Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1902-10-28

iadu nHu his MOIhS, tue Allfu 1sNHatiC
arose and exclaimed, BY the Eternal
City Bondmau though / be. 4 very
Deemster will / turn and f--g this Map1<-
man for his trayesty of the Christian,
land then the breakfast rolls turned
over.
u IS reported from Chicago that
company Of mine promoters from Alas
ka are about to sell to the easy pub
licn Sl00, 200, ,000 worth of worthless gold
mining stock
We, of this section of the country,
ought TO be about ready by now for
good big block of this new snap 1t
has been some time since we pro
noted any mines of our own, either
gold, silver or copper, and as Fortune
mas smiled on US and Prosperity is still
with US, we should go into our pockets
with liberal hand and help these poor
fellows get a start.
John w Gates, the millionaire stock
speeulator and poker player. has re-
turned from Europe with three new
automobiles one OF which can travel at
the rate of sixty miles an hour If John
w ever connects with a good, substan-
tial' Wisconsin grown, telephone pole,
when his flyer is keyed up to the limit,
we think Gates Aiar' would be an
appropriate hymn for the last sad rites
The people of Lansing, Kansas, have
found the bones Of a man that lived in
this country some 600 years ago.
The scientists have beed unable to ten,
as yet, whether the sorn grew as tall
and the whiskers as long in Kansas,
then, as now, but it is said, from the
peculiar position of the bones of the
feet, that they can state positively that
he was simon pure, Soekless Simpson
Populist.
Aud now that the coal strike is
settled and the thought of fuelless
winter, for some of our people, has lost
its terror let as sum up very briefly
what is the gain and what is the loss
In the great desire for news of the
strike the papers have shamefully neg
lected the Philippine Islands, and we
had almost forgotten that we still have
on our hands those 000,0 600 missing
links" that must be brought up to that
state of civilization where the corset
and the high collar are every day habits
We have learned that tIuSt--a mon
Opoly controlling one of the greatest of
the public necessities can be organized
in secret, and when 50 organized can
violate the Sherman antitrust law and
interstate commerce law with Impunity
We have learned that the men who con-
troll this monopoly and who occupy
high positions in the commercial world,
har brought on this strike by policy
.,ar- - Il y "a.
wholly un-American
We have come to know that the
strength of organized labor in this
country is tremendous, aud that if it
continues under the leadership of such
brainy, sane and conservative men as
have handled this latest affair of labor
it will soon grow to be the greatest
power in the land
We have had brought home to us,
with quite a sensible shock, the fact
that our fuel supply is a matter TO be
handled with kid gloves. If such q
deadlock between capital and labor
had occurred in the dead of the winter,
we should probably have been turned
into the largest and most expert aggre-
CATION of freeze-out" players in the
universe.
We have found in the White House,
as we have always found there in the
Nations greatest crisis, man big
enough and brave enough to grapple
with the issue and throw it. Moderate,
reasonable, yet fearless, standing intel
lectnally high above the mere brawl Of
it all, he has played a part, without a
precedent, in a mastery way, and he
appears today to be more than ever the
pure crystauization of the peoples feel
ings.
We have been told that the net loss
10 the coal operators, in mere dollars,
is $4,000, 900, and we are advised that
in order to recoup themselves for this
loss we, the consumers, are to be grant
ed the privilege of paying a 80 cent.
per ton premium on all coal sold from
DSw until spring
Much obliged, Mr.. Coai Trust, we
take off our hats to you. Tou are in
Rue saddle now and can stick ia the
spurs till the red blood runs, bat before
many years have slipped away per-
haps we, the consumers and voters,
will have something TO say 10 your un-
American outfit and the birds Of your
/ feather that flock with you.