The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1897-07-28

mendations worthy OF early and tavora-
Bile consideration by Congress at the
regular session next winter.
Not n slater Of Encouragement.
That the bill which passed the house
with promptness failed OF recognition
in the senate may be matter of regret
but not one for encouragement. What
might have been accomplished through
commission may be achieved without
one. Nor ought we to speak or think
unkindly of a body which has so assid-
iously toiled in the work OF new body
of law, concerning matter so charged
with conflicting opinions and opposing
interests as IN any tarlff act. The two
questions before the country In the last
political campaign were the tarin and
the currency. One OF them Is already
settled. Whatever the merits or the de-
merits OF the new measure IN It's partic-
ular items, 1t has become the law or the
land The revenues derived from II VIII
after possible brief interTegnum, be
ample for proper government expendi-
lures; and II the old aphorism be true
that "the revenue OF the state Is the
state" we may say without exaggera-
tlon that the state is re-establlshed'
I'VE have also reached point where
with absolute data furnished commerce
and manufacture can make correct esti-
mates and go upon their respective mis-
slons OF exchange and production with
a new sense OF security. The responsi-
BILE party in power having successfully
covered this one important Issue may
be safely trusted to care equally well for
the other on the financial side there
Is really no pressing need for haste.
There is certainly no immediate occa-
sion for anxiety, With ample reserves
In the public treasury; with financial
centers in q full supply OF loanabls
funds; with interest invitlngty low;
with crop prospects most promising,
and a good market favorable assured;
with new mineral resources coming into
view; with a territorial area sufficient
to carry its present population many
times multiplied; with q people advance
ing in the element OF intelligence and
character. who dare indulge In doleful
forecasts? We need not ignore the fact
that there are many wounds to be
cured, excited passion to be calmed,
and many Misunderstanding to be
composed. Nor is II passing strange
that this should be 80.
Industrial Methods Revoiutionized.
Within the limits of half lifetime In
dustrfaf methods and processes have
been revolutionized, combinations in la
Dor, In trade, In manufactures have su-
perseded to n degree former processes
OF Individual movement. 1t is philo-
sophlcal to believe that they are all rev.
otutionary-tendfng to Anal and
higher general good, but in their i'm
mediate effects they produce incidental
injury in many directions. PerceiviHg
the injury the hurt cry out and cannot
be persuaded that any good can come
out of so great an evil. Time will do
much to restore, and the natural laws
everywhere operating, will bring In at
last their compensation, In the mean
time our statute laws must fearu-not
to repress the operation Of natural
law which is supreme over man-mnde
lawsuit they must learn to justly
check and punish those who, grasping
the new elements OF power, pervert
them into agencies OF Injustice and OPP
preston. The problems OF a democratic
society rapidly developing In all dlrec-
tions are many and troublesome. They
must be met with patience. We must
not lose faith nor abate In courage.
"With malice toward none. with charity
for ALL" each unit in the mighty organ
ism must bring to their solution the
best that Is in him OF virtue and intelli-
gence. Upon the wise and great the
duty weighs with corresponding force,
but upon the humble and weak It also
presses according TO their measure OF
responsibility. To you the descendants
OF those who in the early struggle for
independence risked their fortunes,
their liberty and their lives In the cause
OF self government, no exhortation is
needed to spur you on In the effort to
prove and perpetuate the Inheritance
your fathers transmitted TO us. To pt-
rlfy and pass on TO the future our re-
public unlmpalred in Its rich promise
10 the children OF men is n work not
less inspiring, not less worthy of noble
and continuous labor than was the work
aimed at and accomplished by the
fathers thereof.