Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-07-10

II cents a day Cbesides their wages as
railway employes), for meals, etc. But
they determined to turn the military su-
pend into their strike fund. AS soon as
the authorities heard of this 'unpatriot-
ic" action the military board pay ceased
Members of the Cleveland Retail Cloth
ing Salesmen's Union seem to be in earn
est in their crusade against the v1olators
of the Sunday labor law. The union pro-
poses to cause the arrest and conviction
of all merchants who keep their places OF
business open seven days In the week
Most of the accused are of the Jewish
faith, and had they observed Saturday as
the Sabbath by closing their places OF
business they would have been exempt
from arrest.
No stronger contrast between poverty
and riches could be drawn than that
which exists between two blocks in the
CITY of New York-one bounded by Sec
ond and Third streets and avenues b and
C. the other by Fifth and Sixth avenues
and Fifty-third and Fffty-fourth streets.
In the former there are 1858 residents
whose average annual income is but 81 a
wear. But 514 people dwell in the latter
block, yet their combined wealth approx
mates s4o0, 100000
Starting less than a century and
quarter ago with 100000 population, we
now have a population of nearly OOO,-
co., From simple farming colonies we
have bounded into pre-eminence In al
the fields of collective human endeavor.
We are the greatest agricultural country.
We are the greatest manufacturing coun-
try We are the greatest mining country.
Our total productive energy is several
times greater than that of any other ma
ton We are greatest in invention,
greatest in applied science, greatest In
popu;ar education, creates in Journalism
New York Journal.
The labor unions in Brooklyn want or
ganized labor represented on the School
Board. Not bad idea, If the right sort
of man is at hand. But there is no reason
for any particular sort of man on the
school board, except the man who under
stands the education of children Ii
| labor organization can say, I'VE have
| among our members a man peculiarly MT
| ted for school work, and we want him on
| the School Board, because he understands
| that kind of work." all right. But to say
! that an organized labor man must be on
| a school board anyhow is ridiculous, and
| 1t damages organized labor. There is
| no demand that an organized labor man
| be chosen for tight rope walking-that
would be dangerous to him. Selecting
| him for school board work, unless he Is
| the best possible man apart from his Ia
| Dor views, is dangerous to children. No
| bankers, no clergymen, no mechanics, no
Democrats, no Republicans. no anything
| for school boards except men who know
| that children in a republic should be
| thoroughly educated and left to form
| their own opinions on all matters save
matters of fact.-N. Y. Journal.
| At one time material pursuits were be-
| lieved to be In disfavor In the South. II
| this were ever true 1t il not the case now.
| The United States census shows that In
the entire country in 1880 one person out
| OF every IT was engaged IN some gainful
occupation: the proportion In the North
Atlantic States was one out Of every -