Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1910-02-17

every resourco of life nj the country
and then pointing with pride to their
Pat ,stSrs W Ms We Sa@a S6 DO MT
that very trick We have permitted
these favored few not only to dispos-
sess usS Of every means of living but
we have given them the privilege, to
chargesus just as much as they please
for what we must have to live on. Oh
yes, wesare wise set of business men.
When we. get SO poor We have to lean
stand sand our kids and wives can't
hide their nakedness, we sing MY
Countrys It's Of Thee, Sweet Land of
scab against our brother and take his
job from him at starvation wage
That As about the only liberty we have
e S5and dop P W ne ba and o pc
other liberty, the liberty TO get down
upon our knees and beg for q starva-
We haven't got sense enough to
know that the man who owns our job
owns us and that he can kill us in his
mills orfdnines or starye us to death
ting divaaends The aneients We're per
mitted to XIII only so many of their
slaves, but the modern master is un-
limited.annd they are no, not doing mucl
hundred thousand every year. But il
is worth all this to us to get to vote
for theygrand old party.
our stomachs and backbones get so
close together that we can't tell when
we have a pain whether it is the belly
ache or the backache, and we strike
for little more grass it makes us feel
SO patriotic when We see a regiment of
soldiers marching down the street with
old glory floating in the breeze.
But wasn't that a terrible insult to
American labor to have those Ignorant
foreiRners to treat Uncle Sam Gonpers
as they did when he was trying to. en-
tighten them on the lapor question?
that 1t had never entered into their CO.
coanuts that the interests of capital
and labor were Identical. Nor did they
know that they were organizing them
selves to- death. It would have been
alright to have had their trades unions
so that one union could .scab on the
S ShsrS Rna Is aH Poo5 ob na For
who does not know that industrialism
Is bad thing. If it wasn't, the rulers
of all ancient nations wouldn't nave OPP
rulers have waged. such a relentless
war on the Industrial Workers OF the
World as they are doing. The idea OF
the interests Of all workers being iden-
tical when it comes to securing right
to the resources of life is preposterous
If such were the case no capitalist
would be secure n ms 5 51rie 20 t the1
what would we do for work? No, We
can no more get along without the cap
itali6t than g. DOG can GET along VIII
out IDEAS. We must have Somebody to
keep us scratching. And it feels so
good to scratch that a certain rich
guild begrudged the poor people the
itch. Yes scratching to keep alive is
E Ere No9 iHm never do in the world for
the government to reclaim those re-
sources endlet. the people operate
them. for it would make them SO darned
lazy and independent that they coulG
never be controlled. The only success
full way to control the working elias:
is through their stomachs.
Henry Waterson, the great Journal
isf. said after visiting through Europe
'Education and the ballot means revo,
lution" The more ignorant and hungr.
you can keep the working class tn
easier they are controlled. That i
why the Roman church in Spain ant
Mexico favors ignorance: Ihere 'lS NJ 4
two countries in the world where there
ii 40 much ignorance, and no two count
tries where the. church dominates 81
uniyersally And no two countries Oh
the globe where the rule is more tyran-
nicaf and unjust, unless it should pc
Russia. where a similar condition op-
No. it will never do for US to endorse
the Industrial Workers of the World
for that means education and Sociallsi
politics which is Synonymous with re-
yoiution, and that would be awful be-
sides the smell