The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1907-08-06
Call For Peoples
Meeting
PITTsBURe INTERESTED IN DIS:
TRIRUTlNG PROFITS OF PUB.
Lie UTILITIES.

The time has come, when the masses
Of the people can legally obtain the
great volume Of money that has, in the
past, been illegally appropriated by the
trusts. The courts have pat an end
to the arbitrary rule Of the Standard
OIL Co. Now the people can make the
millions, instead Of the Standard Oil
Co., IL they only will.
God, in His unbounded generosity,
has deposited immense reservoirs of
oil, not under the lands of favored
few, but under the hills and valleys
where dwell the masses Of the people.
From ocean to ocean, from gulf unto
the ice bound north, this wealth Of oil
and gas seems to be promiscuously
scattered, so that all may be bene-
fitted by the comforts which it sup
plies, and enriched by pumping 1t from
the bowels of the earth and disposing
of it in the markets of the world.
n order to start movement in which
we can all, by investing a few dollars,
receive as great returns as have the
Standard OH Co., we ask every man
and woman in the States of New York,
New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, Penn
sylyania, West Virginia, Ohio, Ken
tacky, Indiana, Illinois and Michigan,
who desires to unite in organizing a
Peoples Mutual Oil Co., to send name
and address to Mr.. ]. NJ. McInerney,
room 1920, Farmers Bank Building,
Plttsburg, Pa. Mr.. McInerney has
consented to act as temporary secre.
tary, until permanent organization is
effected.
Plttsburg, Pa, and Columbus, Ohio,
are the most centrally located cities for
these States. Kindly state in your let
ter in which of the two cities you would
favor holding the first meeting.
Every patriotic citizen, who is op.
posed to trust rule, should send in
name and address and exert all the in
auence possible, in starting this Peo'
pies movement. 1t costs you nothing,
but may be very remuneratiye.
We now have an equal chance with
the Standard Oil Co., but If we want
our share of the millions the Standard
Oil Co. have been getting, we must I'M
prove the opportunity now offered us
by the government. We must organize
and act.
Please send in your name and ad-
dress at once and as soon as one thus
and names have been received, each
person will be notified which city has
been selected by the majority, in
which to hold the first meeting, and
the date of the meeting will be given.
AS this is to be an organization OF
theh peo/e, for the people and by the
people, everybody is invited to attend
the first meeting and assist in organic
ing and eIecting officers. This will be
an organization in which the poor will
have an equal chance with the rich.
An organization in which Honesty
and Justice" will be the motto. An
organization in which the stenograph'
err, the clerk and the mechanic will re-
ceive the same consideration as the
banker and capitalist, for certainly the
poor and those of moderate means, are
entitled to one organization in which
their interests will be held sacred and
their rights secured. We expect the
farming districts to assist largely in
organizing this movement, and ask
farmers and their wives and daughters
to send in their names and addresses,
even If they know they cannot attend
the meetings, as every name gives en-
couragement to the movement. and
we extend a special invitation to the
ladies'.
A successful organization Of this
kind can only be perfected through the
aid of the newspapers, in the above
States. We therefore send copy OF
this call for a meeting, to the leading
newspapers in each State, and would
be glad II each editor would add a
few encouraging words in connection
with the publication of the call, and
we will of course send a report Of
proceedings at each meeting to all
these papers
BY order of the Peoples Committee.
Piles get quick and certain relief