Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-10-25
DENOUNCED WAR ONCAP|TAL.
A Red-HOt Discourse by Father
Malone, at Denver.

A Red-Hot Discourse by Father
Malone, at Denver.
Corporations, in His Opinion, Are
More Sinned Against Than Sin
ning-A Scathing Arrangement
of Some Observation-Disclosures
tons for Business Ends Are Nee
essary to Individual Develop
ment.
Denver, Col, October 24.-The Tabor
Grand Opera House was crowded to the
doors this evening with people to listen
to the eloquent clergyman, Rev. I. ii.
Malone. deliver his much discussed lee
ture on "Socialistic Fallacies." So
great was the demand for admission
that hundreds were turned away and
for the benefit of those who were ur-
able to hear Father Malone tonight. he
has consented to deliver the lecture
again next Sunday night.
Father Malone's criticism of The nu-
merous theories at present advanced for
the betterment of mankind were well
and favorably received.
Father Malone said, in part:
1.-THE wild and senseiess attacks
which the demagogue makes upon cap
ital and legitimate corporations IN be-
half of the laboring man are TO De
deeply deplored by honest, law-abld-
ing citizens 1t is unfortunate Tor Ia
Dor that irresponsible blatherskltes are
allowed to inject themselves into LABOR
difficulties and to misrepresent the
position of honest labor towards capt.
tai The demagogue would make 1T
appear that class is naturally hostile
to class: that the rich and poor are
intended by nature to live at war with
one another Both the rich and the
poor must be made to understand that
capital cannot do without labor nor
labor without capital.
q am opposed to socialism; first,
because its votaries chiefly devote
themselves to unjust, unreasonable and
senseless
ATTACKS ON CORPORATE
WEALTH,
and, second. because it is untenable
from a religious, philosophical and
economical point of view.
Intelligent citizens should firmly
oppose a system that would destroy
established institutions solely for the
| purpose of arranging a more general
| distribution of wealth.
| I'm entertaining these convictions,
I am not unmindful that great corpor-
atoms, representing as they do mil
| lions, and sometimes hundreds of mil
lions of dollars, may use the power
this CAN'T Grasses Of private fniddffIVFidr
uals or smaller corporations, but this,
l am satisfied, is the exception, not the
rule. When corporations have been
| given unjust privileges, then these
privileges should be curtailed. 1t is
! because the masses of the people fail
to distinguish between privileges that
are just and those that are unjust, that
corporations in general are confound-
| ed with
TRUSTS AND MONOPOLIES
and made the object of the dema-
gogue's rantings. AS long as COMPETE
ton is free, it is as senseless to rail at
corporate wealth as at individual en-
deavor. Corporations owe their exist
ence to the law that governs them.
They are as amenable to existing laws
as any individual in the land. To
assume that those who execute the
laws are all dishonest and that the
governments servants, once the gov
eminent has assumed control of pri-
waite industry, would be honest in the
administration of the governments
business, is preposterous assump-
ton. To argue that laws cannot be
enforced against corporations is to ar
que that the race is depraved and to
admit that there is no hope for civil
ization.
''If it be impossible to elect honest
representatives and judges, would it
not be the height of folly to place the
vast interests involved in corporations
at the mercy of men who are said to be
IRRECLAIMABLY CORRUPTe
But it is argued that wealthy indi-
viduals and powerful corporations cor
rupt our legislators and debauch the
peoples representatives This. indeed
is most serious charge. Think of if.
ONA PuiO anu SpOtiSoS repre-
sentatives, men whose integrity and
honesty are as immaculate as a viz
gin, are led astray by the agents of
corporations so that they become for
getful Of the peoples interests and
are willing to barter them away for a
few paltry pieces of silver Really. |
don't know what punishment should
be melted out to the corporations and
men of wealth who soil the pure and
spotless doves that compose our city
councils and average State legisla-
lures. 1t must be an awful power
that these men WELD, that men who
have never tarried in the primrose
path of dalliance, should forget sud
denly their Sunday school teachings.
and for a bit of shining gold betrav
themselves, their State and their
country.
But what are
THE FACTS IN THE CASE9
The facts are that generally speaking.
the corporations are forced, in self
defense, to keep legislation within
proper limits and defeat the schemes
of INSCRIPTIONS lobbyists and wire
pullers, whose main object is to fleece
both the public and the corporations.
If corporations have their agents
to ward of legislation in their affairs