Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1912-10-31


Then let us all put our shoulders
to the wheel and foll it forward. Let
us face the light and start the march.
Let US give up for good and all the
idea that any man can save u.s.. with
in or without the ranks, and let US
realize that we, ourselves, the over
whelming majority, can shape the
laws to suit ourselves.
Let's get together! BY this sigl
We shall conquerl In. the firmness of
but faith, we shall be invinsible. So
cialism, the emancipation I of man.
kind, is as certain as the sunrise, but
we are. not content with it's ineVita-
bility. We want to hurry toward 1t.
We want to meet 1T more than hail
way. And we want to take the short
est cut.
We know that the Socialist Party
is not only the shortest road to So.
cialism, but& the surest road to all
the reforms that the frightened cap
italists are now pretending to offer.
They are willing to do anything ex
ecpt to cease living upon us. And so
they are Offering, with loud beating
of their trumpets a few crumbs, in
the hope that we will not wrench from
them the whole loaf.
But we know what caused theil
change Of heart, What is right AM
just today was right and just yeste:'
day. They are not different today
than they were yesterday, fol
they are but creatures Of the system,
and the system has not changed.
They are offering these reforms
from no newborn motives of philan
thropy, but form fear. They will
give us little for fear that we will
take more. And their fear grows as
the solidarity of Labor grows-as, the
Socialist vote grows. ~-,'
Thus the road to reform lies not
through the soealled reform parties,
or by the aid Of the reform pollLl
clans Of the old parties, but through
the growing Socialist party.
Democrats and Republicans have
controlled this state for half a cen
fury and have put no laws upon the
statute books in the interests of hu
i mainly. Let us cast fifteen thousand
votes this year and they will breah
the political speed limit in enacting
humane" and progressive" legisla
ton.
If we cast thirty thousand votes
they will give US anything they have
except the seat upon our backs.
They will never give up sthat will
,clry to- nj .
beat a. walk, and they. will hold on
to their last chance.
But when we straighten up and
stand erect, like men, the hump will
disappear, and they will fail.
Then let's stand up like MEN. The
state of West Virginia and the world
will be ours whenever we shall be
men enough to take it. For the ills
which we suffer no one but ourselves
is to blame. Let us determine then,
that we shall no longer be fooled by
old party political promises that, after
election, shrink into wrinkles and
regret.
Let US determine that we shall no
longer vote for the capitalist parties
! that have been false to us for all
these years anu faithful to- our op-
Dressors.
/ Let US determine that we. will vote
for NO friend. upon AN @old party
ticket. but that we shall cast oul
/ vote loT the best friends We can ever
have, our wives and babies.
| :.
In just the degree that we do this
we shall be marching toward the co
operative commonwealth. where hap
piness shall reign and poverty shall
be prohibited, where our children's
i cheeks shall be red with health, the
eyes of our wives sparkling with joy;
where work will be pleasure instead
, Of a curse, and the wide world, wi y
its goodness and its glory, spread be
fore us-and ours. :.
For the end of the Socialist road
is the golden gates and peariy walls
of the City of. Content.