Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-09-20

| Ing about q strike. that the public
| might be mnlcted IN higher prices and
| large profits thereby secured for mine
owners and stockholders. The intel
qigencer must stand for the law which
permits agents of a corporation to
I evfct a miner from his cabin because
! he protests through strike against
robbery and extortion, and it must
| approve of that construction of the
statutes which enables high priced,
counsel for monopolies to obtain in
jnnt lions against men powerless to-
| protect themselves because they are.
| poor. The Intelligencer, In a word
favors and upholds the game which
| permits the corporation to rob its en-
ploye to the point where he can,
| stand 1t no longer, and when he pro-
| test through a,strike to assuresthe en-
| ploye that he has nothing to do but
| sit down quietly and go hungry, While
the corporation, which really brought,
! about the trouble, raises thesprice to-
| the consumer, as the anthracite oper-
ators have already raised coal 25c. per
ton in the Eastern market. 1t APP
proves of the corporation which thus,
makes. money at both ends-out. of the.
mineron the one hand, and outsof the
public on the Other-under the forms,
OF law and under the protection of thes
Courts. That's the sort of law the ms
| tolngencer stands for-law for the few,
as against the many, just as it stands
! for high taxation in favor of monopo-,
| lists, as against the interests of thes
masses.
| H. its next sentence the 'Intelligencer
| asserts that 1.-THE Register favors law,
| lessIess and license The Intelli-
| genoer knows that assertion is false,
| il kew it was reckless and unfound-
! ed declaration, it knew it could not.
| justify or prove 1t, and it knew that
no one would believed it for moment.
| The Register stands for law, but it.
els, stands for justice, and the two'
| thirgs are not always the same. For
| Instance, an injunction. obtained at tne'
| request Of monopoly, prohibiting
vol kingmen from marching along a,
| public road or from holding a public
4 rleeting, may be law, but it is very
| fcr removed from justice, particularly
when, at the very moment of it's grant,
! ing, a conference of magnateS may be,
| in session continuing how they mays
! squeeze little more out of working
r?e1 through a pluck-me store operat-
| ed in direct violation of the statutes.
or the best method of forcing some adj
| ditiona dividends upon watered stock
from the public. The Register doesn't
stand for that sort of thing. 1t stands
| Cor the people and will endeavor, to the
I extent of its ability, to uphold their
rights.
"The Intelligencer places itself on
the side of law and order against the
anarchy the Register advocates.
That is off the same piece of cloth
with the foregoing. The Intelligencer is
on the side of law and order" SO long
as the Flaw" and the order" subserve
the interests Of monopoly, but it will
b, observed that the Intelligencer is
not on the side of law" or order"
when the workingman asks for simple
justice, for freedom of thought and
speech, and for his rights. When the
workilgman does that he becomes an
anarchist" and those who think with
him, and sympathize with him, and
! aid him, and talk for him, and work
| for him are anarchists" deserving
of no consideration, and should be
made the prompt victims of injunctions
and such legal remedies. They are
without the pale, deserving of no con-
| sideration, entitled to nothing but
| hard work at poor pay, and should be
content with a Drecarious existence
wrung out under hard conditions and
at the daily peril of life.
! The attitude of such papers as the
J Wheeling lntelllgencer IS one OF the
| things the workingman must recog-
n:ze and face in this country. He will
get no sympathy from that quarter.
The workingman must obey the law,
| but the few the Intelligencer stands for
otter don't obey it, and don't have to.
TIE law was not made for them. They
can rob- combine, extort swindle,
scheme, misrepresent, falsify and plot.
| That's all right. AS for the working
| man, throw him a bone or give him
little verbal taffy upon occasion. He's
| easily fooled.
oyer at Martins Ferry the decennial
| Appraisement Board has found the