Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1911-11-16
We WILL NOW HAVE
"A FelD Remarks
By WALTER B. HILTON

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WRINKLED WORRY AND CANKERED CARE
causes the Register to groan aloud at the possibility of
the Socialists falling to make good in two years admin
istraon In Martins Ferry In unsigned article and all
copied news story Sunday the Register shutters its fears
1T is so ANXIOUS that the Socialists make good that
laents the possibility Of cques and factions that may
grow with the division of the spols It calls upon the
Socialists to make good the cooperative
and them the same BREATH its readers that the
Socialists will be held back by the state laws from making
any substantial change in things.
Two years is not very long time in which political
party can put into reality its Intentions The Registers
party has failed to make good in trial Of hundred
years The Register has failed to justify its existence in
fifty years The Socialists have two years before thel
two old parties in Martins Ferry will combine against
them and try to GUST them from government The end of
the two years will tell better than the Register now
predict whether the Socialists have been faithful to their
trust but nasnuch the Register has morazed against
favorable outcome, little moraizing the other way
may not be amiss.
In the first place: What is ''making good9" Most
people will agree that it honest administration
end that honest administration administration
Quoted for the benefit of the people instead of for the
benefit Of few individuals corporations at the ex
pense Of the people,
What has prevented other administrations from max
ing good? They often composed of honest men,
of good intentions and high character who assumed the
reins of government with firm hands, but somehow could
not drive the straight that they had hoped for Can
Socialists expect to do what these others have failed in
doing? Are Socialists of different clay, immune to-
than any others? Is this what depended upon to make
good for Socialist administration when Reform"
administrations failg
If this were ALL the two years Of Socialist admins
traton in Martins Ferry would be enough to send the So
calists back into obscury But it is not true. Social
lists are not more honest more capable more intelligent
than other people. They not immune to temptation
The difference is that they have discovered the Of
corruption, and have set out to eliminate the
They do not expect to develop Office holders who will
withstand with stocsm the temptations that beset them
but they do expect to the temptations They
know why honest have failed in the past They know
that private profit knocked them down. They propose
to knock out private profit They know that behind every
bride accepted by public official there who
offers the bribe and they know that he who offers it
would not do if there not private profit in
thing that he wanted to sea profit out OF which he
could afford to pay bride part OF it. The Socialists
have set themselves to work to abolish the private profit
in public utilities that there will be giving of brides
OF course, the Register cannot understand this. It
never WILL But there about five thousand people in
this community who do understand it. and they are going
to give the Socialists chance to try to work out their
theory in Wheeling they have given them chance to
work it out in Martins Ferry.
M We know that it can't be worked out in day, or in
two years But also know that everything living goes
forward or backward that nothing in life stands STILL
Socialist administration move forward to the goal of
abolition OF private profit where another administration
cannot for the simple reason that other administrative
90 into Office pledged to the very interests which fatten
upon the sin Of private profit Candidates Of the old
parties appeal to the business interests they promise
10 give 5usiness administration when business is the
profit SYSTEM and it is the profit system that corrupts
government Socialists go into office with pledge only
to the working class They owe nothing to the business
interests" They were elected in Martins Ferry spite
Of the Steel Trust not because Of it Therefore they are
under obligations that they must lift. No one can
come to them and say We want you to help out with
this franchise you know elected you'' They have
their faces fixed the star of the abolition of the profit
thoughts upon any system and the Socialists will succeed
Just as snip headed toward certain port is likely
to reach it than ship adTt upon the SEAS with
pass no chart no engine and hope dependent only up
on the trade winds that blow where they please.