Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1910-03-17
TIE HOLY TRINITY.
National Manufacturers Association
CONTINUED from last week. 1.

(COutlUUSQ tEOm last WS$h.1
Then it 10 the duty of society at
which these blows are directed to
resent, to bring them down, through
politics. Why should the workers
allow a small number of individual
cut threats to dictate to millions Of
wage workers? The rights of the
millions are uppermost. They must
protect their mems of life.s The po-
litical Industrial is the only field, one
cannot be efficient without the other.
They must go hand in hand. The
workers must strike together in the
political field, forgetting their party
lines. They must also understand
distinctly that they must elect 1abor-
ing men to the offices; they areN the
only ones who understand their
cause, their suffering. The press
the laboring press-must be strongly
enforced by the subscription Of every
workingman to its support, and SO, II
with their education going on. fast
by past experiences. lessons that cost
them dear, the privations endured,
will make them hesitate the next
time when they go at the ballot box
in casting their vote; they Will hesi-
tate when knowing that all candi-
dates are merely appointed by zone
of the Holy Trinity branches. So
much for the National Manufacture
ers' Association.
The Citizens Alliance.
The third branch of the Holy
Trinity" is. the famous Citizens Al
lance, a very broad name when 1t is
taken into consideration. 1t may
mean by its title that this is an or
ganization for Civic Betterment or a
body of valiant citizens. similar to
the Grand National Guard Of Paris,
but in a reality. looking at its deeds
through Colorado, Arizona, Texas,
Idaho, California, your mind will
wonder at the cruelty you read about
the famous Third Division" made
famous in st. Petersburg, Russia. or
better defined as the Secret Service
of the Gar" Who does not remem-
Der the crimes committed by that
body? Men. and women take nout Of
their beds at midnight and, after a
mock trial. dragged to the gallows or
Siberia.
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United States-so you were thinking,
at any rate. Those secret spies, the
tools of the bloody Gear were pre-
serving Law and Order" But 1t
seems the Citizens Alliance of this
country claims identically the same
thing, the preservation of Law and
Order. They act the same way OF
the Third division, only the work of
the Citizens Alliance in this great
country is done not only at midnight,
but even during broad daylight in
their great zeal of restoring Law and
Order.
The history Of the Industrial wars
in Cripple Creek. Col. shows that
the Citizens Alliance has burned
homes, destroyed newspapers. drove
men, women and children, in winter
thinly clad. out of town and hired
thugs and gun men to murder decent
people. All this happened not in
Russia, but in the good old capitalist
ruled United States.
In Houston. Tex. on Main street,
there is q building standing and at
the front entrance Is legend that
reads: "Citizens Alliance HeadQuar-
ters-Justice to ALL" The goddess
of Justice, with the legendary scales
and bAndfolded, is perched above
that motto. The artist who made
that statue of Justice must have been
a great joker, aye. even greater than
some of our United States Supreme
Court Judges in rendering decision.
Why?' AS far as the workers are con-
cerned, Justice in this country Is al
ways blindfolded, and especially since
she moved her headquarters over to
the Citizens Alliance crowd. In fact
the workers, one and all. have for
gotten how Miss Justice looks, and
no doubt she's blind Nas-a bat.
The Citizens Alliance is composed
of the business men sometimes called
prominent citizens" made up of
bankers, owners of stores. restau-
rants, hotel-keepers and also the COM
mercial houses. Their thorough aim,
no matter what their motto sands
for, is grinding down labor, and moth
ing else. To accomplish 1t they bring
pressure on the court and legislative
halls; they organize mobs. and in fact
they rule the city for their own adj
vantage. Woe to those opposed to
them! They do not boycott or black
list. Oh. no; what's the use. Drive
them out of town. is their slogan.
They have used methods that even
despotic Russia would blush with
shame.
/ At Victor. Col. in 1906 and 1907,
they organized a mob composed OF
gun men, militia men dressed in civil
clothes; invaded the shop and Office