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Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1912-12-05
IN CRAZY LAND DOWN 4
ON THE LOONEY PIKE.
10y Henry M. Tchenor, The Rp-saw Poet)

you been Crazy Pike?
There people the like
The that do the useful work be,
live
clothes
That don't because they
The children slave in Crazy Land to satisfy the greed
OF plumber sharks only live to loaf feed
They young starvation pay,
They working and they starve the working
And they steal loaf of brea they land them in the
disease Crazy Landtheres microbes
n poison food, polluted earth foul fetid
die there filled with gemsom filth swl-
down Crazy Land proclaim is Gods
everything Crazy Land that ought be abhorred
only Land the crazy God"
The they worship this is to behold
Crazy Land-hey fight beat
They slaughter Crazy Land
prophets Crazy Land, they cruelty and
They in the pulpi nd seat yrans
robber class Crazy land every crazy law,
with lcub
il a against their and Deeds
and rulers YELL HE'S Dustin UP OUR CREED"
a Crazy Land down the Looney Pike
queerest people hereyou the like!
They're Crazy Land they're upside down with
They around their heads and feet the air!
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1912-12-05
TOO BUSY TO ATTEND TO
THEIR REAL BUSINESS

Some people in this country still be.
lieve the trusts" can be dissolved by
law, and that we can ego back to com.
Petition. This in spite of the outcome
CT the so-called Standard, Oil and To.
bacco "dissolutions." Since the conclu-
sion OF those cases, Messrs John d.
Archbold, president of the STANDARD
Oil Company, of New Jersey; w. C.
Teagle, director of that company,
and H. c. Folger, president of the
Standard Oil Company of New York,
quietl yorganized the Magnolia Petro-
leum Company in Texas, to take the
rlace Of the defunct Standard Oil
Company. The plan was the usual one.
L Oca1 mon were installed as president,
secretary, and SO forth, but so per
cent TO the stock was held by Messrs.
Archbold, Teagle and Folger. The
local men were the usual dummies.
Here comes the most remarkable part
OF the story. A grand jury sitting in
Texas indicted Messrs. Archbold and
associates for violating the decree of
the Texas Federal Court But Mr..
Wickersham, the Attorney General, re-
fused to allow the United States Mar
shall in New York to serve the war
rants on Messrs. Archbold1 ct al. After
Sll, why should they be inconvenience
ed? They are very busy men.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1912-12-05
The Making Of the Noble
(Ry Rbert Hunter.)

I and fit from the lights and gayety Of
Paris to the soft nights and gaming
| tables Of the RIVERS.
And wha happens? The men grow
/ fat and red and sensual, and the wo
i, men live in joyous anticipation of unit
/ ing their blood with the degenerate
remnants Of past aristocracies, the
dukes and princes of Russia, the
dukes and princes of Italy, Hungary
and other countries.
And then l ask, Is it for this tina
labor labors? Is it to produce this
that toll and anguish poverty and I'm
employment, low wages and Ions
hours, toiling mothers and child
slaves, must exist in the world?
Are the so-called upper classes
worth so much to the world?
Out of the upper classes of Greece
and Rome, of Russia and France and
Italy. there have come so few men OF
intellect and greatness that their
names are hardly worth mentioning.
The poor produ ced all the upper class
required, and then when the upper
classes failed to become great in
tellects, poets and writer's, great states
men, trusted leaders and humanitar-
ians, the poor sent up through the
ranks and castles and classes of life
men Of their own to 90 the noble as
we'll as the useful things of life.
Time and time again in the history
of the world the people have found
that the noble are not noble, the kings
not kings but wastrels, not heroes but
play-actors and towards: And then by
revolution the people have forced
their way into the midst of the noble
to find out what rottenness existed in
ha holy Of holy places.
One thousand eight hundred and
forty eight was year of such upris-
ings. Carlyle says: Everywhere i'm
measurable democracy rose monstrous,
loud, blatant inatriculate as the voice
of chaos. ' Everywhere the official
holy-of- HOLES was scandalously laid
bare to dogs and the profane. Kings
everywhere, and reigning persons,
stared in sudden horror, the voice OF
the whole world believing in their
ear: 'Begone ,ye- imbecile hypocrites,
histrios not heroes! OH with you, Oh.
And, what was peculiar and notable in
this year for the first time, the kings
all made haste to go, as if exclaiming
We ARE poor histrios, we sure
enough-did you want heroes? Don't
kill US; we couldn't help it,
And then the people said 0 these
kings and upper classes, did you
think the Life of Man was grimacing
dance of apes? To be led always by
the squeak of your paltry fiddle: Ye
miserable, this Universe is not an
upholstery Puppetsplay, but TERRI
BILE GODS FACT, and you. think
had NOT you better be gomez"
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1912-12-05

The United States has vast coal
reserve. It is estimated by the Geo
logical Survey that 50 far we have ex-
hausted only about one-haH OF per
cent Of the available supply. The
known coal fields in the United States
embrace an area Of approximately 31O,-
1856 square miles. The quantity Of coal
still remaining to be mined amounts to
approximately 1902, 022, 100000 short
tons. All Of this is, or will be owned
by private individuals. Although all
the work necessary to take this out
of the earth and distribute it to those
who use coal will be done by the work
ers in mining and transportation in
dustrieS, the men who own the land in
which this coal is found have the legal
right to tax every consumer Of coal
as much as they can on every ton of
this more than three trillion tons!
Doesn't it seem silly that a. nation
which might own these coal mines for
its own use permits a few individuals
to levy a tax on it for all time?
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1912-12-05
Why Many People Suspect the
indianapolis Trial is Farce

is worse than any criminal he ever
convicted. This, evidence means moth
ing more or less than that Burns is a
jury f1xer.'I Does Judge Anderson OF
anybody else who calls the Indian
apolis triad a fair one suppose that the
crooks employed by w. J. Burns in
the land fraud cases have suddenly
become good and honest and straight
forward?
4. twenty-five years ago a trial
was held in Chicago Labor men were
convicted in court. These labor men
who had been fighting for the eight,
hour day, were hanged, were sent to
prison, were branded by judges, news.
papers and respectable people as Grim.
inals. When John iP Alleged became
governor he pardoned these men, pub
fishing complete evidence showing thai
| it was all a frame-up. Prof. Herrick
Of the University of Chicago, in '"The
Memoirs Of an American Citizen" por-
trays in detail the whole story of the
sorry puppets and playthings that en-
acted the farce by order of Chicago
capitalists.
The claim is not made here that the
men on trial are innocent on the
technical charges brought against
them in the indianapolis court.
Whether they are guilty or not shoulG
be shown in evidence presented fairly
to jury pickle dfairly. before judg.
who renders decisions fairly. .
The doubling of Hockin's bond wit
it's accompanying effect on the Jury.
the barring Of Mary Field from the
court room, the fact that courts have
in the past been known to use their
powers for the advantage of capital
lists and corporations these things
lead a large number of intelligent peo-
pie to believe there is a good deal of
truth in the assertion of Mary Field
that "the trial is a farce. Chicago
World.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1912-12-05
j: OBSERVATIONS
10y r. NJ. ks rby.)

The extent to which women workers
are displacing men in the textile in
dustries OF Switzerland is indicated in
report from the American Consul
General. Out OF 29,55O employees in
cotton goods factories, 1892 are wo-
men. The silk factories, with 1885
employees, have 23,802 women; the wool
factories have 3,135 female -empl6yes;
the linen mills have 567 out OF total
of 1857; the embroidery factories en-
ploy 28,606 persons, Of whom 1892
are women. The costume and cloth
ing factories employ 24,850 persons, of
whom 16,001 are females The next
time 20 uhear d man say that Social
ism will destroy the home, quote these
figures for him.
President Taft is reported as busy
over his message to Congress which
conYenes in December. We cannot
imagine anything less exciting that the
swan-song message of defeated Pres
ident to an expiring Congress.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1912-12-05

methods is best seen in the steel in
dustry controlled by such supporters
of the Civic Federation as Carnegie
Eric kand Morgan. Here the unions
have been completely wiped off the
map.
August Belmont, another prominent
Civic Federationist, showed his love
for organized labor by attempting to
destroy the Elevated Railway mems
Union in New York The capitalist
members of the Civic Federation were
perfectly willing that the lion and the
lamb should Ii edown together, provid
ing that the lamb organized labor
should be inside of the lion.
The Civic Federation publishes &
monthly journal of which about two
thinds is devoted to attacks on Social
ism and the Socialist party. The
other third is used to praise the few
labor leaders GU who are members Of
the Civic Federation and to boost the
welfare work" carried ON by the
trusts to chlorofor mtheir employees.
Indeed, the Civic Federation may be
compared to huge sponge saturated
with chloroform. placed under the
noses of labor officials. A.-
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1912-12-05

Perhaps ne might stand seeing all
the suffering and misery in the world
if one KNS What something good and
great was being produced by it.
Horrible as modern capitalism is,
one might stand if it at the top men,
women and children were being pro
duced who really represented good
ness, greatness and power.
We know the sorrow, the wretched-
ness, the insecurity of the millions
who toll We know how sad and
dreary their life of toll is. We know
what it means that two, million frail
little children are now child slaves.
And yet one might hesitate to over
turn the world for their sake if all
their toll and suffering was producing
a type of manhood and womanhood
that was really the light of the world
We hear it said often that nothing
really wonderful is produced in this
sad old world of ours without suffer
ing, without pruning and wedding out,
indeed without the actual crushing out
of less efficient, less useful and less
vigorous plants and animals. We have
been told what it costs to produce the
American Beauty" and it is argued
that to produce great men, the many
must suffer in want.
l smoetimes go into great houses.
see Injuries envied by princes, ter
races, sunken II gardens, wonderful
views over countless acres; stables
and kennels that would be palaces of
undreamed of splendor to the poor;
beautiful rooms of exquisite woods;
walls covered with gorgeous paintings;
floors cushioned by great thick Orien-
tai carpets; rooms containing every
luxury and necessity that man might
wish for; quiet, efficient servants who
go about administering to every COM
fort rarely seen, but ready always to
wait and serve. And in these places
clear air, warm sunlight, close1cropped
lawns. wonderful views over the most
beautiful bits Of Gods earth, make it
seem as if the~4nen and women who
lived there might become superior
type; more perfect, more lovable, more
godlike than ordinary mortals.
And yet what does one see? Men
and women living on their great
estates, drinking, smoking and gambl-
ing, the men fighting each other; the
women, jealous, petty and quarrel
some. There is much marrying and
divorcing; much lewd scandal and
licentious living; much falling in love
with each others wives, and much
running of beautiful girls from the
lower" classes. Their lives are spent
in idleness, anxious only to find new
ways to create appetites and new ways
of satisfying those appetites. They
rush from one part of the world to
another to get away from boredom,
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1912-12-05
: What The Civic Federation Is:
10y Prof. J. c. Kennedy

The National Civic Federation was
organized by Mark Hanna. Prominent
among it's officials were such we'll
known labor-haters as Andrew Carne-
gle, August Belmont and Thomas F.
Ryan. Its secretary has been Ralph
Easley, formerly connected with the
Chicago InterOcean, and now, as then,
the servile tool of plutocratic inter-
ests. It is said that ,Easley gets a
salary of $4,000 year for his activi-
ties in disrupting the labor movement.
The object of the Civic Federation,
according to its founder, Mark Hanna
was to harmonic the interests OF
capital and labor
Prominent labor officials, such as
Samuel Gompers and John Mitchell,
were invited to gather around the
table with prominent labor haters such
as Andy Carnegie, August Belmont
and Jacob Schiff, TO discuss and settle
the labor problem
The Civic Federation inaugurated
''the mahogany table and champagne
supper" method of handling labor dis.
putes.
The outcome of the Civic Federation
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1912-12-05
The Rcet,s Corner
MIGHT is RIGHT
(By Covington HaII.r

Wy OOVIHStOI1, TALLY
Might was Right when Christ was
hanged beside the Jordan's foam;
Might was Right when Gracious BLEED,
upon the stones of Rome;
And Might Was Right when Danton
fell, when Emmett passed away
It's the logic of the Ancient World
and the Gospel of today"
Might was Right when ,sparatacus
went down in seas of blood, -
And when the Commune persisted in
the selfsame crimson flood;
And Might was Right at Cripple Creek.
at GrabOw, Homestead-yea!
tbs the logic of the Ancient World
and the Gospel of today
Might is Right when Morgan builds
hell round every hearth;
Might is Righ twhen Kirby starves his
poems OF the earth;
And Might was Right when Dietz be-
came Wolf Weverhauser's prey.
It's the logic of the Ancient World
and the Gospel of today"
Might Is Right when children die NV
thousands in the mills,
When jeweled hands reach down and
take the gold their blood distiils:
And Might is. Right when mafdens a;uo
their love-dreams uD for nav ei'e
It's the logic of the Ancient World.
and the Gospel of today
Might was. it Is it e'er will ha the a.
and Only Right; se one
And so, Clan of Toll awaken, o work
ingmen. unite! w. =
Unite! Unite! For Might is Right
tbs Freedom's only way
us the logic of the Ancient World
and the Gospel Of today
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1912-12-05

church single former inmate Of the
places he has already closed. :.
"Since January l." says the director,
4 have closed s54 houses of question
able repute and have sent 700 unfor-
tunate women to the house Of correc-
ton. y
IF the ministers Of this city can
point out to me one degraded woman
they have taken into their chunches
for. every questionable house have
closed, win close every house Of such
character in the city before tomorrow
night
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1912-12-05
SCORES PASTORS FOR +
NOT TAKING FORMER
! INMATES INTO CHURCH

Philadelphia-Director of Public
Safety George D. Porter is SO angered
by the criticisms made by the minis
tiers of the city Of his course regarding
the social evil that he has told them
that he will eliminate the segregated
district Of Philadelphia provided they
will agree to take the inmates of the
resorts into their churches or even
prove that they have taken into the
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1912-12-05
BENEVOLENT FEUDALISM

In order doubtless to forestall all at
tempts to organize to improve working
conditions, the Bell Telephone Co.,
Western Union Telegraph, CO. and
allied corporations have setNaside $1O,-
100000 Of their loot to estabNsHa sys-
tenn OF pensions, sick benefitsSand life
insurance for the 700 employees and
their families. 1t is said that under
the terms of the new pension 9lan.
employees so or more years OF age,
who have been 20 or more years IN
the service, may retire on pensions,
and those who are SIS or more years
old and have been in the service 20
years or more, may be retired at the
option OF the company The pension
age OF females is five years younger.
The plan for distributing the pension
Is based on length of service, as stated
and the amount of pay received,
man 30 years in the service is pronls-
ed 30 per cent of his annual pay TOR
the last 10 years preceding retirement,
no pension to be less than s2O per
month. Sickness and accident disaoll-
ties are provided for employees, and IN
case death resulting from accident ~
the service, insurance amounting 70
three years salary will be paid, tne
however, to be $5OoV;
There is NO doubt that this bait win
appeal strongly to a very large. per
centage Of the combines employees
who have become resigned to its oenes-
VIOLENT Northumberland C1tlzeH'
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1912-12-05

= 1tAAUED7 fAtRX1Ep

Change in Fortunes.
He was a regular sport and an un-
doubted gent. He entered the cafe
with an air, he seated himself at a
table with flourish. The chiefest of
the walters noted him and flew to his
elbow.
"Give me the bill OF fare" sighed the
guest. E..
Yes, sir" bfeathed the waiter
by the way, waiter, your face is
strangely familiar"
Possibly sir. Last year was a
guest here, not a servant. Buff you
will pardon me for my presumption
seem to know your face, too"
Probably. Last year was a waiter
here"
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1912-12-05

Exports of wheat, according to the
government statistics, will exceed 100s-
00O, 600 bushels for the, year 1912, as
against $4,000, 600 in 1911, and 81, O00,-
600 In 1910. It would seem that every
body in the United States is fully sup
piled with bre4d and that we have
over O,009. 900 bushels Of wheat to
send to foreign countries. Was every
body in the United States fully sup
piled with bread2
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1912-12-05
CClSSoRED
66eH453|

Quite Appropriate
1t seems quite appropriate that the
nation should be indebted to Mr.. j. P.
Morgan for his gift to the Library OF
Congress of a complete list of auto
graphs OF signers of the Declaration of
independence. The Library had been
unable to complete its collection, and
it took the Eresourcefulness OF Mr..
Morgan to obtain two rare signatures.
Since he owns about all Of the country,
why not hand over the Declaration to
him and fbe done with it? It's. about
time we made a new Declaration of
Independence AUTHORIZATIONS So
cialist.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1912-12-05
Knew Il.

Knew Ss
The new housemaid had a bad habit
Of standing with her mouth agape, and
her mistress didn't like it.
Mary" she said sharply one day,
at dinner, "your mouth is open again. :"
"Yessum,' Mary explained, II
opened it."
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1912-12-05

Hetfy Green says she doesn't ride ~
an auto because Jesus didn't. jesus
didn't lend money at 10 per CENT
either.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1912-12-05

Going Up
The furniture dealers have decided
to raise the price Of their goods 10 per
cent.
The New England shoe manufactur-
ers are discussing the advisability OF
raising the price of shoes 81 a pair. =.
President Taft's attention is respect.
fully called to these two statements
and he is reQuesed to explain what
the lower price of hay has to do with
the high cost Of living anyway.-The
Worker.
Pity the Poor
Andrew Carnegie, who has set the
tongues of two continents to wagging
over his proposal to pension ex-presi
dents Of the United States, has sworn
on his taxes in New York.
The assessor concluded that from
all signs Mr.. Carnegie possesses per
sonal property to the amount of $40,
600, 900. MT. Carnegie appeared before
the board Of review and entered pro
test.
Mr.. Carnegie owes $S,OOOOOO. He
Fholds 100000 of. personal property
Under the law, with his debts to OFF
set his holdings, he is exempt.
What a fine member of the Mer
chants and Manufacturers committee
ON taxation Carnegie would make if he
lived in Milwaukee! milwaukee, Lead
or.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1912-11-19
TO Appo,NT oELEoATES

-HARI. EgTOsg RolSeFi = HroPer
rFefi1rnt Of the AueTtcaR AuaOncsil'
Asse iniicn. Aaa reqorutsi Govsrhp
GlassrOrk to aprOinr three heisE1tea
IRON Wisri Virginia 70 ;hs Fedsrai Al
Coed Roads convention "a b. hsid
Washington. u. C. hnrch s1h ard
I'm. iH1Bedlately foIioUing tn inaug
urafson o. Woo8T0u W.lIoa - prepi
dent President HaaEh. o. The state
Aui0mobtlp Association has also u'Tit
ten The governor urEiaE hin 10 take
zrtioa In The naitsF 10 order fhsi
u1-u virginia mas ~ represented
this important gathering 81 zoo
fasda enthusiasts.
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haltsd > aos-pe o. divorce. Iuds'
rssslntls. Of th.s eirruh court insuri
ral- ,or J Eduard NAY. Uhp A.
b.-n sued Tor SEPARATION BY his ~i;s
20 appear In eourt ANA rhou oans-
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trmp, %. lie cart orsrF . pa S''~
stisrn-ys ires 10 ihr s-sr
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asi.r ~ DIVORCE Eair HAD bss-n "ar'F
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