Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1911-11-16

we have overloaded our mails
lions of individuals in the pinched
middle ranks, inviting them to invest
any small sums they may happen to
have in ali mnds of enterprises, sup
posed to be engaged in this or that
most profitable Industrial undertaking
The profits offered have been far
above all the healthy. normal, bust
ness concerns. Enormous sums have
been thus acquired by bogus corpora
tions, which have soon gone to
pieces. because they did not represent
any real, honest business operations.
If they had been actual, positive, use
full concerns, they would have had
the support of large solid capitalists,
who would soon have furnished all the
capital needed. We have thus prac-
tically invited the worse and most
criminal spirit of large moHf polistic
profits, and keep doing it, Hom the
very classes Of men who can not af-
ford to risk their small savings in
business Of the foam and froth kind.
If now and then one succeeds, that
simply brings a new wave Of petty
gamblers among the 100000 men
and women of the pinched ranks only
a little better off than the multitudes
Of the plain struggling classes.
In old times the bushes gambling
spirit was limited to the few wealthy
fellows in eac b social group. Our
modern evolution, progress and educa-
those who may at least be able to
ton have converted into gamblers all
save about $50 per annum. We can
hardly conceive anything more demon
alizing than the tendency in question.
That gambling business of ours is
done under the name Of investment
To invest, for the sake of obtaining a
certain annual revenue on any given
sum of money, representing property
somewhere what is the actual mean
ing of that? It means that the inves-
tor obtains a portion of the wealth
produced by those who have been
doing some form OF useful work
through the use Of land and tools
somewhere. It means that the inyes-
tor has placed heavy private tax
on the wealth producer, for permits
sion to produce, and hence for per
mission to use Gland" somewhere.
We have now touched the primal.
bottom and most fatal crime Of what
we call organized society, govern
ment, the nation, progress. civilian
ton, etc Man can obtain no wealth
of any kind but through the use Of
land somewhere, by the square foot
or the square mile. Even the ocean
is but .liquid land" Even the air Is
but 'svapor or ethereal land" And
all human needs, comforts, Injuries
or the like are but evanescent forms
OF land, products Of human labor,
which go back into actual land Of the
natural inert kind, SO to speak. All
our boosted wealth, labor-produced
wealth, disappears in twelve or fif-
teen years, at the outside, and In less
than two years the very kind without
which even the man with fifty mil
lions Of dollars annual income would
rapidly starye, himself and family.
None Of the above self-evident facts
is ever taught by our glorious educa-
ton secular Or religious. Few Of US
want to take cognizance OF the veri-
ties they imply. We thus overlook,
fling to the winds the whole morality
of God, Christ, the universe around.
We thus establish a war to the knife
against all natural and divine truth.
We thus poison and Vitiate our whole
mentality and spirituality. All goes
overheard in the private and social life
;of every one Of US. In vain do we
pray, LEAD us not into temptation,
but deliver us from evil" We are
constantly inviting temptation, for
ever making evil the law Of life. We
0O0' Z u0tlC6 tHots VI Cuu10S, WO SAO4OS
people, but effects follow causes, and
we are on earth to take full cogniz-
ance of causes, SO as to suppress all.
the bad results that wrong anywhere
is bound to evolve. particularly when
wrong is allowed at the foundation
and bottom of all human life and
growth.
And what now about that Thy
Kingdom come. thy win be done on
earth as it is done in heaven?" Those
few beautiful words proclaim the uni
versatility Of certain divine moarlity
which should not be discarded By con-
scious life anywhere in space infinite
or time eternal.
Here we are again. face to face
with that dreadful and perpetual hui
man blunder and crime decreed by all
the religious and secular PHILOSOPHERS;