The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1890-09-08
To THE PUBLIC,
a Cara from the President OF tho Yves,
Vlrr'niA Tobacco Company. II
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Vlrr'niA Tobacco Company. I
7ohe Editor " ht lnte.ligmer: 4
sln:--ln tho record Of the court pro
ceedinss published in your paper o.
Thursday last under the heading oI
Those who got oil." meaning those,
; who escaped indictment at the hands Of
the Grand Jury lately in session, appear.
ed tho following item in regard to this
company: The West Virginia Tobacco
Company-setling up and promoting a
lottery" :"
The charge against the company sub
mitted to the Grand J ury was that II had
set Up and was promoting lottery and
OF this charge as the record shows. thp
company WAS acquitted.
The company lni2h. perhaps rest its
case on this acquittal aud viudic,tion
anti lot tho item 60 without comment
or explanation to the public,
But such is not the sentiment Of the
management. II yields to a feelins of
Indignation, which calls for something
more than q mere verdict OF acuuiltai
10 other words. It desires the public to
know fully and appreciate lust what
there Is tn this latest exhibition OF snite
ana Jealousy against the West virginia
Tobacco Company.
It is due 10 the company Ia proc'a;m
publicly the fact that, ever since ;,s
organization, it has been made the at.
tempted victim Of a systematic annoy.
ance aud embarrassment, that Is withon,
precedent In this community. At The
very outset OF its career an effort was
made to have It's product tabooed and
Doycotted as tho output OF so.called
"scab' or non.uniou labor, and. 80 se.
cretiy aud persistentiy was this etlorti
carried on as to almost defy all the
agencies 1t could employ to ferret It ont.
expose aud counteract 1t. 1t took a long
tlme and cost the company no end Of
trouble and expense to set itself straiphtl
before the public in this particular,
O:her annoyauces Of like character 4
IN conception and spirit went hand in
uand with this one, tue tlnal eal,mina.
ton OF which was this attempt at injury
through the medium Of the courts, 8
Tho pretext for this new attempt WAS I
mat the company-becauss OF a pre. /
nium, which 1t Offers to the patrons IA ,
premium such as otEer reputable con. c
'erns havs been Offering for yearsl was
'ettlng up and promoting lottery. No |
:harge could have been further from Z
ne truth: A lottery is scheme to Get
money without giving those who patron. A
ze it, q certain full and fixed value for n
aeif lnvestment-a scheme, in which Y
mere are many blanks and few prizes. E
Ihe West Virginia Tobacco Company v
lever had and neyor will have any con. c
lectlon with any such scheme, II q
'iVes everybody full and complete d
Equivalent for their money, and the '
'onus which this company oilers is the
anne that newspaper offers when it v
'lves an extra copy to the promoter of
'Iu6 OF subscribeIa. The West Virginia c
tobacco Company charges neither more y
Tor less on account Of said bonus, but o
'lVes precisely the same quantity or
uallsy OF goods that it has always been
to give when no bonus was d
'Iered. In other words, the bonus a.
ONES out Of its stockholders and not
,ut OF the public. 1t has therefore no @
to a lottery aud this was the {
ust and appropriate verdict Of the grand u
ary, before whom au attempt at pcrss +
ution (uot prosecution) was recently q
made.
This explanation as to how the good {
lame oil this company was dragged be. I
ore the grand Jury by an irresponsible j
person aud finally published in a list OF \
cqu'tted suspects is deemed due to both
he public and the company.
The West Virginia Tobacco Company L
las a reputation for square dealing aud n
aw abiding management which it does {
lot propose to have tarnished without c
mphatic protest and exposure, by /
Yours truly, =
AUGUSTUS PoLLACK, is
=, President.
Whtelin1, Sent. 1. ,