Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1914-02-26
Billy Sunday

Billy Sundays work is doomed to
failure
This may seem bold statement,
but it is bound to be failure because
it is against natures way of doing
things.
The main object of all preachers,
teachers, educators, law makers and
even the kickers, if honest, is to up
lift humanity, to help the people to
|evolute, to rise to higher level, NOR
ally, Intellectually, spiritually and
physically.
The past is all we have to judge
tine present or map out the future.
And what lesson is, to be learned
from it?
H Morgan's Ancient Society,"" that
classic the world over, shows that man
has advanced from the first stages
of savagery, into and through barbar-
ism and into civilization by the dis
covery and use of material things. So
boldly does this stand out all through
history that there can be but i one
answer, but one conclusion. This
alone has led society up, up, up to
where it is, and is the main factor
that counts today and will continue
to the end of time. For without food,
Clothing; and shelter within easy
reach of the humblest member of so
ciety, the whole of society cannot
have the time for leisure necessary to
develop the bud of human kindness
in every breast
The discovery and use of material
things divides the advancement of So
ciety SO sharply into stages that by
common consent. they are accepted as
epochs in its evolution.
The discovery and use o. re end
ed the first stage of savagery, prior
to which the human race lived on
trees, in caves and subsisted on.
herbs, fruits, nuts and grains in their
/ raw state. With the use of fire they
were able to exist further from the
warm climates, and to cook fish meat
an other things, and were able for the
first time to protect themselves from
wild beasts
Second stage: The discovery and
use of pottery.
Third stage: The discovery and use
Of the bow and arrow, with which
they could get game plentifully.
Fourth stage: The domestication of
animals
Fifth stage: The discovery and use
Of iron, which brought them into civ
lllzation. m short, man is tool US
ing animal, without which he is about
/ as helpless a creature IS nature has
produced.
| The one great difference today be-
tween individualsEis in the ownership
Of tools, or wealth, and which owner
shin has cyiuQn A.
portunlty to educate and polish him
self. Hence the greatest need of So
c1ety today is system by which
the opportunity will be- given the
humblest member of society to have
free access to raw material that he
may produce for himself in order to
carry out natures plan of earning his
bread by the sweat of his brow. If a
man today from any cause has no
property, he is according to those who
have an abundance, an outcast, a no
DO, nobody
| Before private property came into
existence, and hoggishness had de-
| veloped, our primitive ancestors lived
| for nearly a hundred thousand wears
with everything in common. They all
feasted or starved together, and thew
4 ~
no machinery or prodr4 Il. True
were but few comparativ hit orr
scientists tell us that this old world
Is capable OF supporting a population
ten times the present number of peo-
pie. If that is true why somuch poy-
erty, with its crime, nine-tenths of
which IS against private property, or
as direct result Of it?
| Uo
fore private property came into exis-
tence' unless 1t ewere wars to possess
more hunting grounds in order to live
Today as in the days Of sayagery
wars have an economic or property or
IGN. Even the war of the rebellion
lT186-1865-which freed the slaves.
and is lauded as the great war of
emancipation, has no exception. The
German government sent investiga-
tors here at its close to study it's or
!lgln, and after seven years Of study
they reported that it had an econom-
Ilc or property origin. 1t was a con
Test between the fast disappearing
save class and rising capitalist
class for the economis control of this
country The capitalists have had con
trol since and the poverty, the graft.
l ~ - OoIAIuIAOA, Cll0 unemployment
and the other ills of society can he
traced to it's actions, and Billy Sun
day is trying to neutralize it's effects
without SO much as word against it's
Ecause. This is why | said at the
start that his work was doomed to
failure.
The struggle for existence goes on,
even the preachers eat, and we find
them today. as ever, right or wrong,
defending the class that feeds them,
the same as the preachers defended
the slave owners as long as they had
power, only. go
| With history as our guide, the solu-
ton is plain, and whether we go with
or against the tide, the development
OF society will proceed along natural
INES. Those who for various reasons
oppose natures way will have to do
as the church did on slayery-shift
her position.
Perhaps it will throw some light
on the question to state that the own
ing class got it's first start nv straigh+