Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-12-26
WAGE EARNERs, ATTENTION.!

ANE ma nm ~ "
Every body admits, remarks the New
York Herald, ssrcastically, that under the
present high tariff system the m~onOpolist,
the man Of many speculative corners and
the fnancier who pools lis interests tJr q
rise in the market is Sufficiently well taken
care CT.
1t became necessary, therefore for Sem
stor EDMUSDs to declare that under a
high tariff the poor man also enjoys all the
delights os an earthly paradise. He didn't
fliucd al atom, but took his '~'afidayy"
that the wage Garner in this country has
all the c)mioItJ and luxuries Of life, ard If
he is not content9d and happy he is an un-
grateful rogue.
Let u9ruu over the list which tn hon
OrabIeS Senator presents. First, the Amer
lean laborer has a house, usually his own"
Then, second, she has 8 piano" Ga this
point Mr.. EDMUNDs evidently thought he
had gone too far, and immediately hedged
by adding, 'Or If not he hiss aa accJr-
deOn." Third, he has fresh meat every
day" a luxury in which the Senator de-
clared be did not himself indulge. Fourth,
''he has white ~breai"-and, by the way,
what an uuconsciOnsble wretch q work
iugman must be to complain OF his condi-
ton when "he has white brGair" Fifth,
''he has bis vacations and his excursions, y
and, moreover, everything tha. the rich
est mar in America can have"
Now, then, will those ~ungrsteful scoun-
drels in the Pittsburgh iron mills, AID
those employees OF Mr.. CARNEGIE, and tie
other fellows all over the country who
have been getting up inDumerable strikes
with all these discontinued creatures
be kind enough 10 keep still and make no
moro fuss?
They nearly all WI their own houses,
they all have pianOs-or at any rate &C
c~ordeons-and vacations aud excursions,
and their children and wives "~arelas well
clothed a. the richest man in America"
No more sympathy or pity for the work
ingman. He is simply the most migrate
fol animal in CbristsndOm.
We have the authority of the Republic
can Senate for these statements.
OF COURSE THEY DON'T LIKE 1T.
Leading Chicsgo business men and ship
pers having been interviewed have express
cd themselves uncompromisingly in oppo-
sition to the Interstate Commerce law.
o. course they have!
What was the In:er-Ststs Commerce law
intended for but to knoll in the heaj Just
such shipping ~monopolists as these great
ClicagOln ans and their like! What is the
intent of the long and short haul clause
bat o prevent these same C~hicagoAns and
their like from monopolziug the business
between their point Of shipment and the
ssaboard? This Interstate law puts the
: Chicago and the West Virginia shipper on
an quality 80 far as freight charges are
concerned. The Chicago wOuld-be mOnOp-
Clists do not like it. OF course they don't
like il. 1t WAS not intended 10 please
them any more than the slipper was in
tsndel to please the spanked child. The
law was formed to restrain and correct
then.
The law is not perfect and needs amend
me1t in important particulars but has
fully demonstrated its usefulness, not only
to shippers but to the railroads themselves,
and with extended powers it will undOubt.
edly remove much OF the evil that results
rom rivslry between railroad companies
carried TO an unwaIrsntsbls excess. This
rivalry too frequently assumes phase
which Mr.. CHAUNCEY NJ. DEPEw, in 3
recent uttsrancs on the subject, describes
a a too ssger and One-sidfd ~partissuship
for the properties which the railway man.