Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-10-17
wORsE AND WORSE.

yesterday.
What about? Had a new industry
been established in our city? Had an
other idle mill resumed work? Had
some great good fortune befallen the
community that caused the IntelIigencer
10 sing pesns of JOY and shout hallelu-
/ jah in large display type?
Oh, no! What then? Why, the IN
telligencer had heard somewhere or
dreamed, most likely, that the Pan
Handle railroad had laid of some Of its
freight crews!
What was there TO rejoice over in
that, supposing it was true, which it
was not? Nothing for the community
at large, but for the HltsIigencer the lie,
or its dream, contained cause for the
greatest JOY. 1t must be understood
that whatever looks like q pause in the
march TO prosperity or seems to
indicate stoppage in the revival OF
business, or can be tortured into an ap-
parent retrograde movement in the peo-
pe's affairs, or better still, an actual
injury to business and the welfare Of
the people, is cause for the greatest
cougratulation on the part OF the
Iptslligcncer. II has not had even the
ssmbIance OF an item of news that it
could torture into a sign Of business de-
preston since the passage of the Will
son bill. All the news has been of one
bright tone aud has told of resuming
mills and busy workshops, j0bbers
rushed with orders aud the business
situation and markets in general i'm
proving and trade in better shape all
around than il has been for ten years.
OF this the Iatclljgepcer either has made
no mention at all, or made but brief
reference to facts which il could
not decently ignore such as that all the
railroads we're handling more freight
than for macy years past. Such news
panied the Inte'ligencsr; it hated to be
quoted as having said it and even
denied it had; every sign Of
reviving industry, every resuming mill,
every indication of happiness among
working people who had long been idle
before, and every additional dellar Of
wages paid to labor caused the HteIi-
gcgccr to become green with bile, and
more and more miserable, i'll tempered
aud savage.
Hence, when it heard rumor or
dreamt that one railroad entering this
city had actually laid of some Of its
freight crews it did not stop to lnvesti-
gate, else 1t would have found the re-
verse true, but allowed its long pent-gD
feelings to burst forth in a whirlwind
of vicious and savage rejoicing at the
supposed loss Of business to this com
muuity! Think of it, a newspaper act
uauy rejoicing in display type over a
supposed injury to the people on whom
it depends for its bread aud butter,
rejoicing over their loss as if they were
It's mortal enemies, instead of fits only
support-uke a vicious, ungrateful and
treacherous cur swapping at the hand
that feeds it.
The truth is no crews were laid
of at all, bur on the contrary, their
number has actually been in
creased, aud the Panhandle Railroad
is now pushed to It's utmost capacity 10
handle the increased traffic, owing
10 the tremendous revival OF business,
that has lately called forth all the re-
sources Of it, AID Of every other road
entering the city.
The EltcIfgcpccr has simply deliber-
ately lied, as the interview with the Pan
Handle officials in another column will
show. It has lied for the sole and deliber-
ate purpose Of iniuring the business in
terests of this community in the desper-
ate hope Of bolstering up its political
prediction of calamity. That is the
kind of public servant the Mtclligcpcer
is. To gain partisan advantage it will
foully betray It's own people, and If it
could, would reduce them actually TO
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