Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-06-07

Ailsa 76, 600 acres; Baroness hlnOusnoj
dEresby, 5000 acres; Mr.. j. Malcolm
, 10000 acres; Marquis of Huntly, 8O,OOC
acres; Bslfour, of Wittinghsm, 0l,OOt
acres; Sir ]. o. Orde, $1,000 acres; Mar
ouis of Butte, $4,000 acres; The Chisholm
94, 900 acres; Mr.. Z Efce, $4,000 screei
Sir G. N. Grant, lO3 900 acresi Duke ol
Portland, 5000 acres; Cameron Of
Lochiel, l095OO acres; Sir c. W. hoss
llO4OO acres; Earl of Fite, ll3, 900 acres
The Macintosh, $4,000 scres; Lord
Macdonald, 10000 acres; Earl of Dal
house, l36, ,OOO acres; Macleod of Macleod
l4l, 700 acres; Sir X. Mackenzie, OF CAR
, lock-, l64, $50 acres; Duke of Argyle, lI4,'
600 acres; Duke of Hamilton, lS3.OOO
acres; Duke of Athole, $4,000 acres;
Duke OF Richmond, 255 900 acres; Earl Of
Stair, 270,0OO acres; Mr.. Even Baillle
J 800 600 acres; Earl nf Sesfeld, 300, ,OOO
acres; Duke OF Buceleugh, 432. l53 acres;
Earl of Bresdalosne, 437, 500 acres; Mr..
A. Mstheson, 22O,433 acres; and Sir j
Mathesou, 4O6 .070 acres; Duchess of Su-
therland, 1850 acres; and Duke OF
Sutherland, l,l76,343 acres.
Such monopoies imply
AN INFINITE ACREAGE OF wRETCHEDNEss
There is no poverty in the United States
like that in England, Ireland and Scot
land, for the simple reason that in those
lsnds Monopoly has had longer and larger
sway IIast summer in Edinburgh, Scot
land, after preaching in Synod Hall, stood
on q chair in front of the hall and preached
to an audience Of twenty thousand psople
standing iu one of the most prosperous
parts Of the city, and reaching out toward
the castle; so fine an array Of strength and
health aud beauty as one ever sees
Three hourI after preached in the Grass
Market and to the wretched inhabitants Of
the Cowgate and Conongate, the audience
exhibiting the squalor and sickness and
despair that remains in one 81 mind like
one OF the visions of Dautes Inferno.
Great monopolies iu any land imply
great privaton. The time will come when
our government will have to limit the
amount Of accumulation of property. Un'
constitutional do you say? Theu constl'
tutions will have to be changed until they
allow such limitation. Otherwise the work
of absorption will go on, and the large
fishes will est up the small fishes, and the
shad viii swallow the minnows, and the
porpoise swallow the sEad, aud the whales
swallow the porpoises, and q thousand
greedy men will own sll the world aud
five hundred OF these will eat up the other
five bundled and one hundred eat up the
other four hundred and finally there will
be only fifty left, and then forty, and then
thirty, aud then twenty, aud then ten, and
then two, aud then one.
But would
LAW OF LIMITATION or WEALTH
be unriahteous2 If | dig so near my
neighbors foundations, in order to build
nv house, thai | endanger his, the law
grabs me, II have tannery or chem.
ical factory the nal odors of which iujure
residents ia the neighborhood, the law says:
Stop that" If | drain off river feom its
bed and divert it to turn my mill whe.l
leaving the bed of TIE river a breeding
place for malaria, the Law says: Quit that
outrage" And has not good government
right 10 say that few men shall not
gorge themselves on the comfort and
health and life of generations? Your
rights end where my rights begin
Monopoly brszen faced, and iron'hnger'
ed, vulture. hearted Monopoly offers his
hand to this republic. He stretches it out
over the lakes and up the Pennsyl-
vsnia and the Erie aud the New
York Central railroads and over the tee-
graph poles of the continent and says:
SHsre is nay hssrt sud baud; be mine
forever" Let the millions OF the people
north, south, east and west, forbid the
bsuus of the marrisge--forbid them at
the bslot.box, forbid them on the plat
form, forbid them by great organisations,
forbid them by the overwhelming senti.
ments of on outraged nation, forbid them
by the protest of the Church of God, for
mn :, M, =. he n'aver to high heaven. That
, Herod shall not have turs 800 H'.'~'' IL
shall net be to all devouring Monopoly
that this land is to be married.
Another suitor claiming the hand OF
this republic is
NIHILIsN.
He owns nothing but knife for universal
blood-letting, aud nitro-gl7csrine bomb
for universal explosion. He believes in
no God, no government, no heaven, and
no hell except what he. can make on
earth. He slew the Czar OF Russia,
keeps Emperor William, Of Germany,
practically imprisoned, killed Abraham
Lincoln, wouid put to death every king
and president on earth, and. if he had the
power, would climb Up until be could drive
the God of heaven from His throne and
! take it himself-the universal butcher In
! France it is called Communism, in the
Uuited States it is called Socialism, in
! Russia it il called Nihhsm. That last il
the most graphic and descriptive term. 1t
means complete and eternal smsshup. II
would make the holding of property
crime and it would drive dagger through
your heart and apply torch to your dwell
| ing aud turn over this whole land iuto the
possession Of theft and lust and rspine and
murder.
Where does this monster live2 II St.
Louis, 10 Chicago, in Brooklyn, in New
York, and IN all The villages aud cities OF
this land The devil OF destruction is
an cid devil and he is to
| DC seen d CNSi1 SAcob uAO "hSAC NbSAO 80
ANYTHING to steal, and at every shipWreck
where there is anything valuable floating
ashore, and Ct every railroad accident
where there are overcosts and watches TO
be purloined On q small scale | saw it in
my college dsys, when in our literary soci-
ely in New York University, We had an ex-
quisite and costly bust Of Shakespeare,
aud one morning we found hole bored
into the lips Of the marble and a cigar in
serted. There has not for the last century
been fine picture iu your art gallery, or q
graceful statue in your parks, or hns
iresco on your wall, or a richly bound vol
ume ia your library, out would have been
despoiled if the hand Of rufiiaoism could
have got at it without peril OF incarcers'
ton. Sometimes the evil spirit Shove
itself by throwing vitriol into beautiful
face; sometimes By w.lltully soaring a
hor e with a velocipede; sometimes By
crashing the cart wheel against q carriage
rup ruTr osOpuy pP THE WHOLE BUSINESS