The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1880-05-22
Fusion Indi e TIN e mt Against
West Virginia.

The Morgantown Post has, for
some time past, been editing and dis
tributing, by the aid and inspiration
of the fusion bari, a large increase
over its subscription list, Of copies
filed with matter designed to depre-
ciate, defame and cripple the indus
tries and standing of our State, and
efectually deter immigrants from
settling among us, if not to discour-
age and deplete the present popula
ton.
These extra copies of the fusion
organ seem to have been scattered
without stint, not only within the
State, but through adjoining States,
and have been copied extensively by
neighborhood journals, and comment
ed upon in manner very humiiat-
ing to any citizen who has spark of
pride or ambition for the good name
and fame of West Virginia.
These articles of the post" publish
and declare to the world that West
Virginia is practically a wilderness
with "less than forty per cent Of her
lands cleared ;" cher mines unwork-
ed" cher choice timbers unwrought;"
''her water powers unimproved;" cher
building and manufacturing mater
ials undeveloped;" "her streams sell
dom plowed by the commerce that
should benefit the producer, the ship
per and the purchaser" that "she
has little wealth. "a sparse popula-
tion;" imperfect intellectual culture"
"a small share Of influence with her
sister States;' 'few attractions for
the stranger or even for her own
children" mo great manufacturing
cities" 'no large railway towns"
''no great publishing houses" mo
distinguished men of LETTERS" flew
newspapers, and those poorly patron
led" capital is high priced" 1.-The
products of labor, of the soil and the
stock farm, low;" and "the services
of the skilled mechanic or the learned
professional man inadequately re
warded."
This is the indictment which this
fusion organ and agency makes
against its adopted home.
This is the character of the inform
alton that it is scattering abroad for
the encouragement of our people and
the building up of the interests of the
State.
If there is any citizen of West Vir-
ginia who reads the above portrayal
of his own State and believes it, he
cannot in justice remain here.
If this picture as painted by the
post" reaches the eye of any man
outside of the State who is looking
for home, and he does not, on the
moment, conclude to steer clear Of
West Virginia, he is either fool or
tramp.
If there is citizen of the State
who does not blush at this indict-
ment-this defamation Of his home
he is unworthy the citizenship of a
State that gives him as free and pros
porous and attractive habitation as
any other in the Union.
If there is any political party, or
faction, or fusion, that endorses this
indictment of the State; and that cir
culates these defamatory documents;
and thus ruthlessly and maliciously,
with deliberate design, proposes to
destroy the prospects and present
prosperity Of the State, the intelli-
gent citizenship of the State, indie
pendent of party, should rise up and
crush it out
1t is scarcely conceivable that there
is any political party, faction or fus-
ion, in the State with a political greed
80 rrmorseless. or a State pride 50