Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1890-06-06

was such condition of affairs existing.
There were periodic conditions OF intense
depression. separated by brief seasons Of
nrosnerity. With all the natural advan-
tages. this ought not TO be. He said;
3With our storehouses crowded with
ooods awaiting customers, our homes are
In misery for want of those goods. With
our banks full Of money, our people are
starving because they cannot get IT, lwlll
not say there is no such thlng as over.
production, but over-producton can not OF
itself account for the existing trouble. III
is not over-production so much as want
Of Circulation He detailed hypotheti-
cal case of illness arising from sluggish
ness in the blood and, applying the simile,
he said the trouble with our country was
there was n rush Of blood 10 the head and
no blood at all in the extremitles.
"It is an insult to God TO shut up our
goods In our warehouses, and cry over
production.r The trouble is not that IL is
because of S550,OO0,00O which last year
came ont of the pockets of the working men
of America for drink. There was 9OO,OOO,-
600 in all spent in this way last year, but
am only talking Of the working mans share
of IT, They spent - 200 ,0O0, 600 in all for
drink in the last five years. There Is the
seat of the trouble with America.
He detailed the experiences OF Joe Hess,
the ex-prize fighter, who being converted
after spending fortune in years OF dlssl-
patton, reformed, and making 81 IVA year
spent not one dollar Of II Tor drink, 10 tne
corresponding benefit OF his wife and chill
dren, and then said:
That is the record of one man. Multi
ply that case by the 100000 drunkards in
America today, and think what the result
would be on business"
Again he said:
"Close the saloons of Wheeling for
week, and there will not be beefsteak LETT
in a butcher shop on Saturday night, or
loaf of bread in bakery, while the hosan-
nahs of Thanksgiving from wives and chill
dren would make the city shake IL is
wonder to me that the business men OF
America, for business reasons alone. do not
rise in their might and drive out this de-
stroying curse Take out Of this Republic
every saloon and put in its place school;
blot out every distillery, and put in its
place church blot out every brewery, and
put in its place W. c. r. u. and In ten
years this would be the happiest and the
most prosperous country the sun ever
shone on
He said he would like 10 see emblazoned
at Washington, on the one hand, the senti-
ment 1T is the duty Of government TO
make it easy TO do right, and hard TO do
wrong" and that saying of Burk's: What
is morally wrong can never be made legal
ly right:r and that patriotic sentiment Of
Henry Clay: II would rather be right
than be President and those words of
Grant: II propose 10 fight IL out ON this
line if it takes all'-the country-"That
is what he would like TO see, but the real
sentiments there displayed were very diff
ferentr
"In going up and down the country, ]
have noticed il is not the capitalists who
keep the saloons running, but the working
men. 1t is the wage-workers who keep
the lights burning, the bar-tenders clothed
in white, and the jewels sparkling on the
fingers of the proprietors. | thank God
the workingmen are awakening TO this
fact. and that Powderly, the head OF the X.
of L.. has declared against the liquor
traffic.
Elevate the people of the country, and
you elevate the country he said. But
men will say' ''oh that's all right, but you
can't make men sober by law No: but
we can stop making them drunkards by
law Again he said: Let man steal,
and he is arrested; the object OF the law
is not TO make men honest, but
to protect honest men; society ought TO be
protected from the liquor traffic as il is
protected from the operations of the thief.
Instead of finding the United States gov
ernment protecting the American mother,
we find the Supreme Court giving a decis-
ion in the original package matter He
was not prepared to argue against that de-
cision on legal grounds, but "A bigger out
rage in its practical workings has never
been perpetrated. This question must be
taken squarely into National politics, and
there settled
But people say: This is a free coun-
try, if a man wants 10 drink let him drink
and take the consequences Yes: but the
trouble about that is, some one else has TO
take the consequences. The man takes the
drink, and his wife and children take the
consequences The consequences fall on
the home all the time
81 am tired of hearing of such platitudes
as. The hand that rocks the cradle
rules the world If the hand that
rocked the cradle really ruled the world,
there wouldn't be 100000 rum holes in ex-
istence i'm America tonight "A good
deal of talk is being heard just now" he
said. "about woman being out Of her
sphere. etc ] am not as much discouraged
about the future OF women as am about
the future Of men The saloons are full OF
men and the churches full of women. Our
schools graduate three girls to one boy
The speaker said some folks might urge |
he was a croaker, and that he looked only |
on the dark side. He would admit there |
was a bright side-he could, Southern man |
that he was, make Fourth Of July speech. |
He could let the eagle scream and the star
spangled banner wave, but he thought he
was doing a nobler duty in giving men u
chance to see the dark side One man had
said he didn't take much stock in the
speaker because he had been disloyal dur
ing the war. Paul, likewise, had been a
pagan before he was converted 10 Chris |
tianity. "Thc South has been
lately twitted about Haunting
the emblems Of the dead Con-
federacy. will say for the New South,
and in its name, that il doesn't want any
more stars and bars. The star-spangled
banner is good enough for US. Let the dead
past bury its dead.
The speaker drew picture Of Congress
unanimously voting appropriations TO send
committees to investigate the foot and
mouth diseases in Illinois, and the seven
year -glasshOppers in Kansas, and one thing
and another in various parts Of the cOun-
try, but when the largest petition ever pre-
sented 20 Congress asked for an investiga-
ton as TO the effects OF liquors, they said
mo- and voted il down 10 man. So in
she national platforms; planks were put in
for this thing and for that interest,
but when delegation Of Christians prayed
for q temperance plank they got nat re-
fusal. and they found this petition on the
floor Of the committee room, covered with
tobacco Juice He said the remedy for this
sort of treatment was for the temperance
people TO go to the polls and vote their SEN
timents. As soon as they do that, they'll
get something,
He was opposed TO high license and local
option. and said such things put him in
mind of the story of the snakes in the box.
The box had twenty-five augur holes in IL,
through which the snakes came out; that
was low license: then the man stopped up
fifteen holes, and that was high license.
Then he put them In another mans lot, and
that was local option; but that man killed
them. and that was prohibition.
He referred TO the objection that prohi
bition was.n advance Of public sentiment,
and said the same objection might have
been raised against the laws Of Moses or
the religion Of Christ.
His speech throughout was eloquent, and
was very frequently applauded.
IMPORTATION OF CATTLE.