Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1909-12-16

HOVE s11tSI ~ VI y s.
s. n. ~ ~ fIf3EERTY.
Editor Majority.

l !
! & Editor Majority.
f. bookse titled sssThe Physiology
/ Of the Brain Jacques Leob, Ph. D.,
l formerly Of the University Of Chicago,
Human happiness is based upon the
possibility of natural and harmonious
satisfaction of the instincts. One o.
the most important instincts is .usus
| t1lys not even. recognized as such;
namely the instinct of Workmanship
| ! Lawyers, criminologists and phil
osophers frequently imagine that
only wants make. men work. This is
an. erroneous view. We are forced
to be active in the same way as ants
or bees. The instinct Of workman
Eship would be the greatest source OF
happiness if it were not for the facl
that our present social and economic
Organization only allows few tx
crafty this instinct. 2
John Ruskin expressed it thus:
art is mans expression Of his JOY
ln labor" And A. M. Simons shows
that the reason that men are avoiding
toll is because there is no .pleasure i'll
it and the result is that: The pro-
duction of good shas become an evil''.
Space will not permit us to analyze
the above in detail but we will make
} few remarks. The first "satisfac-
ton" human being can have is to
have enough to eat. He must have
food, and thusands millions
/ are even deprived Of this. One of the
best posted Miners Union officials in
the country said the other day,
wherever / go. there seems to have
been mere hand-to-mouth existence
at best for years and poverty abounds.
Go. down in the mining regions and
observe the conditions for yourself.
There. are the novels of three or four
roo S, built on the side of the hill,
the poor sorry : furnishings, the
sthreadbafe worn out clothing and the
cheap and unwholesome- food, and all
must be paid for out of the meage1
earnings Of our members p And this
is. the condition Of the Miners Union
members after all the blowi of
John Mitchell and Sam Gompers as
to the Superiority of the American
labor. movement What can be the
condition Of the .scab in the state OF
i West Virginia and elsewhere where
Van Cleave- & Co.'s Independent CD
miners exist? Food, clothing an(
shelter. our life depends on and will
these assured. freedom, culture ant
higher Development are possible only
How can human beings have "a nat
ural and harmonious satisfaction O.
their. instincts, Under such inferna
! disorder Ernest Crosby had cleal
vision when he said: n
And we labor. with straining arms
for the pittance they deign to give
And our boys must quit the school for
i ]. the pit, to drudge, that we all may
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/. live 49,. sa.s~@
And ou~ rteeth feel the grit of the
: mine in the very bread we bite
It'll our inmost soul is defiled witt
coal in the land Of the noonda!
l. night"
F. In. addition to the right quality and
1 quantity of food, clothing and shelter
before we can have an harmonious
union official says, Everywhere the
satisfaction of the interests, we must
have education, amusement and sex
uaI satisfaction. Space will not per
nit to enumerate on these now. What
are you going to do about it? asks
some one, The referred to miners
f.niners, whoa somehow obtain news
papers and magazines and read and
THINK a great deal are asking them
selves the question, t'How does it
come that they who risk their lives
every, day they are given the privilege
of going down into the bowels of the
earth to- produce the wealth that
creates power to feed and clothe and
house the world-how does it come
that they and their loved ones are
forever co demned to live in poverty
and misery while those who neither
toll nor spin but lead parasitical lives
roll III luxury and ease?" What is
true of the miners condition is true
of other workers. And the answer Is.
easy and is because we have bee
trusting our industrial salvation to
lawyers, preachers, editors and other
E'.friends of labort?) instead of fight
ling for our oW NGLAsS. was Marx
Hanna right in his estimate of the
American workman. when he offered
him the full dinner pail expecting
that to be sufficient to induce him to-