The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1911-02-23
E PR ATES
AND PROSTITUTION

bet the Kanawha County Senator had
an axe to grind. Governor VIM. A. Mac
Corkle, the Senator from Kanawha
County, is in complete control of the
State Senate, and Governor MacCorkle IS
controlled in turn by the corporations
and special privileges responsible for his
candidacy and election
The kanawha Senator not only CON
trolls the State Senate, but he also die
tates the policies of the Kanawha dele
CATION in the lower House. Mr.. Fred
Carr, Belcher and other system lawyers
and peanut politicians that make up the
delegation from this section of the state
are but cats paws for the big bosses,
Chiffon, MacCork.e and Chiffon What
has Fred Carr ever done to deserve the
confidence of the people? Examine his
past record and see for yourself Fred
Carr never did a days work in his life,
or earned an honest dollar. He has been
parasite on society all of his life.
What does he know about the needs of
about the welfare of the state? He
knows nothing and cares less. Mr.. Carr
is not even capable to- draw up m intel
ligent bill, and we are Of the opinion that
every bill that has been introduced by
this gentleman of leisure was framed by
Chiffon, MacCorkle & Chiffon, and were
in the interest of the corporations and
trusts. Mr.. Carr will go on record as
opposing every measure advocated by
organized labor, for the bctterment of
the conditions of the working class. All
labor measures are too strenuous for
Mr.. Carr, but only the laboring men
are to blame for the election of this par.
asite, without principle, to the legisla-
ture.
lake the representative from Ran
dolph County, Mr.. J. 7. Davis, elected
by his fathers millions: what right
has such a man as J. T. Davis to rep
resent a sovereign people? 1nis moral
degenerate, run-dum son of million
airc, Mr.. Davis, has the record of
been in the capital; OF being able to
drink more whskcy than any three men
in the city, and of throwing two hun
dred dollars in fifty-cent pieces out of
the hotel window, to see the people
scramble tnem. This is quite rec
ord, but the people are paying for it
out of their hard earnings. and don't
feel that they are getting value received
for their money.
Take the legislative body as whole,
and you have bunch of corporation
tools and trust hirelings that brings
| the smile of satisfaction to the bloated
faces of special privileges. You have
in this body of parasites a lot of men
tai and moral degenerates that are a
disgrace to the red light district that
they patronize. Some of these repre-
sentatives of the people have taken up
quarters and spenu their entire time
in these houses of prostitution, We
others keep the cabs and taXis working
overtime at night hauling them to and
form the bad lands. These are the kind
of men the laboring people voted for and
elected last fall, and these are the sind
of men that some of the labor leaders of
| the labor organizations endorsed and
advised the workers to vote for. Now
these same leaders are fawning and beg
ging for legislation in the interest of the
working classes and are being ignored
and treated with contempt by these in
ferior specimens of humanity they have
placed over them. The servants have
tecome the masters.
No labor legislation has been enacted,
or will be. but tic time of the legisla-
ture is being taken up with local charter
bills. delivering our municipalities over
to the public utility corporations bound
and gagged. to be plundered and robbed
at will. We are taxed to pay the en-
penses of this legislature; when the rep
resentatives come here and don't do their
duty, why should we have to pay them
A large per cent OF the delegates here