Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1912-07-18
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A Few Remarks

BY WALTER B. HILTON

such as are controlled by j. c. Mckinley. For the last
few months the Majority has dwelt particularly upon
Moundsve mine conditions calling attention to the utter
lack of precautions These columns have reclted instance
after instance which proved conclusivey that the mines
not safe that the mine laws not obeyed and
that the mine inspectors not doing their duty
The daily newspapers with facilities which permit
ted them get the truth Of these charges have printed
nothing except to lead the public to believe that the mine
owners gentlemen and the mine workers fools and
frebrands. The prosecuting attorneys Handlan, Demo
crat in Ohio county, and Carrigan, Republican, in Mar
shall county have been silent and inactive while the work
cried out for protection against the violation Of the
state mining law. The mine inspectors from Chief John
Lang down. have come and gone and made no effort to
force the owners to obey the law and make their mines
safe The only action taken in the matter by Judge was
the action taken by Judge Dayton and Judge Nesb who
enoned the poor coal miners from seeking to organize
protect themselves from the death danger that the mine
owners in their heish greed kept above their humble and
and submissive heads.
Now the inevitable has happened Eight men have
been murdered; half dozen widows made, two dozen
phans left shelterless And in this wholesale MURDER
whose hands clean? The editor who knew the truth
and did not tell it? the prosecuting attorney who knew
his duty and did not do it? the mine inspector who knew
Of violations and did not condemn them? The judge who
sat upon the bench of JUSTICE and when those poor hun
gry frightened miners with the fear Of death in their
eyes-the cringing wives, shrinking from the woe Of
widowhood-the cnging babies wide eyed and helpless
held out their hands in mute appeal to what they be-
eved to be the personfcaton of righteousness justice
mercy-the judge who scowed back at them and called
them criminals and by that action gave death to the
widowhood to the and orphanage to the children?
There has been investigation of the disaster at the
Panama mine and the report says that the lack
of ventilation. In union mine the refuse to work
unless the mine is ventilated. In the j. c. Mckinley
nines where the kept unorganized and helpless
by the decisions Of judges they must accept conditions as
they find them quit and let their children go hungry
The lack of ventilation the Panama mine caused the
death of those eight This lack is of the things
to which the Majority has been calling attention Its
hands clean. Hold yours up and look at them-you
EDITORS prosecutors officials udges Had you done your
duty before God and there wou have been no dis
aster. There would have been collins taken into the
front rooms Of those humble novels where mine work
ers live There would have been no weeping Of widows
and wailing of babies.
And YOU who read this; who are not in the list above
how about you? Have you their blood upon your hands,
Verify If you not with you against If you
have helped the mine workers you have helped their
exploters you have not helped to their lives you
have helped to take them.
Yes, raise subscription Out Of the hundred thou
sand dollars you have Wrung from backed and
stunted children give back dime and have your name
published in the News and Integencer most charit
able person In your Of capitalism dlvinely
human form and then drop penny to help buy cheap
sheet spread the crushed body Then swell out
your chest and say II good mani! Talk loudly in
the market place about your kindness OF heart and your
benevoence to your employees But while you pat yourself
with your left hand keep right hand upon the crank
that grnds up and more and human bodies
that makes more dead men, more widows more orphans
Let not left hand know what your right hand doeth
O. you hypocrtes O that some power would give you
the sight of yourselves others you How you prae
and pray and preach and all the while eating the flesh
and drinking the blood OF the working Glass; IN hel1sh
communion Blind guides Pharisees! Hypocrites! Whol
devour widows houses!
Raise the subscriptions get of your bloody money
together and give prize to the foreigner who will
new-mate weeping widow they did after the whole
sale murder I'm United States Senator Watsons mines
And brand as drty social anarchist whoever lifts
behalf Of those you crush dares to lift the mask
of sanity benevoence and show the faces of satanic
ning who points out that this is crazy system under
which we i've where capitalists can be INSCRIPTIONS
adopts in the unholy alchemy that bos human blood in
crucble heated by the flames of hell and turns into