Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1897-08-01

enough they Will JOIN the ranhS Oh tho
unemployed, while the great army OF
unemployed joins the increasing army
of tramps. That Is the drift and the
trend Of affairs, and it cannot be denied.
(Applause.)
"If it is right and proper for capital
to combine to get above competition,
then il is still more justifiable for labor
to organize. Capital is organized; that
is why 1t is supreme. Labor is not
organized; therefore il is ground down
You must follow the example of capital
and get together. (Applause) In no
other way can you obtain and hold
your own. The window glass trade Is
an example of this The window glass
trust determined to control prices. and
they decreed shut down of all the
factories for five months. throwing M
teen thousand men out Of employment.
They, with their families, represented
sixty thousand people. Then they put
up the price of glass, and this entire
population Of 100000 people had to
pay that price. When they had squeez-
ed the people dry, they reopened their
factories again. Capital thus unites to
protect its interests. Labor must do
the same thing and present solid
front. Then you can secure justice, and
the whole world will applaud your
action .
Returning to the condition of the
miners, l want to say to you that it
is the duty of, every man in this city
and State to stand Gby the miners
Their grievances cry TO high heaven
for correction. Their cause should be
our cause, and if we make IL our cause,
they will be triumphant. Put your
selves in their places, and see what
you should do and think The case
must be settled, and settled in favor
of right and justice. (Applause.) IT
is true that the operators may win this
time. But no question is settled until
il is settled right. (Applause) 1t will
not down. Error may overwheIm
truth, but truth will prevail in the end.
A mountain oil error may fall upon a
grain of truth, but eventually that
grain of truth will overthrow the,
mountain. 1t has TO be settled, and at
has toabe settled right. You have the
chance now, and if you do not settle 1t
right you may regret it. We are ap-
pealing to reason, and not 10 passion
am not an alarmist, but believe in
stating facts. A man who is hungry,
and whose children are starving has
no conscience. Why, it is not safe TOT
go on some of the streets of Chicago,
even in daylight The newspapers
there do not print all the hold-ups.
The man out OF work passes the store
windows, filled with ali that is neces-
sary, and useful and beautiful, and
then he reflects, There is no place on
this broad green earth for me. Ma
ture has spread rich bouquet, but,
no bell calls me to dinner And then
he grows desperate, anu careless OF the
rights of others. tell you, my fellow
citiZens, the child of the poorest West
Virginia miner is worth all the wealth..
of the Vanderbilts. ! sound the call
Of duty, and if you fail to respond, IT.
is because | am just that much more,
civilized than you are.
"They talk to you about tramps,
They are often not the people they are.
SAID to be. 1t was not long since that
there was a great meeting of the un-
employed announced for Trafalgar
Square, in London. The police were
summoned to drive them away, and
they charged upon the crowd. But be-
fore the chowd of tramps' dispersed
they gave three cheers for Jesus Christ.
Some said it was irreverent. | say 1t
was an act Of the greatest reverence.
Christ was not an arlstocrat. His SYM
pathies were always with the oppressed
and the down-trodden. He was not
only among them, but of them. /
Christ's wrath was never aroused eX-
cept when in contemplation OF that
class who make long prayers on the
corners of the streets, to be seen or
men, while they bind burdens on the
backs of men grievous to be, borne.
He called them scribes and pharisees-i
the money changers. who had polluted
his hoy temnle, and he drove them out.
Sometimes, when see the great
churches of the great cities | am not
quite sure that il Jesus Christ should
come back to earth, with his simple
garments and his sandaled feet, He
would be admitted to some of those
churches. (Applause.) Christ never
had a dollar in the world-at least,
never heard of his having one, nor read
of it. (Applause.)
81 don't like Churchianity. The
ministers ought to preach the gospel
of Christ. (Applause.) And they
ought to have the courage to attack
iniquity in fashionable places. They
sometimes discuss the labor question,
it is true; but they always ask the
laboring man to be peaceable and law
abiding. 1t is all well enough for
labor to be peaceable and law-abiding;
but the other class ought to be peace
able and law-abidipg too. ZAP
plause.) I'll the power OF Society is
against the poor in this country. "a
voice: That's Gods truth.") AS a
general thing, no one but the poor go
to Jail. If you have money, you can
do much as you please, but woe to the
moneyless man. When l was in Jail
in Chicago Qaughter) 1t may be
funny to you. When | was in jail in
Chicago, there was in that same prison
poor man who had stolen a poor,
weather beaten cloak, worth two dol
lars and a half, which had been hang
ing from the front Of a secondhand
store as a sign His wife had no cloak,
and he took it, He had no money
and therefore no friends. He had no
political infuence-and therefore no
defense. (Laughter) II took just five
minutes to send him TO jail. In my
opinion, that man should not have
gone to Jail. He had not committed a