The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1906-06-26
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Hoult. June Burnwoth,
wfos has been having the typhoid
fever. is improving as fast as could
be expected S5sss
misfortune 70 break her ankle bone.
is doing very nicely.
| Mrs Isadora Dausherty. Of Union
town. Pa. Is visiting her father, Lis
ton Burnworth and her brother who
has the fever.
, Benjamin Wilson. of Warrington,
was visiting his sister. Mrs Harry
| McElfresh Sunday.
Graham Miller, of Philadelphia. has
been visiting his uncle. F. L. Miller
the past week
The third quarterly conference OF
aIeadowdale NJ. E. church was held
here Saturday and Sunday. Presiding
Elder Robinson. of Grafton. in charge.
assisted by the pastor Rev Doulen. OF
Moundsville. The business meeting
Saturday was considered satisfactory
from business standpoint and the
meetings Sunday were deeply earnest
and spirited and many went away
feeling it had been good to be there
Many visitors were present from
surrounding churches and as we can
not name all we will only say We
We're glad to see our former neigh
bors<. Mr.. and Mrs. Meredith Prickett
now residing near Benton Ferry.
AS an aftermath Of the primary
the letter of A L. Heffner in the West
virginian last week was very inter-
estins. 1t seems to have taken quite
shaking up to awaken him to re-
alization of what we have long been
cognizant. Viz: That regulation pol
iticians,, composed of wealthy bust
ness men and lawyers and their
henchmen and wire pullers have no
use for working men except in so Tar
as they can use them to help pull
their chestnuts out of the fire
Brother HeTner plaintively says
How long will you stand and be
slapped in the face and not resent
it, and we sometimes feel like ech-
ding Lord. how long" But we are
optomistic. The more slaps the SOON
er we will all wake up.
What the working man wants to
do is 10 get as conscious of his own
Some men however. gasp for breath
and turn pale il the word "Class-con-
scious" is used saying the working
men are raising class distinctions.
But they shut their eyes to the fact
that the line has already been drawn
and the working mans only recoG'
nizes thar which already exists.
When business men combine for NUT
ual good they are fully class-coa
Scious When the coal operators OF
West Virginia maintained a hired lob
by at Charleston to defeat an honest
coal mimi. bill We're they not con-
scious Of their class Interests
When the workers wish they can
rule the roost. but it is well to re-
member this: No nation is fit to
govern itself until its people all rec
o-nize the value of liberty A nation
that had to be given its liberty with
out their having taken it would not
know what to do with it When the
laboring class know enough to reach
forth their hands and take their birth
right then and not till then will they
be entitled to it
What then Will gain our industrial
liberty? The answer is organize, aS-
itate and educate. especially educate
Those of US who lack education
must not deny that right to our chill
dren, and We must learn to face the
truth and call it the truth in spite
of blind prejudice which will enslave.
You shall know the truth and the
,rutf, shall make you free