Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1911-07-27

A Felv Remarks
we WILL NOW HAVE
By WALTER B. HILTON



question is being asked every hand and expectan
public bowed by the weight Of increased salaries of public
officials leans upon the bar and waits for answer 10
paraphrase The lawyers will not answer, they
would lose clients the doctors dare not answer; they
would lose paens the daily dare not answer they
would lose advertisers the politicians dare not tell they
would lose their graft the preachers dare not tell they
would lose their salaries And it devoves upon US to-
tell it.
The disease is GRABITISl
The disease rstanakes its appearance in the form Of
an itch The afflicted itches to grab everything IN
sight It makes grocer grab for more grocery business
makes department store proprietor grab for bust
ness makes city department head grab for more salary
The development of the disease is the il all cases.
the difference is only degree The patient glories IN
his ailiment and if his scratching gets him anything
proudly boasts of his gain and believes himself promin
ent citizen Blindness always strikes hinon one side
After that he anything except to his own
advantage Deafness, too, added afflicton
he cannot hear the cries Of the less Fortunate the
voice Of Conscience At its full this disease will
make man get Traction franchise for nothing impe
him to suppress Labor the daily papers Near the
end the patient no longer able to walk and go about
only in an automobile.
That's what's the matter with Wheeling.
AS to the cure: Many methods have been suggested.
The customary thing the bath treatment WhiteWash
bath is given public officials Change sometimes resort
ed to- Officials are changed However, truth compels the
statement that such efforts have been unaVaing It is
now known that Whitewash may Whiten sepucher, but
that it may be filed within of all of unceanness
Changing of officials does not help either there seems
to be something in the that affects the official even
as the old.
The Grabts germ is in the air. That is probably why
recent attempts to purify Wheeling such the Munci
pal League are also up in the air. Ordinarily it would be
unsafe for Municipal League to monkey with the matter
but fear of contagon without first being nocuated with
the virus of content but the Leaguers already ac
ed The blind are trying to lead the blind. In automo
bes But however effective kerosene in discriminating
mosquitoes gasoline really encourages Grabifs The
GIabts germ thrives in the vicinity of garage jumping
about for all the world like little Joys in the comic supple
ments.
The little Glooms are the common people Those
whom Lincoln said the Lord must have loved because ne
made SO many Of them The working people who buy all
the groceries and department store goods and furnish the
gasolne those who produce everything and buy back lit
tie things.
Its plain that we must starve out the Grabts germ
If we are to eradicate the pest Down South certain
brand Of insects grew nevy that they ate up the
No matter how the were Whitewashed during the
winter the next summer when they returned to their
PASTURE they would become skinny and gloomy So they
put the cattle pasture and the parasites starved
to DEATH This has been eloquen remarked before
the same author hard the bugs but excellent for
the CATTLE
So if we are to find remedy that will be good Tor
the common people Of Wheeling it is much more than
merely likely that it win be hard the Grabits germ
and those who revel with it. the common people are
to grow fat the rabts must starve it we must
curtal its feeding grounds just recently the Wheeling
Traction Company (which operates with non-'lnion
power had attack and boosted the price for hauling
packages fifty per cent. The Wheeling Electrical com
pany has settled back with porky grnt Of satisfaction
to fonde the Grabits germ for fifty years IN Wheel
ing. Now these two Of the big pastures IN Wheel
ng there are many more much larger than the Chldren