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Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1911-11-16
:: The Slave aAwakes ::

skies blister and winds parch, thee
and thine flee to the Northern woods,
while me and mine battle for the NOR
rows food, oh, God! if l am my
brothers equal, why not me and mine
who produce all OF these good things
be permitted to enjoy at least a part
Of our unceasing toll? On, master!
halt, win you, at the door of my miser-
able hut, and if thy heart is not
adamant and thy eyes are not frozen
with green, thou will surely loosen
the bonds that thou hast sunk into
my unsinned flesh. Not time, you
SAY? oh, tell me not master, that
thou hast not the time to shed a tear
with a slave whose home thou hast
hung deep with miseries. Away with
you, / pay you for your labor. On,
larry Just one moment, master; have
i and mine not served thee well, and
have we not made thee a millionaire
by our toll? oh, master! why this
harsh treatment? Stop your mouth
ing, as care nothing for you nor
your ragged brats nor the pious whine
Of your common-bred wife. DAM
YOU! slave, as am, and master as
you are, you shall pay for this days
|inhuman arrogance, as my hungry
babes and that mother who gave
them birth and that wife Of my youth
shah not be insulted by him who has
ground the life of their father and
husband into yellow gold! At the bal
lot box lost my manhood, and at the
ballot box I'll regain it. It is not
POWER that crave, but LIBERTY.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1911-11-16
OOO0OOoeOooOO
THE SPIRIT OF THE MOB
(By. Victor Hugo.)
oNo00OOOOOOOO

Sacrifice to the mob, o poet! Sac
rifice to that unfortunate, disinherit
ed, despairing mob, if it must needs
be, thy repose, thy fortune, thy job,
thy liberty thy life. The mob is the
human race in misery.
The mob is the mournful beginning
of the people. The mob is the great
victim of darkness.
Sacrifice to it thy gold, and thy blood
which is more than thy gold, and thy
thought, which is more than thy gold,
and thy love, which is more than thy
thought; sacrifice everything except
justice.
Give it. thy ear, thy hand, thy arm,
thy heart. Do everything for it ex-
,cept evil. Alas! it suffers so much
and it knows nothing.
Correct it, instruct it, guide it, train
it; put it to the school of honesty;
make it spell truth; show it the alpha
bet of reason; teach it to read virtue,
probity, generosity, mercy; hold thy
book wide open.
Be there attentive, vigilant, kind,
faithful, humble. For it is beautiful
on-this somber earth, during this dark
life, brief passage to something beyond
It is beautiful that force should
have right for a master; that progress
should have courage as a leader; that
intelligence should have honor as a.
sovereign; that conscience should
have duty as despot; that civiliza-
ton should have liberty as queen,
and that the servant of ignorance
should be the light.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1911-11-16

paid over $40 month for his room
and board, and conductors testified
that Swayne invariably rode on an.
nual passes.
Swayne admitted. that he used the
private car of d .jerkwaterg road for
the transportation of himself. family
and friends, between Jacksonville and.
New York, and between Jacksonville
and the Pacific coast, also that every
thing was charged up to operating ex
penses. His only defense was that
the general manager told him that IT
was better for a car to be running
than standing idle on a siding.
Every railroad man will bear wit
ness to the Righteousness of this ex-
cuse, and will also state that when a
private car is used on junketing trip.
even by an officer Of the road. that it
lcannot be honestly charged UP to
operating expenses.
Proof of the other accusations was
lequally exact. Litigation involving
/ the title Of huge tract Of land was
lin Judge Swayne's court in Pensacola.
Shortly before the trial, the lawyers
/ discovered that SWayne had secretly
obtained an interest in the land in
dispute. They asked him to get off
the bench, and when he refused, they
named him as a party to the suit.
4 Because of this, Judge Swayne ad
Judged them guilty OF contempt fined
them heavily and imprisoned them.
No saloon bouncer'' could have been
more abusive than this federal judge
i in assailing the men who were to be
4 robbed of their liberty without the
| jury trial guaranteed to every Ameri-
lean citizen by the constitution of the
United States.
i In the face of all this, and much
imore, the United States senate voted
THAT Judge Swayne had done nothing
4 that would justify his removal, the
il honest senators being unable to mus
! ter a two-thirds majority.
i Yet Mr.. Taft, while admitting thai
there are many judges who ought to
3be kicked off the bench, steadfastly
Il insists that Impeachment will be just
| as effective as the recall.
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ing histories Of bloody conflicts where
the cowardice and heroism Of war.
riors is wildly described in simple
language. The boys are led to believe
that patriotism consists ii killing the
most men in time OF war and Of sacri-
ficing themselves if need be for their
country. The result Of this is that
the receptive mind Of the boy be-
comes dangerously inoculated with
bellicose spirit. Children are natural
" prone to imitation. In fact that IS
the way they learn. So this military
training would naturally create = NOR
bid desire for warfare.
Militarism is q diabolical doctrine.
It was conceived by half-naked saw
ages centuries ago, who sought to live
in ease and luxury by cenquering and
fenslaving the neighboring tribes and
nations. 1t is the only semblance Of
savagery that modern society makes
a profession Of. Why should we kill
leach other when the earth Is bic
lenough to hold ussall2 We are agitat-
ling for universal peace. But can we
attain that end by fostering military
spirit? !
Away with militarism! Has it moi
ALREADY sent millions to their untime
lily grave? To what purpose, then, are
1--we teaching our boys that hell-born
| art Reading dime novels is bad
enough. This seemingly innocent in
fdulgence has put many boys to the
bad. But the boy scout movement il
Infinitely worse. It's tenets are ranl
poison that is being rgadually infected
Into the body polite.
1t is utterly useless to think of uni
lversal peace while such pernicious
doctrine is being taught. The rising
generation will think and act as it il
taught.
Those who originated the boy scoil
movement are said to be good Chris
ltians. DO they forget the salutatiol
(which the Nazarene whom they pro
Tess to follow, taught to his disciple
that when they entered into any hous'
that they should say. Peace be t
4 this house," and many other times HI
lsaid, 4 give unto you MY peace;
leave MY peace unto you; peace b.
amongst you.
AS Christian nation we should b.
| for peace and the brotherhood o
MAN. But it seems that there will al
ways be hypocrites and imposters
lSuch are those who are inoculatinl
1.-THE minds OF American boys with wa
spirit.
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vs. ORIGINATED
~ DUPLICATED FABRICATED

His Mistake.
A voyager who had lived sixty
years on farm, found his quarters
on shipboard somewhat cramped. He
obYiated the lack of space, however
by slowing his trousers and shoes in
to a round cupboard in the side of the
vessel on going to bed.
At Z a. m. there was excitement.
Steward, las night l put my
clothes in that 'er cubyhole. an they
hain't thar now
THAT amt no clothes-press; that's
a portfolio. sir. Interior.
There was a young lady named Panker
who slept while the ship lay at anchor;
She woke in dismay
When she heard the mate say,
Now hoist lip the top sheet and
spankeT.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1911-11-16

= RESIDENT TAFT advocates a
more liberal nse Of the inn
peachment Of Judges as a sub
|stitute for the recall, which he char
acterizes as 'iegalized terrorism" and
.smob tyranny. without entering in
to any consideration Of the fact that
the people Of Oregon have possessed
the right TO recall judges for three
years, and that its bench has been
improved rather than lowered, let US
investigate the remedy about which
MI. Taft is SO enthusiastic and so GER
tain.
More than hundred years ago,
Thomas JEFFERSON, that man of prophe-
tic vision. declared that the federal
Judiciary would prove to be / the
lssappers and miners Of our liberties
unless restrained. and denounced i'm
/ parchment as an "impracticable
scarecrow. Can any living man
honestly deny the truth Of these
lcharges2
In order to impeach a judge. the
proceedings must originate in the
house of representatives, and the
charges sustained by two-thirde
vote. The case is then tried by the
entire senate, sitting as jury, and
IA two-thirds vote is necessary to con
ivict. The system is not only clumsy
land complicated. but is especially de
Esigned to prevent the removal Of any
federal jurist.
| In 1907 a very determined efforf
was made to impeach Judge Phillips
of Missouri, Judge Mcpherson, O
IIowa, and Judge Pollock, of Kansas
ibut the attempt failed miserably. Tit
facts are interesting: The Missouri
Legislature, in an effort to end tht
Eunbearable tyrannies of its public ser
vice corporations, passed 2-cent pas
lsenger rate bill, a maximum freigh
lrate bill, and a bill forbidding corpora
ltions licensed by the state to remove
/ their cases to the federal courts.
4. The three federal judges grantee
Temporary injunctions that operates
| to nullify the laws of a sovereign
4 state, and to this very day have re
4 fused to let the enacted win of thu
people be put in force. A few week
Us s. q r 4
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About Women's Work
10y Rachel cole.)

Socialist. 1t had never occurred 10
me that I, who had been drought m
so conventionally, had been so we'll
grounded in politics and religion
could be Socialist! l had almost
regarded them SOCIALISTS as a sonar.
ate race of people. as the unknowing
90.
But 1 found the man was right.
was a Socialist in spirit, at least, and
1 believe the germ got in me in that
beautiful Chicago store despite their
war on germs, having an army OF
Bohemian women on their hands and
knees scrubbing every hour of the
day, to be rid of the germsl And the
old ideals found no longer of use to
me, seeming as remote from present
needs as my doll clothes.
But how to reach these refined.
skilful sewing women and get them to
know their power and worth, that is
the question. 1 have talked to them
in the shop, but the replies are SINH
lar: at Us all know how to do and
can't afford to be out of a job.
There are girls getting less than
am"
would you join a Needleworkers'
Union?"
ooh, don't.know. We might have
to go on strike, and mother and l
would be in the poorhouse in three
weeks. wish things were different,
but unions are more for men"
And in that frame of mind they are
sewing today, stitching away and
coughing, a dry, hacking cough-many
of them-trembling and hurrying all
of them. Their tapelines about their
necks bangle near their hearts and
seem to measure the length of their
days significantly. Poor hearts, they
are afraid of an uppish forelady who
is paid to be mean, and sit daily in
the very path of tuberculosis and
other menaces, apparently unafraid,
and counting themselves lucky to be
allowed to slave on unmolested.
| would not have them sew any
less faithfully or artistically. 1 be-
lieve, in work for the very work s
sake" but also believe in knowing
Eone's worth and the dignity and
strength of organization.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1911-11-16

~ THIN recent years a new institn-
ton has been conceived and isl
being assiduously propagated
BY ! clique Of militarists. The name
of this Institution is the Boy Scout
Movement hi other words, It Is q
fghting movement. The boys have
been and are being trained in the art
Of killing, not beasts but human
beings.
At the inception Of the movement
its promoters set forth reasons for its
extension generally throughout the
country. The chief argument has
been that the boys. particularly those
attending school. should be trained in
the art Of gymnastics SO that their
physical development might proceed
with their mental development. That
argument, of course, is nothing new.
When Rome was in her palmy days
the school curriculum consisted Of
both mental and physical exercises.
As q result OF this double training
the Romans were intellectual wonders.
There literary productions as MASTER
pieces read and recited in colleges and
universities at the present time.
Physical training Is highly desirable.
Our school system won't be complete
until some system Of developing the
physical powers Of the pupils is
adopted. But such system must be
q common-sense system. Its end
must be that Of developing perfect
stature and robust. and vigorous
manhood. If it Is necessary to employ
instruments they should be Of harm
less character instead Of those the
very sight Of which fills sensitive PEG.
pie with dread and fear. Guns
swords and bayonets are death-deal
ing instruments. Their utility con
sists only in killing. With them il
associated everything that conscience
revolts against pain, suffering and
death.
The mind Of child is extremely
impressionable. Indeed, those child
hood impressions, good or bad, are in
dellbly stamped upon the mind. Long
after the child has reached manhood
its conduct is largely governed BY
those early impressions. The indiyi
dual responds to them unconsciously
They are his ruling spirit.
Now then, here we have a move
ment that teaches militarism. The
boys are taught how to usefirearms
swords and bayonets. They are
taught military signs and maneuvers
This training is accentuated by read
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1911-11-16

after the granting Of the injunctions,
a deputy game warden. loafing about
the union station in Kansas City, saw
man hurrying BY with some quail
and prairie chickens He followed the
man to private car, and made an
arrest, the birds being out Of season,
This arrest disclosed the fact that
the occupants Of the private car were
Judges Mcpherson. Phillips and Pol
lock, and the general solicitors Of the
Rock Island, Burlington and Kansas
City Southern railroads. The jurists
who had granted the injunctions, ac-
companied by the lawyers who had
applied for the iniunctions, were go
| ing to Tampico on a tarpon fishing
"trip as guests Of the. railroads for
whom they had granted the injunc-
tions. Impeachment proceedings, de-
manded by the people, and fled IN the
house, were never pressed, and soon
/ faded from view,
{ 57ts47
The last impeachment was that OF
Charles Swayne, federal i district
i Judge, in 1905. The Legislature of the
Estate OF Florida, in joint session
formally declared that Judge Swayne
was ignorant, corrupt, oppressive, and
a disgrace to the state. and demand
led his impeachment. Swayne was
lltried before the United States Senate
sitting as jury, and acquitted.
i Swayne was charged with stealing
expense money, with being non-resf
dent of his district, and with unlawful
use Of the private cars Of q railroad
4 that he had thrown into the hands O
la receiver, with tyrannical and cor
4 rupt use Of his power in contemp
proceedings, and various other LESSEE
4 crimes.
4 It was proved by the government
records that he had collected $40
| day on his certificate that they were
travelling expenses Witness aftel
i witness was introduced to show tina
lhe had cheated the government ou
| Of several thousand dollars by sucl
collections. Keepers of Texas board
| ing houses, where he sat for months
/ at time, swore that he had neye
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1911-11-16
WHAT PREVENTS PROSPERITY

II u ~
LET us put our shoulders together
| in a movement to promote the bust
mess prosperity Of the country" said
President Taft, at Waterloo. Iowa.
This is good advice. The trouble is
THAT Mr.. Taft and his fellow stand
Ipatters won't follow it. We can not
have prosperity while we maintain a
system which restricts production and
exchange and robs the producers. AS
long as the cost of producing every
thing is artifcially enhanced by sense
less tax laws and the purchasing
power Of consumers diminished by
laws that artificia.ly limit opportuni-
ties for earning d living, prosperity
will remain a dream OF the future.
There can be no prosperity in the
oil refining business, for instance, for
any one but the Standard Oil Com
lpany, as long as pipe lines and rail
road lines are controlled by private
Imonopolies. There cam be no pros
Iperity in the steel manufacturing
business for any one but the Stee!
Trust, as long as ore beds and coal
beds are monopolized. The Sugar
Trust will have a monopoly of all
prosperity in the sugar refining bust
ness as long as there is sugar tarlfr.
Schedule X confers ample prosperity
on the American Wooden Company,
but keeps IT away from the carried
wool men, from the clothing manu-.
facturers and from every one elss In
| any way connected with production
or consumption Of wooden products.
Land monopoly makes the Astor
family very prosperous. but keeps
prosperity away from SO per cent of
other families in New York City. 1t
also makes Charles p Taft and Nick
Longworth prosperous. but forces
most of the other fellow townsmen of
the President to scratch hard to keep
soul and body together. Taxes on
buildings and other improvements,
on Personal property. on occupati 3ns
and other forms Of labor and labor
products enable mnnopolists to es-S
cape just taxation on social values
thew aDuropriate. but impose heavy
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1911-11-16
LABOR UNIONS FAVOR
RED CROSS SEAL,
Workinsmen IN Fight Against Tuber
culosis, Endorse Sale Of
Holiday Stickers.

Direct approval of the campaign
for the sale OF Red Cross Seals has
been given by the American Fedora
ton Of Labor, according to an an
nounoement made today by the Ma
ti0nal association for the Study and
Prevention OF tuberculosis.
At the last annual convention Of
the American Federation of Labor, a
resolution was adopted calling on ali
the members Of the Federation to
further the sale as much as possible.
The resolution reads as follows:
Whereas. The American Fedora
ton OF Labor has in every possible
way aided the movement for the study
and prevention OF tuberculosis
throughout the United States and
Canada, and
Whereas, The American National
Red Cross has been In the past and is
now making an especial effort,
through the sale Oh Red Cross Christ
mas Seals to secure funds to carry
on the war against tuberculosis, and
By means Of the funds raised in this
manner has been able to do much eff
fective work in this direction, there
lore be 1t
Resolved, that the American Fed
GRAFTON Of Labor give its endorse
menr to the movement Of the Ameri-
can National Red Cross, and encour-
age its members to further in every
reasonable way the sale Of these seals
in their respective communities. !"
There are now four special methods
BY which consumptive workingmen in
the United States are being cared
for In such cities as Albany. Elmire
and Binghamton. N Y, the unions
support separate pavilion or hospi-
tai In cities like Hartford, New
Britain and South Manchester, Conn.
the workmen contribute towards the
maintenance of fund for the care of
consumptives. The employers also
contribute to these funds. There are
also two national sanatoria for the
treatment of tuberculosis owned and
operated by labor unions; one by the
International Typographical Union,
and tie other by the Printing Press
men and Assistants Union. In Mass
achusetts, Illinois, and elsewhere,
Il. ...-5f -. = :. = -, - =,
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doors of avarice and plant q new ban
ner Of hope upon soil which was
soaked with the blood Of patriots In
order to emancipate the sad-eyed
goddess of toll.
Look not down upon me with scorn,
We monsters of greed, for opening my
eyes to thy inhumanity, as ! have
hung upon thy promises until me and
mine have become faint and heart
sick waiting for thee, to divide thy
|ill-gotten spoils.
With the eloquence of our miseries
I'VE have begged thee, and with tear
stained faces of our wives and babies,
we have entreated thee, but our bis
tered hands, our sunken eyes and our
half-clad forms have not moved thee
to pity.
/ We have sowed and reaped under
clustering skies, and produced enough
and to SELL but thou didst hover DER
our fields like unfed vultures, and
took our surplus from us at an unfair
price. and sold us the products Of our
brothers toll, whose misery equals our
own, for price still more unfair.
From early morn tillslate at night
we and our half-fed babes bend over
bench and forge, over loom and
shuttle, and pile mountain high thy
towering hills Of yellow agald. only to
wend our way homeward at night.
when the whistle shrieks her heart
less scream, to lie down in want.
oh, Master! we built thy mansion
and hung its walls with the product Of
our sweat; we have spread thy floors
with carpets soft to thy tread; we
have polished thy floors until they
mirrored our miseries; we have woven
in the looms of toll the softest raiment
to clothe the bodies Of thee and thine;
from our gardens we have heaped.
high thy table with the choicest 81
fruits and flowers; we have planted
every shrub and vine that beautihes
thy home; we have, slave-like, nursed
and fondled thy young and protected
it with our strength; we have fed the
roaring furnaces Of commerce, and
caused the smokestacks of the uni
verse to belch forth d vulcan spray Of
toll which thou hast moulded into
pyramids Of gold; we have unnur-
muringly swung ourselves into thy
engines and plowed across blossoming
prairies and forest hung deep with
dangers. to drag to distant ports the
products Of our own labor. that thou
highest live in ease while we our
selves shfver in cold huts and battle
with unrelenting poverty; for = pit
lance onr mothers. wives and daugh-
ters have washed the soiled silks and
laces Of your wives and daughters,
knowing that they themselves would
not be permitted to enter the homes
Of their Wearers, only By way Of an
alley gate; we have placed within thy
easy grasp all that our skin could
fashion; from thy sfIk-draped win
dows, strains Of sweet music float to
our ears, made By the Instruments our
own hands have wrought; when biting
Irosts sting Us with unrelenting
saFagery. from thy palaces lazily
surls slyward smoke from tie coal