Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-08-12
EDITORIAL NOTES.


EDITORIAL NOTES.
Dubois, Pa, has, through a commit
tee of citizens, offered the United States
Steel Company one million dollars to
locate the Woods plant, of McKeesport,
there. By accepting this offer the COM
bine would kill two birds with one
stone: 1t would punish McKeesport for
sympathiZing with the strikers, and
would obtain a million dollars as its
reward. There's something to think
about in this paragraph.
Eleven-year-old Elaine Goldlng, who
swan the Narrows, New York harbor,
Saturday, is no mean rival of Leander
and Lord Byron, and Lieutenant Eken-
head, all three of whom swan the Hell
lespont, Leander in heroic times, and
the two latter in 1871 or 1912.
The announced policy of the Steel
Company to cart two or three of its
plants from n point to another has
it's ludicrous as well as its serious side.
Incidentally, the work is giving en-
ployment to a good many men, at good
wages.
President Skaters offer to arbitrate
the differences between the Amaiga-
mated Association and the United
States Steel Company has been refused
by the latter, and the III resident perth
nently asks: What mor can men
do?"
If wealthy citizens of the United
States continue to locate permanently
in London the American colony in the
worlds metropolis will be no small
thing. The increase during the past
year was thirty per cent.
At the coming encampment of the
Pennsylvania National Guard intoxi-
cants will be barred and tan shoes will
be allowed. Next thing pop will be
served out with rations and men will
do fatigue duty in shirt waists.
AS has been before remarked, the
great industrial combines say they
don't care anything about the tariff. But
let any one propose to modify the tariff
and there is a holy howl from the COM
bines and their friends and agents.
Senator Depew says he has given up
the interview habit, and in saying that
gives a notable expression of opinion
to a reporter in London. It's really
hard to teach an old dog new tricks.
That was a scathing denunciation
by President Shaffer of the threat Of
the steel combine to emove the Wood
mill from McKeesport because the peo-
pie Of that city sympathize with the
strikers.
In Pittsburg, yesterday, the police
forbid the newsboys from crying
their papers on the streets. The
Smoky City is a pretty tight PROPOSE
ton, at present
Out in the salmon canning section Of
Washington State the fishermen have
captured more fish than the canneries
a use, and hundreds Of thousands
have been turned loose.
In New York friends Of pool rooms
and gambling places use the police
wires to give notice of intended raids.
This is almost as bad as Philadelphia.
It Is now reported that the United
States Steel trust is casting longing
ewes on Tennessee Coal and Iron.
Where is this thing going to end?
The Liberal party in England is in a
| pretty bad way, the result of a lack Of
| competent leaders and Of a definite and
settled policy.
That was little short of a wonder
full popular demonstration accorded
| President Shaffer, at New Castle, Pa,
Saturday.
Look out for sensational reports OF
the coming Of %non-union labor. Nine
teen times out of twenty they will be
found false.
The situation down at the 1sthmus
is beginning to look a tride ugly.