The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1894-06-20

pGTouptory notice OF n fcIuCIlOh OIL -
4 week. The mau wants to discuss the
matter with tho proprietor. That s.
may be put into n building association.
lie sees the proprietor and
rxrLAiYS THE HARDSHIP
he will incur by the reduction, Tho
boss says he has another mar who will
work for SO. What Is tho matter with
such a System, that doprivos the laboror
OF rights In Euch Il situation ? The
workingnan Is displaced from his Gin.
ploynent without being consulted. l8
it right that tho employer shall have NIL
tho righta? A judge in Allegheny
county, Pa, decided such a situation
does not accord with the rights given
citizens BY the constitution.
Concluding Mr.. Burts said II the
audionco would only let him talk poll.
tics he wouli bo al right. iCdcs OF
20 ahCad"). "But l am not going tO
do that"
At $50 o'clock SIR. McGuirc arrived
and was Immediately nshercd onto the
stage and introduced to the audience by
Nr. Burst, who was greeted with ap-
plausc.
Mr. INQUIRE SPEAKS.
he was thankful that 80 many had
remained to hear him. II was three
years since he had visited Wheel.
ing, and he considered it timely for him
to visit the community. lie referred to
the acute panic, worse than that Of 1872.
Three millions Of people are outoi work.
Why this condition IN 4 country with
such Immense resources? There is an
abundance OF money in the banks OtthG
east; 4 lack OF confidence, uncertainty
and fear among business men. There
bavc been indications OF this panic for
three or four years and Wall street has
had to come 10 the rescue OF the govern.
ment. Large failures in England, Aus
tralia and Argentine occurred aud u
country was abou. the last TO feel tho
panic. There arc O number OF c1uses.
Frat comes tho cconomic-labor has
never received It's full recon pense. In
twenty years wealth increased three
fold, but labor decreased % per cent.
Under these circumstances panic was
not surprising. Labor has sim My re-
ceived the market price, and that barely
received the moun necessary for 4
livelihood. No wonder commodities are
heaped up in warehouses unsold.
Though beci has fallen. hOur has fallen,
you still pay the sal0e price for meat
and bread. Labor is the loser, and
under tho circumstances il has been
possible to heap up immense wealth.
Railroads are ~oyorvalued and the work
ipgmen pay the dividends to tho stock
holders. Labor pays TO alien land
holders in rents. Labor has been re-
cciviug but ouc-6ixth OF the total value
OF lis products.
Labor's remuneration has fallen al
most everywhere: advanced or held its
own only in lines best organized. Work.
ingmen must understand when they re-
ceiyc advances il ia not due 10 the philan
thropy oil the capitalist butte their own
organized exertions. Where labor is
well organized the employer hesl:ates
before lie makes reductions.
USTiL LABOR IS NIT
it will be poorly rewarded. The condi-
ton Of workingmen really has been QUE
perpetual menace OF poverty.
Labor encounters the competition OF
women and children in addition 10
competition between man and man.
Again many trades arc divided and
men no longer have handicratg; they
are only pieceworke.s. Al! this com,
petition lie aggravated by Immigration
from the lowest strata OF Europe; ail in
the interests OF capital. Capital is
united and influences legislation and
courts. Ii labor rebels the sta;e militia
are brought into the field and it ia made
to appear that the strikers are lawless.
Would 1t not be better 10 be friendly to
labo. instead OF intimidatinS with gat-
ling guns and shotted rifles? Intense
competition partly causes this bad con-
dition oil affairs. Organized labor docs
not strike at the apprentice system, as
a glance ct the printing and glass work.
ing trades will testify.
One feature OF the tradoa union move
mont is the advancement OF the work
ingneu. Hours OF labor have been re-
duced, and the eight-hour day is the OBJ
jeCt sought. This will secure 4 greater
opportunity for workingmen.
DISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH
an equitable distribute Oh Of wealth is
wanted. By raiuing the price Of labor
We can buy more products and create Q
larger homo marl.et-what wo need.
Our statesmen (?) at Washington con.
tend we should lookior foreign markets.
The result OF such q syatem is seen in
England, where lubor is most poorly
paid and English capital comes hero 10,
investment. Ii We follow this idea cap,
ital will be a drug Gil the market. Cap,
~italists should understand this very sys,
tenn is injurious to them
The second causc OF panics is the
financial system Of tho country. Money
ia tied up and labor finds no employ
ment. He saw an improvement in
sight Tor next spring which will be q
busy season. and then tho w~orkingnen
should regain the loss OF wases the,
hevo suffered.
The speaker referred 10 tho repeal Of
the purchasing clause OF the Sherman
law, which had been caused by the gold
bugs OF Wall street. The financial
policy, he said. ia controlled by the
capitalists. The national bank system
ia u rank monopoly, and wha, We need
is an American system Of currency in &C.
cordancc with the constitution OF the
United States.
The uncertainty OF tariff legislation
has had m effect on the condition Of
affairs. No matter how tho tariff be
settled, the laboring man viii receive
only what he can re: by the power Of
organization. Protection OF free trade,
labor IN organization must protect it.
sell. He called attention TO the SUCCESS