courage oil
her manufacturers and business men gen
erally have defeated all these efforts OF I'M
ouiet spirits, and the fights have been bit
.terer there than elsewhere. 1t Is the very
irony of the times that a few disconnected
men-a bakers half dozon-sbould maj
the progress and injure the reputation OF a
whole community. Other sections are al
go being disturbed, and it really seems to
be an effort to bring about a class craze.
In the struggle which labor is making to
secure lust recognition it has the sympa-
nathy OF every right-feeling citizen; but
there is a line between justice and
assumption, which they 80 often ignore,
and hence invite defeat. The proper sig.
MITIGATION of the term labor includes all
~ayocations in which the animal man Is en-
gagged in maintaining his physical existence,
whether with brains or hands; and there
should be no antagonists created between
them. When the scriptures refer to labor,
as they do in many passages, there are nc
distinctions made, no barriers erected.
The detestable growth of mOnopolles mas
distorted the visions of these self-created
leaders of wage-workers, and in every az
creation of capital for carrying on
business enterprises they discover
imaginary combinations to despOll artisans
of their God-created rights, and excite
them, as a class, to tear down that when
they should endeavor to build up. am
not the special advocate Of the manutac-
turer or proprietor, but in my plain way
oppose SOphistTy. Artisans and day labor
ers have been imposed upon to their cost
by drones and sulkers who would starye
and rot in their ~vagabOndage, If compelled
to turn to honorable labOr-"fOr they SOW
not, neither do they reap < \ they toll
not, neither do they spin," but they sub
sist on the sweat Of other mems brows, by
intoxicating decisions and fomentlng tur-
bulence and disorder.
The extention of the Ohio River railroad
will furnish this section with another out
let for it's products to the South and South
west. This railway starts from Wheeling
and Is about completed to point Pleasant,
w. Va. 1t is to built to Huntington,
forty miles further, where it will connect
with the Newport News and Mississippi
Valley road. At Wheeling the Ohio River
road connects with the Pennsylvania sys-
TENS and the B. & o. Wheeling Will he
in the center of the best transportation
facilities on this cOntinant, between the
Atlantic and the great West and the Gull
states. Wheeling originates very much
the largest tonnage OF any intermediate
point between terminals Of the b.
x o. system, and she is really
a more important city than
she has credit for. Somewhat overshad-
owed by PittsbuIg, which is making un-
precedented progress, she has been only
known as the place where nails are made.
There has never been sufficient capital to
develop her advantages and
Natural gas is bringing her to the front
now and foreign capital and enterprise
are taking her into consideration. Her
business men, rs q rule, are too much Oc-
cupied with their own avOcatiOnS to APP
preciate her claims, and strangers, until
very lately, might with good reason i'm
agine that they were not wanted. Her
friedrich street pavements also forced her
into notoriety, and she is actually so unac-
custOmed to it that she is growing
timid."