The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1886-10-26

Tie morning newspapers Of this city
have no. recently had anything to say
Sbout the gross misrepresentation
made concerning their relations with the
phntera who struck for an increase OF
wages and the men now in their employ,
They have been silent alec with regard 10
the industrious efforts OF the boyCotteiF,
CIT on by the Erniug BlGckmailcr, 10
wreck two establishments which haya al
Ways stood by this community and cham,
pOned its interests.
The latest outbreak Is part OF the local
news Of the day, 1t is given elsewhere in
form as presented to tho public by the
pabic9ton which hopes 10 terriiy cub
ctlbers into itssupporA Gndlnvites with
blUdgeon the patronage Of business MIN
Tbs shameless statement which has been
transferred to the columns Of the IETRLLl-
GgScgR Is authoritative, for which reason
Wepreier to give 1t as 1t stands.
The formal declaration oiWar Is sham.
The war has been waged for nearly elk
veeks with all the vehemenCe that char
Scterizss men who have staked their
fortunes on desperate chance. I.wrs
begun in thcn!erest Of the Erening Black
mailer, and so it has been continued. The
cause Of The thiking printers was mere
pretext, for a. the outset the chief
proprietor Of tie R'Gckmdiler admitted
that tue printers had no cause, as some Of
The printers themselves had admitted be-
fore. WOrkiugmen were bssought ard
threatened to induce them to drop tie
n,miBg papers and take up the Erenirg
Bqckmailcr. Business men were set upon
lathe same way TO force them into the
support Of publication which claims the
right to turn on them next and demand
their money or their life.
There we're men who lacked
tho airnetu or Tho courpQe
toresist appeals and threats, but the vast
minority have continued to do their on n
thinking and preferred 10 select their own
newspapers. 40 Ogood union men as there
are anywhere have reiuted to take a hard
10 the boycott and no declaration Of wtr
eau draw them into 1t. The common
fairness Of The average American reCog-
mes that an employer is rot
robbed Of all the rights Of citizen
ship because hO is an employer; thGt
the employer may know something about
bis own business, and that he ought 10
have some voice in determining whist
wages he will pay.
There are hundreds Of workingmen In
Wheeling who would be- glad to have
steady employment elk days in every
week in the year at three dollars day,
and they are not in the conspiracy to ruin
employers who werc and still are paying
these wages. But other men are In that
cOnSpitaCy-men whose chief business in
Tile Is to stir up strife aud keep 1t stirred
up, men who wheedle the workingmsn
aud live by tho sweatIoi hiS brow.
The assault on the morning newspapers
bAn assault on every member Of this
community. II batbahc warfare can
force tho newspapers to submit TO rank
and palpable injustice 1t can levy tribute
on the man who earns a dollar.and.
bali day and on the man
Who has his earnings invested In 3 bust.
ness enterprise. 1t can say whata man
shall eat, as 1t already assumes to say
where he shall and where he shall not buy
DE iood and 1t can order his going and
BIS coming. II can loot the Stores and
tide the banks. 1t can prescribe and It
elu O'traclse. What can II not do-what
will 1t not do, once 1t gets fairly under
nyl
Il for tho people to say whether this
a'deous exotic shall take root in Wheel.
aE The morning nOwspapeu do not in.