Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1912-01-18

Tariff really doesn't matter much, though for the
workers still struggle hard to live whether they are "a
protected America or free trade England Where
there is tariff that keeps cheaper goods out you may get
more III wages but you simply have pay more when you
buy back product The working people are com
ING SO generally to understand this that It wonder
this tariff tnkelng (which few years ago would have
seemed big being taken at so near its real value
that the old party politicians are SO wildly chasing for al
ISSUE with which to fool the people for four more
years:
Compared with the cost of living working people are
not receiving good wages and the dead beat list
the Wheeling Business Mems Protective is
visible evidence that they cannot pay This
partly why sslong haired people crying
whoa! whoa and why short haired people Who1
would not whoa III the penitentiares and asylums
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Charges Of graft have been made and by financially
responsible persons charges that directed against
the failiese Of our hghest charges that were met
only with Roosevelts epthet of Laf But that is be-
side the point The work is being done by the govern
ment, not BY the way Of Regulating or prosecuting
but as the Majority pointed out recently government
owned and operated industry and succeeding where It
failed mserably as private profit undertaking But this
again is going far afeld to hail it be
cause the present appointments were about all made pc
fore he squeezed the presidential chair And it would
be wide stretch Of the imagination to 10 this an en-
deavor to make life easier for the masses II the governs
Panama. it would be something to about although
we would even then be far behind the hated monrches OF
the old land But the government went into the Panama
canal business simply because OF the pressure brought
American captains of indury for cheaper OF
their goods into the markets OF the that the
American people would be glad enough to buy themselves
but which they cannot buy though they produced them
because they do not receive enough mony IN wages.
The asaosny int,
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The Railway Mail Clerks publish a paper called sThe
Harpoon which explains great detail how Postmaster
General Hitchcock overcame the deficit He did It by
working the mail clerks inhunany and firing those who
dared to He could have done by reducing the
compensation paid the railroads. for in the rental of mail
alone the has paid year the cost of
building the anew he could have done BY
ing the weight maximum which would have gathered in
the profits of the grating express companies, but the
postal employees contend that all he did to lengthen
their hours increase their work. double their and
delay the mails Incidentally he put upon all periodicals.
which telling the truth about the government the
burden Of routing their own mail.
But not done yet:
R has 1ssR 5s s4s =
People
BANKERS who
This too is an innovation for the United States
though quite among the benighed foreigners Butt
there difference In the old countries they the
postal banks in the interest of the people and to lessen
cost of government Here pay the depostors two per
cent and then deposit the money bank and give the
bank the benefit And this is fair sample Of the admins
tration's achievements.
Here's the clincher:
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Ssa y n s % ss Republic
Here's where all take off our hats to the best kill
ing machine assembled together in the history OF
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