Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-07-16
TO WORKINGNEN.
A TIMELY LECTURE AT THE PROHIBITION AS
SEMBLY,
At Moupdsvills, Yesterday Afternoon, by Walter
Thomas Mills-Oyer Two thousand
People Present During
the Day.


was very satisfactory, the numoer
present being estimated at about 2'ooo'
The experience meeting at nine a. M
was very interesting. DIR. Mead preach
ed at the morning service, instead OF
DR.. Leonard, who was called away sud-
denly by the serious Illness ola brother
The train service was very unsatls-
factory. the B. & o. only running one
train at nine o'clock, ana an
other at p. N. Many supposed tnere
would be late train, and large mum
Der gathered at the station, only 10 De
disappointed, and had TO remain on the
grounds or in the town all night.
The event of the day was the AFTER
noon sermon by Walter Thomas Mills.
An immense audience greeted him, ana
listened for two hours with close atten-
ton TO his discourse, making many
Of approval as he pro-
coded.
Before beginning his lecture be paid
his compliments to the Wheeling sun
day paper which suggested that he
had stopped lecturing and had taken 10
throwing bombs.
~ carry no dynamite but this, saiu
be, holding up a copy OF the BloIe'
land trust in no power to take uo"n
the old and corrupt, and put In It's place
the new, but the power that SPEAKS
through the word OF God. Violence
lockouts, strikes and bloodshed Will
not solve the question Of social REFORM
before the American people to-day
The only path to success Is through
patience, persistent endeavor ana APP
peals to the Judgment and conscience OF
men. By.and-b by the truth will triumph,
and falsehood and oppression will be
unknown"
In reply to the charge that he assaileu
the corporations, be denied that they,
OF necessity, must be corrupt, out
claimed that those which exist by the
franchises of the people, must. OF neces-
sity, control the source from which tney
derive their existence, in order TO con-
duct their business successfully. Speak
ing OF the charges he had made against
the standing army, he said he did
not claim they were al from
the slums, but one thing he ala
know, that when the United States
wanted soldiers, recruiting offices In
Chicago were opened on South clark
street and jefferson avenue-the haunts
OF gamblers, baudy-houses and saloons,
and from this vicinity ran streak
through district covering six blocks,
in which more murders were committed
than in all the balance of the city.
From the classes which congregate In
that vicinity are furnished the elements
of disorder and also the material that
enables the army to stop this disorder.
He then proceeded to consider the
theme OF his discourse: New occa-
sons teach new duties. Do not put new
wine into old bottles, else the wine sour
or the bottles break" BE then pro-
ceeded TO consider the conditions OF
life in this country at the beginning Of
the century, and at the present time.
These be divided into the social,
Industrial, intellectual and religious
phases. The exponent OF the social
life was the home, often but a log
cabin, but containing within all the
elements that contribute to the welfare
OF the people. Father, mother and
children help each other and are subject
TO the same rules and discipline. What
they produce was for this own consump-
ton and comfort, and all their wants
were supplied by the work of their own
hands.
Now all this is changed. The spin.
ming machine and power loom have
- 81 h. n pfrrr haa al
and hand loom, which the reformer
owns, aud while the grandfather wove
three yards OF cloth day and owned
the product and the loom, the grand
daughter to-day weaves three
hundred yards on loom owned
by the corporation, which owns
the loom, the cloth, and, practically,
herself. The workshop has disappear
ed, and with it the tools, and the cor
poration owns the machine and the
product. The home has given place TO
the tenement house, and the conditions
of labor are such that, in our large
manufacturing cities, the home cannot
be maintained as Of old.
He quoted from the report Of the
Massachusetts Bureau Of Statistics to
show that the average wages of labor
with a family of three was one-third
less than the cost Of living, and
that the balance must DO made
up by the labor of the wife and chill
dren. The children were forced into
the shop to obtain the necessaries Of
life, and even the common school has
become a luxury that the poor cannot
afford. Colleges and universities used
70 be crowded with farmers sons, but
this class now must go TO some college
on the frontier, or depend upon the
charity Of the wealthy, on account Of
the excessively high standard OF liv-
ing.
For the country church, where all
met on an equality, has been substi-
tuted the modern city church, built
sometimes more for ornament than
use, as in the case OF the church In
Pullman, H., which, on the confession
OF Mr.. Pullman, was not built because
it was expected to be used, but because
the architect OF the city suggested that
il would add to the architectural beauty
of the central square.
Was there a way out Of the darkness
M TO the light? He thought there was.
Three things were necessary: The
things man can do for himself-Self-
control Of all the forces OF nature, en-
dowed or acquired. The things that
others can help one to Decentralization
of forces TO strike down the wrong and
build up the good. And third. the
things that one must all unite together
10 do-in the controlling Of those forces
that belong to individuals only as mem
bers OF State and Nation.
An effort is being made to have the
sneaker deliver another lecture before
another audience of workingmen from
all this vicinity.
Mozarts Klect Officers.
Yesterday afternoon at o'clock the
members OF the Mozart Singing Society