The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1893-07-05

rupted considerably by exploding fire.
crackers, and the Judge remarked that
1t Is no small matter to attempt to talk
against the average small American on
a Fourth OF July.
He then continued: / cannot look
upon this vast assemblage, and contem-
plate the assembled millions of Ameri-
cans within tho limits OF this country
to-day without approaching how great
thingitisto live under a government
snchas this and to be q citizen OF 1t.
From the first administration OF WASH
ington to that OF Harrison has marked
the close OF century OF administrative
authority. 1t has been a hundred years
crowded with national perils, but
crowned at last with the triumphs Of
liberty and law.
Tho historian OF ono hundred years
ofnational life will record the fact that
our system OF government has been the
outgrowth and development OF q con.
tlict Of ideas, unlike ancient and mod
Orn Europe Wars with US have been
the evolving OF ideas, not the reckless
and impassloned following OF the per-
sonal fortunes Of any political or mill.
tary leader.
After review in brief of the history
OF the past, the speaker continued.
We turn from the contemplation OF
tho past achievements OF tho republic
to have our pride arrested and subdued
with somewhat OF doubt as to our abil.
ity to meet and solve tho momentous
issues of the immediate future. There
Is no Disgusting the fact that tho years
to come presago grave national perils,
not alone grave political issues, but
grave problems Of government affecting
the civilization OF our country Not
mere questions Of national policy or
political methods by determining the
lines along which legislative and admin.
istrative action will progress, but OF the
existence OF constitutional republican
government The crisis is portentous
AS Edmund Burke would say, "our no.
tional fate is in u perilous and dancing
balance"
Mo arc confronted with problems Of
immigration. socialism, corporate pow.
or, labor education, popular suffrage,
civil service reform. Socialism seeks
to elevate and regenerate the State
without the regeneration OF the indi.
vidual Its panacea Is cooperative or.
ganization instead OF competitive activ.
ity. It's tho fungus moth OF dyspep.
tic and monarchial condition OF things,
transplanted from the old to this now
world. II negatives the State, and pri.
yato property, authority, the family re.
ligion. Tho mighty drift Of tho past
eighteen centuries has driven the world
toward q pronounced individu0lism; IN
indivldualism toward the highest social
development. AZ Guizot says, "ThO
prime clement in modern European
civilization is tho energy Of individual
life; the force OF personal existence"
Aud there can DO no doubt tho tend.
ency OF mechanical invention under
the industrial system Is TO create classes
and render them practically hereditary
Tho one the great operative and In.
dustrial class, tho othcr tho masters OF
the mighty forces Of modern invention,
capitalists. Mr., Lukoy observes that
every change Of conditions which
widOna tho cliasm and impairs tho sym.
patty Of rich and poor cannot fail, how.
ever beneficial may DO its effects, TO
bring grave dangers to tho state, for
his wants improve faster than his con.
dltlon. Mon rise In tho scale OF civil.
iEation Just ne thoir wants rise. The
lcyOling process that has developed tho
reign Of Uncommon people Is tonwakon
wants which. II not satisfied, create
discomfort Tho American working.
man, placed In tho circumstances Of tho
labor OF Continental Europe, would
produce immediate revolution. II our
present industrial system invites that
II inVokes revolution.
In come states Of this union tho av.
orago workingman is unable TO support
his family; the question Of acuumula.
ton Is beyond the horizon ofhis hoposi
and yet d Vanderbilt inay mako thirty
milllonV a year. "Tllote is," says Pro-
lessor UalrneH, "a constant growth Of
tho national capital, with NEARLY equal.
ly constant decline In the proportion Of
capital which COOS to productive labor"
Aud this will result Ia q harsh BOpara.