Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1912-02-15

WE WILL NOW HAK|
- We Viii NOW HAVE -
A Few Remarks

BIZ WALTER B. HILTON

SPEAKING OF BOOSTING WHEELING it might
he good idea for the members of the Board of Trade Of
The city to begin So far, the members have been con-
nicuos in other lines. AT selling stock in western gold
mines or buying stock IN New York Trust companies
nv of them are prominent but when the roll is called Of
boosters for Wheeling most noted produce, they not
there to answer present:
Wheeling is the aStogie City, More people know
that than who know Wheeling Means Business. There
not state il the union and hardly city where
Wheeling stogies cannot be procured And it is product
which we can be proud 1T does not represent the labor
underpad underfed children. Tt is not fruit Of the
sueatshop Whoever smokes Wheeling stogie knows
that he is handling article made Of real tobacco made
nv grown men who worked under sanitary conditions
and for wage that enabled him to decenty support his
family Therefore to boost the Wheeling stogie is to serve
the double purpose the patriotic purpose Of helping
Selves and the humanitarian purpose OF helping mankind
How many members Of the Wheeling Board Of Trade
have ever helped this2 Why, there is not iobber OF
wholesaler in the Board who does not sell Wheeling stoge
with reluctance who does not first to sell his customer
imitation stOges made IN Scab or SWeatsh0p factory In
ohio or PennSy lvania!
Talk is the cheapest thing In all the world Nothing is
cheaper We have had surfiet of talk about boosting
Wheeling by people who stop there And because they
have stopped there the laborg people, whom they ignore
have had to go on and do the work of both of them
Wheeling stogies have been carried TO the Atlantic
and the Pacific and to Canada and Mexco-by working
men, by that element in society which the Wheeling
Board Of Trade has ignored or actively opposed They
have to Wheeling to attend Labor conventions and
have been visited their conventions elsewhere Wheel
ing workngmen, and have carried away with them
desire for Wheeling stogies that grew into demand IN
their home towns All the time, trouble and expense Of
this work Of boosting Wheelings chief product has been
carried by the workers themselves, hated Labor union
sts members ofGarfeld Local Of the National Stoge|
Makers League.
Probably five thousand souls ia Wheeling are de-
pendent upon this industry It is the steadiest industry
that Wheeling has known The stoge factories work
when all other plants are idle Its skilled mechanics
cve probably the highest Of any class Of mechanics
Oequal numbers the city, yearly average Only
rudmentary intelligence would be enough to show mer
chants the desiraby Of doubling the output of Wheeling
soges that by boosting such business they would be
helping themselves
We have rightto ask why they do not do this Why
do they tell IN their subsidized newspapers TO buy
Wheeling goods when their taste delicate that they
cannot smoke anything but scab cigars made il New York
Or Tampa? Why do the jobbers let cobwebs grow upon
Wheeling stoges while they push out imitation stogies ill
edwith scrap and dust and tuberculosis germs
Is it because there is larger share for the worker
and less profit for the ruckster Wheeling stogies than
IN scablnade foreign stuffg
~ Il that is true, do they boost Wheeling ONLY oN
CERTAIN SELFISH CONDITIONS3