Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-10-27

are interested IN the logic Anu OEatOty
of Mr.. Cochran, are you interested IN
! the vital issues OF this campaign, and
In the election of the greatest living
American, William j. Bryan. PRO
longed cheers.)
Dr. Sample referred to Gov. Nash's
| assertion that the Democratic position
in this campaign is Much Ado About
Nothing" He said the Shakespearean
i title was incorrectly stated. 1t should
have been AIS Well That Ends
Well" He said Senator-elect Dolliver,
| of Iowa, had declared, Burchard like,
| that there is the very fitness of fate
F, in the three words-DemOcracy, de-
struction, and death" DR.. Sample
said Democracy stands for government
! of the people, for the people, and by
the people; it stands Tor the "destruc-
! ton" of the trusts and death" to i'm
| perialism.
He called attention to the report that
| the Statue of Liberty on Bedloe's Is
| land, the gift of France to America,
| is in a sad state of dilapidation, and
| he thought there was something sym
| bolic in the fact that this condition
| exists under an administration that is
| fast giving away the liberties of the
people at home to monopolies and
| trusts, and abroad killing in large num-
| bers the people whose
Crime Is Love of Liberty.
and independence.
These are times, he said, which try
mems souls. Tyranny, like hell, is not
| easily conquered, but the harder the
| iok eyln tho tritI m
| These were the words of Payne in the
| Revolutionary struggle, and are no less
applicable to the present crisis. There
is involved to-day not only the ques-
ton of people striving for independ-
ence, but the question of the complete
sustenance of what has been called by
| E. l.. Godkin and William Ewart Glad
stone and others, the vital experiment
| OF free government.
| Republicans say that the paramount
issue is prosperity, and that trusts, i'm
| perialism and mllitarism are but the
nightmares of Democracy's excited i'm
aglnation. DR.. Sample said he had been
| travelling for six weeks over the West
ern States. In Kansas he noted the
| abundant crops, and he marvelled at
| the generous benehcence of Marcus
| Aurelius Hanna in bestowing so much
prosperity, and ne pictured the farmers
| CT that State, resting in ease, and
wondering how to employ their idle
! time, while Hanna was moIping the
sweat from his brow and preparing the
bountiful harvests; and he pictured
| the farmers going to church and sing
ing revised version of the long meter
| uoAology-not Praise God from whom
all blessings flow" but Praise Mark
from whom all blessings flow
What has the administration had to
| do with the production of the present
prosperity? There are two departments
CT wealth-productio and distribu-
ton. First, what are the great fac
tors in production? What is the
source of all wealth? 1t is labor, APP
Piled to the resources of nature. Cap
ital is but bottled labor product, just
| like the flower in its bed is bottled
sunshine. If there is prosperity in West
Virginia, and Ohio, and Kansas, and
! Minnesota, the citizens should first
thank the Heavenly Father; and sec
ond, they should thank the brawny
arms and brave hearts Of the honest
toilers, as we'll as the sweet, noble, and
courageous souls of their wives and
| helpmates Don't thank Mckinley or
Hanna. What can phe government do
with the
production of wealth.
Where does the government get its
wealth? From the people. The Re-
| publican party has taken a great deal
of credit to itself because there has
during the present administration been
| a large addition to the gold stock OF
the United States. Did Mckinley To-
cate the gold mines? Did Mark Hanna
labor to get this great wealth to the
surface?
| The best that a government can do
| for the creation of wealth is what
Diogenes, the great tub philosopher
| asked Alexander to do for him-to
stand between me and the SUM-" No
government produces wealth. 1t is the
toll Of the people, applied to the re-
sources of nature.
As to the second department OF
wealth distribution-the government
can do much, either to diffuse it in the
| proper channels, or to foster agencies
looking to its Capitalization. What
has the administration done as to the
diffusion of wealth? The issuance of
$500. 900 600, and furnishing employ
ment for $4,000 to 100000 soldiers, has
done something to provide employ
| ment, to promote exchange, and to
produce a temporary prosperity; but
it is like the prosperity Of father,
who would mortgage his home, to give
money to his sons to buy pistols and
crackers to destroy the peace of their
neignbors. That money must be paid
back or the mortgage will be fore
closed. The government bonds must
be redeemed, and the people must pay
the bill.
The government has done nothing
| else toward the distribution of wealth,
so far as / know, but 1t has done much
| to centralize the wealth in the hands
of the few. In 1890, 81 per cent of the
people owned 20 per cent of the wealth
of the United States. Within the last
three and one-half years the tendency
| of wealth to centralize has been fost-
cred more largely than ever before in
the history of the world.
The Monnett Case.
More trusts were formed than ever
before, and the trusts already in ex-
| istence, have been fed, fattened, and
fostered. Take for example, the State
OF Ohio. There was an official, Attor-
ney General Monnett, who tried TO
| bring boal- ono Of tho most norm TO-