Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-10-21

| VI gOuI luLcIGSL III tudL SI- dt cause lot
which at this time, as the presidential
nominee, l stand.
| My friends last Sunday morning l
| heard a sermon appealing to Christian
| people to support the home missionaries
and in me course of that sermon, the
! pastor read letter just issued by the
| Presbyterian Board of Home Missions
from its Office No. 156 Fifth avenue,
! New York, and in this letter, the sur
/ prising statement was made:
There is due 10 all missionaries and
teachers from three to six months sal
| aries for services faithfully rendered.
Not a few of them are in conditions of
| real Distress And then in the letter
there are quotations from letters re-
| caiyed By this board from these mission
! aries, telling of the co Oldjtions which
surrCu d them, and one man speaks of
the fact that there is no money in the
community and he could not borrow
even for good security and they were
charging ten per cent. per month on
! loans. Another man writes that in the
family they have one hundred persons
Git is a school, and not a dollar to pro-
vide food for them and there are some
debts Of that. One writes: II have not
a dollar to meet any emergency that may
/ arise and our family and the conditions
! Of the school are desperate"
Nothing has stirred my indignation
more in this campaign than that the
| money changers send money to the
churches and missionaries begging them
TO stand by the gold standard and help
them perpetuate a system of financial
bondage.
This missionary letter was written
/ by the board to the churches in order to
secure some assistance for those who
| are now suffering Those letters show
I that the Missionaries in the field are
BEHIND with their pay, that the com
munities cannot pay them and the re-
suit may be that these missionaries
( must be withdrawn and that the work
of preaching the religion must be re-
tarded because greed and avarlce are
enthrOned ina government where those
who are rich want 10 be richer regard
less Of the disaster that comes to them
So that, my friends. this question was
first a political question, and which was
an economic question has become a
great moral question as well.
The corporation Is different from the
individual. The individual being re-
spOnsible for what he does is deferred
from acts Of oppression that the cor
RDration undertakes without suffering
,Of conscience because the corporation
has no conscience. The corporation is
b fictitious person. II cannot be punish
ed as an individual can. It is oper-
hted by agents for the most part, and
the directors and stockholders have but
a remote influence in conducting them
and these great corporations have
combined together and under the
wanton crush OF competition have de-
stroped every rival so they may fix
the price of what you eat and drink
and wear and collect tribute from us
and when we protest against the
1poilatiOn Of society they call us
anarchists and disturbers Of the peace
and stirrers up of discomfort. | want
you TO love law and order. l want
you to love peace and security and to
understand that the greatest menace
to law and order and the greatest
menace to peace and security is found
not in the humble viOlatOrs Of the law
but in those great corporations that
assume TO be better than he govern
ment itself.
The last speech at youngstown was
delivered TO laboring men near the de-
pot. who had cOlgregated there in such
numbers that the candidate could not
make his way from the carriage TO the
platform. He spoke about the attempt
of the railway companies TO cOerce their
employees and said that the position
taken by the railway magnates was not
because of the Chicago platform de-
claring for free silver, but because OF
the declaration for arbitration and
against the government by injunction.
His remarks were enthusiastically re-
ceived and he was often stopped in
his speech by the demonstration OF aD-
proval of his audience.
The next stop was in the county in
which resides the Republican nominee
II was at Alliance, and there several
thousand people listened to the Demo-
cratic candidate for twenty minutes. IL
WAS an appreciative crowd and applaud
ed the speaker often. The speech was
a work,ngman's speech and was dellv-
cred TO an audience composed for the
most part of wOrkmen.
There was another good crowd at Ra-
VIENNA. where Mr.. Bryan received an
btber enthusiastic demonstration. He
smoke for five minutes along the same
general line pursued by him in former
speeches.
Al Kent there was a repetition Of the
crowd at Rsvenna, and to those assem-
bled Mr. Bryan appealed to study the
money question and not let any one DO
their thinking for them and then to vote
as they thought best.
Sanduesky. O., October 21.-The ar
rangements at Akron were bad. The
candidate could not even get the carriage
provided for him. but had to catch one
on The outskirts Of the crowd.
After leaving Akron, he addressed en-
yhusiastic audiences at Medina. Elyria
and Sandusky. The latter place was
reached late at night, and then the can
didafe found he was billed for another
sneech or two at Tifin. 1t was nearly
morning when they arrived there and
Notwithstanding the fact that Mr.. Bryan
had been speaking since Z o'clock in the
morning and retired at GAINESVILLE after
. o'clock. he was dragged out to speak
10 a large crowd.