West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1905-05-25
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Correspondence OF The Argus.

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As honest labor. good citizenship aud
| Christianity demand a reply TO Mr.. "Anu's'
! communication OF last week. will attempt
] a. Ia the hrst place. we have known Tor
some time he was not miner. or in any
/ way connected with mining. except as a
villainous sucker" who pokeS his shallow
pate into Lodge rooms Tor the purpose OF
manutactu, ing evidence against the labor
| Union m behalf Of the operators securing
| iniuncIionS against his neighbors Talk
about villainy. but a man who is 50 devoid
/ OF principle as TO sneak into a meeting OF
his friends for the sole purpose OF hearing
something that could be used against them
| in the Courts, and when he fails in that. 20
to Parkersburg with lie In his mouth. he
is too foul form to walk erect aud mock
| the name Of man aud its no wonder nc sees
| spooks, ETC. az independence. Such man
belongs. soul aud body, to the Devil. Will
/ he deny that as he has that the Bible
shows Soabbing to belong TO the Devn2 The
old sneak. simply to get mess OF soup
beans and mere recognition from the
| pago boss OF Scsb mine, he would come
down TO the lowest act a man could bc
guilty OF to help the corporations Star,c his
neighbors aud shackle them with serfdom.
lie saws He that hideth hatred with lying
lips aud utteTeth a Slaudcs is fool" lie
deserves great deal OF credit for making
the admission, but we have known for some
time he was either crazy or a fool, and lac
says its the fool that's aling him. Yes. hi,
replies show that, ridicule. Slander, abuse.
no argument but then you couldn't expect
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know that wisdom resteth in the heart OF
him that hath understanding. but that
which is in the minds OF fools IS made
known" Well. he is bigger fool than
took him 90 be. or he never would have
said that. after making IL known that the
only interest he had in the mining industry
was he was a contemplate sucker A
wise ioN never gets so Tar away from his
den that he can't get back again. but this
old "numskull' has sttayed so Tar out i'm
the wilderness that he can't even back.
track himself, though he shambled along
through the mud Not much wisdom rest.
ing in his heart boys, or he never would
have attempted to justify scabbing with
the Bible and then confess it emanates
from the Devil. No. Il he had even com.
mon mixed understanding he wouldn't have
gotten the Bible so mixed up as to declare
that justice and all good comes from the
Devil and scabbing, etc. comes from God
or in other words. he wouldn't be taking
the Devil for God aud God for the Devil.
But then the mans a sickly fool. or so he
saws, got sick trying to defend scabbing In
a newspaper. got IL In the neck tin he be-
came sick, and then threw up the sponge
He certainly has made himself an object of
pity indeed, to think that he embraced the
whole Bible, our Saviour aud His disciples
In the beginning OF his arguments. and then
have to hide behind Judas and the Devil
lie must be sick sure, in the lone company
OF such fellows. No. don't know much.
and don't pretend to. but do know that
his scabs didn't demand any price. they
meeky accepted what was offered them
and went to work They don't place an
estimate on labor or manhood either. and
Mr.. "Ant' knows It.
The injunctions secured last summer
through perjury helped to knock down
wages. etc, and are keeping manly labor
sluggards, as he calls us out OF right and
justice. and so long as we have government
10y Injunction, the working class can't ex
pect fair treatment That's what we have
this KIND OF government for, TO pauper!ze
the masses. Is government by Injunction
Stuihng Mr. ANTS" pocket book, the rea.
son he says he enjoys IL = think we know
the gentleman we'll enough to know that lie
isn't growing fat and rich off the trusts
government, but as lac Is casting his eyes
back on the old aristocracy OF England. he
looks with contempt over his neighbors
and would like to rub up against the rich.
A crazy man. or a sick fool as he has
admitted he Is. is liable to queer imaeina.
lions, and it may have gotten into his old
bonnet that he Is coal baron. Oh yes,
undoubtedly he feels himself duke or
lord since he is blowing about his old fore
fathers back In England fighting and dying
for the scabblng principle. That's what
England always fights for. most any school
boy knows that and they also know that
our old American forefathers fought against
that principle and licked his old English
daddies and established American indie.
pendence In which the "old fool" is trying
to save himself now since he has been run
out Of the Bible. OF all simpetons or fools
that ever heard of!he Is surely the biggest
to think that because scabbing originated
In this section in the town OF Independence
the Declaration Of Independence was
Declaration OF Scabbine.
In conclusion. let me say that no honor.
able man will find fault with just criticism
OF wrong or injustice. but scoundrel and
fool always take exceptions to right and
justice. the knaye because his nature and
inclinations are wrong and dishonest and
the fool because he don't know any better.