The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1894-07-09

Last evening at the Thomson N. E.
church. on tho Island, the pastor, Eey.
DR.. T. D. 7. Buckley, preached an slo-
quent and interesting sermon on the
Great Railway Strike" There was a
large sized congregation present that
listened To the words Of the minister
with great interest. DR.. Buckley said:
Tho closing decade Of this century
will 90 down TO future generations,
with some Of the most disgrecetul and
unreasonable acts Of the nineteenth
century. On tho heels OF tho Sunday
opening OF the World's Fair, We have
encouragement Eiyon TO lnarchism
from high places Of tho state, hlibuster-
ing Of our Congress Ia tho face OF most
distressing stfinEency; the granting OF
unlimited powers to autocratc trusts
the Unrestricted evils OF indlIcriminate
and wholesale foreign land ownership;
the permitted overcrowding Of unpFin-
cipled foreign labor through undesi!-
able immigration; tho reign oil mob
terror the paralysis Of Industries in thn
devastating coal strike, and now the
monaco 10 public peace and safety,
prosperity aud penonal right IN the
great railroad boycott. in which the
whole system OF commerce OF tho ma
ton Is made to suffer, because oil tho
local industrial difficulties conferred in
small suburb Of Chicago.
soUE QUESTIONS PUT.
twill not BIO possible to examine tho
merits OF tho railway strike. We will
simply put some questions which relate
to II and which rise from every dictate
OF deccnCy and order, peace aud har-
mony, reason aud Justice, humanity
and morcy, fraternity and liberation.
individual right and liberty and charity
and Christianity.
Those ara all to DO found in the gos.
pei of "peaco on earth, good will toward
men 4" in the dictates and development
Of the golden fulo; in that sway oil
''brotherly kindness" revealed by the
Christ, and responded to by the heart
OF man as the highest goal to be at
tanned and ssriyen for by man IN his
relations to his fellow men. Seek
peace and pursue i'll" aud "let brotherly
kindness continue" are tho governing
elements OF human activities.
In the first place: Is 1t right to per
NIT aud uphold gigantic trusts In their
menace 10 welfare, place, right and
harmony OF tho nation and its indus
tries? Ezekiel speaks Of "the men that
devise mischief" What mischief is
caused in tho whole land by these
trusts, and no wonder there are unions
10 Withstand their oncroachments.
TRUSTS TOUCHED UPON
Ia it right that trust, such as tho
Pullman Co., shall grow immensely rich
through extortion of tho public and
receive as we'll one cent q mile from
each road for each car used, and then
on the false plea OF "rnaking no money"
TO cut the wages of its industrialsY
Isn't the evil intensified when We find
the man ready to yield ii the trust
would In candid way permit that asser-
ton to be known to through responsible
mud honorable access to its works, ind
then by such arbitration to settle tho
matter? But no, tho principal OF the
trust HES him away TO tho seastblc in
stead OF striving TO adjust tho grievance.
Large public sympathy was with tho
men in their strike.
II tho Pullman trust Is eXactlng aud
dictaLorial, graspinu and Extensively
grinding and falso to it's obligations,
docs that make 1t right and warrant The
same attitude on tho part OF the other
side2 This causes antagonisms aud
resistance eysrywhere.
It Is just at this point whore tho
sympathy OF tho public was withdraw
and ceased, and the attitude OF tho
strikers became boomerang upon
their own ranks, when they required
that unreasonable demand that all rail.
roads using Pullmans and street car
lines with cars Of pGllplan tu1ko should
he tied Zip in grinding eNacting boycott.
Prov. 1922 says: do they not err that
devise evil? Mercy and truth shall be
TO thom that doviso good"
THOSE WITHOUT GRIEVANCE.
L. It right for those who have no
grievance whatever with the treatment
OF companies by whom they are given
generous and continuous work, TO with
draw and stop and hinder all activity.
Is it right for than TO assume the
authority to control that 10 which thoy
lre related simply 10 employed aud
employer. Just as well che child
assume authority and lord II over tho
parent, tho subject over tho emperor,
tho citizen over the government, man
over God. This inevitably leads 10
reckless riot and crime unjustihable
under any prctext and gives lawcss:
ness fullest opportunity. The good
wise man teaches that "Wisdom is bot
ter than waF."
Ia it right to pit capital against lubor.
or for labor to array itsalf against CAPT:
tai specially under the present strained
conditions in society and tho mercan-
tile world7 1t will take century OF
mos. careful planning to accomplish
tho mighty reformation sought It
cannot DO wrought in day, nor yoar,
nor in ono universal strike which will
only result in devastation, disaster and
doSolntion. Tho times arc not ripc for