The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1906-11-03
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Washington, Nov. s.-The disclos.
ures OF the New York political cam
palgn are showing how utterly unre-
liable are the protestations made by
Democratic candidates and politicians.
william R. Hearst, the Democratic
candidate for governor of that State
in his newspapers and in his speeches.
has always posed as the special cham
MON of the American wage Garner and
the foe OF corporations, He has never
lost an opportunity to declare him
self an advocate Of organized labor OF
the eight-hour day, and of the excfl.
sion OF Chinese from competition with
American Iaborers, Equally Jealous
have been his denuncIations Of corpo-
rations.
The sincerity of Mr.. Hearst has
often been questioned, but 1t was not
until after the campaign opened that
It became known that his own prac-
tees furnished proof Of his insincer-
ity. Though 1t is not probable that all
the facts as to his dealings with wage
earners and his queer performances as
an organizer and manipulation of cor
noratinns have vet come to light,
enough is known 10 turn from his sup
port every advocate of the betterment
Of the conditions Of labor and every
opponent Of the corrupt use Of corpo'
rations.
Mr.. Hearst has denounced with all
the vehemence of display type and red
ink the mere suggestion that Chinese
laborers should be employed TO dig
the Panama Canal. If the same con-
ditions existed in this country that
prevailed during the last Democratic
administration when American wage
earners we're trampng from one end
of the country to the other in search
Of work there might have been some
justification for Mr.. Hearsts typo
graphical hysterla, but 1t is absurd at
time when every American who
wants to work can find job at home
and when he could not be induced
to go to Panama. But at the very
time that he was declaiming most
frantically against the employment of
a single Chinaman on the Canal the
Hearst vineyards in California were
employing Chinese laborers to gather
the grape crop and were refusing en-
ployment to the American applicants.
In his newspapers Mr.. Hearst has adj.
yocated the eighthour day for all la
borers while in his California vine
yards his Chinese laborers we're work
ing from the first streak Of dawn in
the morning to the last ray of twilight
in the evening. Among the many bus
mess enterprises controlled by this
wordy champion Of union laborer Is
the Homestake mine giving employ
ment to large numbers of miners. The
Western miners have Union, but the
Homestake is not union mine. 1t
employs union or non.union miners
indiscrlminately. Mr.. Hearst Is a
champion OF the wage earners when
he does not have to pay the wages.
Mr.. Hearst's papers and speeches
would give the impression that he
would scorn to have any connection
with corporation OF any kind. Yet
the greater part Of his immense In
come is derived from Investments in
the securities of corporations, and Mr..
Hearst has resorted to every trick
known to the experts Of high finance
in the management of his newspaper
business. He is the real owner Of
every one Of his newspaper proper
ties. Yet each one of these is nom.
inally owned by corporation and
the stock of these corporations, is, in
turn, held by New Jersey building
corporation, just as the Standard OIL
Company of New Jersey holds the
stock OF Its subsidiary companies, and
just as the outlawel Northern Securt'
ties Company was organized to hold
the stock of railroads. These Hearst
companies have full boards Of dummy
directors and all the latest devices Of
the corporation manipulation. The
qualifications of this newspaper own.