Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-03-17
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1893, 114O& i142 N lRKET ST.

are still impressing society and will
for all time And if the worst should
ever come and this great government
should perish out of the wreckage will
be CLEANED legacy that will enrich
those who are to follow.
Continuing the speaker dwelt to
some length upon the good and bad in
fuence of great wealth. In the course
of his remarks he said the American
people. showed great willingness to
PROSTATE themselves before the Gold
en- Calf" and said that the sooner
this custom was stamped out the bet
ter off will be the country.
Mr.. Kendall then spoke to some
length on the dangers of the sensation
al newspaper. He said: 'It is pecu-
liarly unfortunate that at this age OF
the world, when the newspaper and
other publications come so close to our
people that they are almost part
of our existence, that they should come
freighted with SO much that is not
only worthless but absolutely harmful
and dangerous"
The speaker dwelt on another great
evil of the day which is found in the
ballot box. He said that he supposed
that there never was a time when
votes could not be corrupted. He said
that he had at one time thought that
the only way to prevent this was to
allow women to vote. But now is very
plain that should women be allowed to
vote it would only extend the field
vxrLo hn fO r.
out their corrupt schemes.
In closing Mr.. Kendall said:
Il fear sometimes that as result
of our having plunged into the mad
whirl of business and started out to
meet the demands of modern society,
or joined the clubs or overjoined the
lodges, we are lOOsing the bands that
bind us to our moorings and the word
home to the average American does
not mean what it once did. If this
be true, we are in danger Just to the
extent that the home loses it's identity,
just to that extent are we tending to-
ward confusion and anarchy. Away
in behind and below the scene the
weaver tolls, all unnoticed and alone,
but the result of his patience and skill
is seen in the pattern which appears
in the opening above. No beautiful
character was ever produced on the
street or upon the stage. AnalyZe the
brilliant intellects and the noble char
acters of the past ages and somewhere
you will at least find traces of home
and mother.
DO you desire to see the future of
this country committed to the hands
of high minded and pure-hearted pa
triots? Then go home to your babies
and begin the work of character build
ing. And remember this, that great
occasions neither make heroes nor
towards; they simply unveil them.
Silently and almost imperceptibly we
grow either strong or weak, and at last
some crisis shows what we have be-
come. And, as the individual grows,
so grows the nation. Public senti-
ment is nothing but private sentiment
taken en- masse.
Abraham Lincoln once said: Pub
lie sentiment is everything. With pub
lie sentiment nothing can fail; with
out it nothing can succeed Conse
quently, he who moulds public senti-
ment goes deeper than he who enacts
statutes or pronounces decisions. He
Or impossible to be executed. Conced-
ing this to be true, and no one dares
to question it. what folly to clamOr
for the enactment of laws which would
remain a dead letter upon our statute
books because there is no public SEN
timent to compel their execution. To
make the laws first and afterwards at
tempt to create a sentiment to sustain
them is about as sensible as it would
be to begin at the top when you go to
build a house. Every law that has
stood the test of time, including Magma
Charta itself, has been written on our
statute books by public sentiment
and this public sentiment has its roots
in the homes of the country.
Are we suffering to-day because our
laws are not good. The reason is that
our people are not good. Public SEN
timent is not good because private SEN
timent is not good and this can never
be improved while home training is
neglected. In nine cases out of ten,
the sentiments which have been in
stilled into the boy before he is twelve