Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1911-10-26

We WILL NOW HAVE
"A Feu Remarks
Nv IS7IT POSSIBLE for the sslIen and ReIigio
BIZ WALTER B. HILTON

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HOW rs IT POSSIBLE for the Men and Religion
Forward Movement" to go forward carrying the dead
weight of expoers that head its list OF promoters This
movement supposed to be for the uplift Of To lift
up it necessary to first the weight that
holds him down. This movement not only not designed
to do ths it is inspired and financed by the very people
who today ride upon the backs of the poor and who
personally and seshy interested in keeping the working
people Ignorant in order that they may keep them
subdued.
Religious revivals dry agitatons are excellent
means to this end Everybody knows that something is
very wrong with existing conditions and the ro
BILE of reasoning to blame injustice the wickedness sup
posedy inherent in the hearts of men, To say that most
of the men and women the country bad and that
they must be made good is assertion easy to make
To discover why they "bad" or good is horse Of
another color It is more difficult, IN the first place. and
requires courage and insight and self abnegaton
and the average shouting evangelist lacking in
more of these qualifications.
Now it's I'LL wind that blows nobody good, and
what bad for is good for another The worker
who receives less than enough to live upon is in BAD
way but the capitalist who in dividends this com
pensaton of which the worker is deprived is in GOOD
shape He is usually willing to pay out small part OF
this taken from the worker to dole it out in swee
charity or in contributing to evangelstic movement
tended to take the worker mind off the things material
such wages and hours and safety and sanitation and
fix it upon the fleecy clouds.
It matters absolutely nothing to the working class
in its struggle this world whether there is hereafter
Heaven or He'll To the peace of mind Of the individual
religion may every thing, and he would indeed be
heartess who would rob trusting soul Of the sweet hope
that there would be- bright life that to come another
and happier meeting with those loved ones who
from this life by the cold and clammy hand of death
but to the workers class in their struggle in this
world it absolutely nothing whether there is here
after Heaven Hell.
This life has its problems and sufficient unto the day
the evil thereof The problem confronting the working
class is how to get possession OF the means OF eo
earthly life Today have not that possession We have
voice in this matter To live at all must have food
clothing shelter This food clothing and shelter must
be wrought into usuabe condition from its natural form
In it's natural form it is Of no use to us 70 be made
usuable requires human lahOr-the labor of brain and
Drawn, of mind and muscle, Of heart and hand
We willing to work, willing to give labor
willing to take these natural resources and mold them
form and fashion that will fill the needs of ourselves
of and children But-and here is the of
it other human beings claim that they these
natural and the tools which necessary to-
US WORK UNLESS WE PAY THEM FOR THE
PRIVILEGE
This payment they exact in rent interest and profit
matter what the need not natural value be given
finished form unless these individuals reap their private
profit. No matter how many thousands may be suffering
for food and no matter how thousands may be suf
feng for the want of wages that would for produc
ing this food the want not supplied and the multiplied
thousands suffer- unless these appointed self Amounted
individuals reap their private profit In all the world not
single wheel of private industry turns unless it
grinds out profit to the owner.
This, then, is the all important issue: whether pri
vate profit system is to be continued wherein the needs
of humanity made subservent to the whms Of idle
There is other question beside this To solve
this question the working class needs all the unity all the
al Tie efg tna can De developed 1nlS Is why
the sincere seeker after the good of Labor does not
joyful when this unity disturbed this thought scattered
this energy disspated by any divertng movement
though it should be religious. 81
The photographer tells to look pleasant while our
picture being taken the expoer tells to BE pleasant
while scalp being taken. J. Morgan is the great
central figure in modern industrial Capitalization the
scalping scheme is by his wonderful genous that two
dollars growing wherebut grew before To make
the extra dollar grow he has tried the intensive farmng
OF two crops from set of workers He has also used
much water IIlgatng by of bitches dug especially
by the public officials and has fenced the plantation
with armed thugs and cringing court decisions