Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1902-06-16
INDUSTRIAL FEDERATION.
Branch of the Organization to
be Formed Here.
Officers In Morgantown from Manning
ton to Install It-What the Conn
mercial and Financial World says OF
the New Plans and Its Workings.

This evening branch of the In
dustrial Federation recently formed
, in Warrington viii be instituted in
Morgantown. H. c. Anderson who
has been here working it up and j.
!. Bruce Hess, OF Warrington, IAN OFF,
Ger in the national organization will
install it. There are about score
of leading business men and probes
sional men who will join the lodge.
| The New York Commercial and
Financial World in discussing the
plan and.its workings has the fol.
lowing to say:
1t has. often been observed that this
Is essentially an age of new ideas.
| Our people are nothing il not pro
| gressive, and their entire existence
may be taken as an exemplification OF
the doctrine that 1.-The world moves.
| OF course, it is not sufficient that an
idea shall be merely new; it must
also be meritorious if success is to be
the reward of its PRONUNCIATION.
| When. however newness and merit
are combined in proper proportions
there is nothing that can stand in the
way
Progress is the order of the day.
Nothing can stop it, Whatever stands
in the way is remorselessly run down
as the stage coach was by the loco
motive in the first half of the last cen
fury. In the rush of improvements
inventions which were valuable but
a few years ago are now superseded.
It is in vain that interests which, it
! nay be, cost enormously in treasure
| and labor call out against destruction.
The inevitable always happens. The
sun puts out the light of the stars.
Wise men do not quarrel with this
law of progress The better way they
find to be is to put out more effort
and strength in the race If they do
not keep up they must fall to the rear.
| An illustration of the progressive
conservative tendencies of the age
is afforded by a study of the plans
and purposes of the powerful organi-
zation named above - the United
states Industrial Federation, the
home office of which is at Manning
ton, w. Va, the most progressive
ity, by the way, in the entire State.
Stated in brief, the object of this
Iteration is to place the man of
oderate means-the salary and wage
arner upon a practical equality with
ne great capitalist, so far as securing
turns upon the investment of a
siven amount of money is concerned.
IS it is put in the literature of the
federation, the two things first
fought of by capitalists in making
Investments are the massing together
II their money and the pooling Of
their interests; whereas, the two
things last thought of by workingmen
in making investments are the mass
ing together OF their money and the
pooling of their interests.
The Warrington Advocate" one
of the ablest and most conservative,
and yet most progressive newspapers
of West Virginia. gives the following
outline of the objects of the Fedora
ton:
The object of the Federation is to
effect community of interests, where.
by the pooling of funds, small invest
ors will be able to combine together
and reap the benefits of extensive in
vestment enterprises heretofore avail
! ii IL If To, "a
resources, The Federation will be
conducted on the lodge plan, with
AL 'Jonthly payments for member.
ship fue sum total of the monthly
p4sm ais will be used for develop
ing and conducting important enter
prises on an extensive scale. Real es-
tate transactions house building,
coal. oil and gas developments, the
construction ~ railroads trolley lines
and the erecting and carrying on of
nia ufastGr ng plants and industrial
concerns are among the prominent
features IF the organizations under.
takings
Identified with the Federation are
some Of the foremost business men
If the State. as will be seen from the
following list of names Supreme
Officers President DIR r. r. Roth;
Vice PRESIDENT w B Sine Secretary
Chas l.. Burgess; Treasurer, w. HI
Furbee; nperntendent, j. K. Weese
Directors-Dr. r. r. Roth, DIR. ; N.
Devore w. II, Furbee, H. Manning.
j I. Graham ] Bruce Hess and E.
J. Davis.
OF these gentlemen it may be said
that the President. DIR. r. X. Roth, Is
a distinguished representative of his
profession the leading physician and
scr ,eon Of that part of the State.
ice President Sine is a well known
business man Of Warrington, and Is
looked up to and respected by every
body. Treasurer w. II. Fnrbee is the
Cashier of the First National Bank OF
Warrington. AMI is regarded as an
excellent authority upon financis. af-
fairs Secretary Charles H. Burgess
is a young and enterprising ard clear
headed business man and is person