Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1895-10-04


/ The wages of American labor since last
/ spring poor old Calamity Jane Of Four
+ teenrh ST.. can't contain her bitter emo
tons
1t is an a1rront to Republican organs
. these DAYS for the country to be pros
/ porous. and am outrage upon all Ca
amity Howlers for any employer Of
labor To- raise wages.
Calamity Jane in a fit Of righteous
indignation over the prosperous condi>
ton of labor and our Industries. de-
/ voted three or four columns Of her space
yesterday to the reproduction Of an art
icls from the New York Tribune. under
/ farins headlines if it were the best
news I'm the world-to show that it isn't
So. or at least. that matters are not
quite So good as everybody but the ca
/ lamity bowling fraternity hopes and
1 believes they are If there is anything
that Calamity Jane delights in at all
these days-poor old soul-it is to throw
wet blankets over those who would re-
5oice over The counuy's prosperity. par
icuIarly in the matter Of increased
wages. to- mention which gives the
wretched old lady severe shooting pains
I an along her spinal column.
The Tribune's paltry article pretends
to show that the recent list Of wage adj
vauces published by the New York
Herald a month or so ago was
padded. and that the number Of hands
receiving advances of wages instead Of
being 10000. as the Herald figured it,
was 336S40. over this alleged discoy-
cry of a discrepancy, which by this
time has Ions since been many times
made up. if it ever existed at all, the
Tribune and an It's calamity bowling
/ cohorts jubilate as if it were a point
that amounted to something and really
showed that we were ali going back to
the condition of rack and ruin enjoyed
under the Mckinley tariff.
The Tribune i'm it's contemplate and
. silly article states that the lists Of wage
advances that have been published
from time TO time since last spring were
furnished Democratic papers by a free
trade club" In this connection, let US
ask the Tribune il fl was this same
~froe tradey organization that furnish
edit ohe Tribune) with the information
/ ON the same subject which it published
/ last June. AT that time it will be re-
membed that tine list of wage advances
had reached only $4,000 empIoyes-at
/ least that was all that was claimed by
Democratic newspapers then. The same
Now York Tribune. however, which
/ now SAYS the Herald's latest figures are
/ padded at that time remarked that
the full numbers were actually much
larger" and asserted that the wages Of
"about half a million" employees, in
stead Of $4,000, had been increased. At
+ the same time the Chicago Tribune as
serted that the number Of employees
who had thus been benefited was fully
. l.0010o0." Did these two leaders of Re
publican journalism in the East and
West get their figures from q free
i trade ciub2'
The New York Tribune in June
! claimed that about half a million em-
poyas had had their wages advanced,
while It's Chicago namesake for the
same period claimed "fully 100000"
had had their wages advanced; the Her
/ AID q month later claimed but 100000
and now It's calamity bowling contem-
porary which has evidently thought
better. or worse. of it's former frank
statement takes mp the very moderate
claim and calls it a most glazing
fraud"
And poor old Calamity Jane, to re-
/ produce the arraut nonsense in full, as
. If il were q message of great joy.
crowds out three or four columns Of
GOOD live ncwsl The miserable old
. croaker would sacrifice its whole sheet
.ifit could only make somebody believe
. The country was going to the dogs. 1t
makes tine old creature sick to see these
multiplying evidences OF prosperity
every time she pokes her head out Of
/ her shell. These good times are weary
ing to her soul. They're an outrage
/ The man who raises wages is a scoun>
drel who only wants to take dirty
mean advantage of the g. O. p.
Thus frets and fumes Calamity Jane,
/ who appears TO spend most of her time
/ on her marrow bones praying for swift
+ disaster to- overtake the land-tle Old
hussy.
PAsTEUR AND ANTITONIN.
While Louis Pasteur. whose death is
q great loss to- science and humanity.
was not the real discoverer of The anti
toxin for dip.herla, he was the pioneer
/ bac-er.olog.st Who blazed the way for
R3ux and Behring and Nutthau. and
. through his labors ana researches alone
+ were the discovery and the use Of the
dip,heria anutoxin serum made pos