Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-02-22
POLITICAL HUMBUG.


Bread" While this unhappy state of al
fairs reigned in the city, Marie Antonette'
the queen. persisted in giving fancy dress
balls. dinners, and soirees and laNishlhS
the wealth of the country in the most rech-
less manner. The ministers, her coniden-
tlal advisers, her intimate friends and the
clergy advised her not to do il, not TO dis
play such wealth at a time when the peo-
pie were in need of the necessaries OF lie.
They showed her that it would agitate and
irritate the people. No! she would not lis
ten. she had no love for the people. 1t did
not concern her, il they were starving
The people marched to Versailles carrying
on a pole the head of d man and as the
queen defantly stepped out ON the balcony
some one in the crowd lifted up the pole
with the head on, and stuck II into her
face. Anybody acquainted with the MS
tory of the French revolution, knows the
fate of Queen Antonette. The financial cri-
sis then existing in France. was blamed on
the administration, and the queen and the
cabinet-hard times are always blamed on
the administration, no matter whether II
has anything to do with it or not The
queen fell and was executed. The people
who had been worked up to frenzy
charged everything to her, she had ruined
the country: cooler heads admitted that
her real fault was, that she had made
fool of her self.
Every city has its own fools! The
year 1897 finds New York, not in
bread panic, but in a condition anything
but rosy. with the commercial thermome-
ter below zero and the people out Of job.
History repeats itself and Queen Antonette,
as Mrs. Bradley-Martin, with John Jacob
Astor, is leading the quadrilie d'honneur,
guarded by the police. Mrs. Bradley Mar
tin had been advised not to give this bail at
the present time under the present condi-
ton. but no, she had 10 have her little ball.
She had TO make a spectacle of herself and
she did it. The expenditures connected
with this affair. were supposed to benefit
the people directly or indirectly. / say they
did not The fortunes spent on this ball did
not benefit the people-it helped to swell
the bank account of some fashionable tail
or. jewe,er caterer, florist, etc. 1t was
festival for the upper classes and il bene-
fitted the tradesmen In the upper classes
only. If Mrs. Bradley-Martin and her
friends-well acquainted with the serious
condition of our cOuntry-had taken
half of that money and invested it in some
industrial undertaking. if they had opened
"a factory. giving temporary or permanent
employment to few hundred people,
which they could easily have done Mrs.
Bradley-Martin would have raised her
self monument in the hearts of the Amer
lean people-a monument which would
have been guarded not by the police of
New York bur guarded 10y the tender love
and respect of the American people. l
am personally as bitter and strong an enc
my Of Anarchism as any man, but 1 want
to tell you this: That the irresponsible and
reckless manner i'm which rich people
squander their money, as if the whole
world was made for them only, is Anarch-
ism. in every sense, it is rebellion against
the laws of God and man. This DO as you
please. regardless of your fellow beings,
is not only Anarchism I'm itself but il
breeds il. and nourishes il; without it An
archism could not exist. If you will take
the trouble to look a little further than
your nose. a little outside your own walls,
YOU will observe in all classes a diSsatis-
faction a discontentment which sooner or
later will reach pitcn whereby it Will
turn the scales. 1 have seen the jour-
nalisc working his nerves W UNI
m they were as sensitive as tid-
die string. Why? TO earn enough
money to buy another square meal l have
seen men. willing to work, and able to
work shaving as old mules from morning
early to late night in c1der to keep the wolf
from the door, and I have seen the small
storekeoper not 80 years old, with burrows
in his fore head. which belonged to a man
GO or 20. If you ask him what is the trou-
bic. well. its the big fellows who eat the
little ones up. he answers; he can't make
living. That's what the matter. In one
house is a man as capable as any. perhaps
with more ability than the average man,
toiling from morning till night. and barely
gets the necessaries OF life as his reward.
Next door is another man, who never does
a stroke OF work. lives in luxury, and the
poor man wonders what his sin is, that he
shall be treated so unjustly and 1 don't
blame them. when such men raise their
voice now and then and cry out to the more
fortunate beings make room for us, we
want to live as well as you. But when he
does ask lor emo" room ne Is 0d''eN an
Anarchist word "h'ch mas become n.y.
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