The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-09-11

ro the EdItor Of the lnteIIIgeneer.

10 the Editor or the lnteliiEcncer.
SIR:-The gloom OF uncertainty
which has been lowering DER our
great republic for many months will
soon be pierced BY the sun OF returning
confidence, The musical hum OF Indus
try will again make resonant the ut
mosphere Of our beautiful valley hem
med In by Its smokc-cappcd hills.
The Democratic syndicate OF smoke
consumers which assumed control et
our national government In eighteen.
Sundred and ninety-three has been
busy ever since in developing the aes-
thetlc side OF our swarthy sons Of toll.
The Ohlo-"La Belle RlvIere'--cGurses
through the faircSt land on which the
sun has ever been pleased to shine. In
It's majesty 1t has for many centuries
flowed on unInterruptedly I'LL II has
Joined with the great Father OF wat
erS" In Its onward course, only to be
swallowed up In the pillows Of the
mighty ocean. 4 clear atmosphere
has been Necessary for the perfect i'm
preston OF such inspiring grandeur
and for the clevat!ng reflections which
such scenes foster. Empty StomaChS
have only rendered minds moro plastic
and pangs OF hunger have served to
harden the mental clay; so our work.
Ing men az well as others who are fond
OF the beautiful In nature as well as In
art. through these agencies, are en-
abled 10 ever have In their minds the
memory OF scene well formed In Its
transcendant beauty and enduring In
Its noble impulses. II the Ohio Instead
Of the North Platte had been tl.e IN
SEPARATION OF the worthy William Jen-
nIngs Bryan. the Formally OF holding
Il convention at Chicago could easily
have been dispensed with. for the voice
Of nature seconded by that OF human
ity would have proclaimed the Boy
Orator n mighty dellvercr of tax
ridden" and "renniless" people As
firm adherGnt to the theory Of evOlu-
ton | am inclined TO the opinion that
November the third will mark the full
fillment OF that theory ne applied to
aesthetics, aud from thence forward
the wage-earner endowed with all the
wisdom OF this school will give him.
self up to controlling the machinery ii
which tn. clements OF nature have been
transmitted as motive power. AS
optimistS we must realize that lessons
well learned are those we have learned
severely and that after all that which
Is beautiful In all things can best be
enjoyed when prosperity IL ut Its
highest. The party of protection, recip-
rOcity and sound money makes posi-
BILE employment. and self-lmprOvrment
nj one and the same time. while the
policy OF P0pOcraCy elevatcs the mind
mt the expense Of the stomach. II We
are close students OF the philosophy Of
history then we are safe In pStdictl1g
that after November next we are
about TO enter n period OF closer al
lance between capital and labor and
that tho predJudIccd appeals OF William
jennings Bryan will have done much
towards the accomplishment Of that
end. Mr.. Bryan Is a veritablC tool IN
the hands OF fate, but entirely under
It's control. The path of progress Is
exceedingly broad. Obstacles though
apparently formidable are impntent to
blrriCade II. Free trade and free silver
Will be moved down by the mighty
force OF progress whose blows they
cannot endure. and protection uNl
sound money will ever march onward.
Following In their wake sound money
Democracy will, meet the badly Grip
pied forces OF POpocraCy and win be
opposed only for II short time, for the
pathway being sufficiently broad It will
pass by unframed On the other side;
and those of their opponents In the hui
initiation OF the defeat while life IL still
within them. will follow after the germ
Of once proud party to which they
had indeed proved false. Democracy
ra1uvonatpd Will strive for better
things, while PopulSm dcnd and rot
ting VIII give M It's putrd GaSeS as
ccndlng TO the clouds, aud refreshing
rains will fall upon parchcd and
barren earth. PROPHET.
Benwood, Sept. TO- 1896