Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1911-12-28

OTHER JONES, where DO you
Iraside?" asked the United

Nj GATES Senate.
VI IN the thick of the battle for
the uplift Of the Sometimes SOrmein s dwell dwell
pOtns' the sweated children OF the
snons 'c cometimes l live among the
South. ,oyes of the West. Sometimes
Fase S's among the people who spend
arry y,,, a in the bowels of Pennsyl-
ther MI live among the poor, among
r., san'r Numbered. My kitchen ez TENDS
he Pine lthe Atlantic ocean to Pixies
rom I while my bedroom. or boudoir,
Pea l.s the the West from the Rockies to
tie Pacific. noo. - NO ,oorn,ad
4 w the anthracite coal strike. was
d iulnste I'd BY God Almighty to scourge
de isae norton of the Schuy1kill val
MsU a scourge of God~ne succeed
ley; a Establishing thriving hell away
60 u nhoye the sea level. Mr.. Carnegie.
up aUOr agent of the Almighty, hands
sd the remainder ri the valley
mich gives rise to the question:
Nv !" n IL 1resDonsible for Mother Jones,
wiz a - the Devil? 1t has been said
wv " thousand times that she has
o. Wing ", toward Old Nick. She is for
~. s0+ ouarreIing with the favored OF
sM0SSl-Pockefeller, Baer, Morgan.
wv C.Swab Carnegie, Armour, Elihu
S Ssat ctr There are so many people
hUu sssd in raising and maintaining
eleae0e oorth esneciallY in PENN
as ,r.nia thai it is but logical to as
yms that the Devil is disgruntled
su l.r This widespread usurpation of his
o, .ssr re- Perhaps Old Harry has
w S''on Mother Jones to combat the
ssaut S OF premature infernos in.
s saw avn United States. She is always
W W. that work. Perhaps she is the sis
t = Of Davy Jones, the old man Of the
s J. whose first cousin is the Deuce. 4
" When the anthracite miners rebelled
.ooinct the will of God Gas manifested
S 90 Raerl and took to striking instead
~ nraying. Mother Jones opposed
.. arbitration scheme, which
vas vas undoubtedly conceived in Divine
light ,,s., -.
at il a SELL" said MOLner JONES'
aThev offer it in the eleventh hour,
when victory is within our grasp,
when the pirates OF Wa. Street and
tho thimbleriggers of the White House
are are trembling in their patent leather
boots"
homes who was threatened with our
most prominent Christian institution,
The iail, the coal baron turned defeat
into victory by means of a thimble
came called the arbitration agree
ment
Cossacks TO Pennsylvania, are breath
pg easy tonight, for here on the
western edge of the continent is
Mother Jones with the smell of the
Schuylkill regions upon her. Here IN
San Francisco is Mother Jones with al
usdic tongue, a little poke bonnet
and shoes that were made for man.
This white-haired old lady has the
fascination of Joan or Arc. Behind
her, and weighing heavily upon her
years (she is 72) is Pennsylvania with
its red history of class strife, ennsyl-
vania with its yawning pits, It's hum
cry furnaces, it's rumbling mills, its
mrid night skies, it's dripping men, It's
female slaves, is army of entombed
children, its hordes of toiling human
ity. She is creature of storms q,
woman of battles, a voice OF the
miserable. She is the cry Of hunger,
the wall of woe, the groan Of agony.
We are there in LITTLE room at the
end Of day.
You know the fire of the autumn
sunset. At times the eastern sky IS
great flame. tt is so this evening.
Mother JQones wonders at it.
What's behind those hills?" she
asks. W.
Nothing. Nothing save the land. z
No funaces?"
Nothing
mo tires?"
. mo. Nothing save sweet, untram-
meled nature"
What ma1es that red glow In the
sky? It looks like furnace light. It's
lick an Allegheny evening. minus the
smoke"
Its the sunset, mother. Just the
sunset"
Lord bless us! l didn't expect 10
ind such a blazing sy outside OF
Pennsylvania. It's a dreadful sunset
burning sunset. It's hue OF hell.
It's the red that came into the sky
Of Irwin one evening last winter. But
the light of the Irwin sky came from
furnaces furnaces started by. men
who had been starved and frozen back
70 work. You've heard Of the tent
city Of Irwin. 1t sprang up when the
lollers Of the Irwin fields, after 2
month of strike, were elected from
Tie cOmpany's houses for failure to
meet the rent. Twenty thousand
we're driven from their homes Dy
nounte Cossacks.
80 the tent city grew on a bleak
Mstch of land in the Irwin fields,
sa the dirty mills, cold and silent,
"oned to the east of it.
The winter came down upon the
ene city-the terrible winter Of
PENNSYLVANIA. Read the story of Val
icy Forge if you would know the hor-
Mfs Of Pennsylvania winter. The
soalers of Washington left bloody
toOtprlnts of frozen feet in the snow.
% I'D the men, women and children
y, irwin. WaShington's army moan
% under the torrents of hunger and
cold