The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1897-09-17

country as their home. uhey are at
tached to our Institutions speak our
language, obey our laws, and love our
fiag-ln short, Notwithstanding the ac-
cldent OF birth, they are true and loyal
Amerlcen citizens Among these are
many OF our best and most dIstIh-
guIshed men. But the wheat and chaff
have not been separated. Along with
the good have come thousands and
hundreds OF thousands OF the lawless,
vicious and ignorant, We have per-
mitted many thousands OF these men to
become citizens by naturalization. In
many places they vote and control
elections. They are sedltious and law
less. Nay, they are even worse; they
are socialists, and would destroy not
only our form OF government, but all
society as we'll Already their deep
mutterlngs are heard IN most of our
large cities, The strong arm of the
government can suppress them and
keep them In bounds, but why should
we be continually adding to their num-
Der?
Exclude Anarchists.
A few years ago It was found that
Chinese emlgrants interfered with and
tended to lower and degrade American
labor. The country resented this by
closing our ports to the Chinese. And
one great shout of approval went up
from every American heart But the
Chinese are not socialists; they are not
Anarchists; they are not communists;
they are not dlsturhers OF the public
peace; and II the Chinese had 20 go be-
cause they degraded our labor, what
shall we say Of the lawless, Goddess.
blood-thirsty Anarchists, whose foul
breath is laden with that deadly poison
which destroys whatever 1t touches.
know not what others may say, but
say close our ports against them too.
Protect the country against such people
as YOU would quarantine against the
most deadly disease We have the
same right to keep such people from
coming here that the shepherd has to
pen his sheep from the hungry wolf.
trhis done, society will breathe freer:
capital will feel more secure; labor will
be elevated; and every patriot Will feel
that the country is safer and stronger.
1t must also be apparent to the most
casual observer that great Industrial
questions have arisen in this country.
They must be met and adjusted. We
will gain nothing by attempting to ig-
more them They will not down. There
must be better understanding between
employer and employe, or both will be
destroyed. This country cannot be
prosperous with Its capital stored away
in vaults, Idle capital Is absolutely
useless. Nor will the country long be
prosperous while the faborers are TIN
happy and Disconnected. Idle muscle Is
as prontless as idle capital. Any indus
trial reformation must affect all alike.
No substantial advance will be made
which does not raise the general level.
The condition of the people as whole
must be bettered. The man who seeks
to elevate portion OF society by tear
ing down another portion Is an enemy
to his race. Idleness and lazlness 'are
dlshonorable; oppression begets tyr
amy; either will destroy the strongest
government on earth. The poor man
who daily carries the hod on his shoul-
der Is n thousand times more honorahly
employed than the rich loafer who
spends his time ut the club or at the
corner grocery, although he be clothed
In purple aud fine linen. and fare. sump-
tuously every day. Men who think do
notforget that all wealth Is produced by
labor Indeed there Is no increase in
wealth anywhere, beyond what Is fur
nished by nature, except by labor. The
man who raises corn and wheat, cattle
and sheep, adds TO the wealth of the
country. The man who changes ore
into iron, trees into houses and furni-
M t,r,A ., ~ -,
grow where only one grew before, ere
ates wealth, but the man who gets rich
Ivy watering stocks, gambling at the
exchanges, may take from another and
add to his own, but he adds. not one
farthing to the wealth Of the nation.
Bartering and trafTlcking do not create
anything, We read every day OF large
transactions in the exchanges OF the
great cities. We are told that large
fortunes are made in these transact
lions, My comrades, 1t Is Just as non
sensTcal to call those transactions bus
mess as It would be to insist that the
money lost and won by the gamblers
and faklrs who follow the circus shows
Is part OF the volume OF business OF the
place where the gambling is done. You
can't create wealth IN this way. You
may change 1t rapidly from one 10 an
other, but you can't In this way add to
the volumes.
What | have said as to these trans
actions Is equally true as to all kinds
of speculations and fictitious booms,
1t Is the oft repeated experiment Of try
Ing to make something out OF nothing.
God alone can do this,
Property Rights.
Among the most sacred rights in this
country Is the right of holding sacred
In every civilized nation It Is
an essential element Of the law, that
men may acquire and hold property, and
dispose Of It at their pleasure. The
right, well secured stimulates men to
active cxertion-wlthout II there would
be no Improvement or advancement, In
deed our entire social fabric Is built
upon the right Of Individual ownership
of property one Of the iirst and high
est duties OF the government is TO pro-
tect this right without this. society
would soon relapse into barbarism. The
acquisition would then depend not upon
fruRalliy and industry. but upon brute
force, Every man would hold title to
his home subject to the Will OF n strong
or man, EjeCtment cases would be de-
termlned by superior physical strength
without amy regard 10 legal titles. The
rule would prevan that they should
take who have the power, And they
should keep who can"
II Ia strange, passing strange and yet
true, that there are men IN this country
WHO would destroy this right We need
no additional lnWa ON ihIA albiprt hut