The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1911-08-03

TO THE COMRADES AND WORKING MEN
Look over the advertising in your paper. Patron
ize those who pat~onize you. Remember those who
don't advertise in a labor paper are unfair to labor
and are not worthy of your patronage.
Not a day passes that something don't happen to demonstrate h rt
teness of gu presen grating sysem of overnm Last Saturday W. E.
man ws SCI to the West Virginia Reform School when Is years old to
day of July 1909 nd ven to h Superintendent and asked for his dis
charge n told that he had failed to make his record and would
have to stay longer. Young Selman stayed N until September 18th when
he RAJ away. Every day hat this state institution held this young man
after h e as twenty-one years oil it was guilty of peonage. Young Sell
man las been u of III Reform School FOL years n HI been
a law abiding citizen. Last Saturday ne of u tnb badge detectives nc
saloon bum Clark Martin by lame arrested selman OIL the charge of
escaping from tn Reform School, but told him if he would Va him s15.
he would turn him loose INC finally offered" to lei him g for $1,000 but
thrown, IN an d,r.v stinn,ra ,o,rv ;u vvhoro u uns tonnoa - ab, .ho
bed bugs n grey backs or twentyfour hours when the detective teh-
sraphed the West Virginia Reform School They wired back they had NJ
claim on selman' The authorities at that institution had already held
this young mar inpeonage W months and a afraid to have anything
more to do with him. As as it was known that selman had been in
the Reform School h e couldn't be taken into h arm as tn army reg
ulatons forbids hi taking of ny who had been in a reform school
1t seems that the vern" has a very 20 opinion o. it's W insitu-
he has BEEN ut for w "a n has respeeted the laws. Now Now if h
veryg government tina put thisb blot on his young life refuse to accep him
in its service a they expect a individual to do so and if all were
to hold thisa against him. how is he o Axe a living? 1t seems that the
then reform him. but to force him back into crime If young selman as
held against him, even by al individual, much less tn government.
robbed by a cheap detective and if refused to submit to tn graft n 3D.
berry be thrown into a dirty filthy Jail that is crawlinrw with lice an averv
other kind of PARISHES that prey POI h human body except h idle
rich rogue who legally ros us who if they had their Just deserts would
I've to eat the filth md submit to the torure of tn vermin in the dirty
overcrowded and unsannary as. If clark Marinh had the RICH to arrest
young 9elnah II mac n o ign to TRY to make him a ygraft money. This
va a pure case OF temp to rob an If there is n Law against this
dannabe practice it should De enforced. The people have been patIen1
and ON suffering. M there is a limit to their endurance.
Corporation control graft and political corruption on every hand. III
hatiohal government is peeking Will graft M state an county insitu-
lions are all nothing more or lest than Instruments of exploitation. The
municipal county and state officials all have their hands in he peoples
pockets How the sreat body of the people car remain dormant d
these dephrabe conditions is a mystery to all thinking people. Where
will 1t nc is h question hat conronts us VIII h masses remain
passive until ali ht is human has been crushed out of them beforet they
realize their danger or will hey wait unit dire val forces them to re-
Del ahd furnish % or he cannon II targets for the soldiers or the
hired m"'derers of capitalism. The notorious uard system hat exist in
the coai helds of West Virginia II Pennsylvania is a disgrace to civinza-
Az railroad interests is a mena to III law abiding, peace loving
people. AS we review the acts Of these legalized outlaws or tie
last few years in West Virginia it is enough o make the blood boil
in the veins OF n liberty loving citizen. our cabinet Officers
petty graners who rule n domineer owe h people like he fendel
lords h ruled n robbed the humble srf Today in he so-caled
civilized state of Yes Virginia the hired thug Of the coal baron al
moo dow a innocent miners n excape without even so much as a
trial bt should 4 citizen shoot one of these criminals n the uployrnent
oH ne rpofatl" and every human man huntngh ound in heir employ
nent are put OIL heir trail and a price is placed on his head n shout
'hese "a h"nters fail to 'atcht the man who did he deed, hey will pick
II n innocent rnr1 II swear his ifea away in order o get the reward.
All of thisin the land of he free nd h home O. h brave. These con-
'H'ohs nave existed for ears are gradually growing worse as the
years. go by. day by day he workers are being deprived of their rights and
privileges an thu brutal guard n ddehstivea agencies are gaining power
over them. CAly the rich are protected by h law nd only h poor
are subject them n still there are some who believe all hav ar eou
rlsht before he a v. fiow long will it take the workers to learn that
the rich makes HI Law in heir W interest and that tn two old pou-
ual parties are but the tools of the rich? How long will it ike them
&c nm out that the working class can only expect relief from h present
cohoinns OF wage slavery b elected TEL OF their W class &c mak m
execute ne law. The Socialit party is the only political party tina rep
resents the working class nd until h orker become claes cons,jons
enough to realize that truth The present conditions will grow worse.
Collins he fet called upon to d o something tic attract notouety.s so he went