Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1894-03-25

thousand reeking, sweltering teuements,
where famine, and vice, and bloody dis
content have their home. What is that?
Education? Yes, you do try 10 educate
the masses, that is you increase their
wants without furnishing the means to
crafty them. To the sensitive poor
man education is a curse, in that IL In
creases his capacity for suffering. And
for enjoyment you say? We'll, come
with me, and let me show you the lean
and hungry victims Of the sweater,
working for eighteen hours a
day to fight of death with their
skinny arms, and point out to me what
there is to enjoy. To the masses all
this evolution, all this advance in
science and art, all this unlocking OF
the generous bouuties Of nature have
proved a bitter farce, for they have en-
abled the small minority TO build up
gigantic fortunes for which it has no
reasonable use. This curse will con-
tinue as long as private property con-
tinues. So We who are striving for the
happiness of mankind, say: Down with
Private PROPERTY"
"Conceding." I said that there
should be limit TO vast accumulations,
how could you get along without gov
ernment?"
"Ha!" he exclaimed, You, too, fancy
that the state is an institution framed
for the general well-being OF the peo-
pie? Why, il is simply means OF de-
tense that the rich have set up against
the propertyIess. The smaller the
number OF rich the greater the number
of poor, and the more elaborate and OPP
pressivs the protective machinery. l
tell you IL has become monster, with
its countless hands In everyOody's
rockets. II has its jails in which 10
Immune US; its ropes and halters TO hold
us fast. its tens OF thousands OF
swords, and rifles, aud clubs TO
swing above our heads; and it in
timidates with the prison and
scaffoid. We believe that want is
the mother Of most crime and wealth
is the parent OF vice. Destroy the
causes and we shall gradually approach
that state of perfect civilization when
men will do right because it is right,
uhinfuenced by the hope OF reward or
the fear of punishment. The opinion
of a moral society will be the highest
form OF law, and when that day comes,
as come it surely must, the day OF the
political boss, the Owlish statesman and
the whole corrupt machinery OF govern
ment, as it at present exists, will be
matter for the historian TO treat OF, rs
he does Of the doings OF the ancient
Jews"
but, surely" l urged, you must
recognize the elevating influence of re-
ligion on the evolution Of civilization"
81 deny in toto that influence. No
matter the denomination or creed,
whether Christian, Mahomedan or Pa
gan, the Church is the most enormous
swindle ever perpetrated on humanity.
In the shape of priests, 10 has several
millions of lazy, crafty scoundrels, who
year in and year out, In every country,
nil the brains of ;heir fiOcks with alb
surd superstitions, and wax rat on the
credulity they have fostered.
But our voice is raised against the
church, because it dwarfs instead OF de-
veloping men, and it forges links for
the chains of slavery, the better TO hold
their victims to their purpose. They are
moral towards and dare not speak out.
And so say with all my force, / OPP
pose the church"
Where would be the incentive to
work, If the conditions, whic you sug-
gest, PREVAILED"