Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-10-29

c,untry has gown to twelve hundred
millions viii the people Of the United
States of America be crowding each Other
80 closely in the struggle for employment
rs they ara doing in Erg,and to-day.
WEALTH AMONG THE FEW, AND POVERTY
AMONG THE MANY.
What briggs them over here? will tell
few tbiogs that brings them over here,
Not until yoa have increased the popula-
ton of tina United States to twelve hundred
millions and over will the peopls Of
America be crowding each other in tia
Struggle for employment and bread as
they are doing in the old countries at the
present, and not then unless You continue
this system Of protection" that concen-
trates wealth in the hands of the few and
poverty among the many. Cheers
What brings them over hare? will tall
you what brings them over here viii
tell you what built mp wages for these
American workirgnen. Wien the
founder Of the Democratic party wrote in
the declaration of Independence those
immortal words, GAN man are born free
and equal; governments derive their just
covers from the consent Of tbs people"
He was then making good wages fer the
American workingman. Cheer. When
another great Dsmosratic leader, James
Madison embodied in the constitution Of
this country the great principle, that his
was q country OF equal rights 10 ell and
special privileges TO more, he was making
good wages for the American working .
Cheers
What brings them over here? I will tell
you what brings them over here. When
the immortal Jefferson found q govern
ment that was gairg into partnership with
tie capital Of the country and drove these
people cut of power, he was making good
wages for the American workingmen.
When another great Democratic father,
Andrew Jackson, found the Unitsd Stfe,
Bank carrying on it's iniquities in tie fEce
of the wo Id, he gsllantly marshall ths
Democratic hosts ar drove out of Existence
both the corporation and its msnipulators.
He was then making good wages for the
American workingner.
What brings them over here? When
James K. Polk, another Democratic
President, annexed Louisisns, Texas
New Mexico and Southern California to
tie United States of America, he was
making good wages for the American work
ingman.
What brings them over here? I will
tell you what brings them over here. The
English nottingham Is n ore of man tc-
day than he was forty years ago. In
Erglsnd to day, my fellow citizans, there
is wide and bottomless chasm between
the classts. No English nottingham, as
long as he remains in his native country,
can ever hope to raise from the condition
Of al working man, into which he was
born. No, there are two classes in
England, and when bern q working
mans son nsyer hope to elevate
yourself above that position. That
child that is born in the dawn of morning
to the English warkingmsn's home brings
with him dagger to stab the fathers
heart. He kro ws that that child is born to
life of toll It's lot is that CT its fathers and
its fathers father before it. No amount
of enterprise ans ability can bridge that
chssm that yawns between him and the
class Of wealth and aristocracy above.
The acc lmulated prejuiicss of 1000 years
shove him back, when he tries to cross
These are the things that tie laborer is
thinking cf SIS he co.'s forth from his hum
be home and sees driven by the gilded
squipsge Of the man who ia q member Cf
Parliament, rot because OF his merits, but
because away back in tie line of his ances-
tors was harlot to King Charles the Sec
ond Cheers. What brings them over
here? Why, il is the sense of glorious in
depercs of strong and honorable manhcod
that brings them over hare. Great ar-
plause.l
THE OLD ROMAN CHEERED.
lad the privilege few weeks age, OF
riding through the city of Chicago in cor-
papy with Alien G. Tburman-God bless
HIN. GCheers aud applause FOn enc
er ID OF those streets to the other it was q
t-iumphant procession. Men uncovered
their heads in TIE presence Of so much
virtue and goodness, every mans face in
that city, OF Upon those streets at least
was wresthed ia smiles, and delight
beamed from every c.uotenarce, and why
net 80, when every father in that vast
throng Of men and every mother in the
assembled women, were pr rmitted to share
TIE thought that some dsy possibly thsii
little boy might grow mp t, be grest msn,
ard he might r.da through the streets OF
Chicago hks Alien G. Thurman. Chesrs.
Nothing is there in oar laws 70 prevent il.
There is 10 class distinction in this c0uI-
try, and thank God there won't be If the
Democratic party has its way and succeeds
in breaking down the powerful machinery
that is making this government Of the
rich, a government of centralized money
power. / want these boys in West Yir-
ginis WHO are ambitious and industrious
to succeed in accomplishing their highest
attainments.
Now, my fellow citizens, my time is
about up and must stop. / say, as was
saying when interrupted, that all the poll
tbs know and all the legislation know
should te directed to keep the race in life
open for our sons and our daughters. Ifyou
are going to build up nonopolies, if you are
going to build up great truss in this
country, keep rp this Ubiquitous tariff.
No, fellow eitiz ns, you will not. There
is but one basis for our happiness in this
world, and that is the equal rights of citi-
z.nship granted 70 every man by our con-
s!itution, and the assurance tat special
privileges shall be granted to none,
Cheers.