The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1897-07-05


the Rocky Mountains.
A second. Is our universal bollot-not'
that the ballot Is not good The right
to the ballot and THE policy 81 grant
Ing the ballot are facts, generally con-
ceded. There Is an educating power In
the ballot. There Is, too, reason for
looking after men when they come 10
have ballots In their hands, 10 see what
they are thinking about and what they
are doing. which otherwise might not
be recognized.
Al the same time, It Is not TO be dis
guised that there is peril In an extended
suffrage, Ballots welded by men whd
are contentedly ignorant, or who are
vicious and british. OF who are mer-
cenary, or who are full OF ambitious
schemes, are not suspicious Of wise and
pure and Just public policies. To at
tempt TO control seventy millions of
people, to say nothing OF the one hun
dred millions, or the hve hundred mil
Hons of a time, by no means remote.
and to preserve and foster all their In
terests by giving 10 every man In the
land a voice determining what the
laws, and who the rulers shall be, Is a
grave matter. No craftsmanship OF
which the books make note, has ever
ventured on this experiment.
Dhrchlrlrleh immlEfNNoh'
A third, Is our large hospitality, Our
latch-string is out to all the world. We
even 20 on the houselop, trumpet In
hand, and blow our invitation TO every
body to come 30 US; and our perters
stand at the gate and say: welcome
TO our broad fields and our industries,
and our schools, and our citizenship"
II Is too late to repeat the experiment
- n
Men and women who wish 10 take
up thelr residences amongst us must
be allowed to come. II they behave
themselves.
But II Is not to be overlooked, that Il
this subjects our institutions TO an ...lC
mense strain. Our cities are more dit-
hcult to govern In consequence OF this
constant inflow OF strangers, who are
unframed to the methods and uses OF
freedom. More than once has the riot
act been called into requisition, TO fueh
disturbances melted by men who had
been here hardly long enough for their
names to be known. The case Is aS-
gravated by the characters OF many OF
these newcomers. They are perpet-
ual menace to order and thrift and
property rights Men used to come
from the Old World to the New, because
they loved liberty, now a good many
come because they love license TO do
as they please. Men used 10 come In
order to have free scope to worship God
according to the dictates OF their own
conscIences; now good many come
that they may the more effectually dis
honor'the name OF God, Men used TO
come TINT they might build up homes
and secure competency for their fam
lilies: now good many come that they
ik4a In Ntshl
toll. and rob the industrious and pru-
dent OF their patient earnings. In some
of our cities infdel societies meet on
the Sabbath and pass resolutions whose
sole object seems to be to tear down the
edIfices of capital which others have
succeeded In rearing. They have what
might be called the wealth-phob!ai and
the sight of dollar sets them into
spasms Finding occasion for their as
saults in the growing power OF monop-
olies, and In the conspicuous injustice
which many monopolies are working to
the community. and fed continually
with contributions from the turbulent
and destructive socialism Of Europe, 1t
Is to be no easy task to hold these con-
splrators against society In check, and
preserve and perpetuate the state and
all the institutions OF the state intact
Christian patriotism Will not dare to
overlook the materials OF mlschiefwhich
we are annually importing, and which
have helped TO Increase our labor trou-
bles Yet we must admit that our la
Dor troubles, though u costly experience,
have nevertheless, been of service
In educating the people. especially the
parties at difference. They have taught
workmen that no substantial gain for
their cause can be made in this country
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patty and common sense OF the nation;
and that no one class can press It's own
claims to the disregard or detriment OF
the others. without ultimately finding
Itself face TO face with an impossible
and crushing barrier At the same
time, they have revealed to employers
and capitalists the power OF combined
labor to destroy their profits, II not
their business. And ! am ceRhdeRt
that both parties will hereafter be far
less ready to bring matters to the issue
of a strike. TIL every effort has been
made to forestall or to arrange the
differences. Besides, It is being pretty
clearly demonstrated that the unjust
and tyranical theory and practice OF
boycottlng. cannot long survive In this
country
And the premature disclosure OF the
anarchists and their plots, by what they
supposed favorable crisis, has brought
this nation once more to revise It's the
DRY Of liberty and to demonstrate to the
world the stability and force Of our In
stltutions 1t has also startled the
Hnthinkihg and misguided working
people Into realization OF the preclpico
towards which they were allowing
themselves to be hurried like sheep.
The utter antagOnlsm of the red flag
and of the Stars and Stripes, could not
be too soon seen; and they Stood out In
clear and angry cOlors In the lurld
scenes through which the citizens OF
Chicago We're called TO pass few years
ago.
A Secular sabbath.
A fourth untoward fact is the syste-
matte attempt made In so many quar-
tiers to dlscredit the Bible.
Wherever II Is possible, the Scriptures
are crowded out OF the schools; and the
friends Of the Scriptures have often to
assent to their displacement in order to
save the schools
War is declared against the Sabbath.
II Ia to be not holy day, but a holt
day, The commandments are rldiculed,
and multitudes applaud. Long cherish
ed moral distinctions arc said to be
mere conventional arrangements. Men
are 20 be pure and true and just; yet
they are to he all this, not because God
requires It, and purity md truth and
Justice are cardinal elements OF the
government Of God. but out OF mere
unitarian considerations. There II no
God. so these latest apostles Of darkness
affirm. There II no moral government
OF God, and no eternal basis Of moral
ltg In God.
In view, now, Of the eXigcncy created
by such facts as these. what Is needed
In order to hold the state In loyalty To
the ideas on witch Il was originally
founded. and to keep our Institutions
moving along the grooves In which
they were originally proiectcd2 Many