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The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1912-02-17
Garage For Crystal Falls

X. B. Webb has decided TO erect
garage on the old Riley property ON
Third street said building TO be- aOxgO
in size. The plant will he equipped
with the latest in everything in the
automobile line
Mr.. Webb has secured the agency for
several ears. among them some Of the
most celebrated low priced cars He
will enter into the automobile business
on a scale that will make il a business
worth having.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1912-02-17

Miss DeMars came down from Mar
quette and is visiting ~ the home OF
Mr.. and Mrs. Nose Johndrow.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1912-02-17

A large number Of people took AL
vantage Of the fine Ice skating above
the briede, this week
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1912-06-20
%

Accessory before the fact" This
is the slogan of some of the corrupted
tools of Capitalism as they are trying
to railroad to death two of labor's ex-
ponents. To put away these two in
nocent men, and establish precedent
that we'll nigh convicts the whole of
society itself; to throttle free speech
and suppressAassemblage is their aim
their ultimate goal. Accessory before
the fact-WHICH MEANS TWO MEN
ABOUT TO BE CONVICTED FOR
NUMBERING A GIRL, ~CARELESSLY
MURDERED BY A POLICEMAN,
WHEN NEITHER WAS NEAR THE
SCENE OF THE SLAYING. Think Of
ito be convicted of a crime of
which one is entirely innocent. Not
only that-but to be convicted at the
.instigation of those who we're respon-
sible for the crime. Think! An effort
to throttle free speech and assemblage
by holding those responsible" for the
gathering liable for the crimes com
mitted by the tools Of the masters in
dispensing the crowd.
Oh. working people all over the land,
are we going to stand meekly by and
let this crime be perpetrated without
a protest? If we do; if we are so
meek and lowly-then we ought to be
crushed. Are we? If we do not pro-
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1912-06-20

Visiting in the TWenuetn century
Magazine for July, DR.. James T. war
basse presents a careful analysis OF
"rhe Cause of Prostitution" Such ar
ticles as this, scientifically prepared
and alphabetically worked out, VIII
do much to procure for this important
subject the broad and helpful interest
it so sadly needs.
"Let US cease to cry with self-as-
sumed virtue. Spare US from con
+amination by the prostitute VINO
brazenly has come among US. Let us
ha honest enough and eecnt enough
to confess: we are guilty; we have
made this woman what SIP is; she IS
ours. let us first be just to her; ana
them let us see to it that no more q
our daughters walk in her footsteps.
Dir. Warbasse divides the causes OF
PROSTITUTION into three groups. VI
those affectipg both sexes ne places
defeefiye education at the head OF the
list. of those affecting men, the qua
standard of morality comes flrst; anu
If those that bear directly on womeL
the basic factor is poverty.
other important contributions to
me Twentieth Century Magazine 1oi
Tu,v are "A Privileged Industry ps
Florence Kelly; "Woman's Part II
Ic-,,ontn nv Simon N. Patten
"The Foremost Foe OF Medlcal rree
dom" by William H. Wilgus; "AaVen
tures Of a Religious Mendcant o'
Nicholas vachel Lindsay; The Fiame
by Ella W. Peattie; William Li 4 :
C - by John Jay Chapman;. AT
llantis,' by Gerhart Hauptmann.
The price is now Is cents cop.
and one dollar a year Twentieth
| c 9 Company. 5 Park Square
s1--tor, Mass
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1912-06-20
Why They Vote Alike.

The Grand Rapids Evening Press
says.
"The chief fault found with Mayor
Seiael's management of municipal az
fairs was its intense partisanship.
The mayor and the aldermen who
were elected on the same ticket with
him acted together in such absolute
unison that the league finds no basis
for distinctive comment on Socialist
aldermen as individuals"
That is the strongest point about
the Socialist movement. There is no
reason why one Socialist alderman
should vote one way and another So
cialist alderman the opposite way.
Socialist principles are well estab-
lished, and when you elect a Social
ist to public office you know what he
will do, land there is no excuse for
any influences getting in their work
upon individuals.
Old parties elect officials, and
though the voters chose them because
they belong to particular party
some will vote one way and some an.
other on the laws, which simply means
that the ballet of the voter does not
count. But it counts when cast FOL
the Socialist party, for there is nc
such difference Of opinion, honest OF
otherwise among Socialist officials.
Not only do they know their pro
gram, but the membership Of theil
party knows it and the ojcials are
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1912-06-20
(By John M! Work.)

They say that we Socialists indulge
in abuse of successful men.
The truth is that we never yet
abused a successful man
We try not to abuse anyone at all.
Frequently, when we are charged with
abusing someone we are merely using
him as an illustration. Whenever we
do make the mistake Of abusing any
one, we abuse the miserable failures.
Who areNthe miserable failures?
They areNthe men who have wasted
their lives getting rich.
There is no way in which a man
can make more complete failure of
life than by spending his life in the
accumulation of wealth. Such a life
assassinates all the higher ideals and
causes him to grow downward to-
wards the brute.
And yet, prepos ferrous as it is, such
ignoble failures are what some people
mean when they speak of successful
men"
Who are the really successful men?
They are the men who have risen
above mercenary motives. They are
the men who have spent their lives
assisting the upward purge of the hu-
man race in many ways. Some of
them have undergone persecution and
public ignominy while serving the
race. All of them have made the
mercenary their slightest motive.
To do good is the only real success
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1912-06-20
THE SONG THAT LIVES

THE SONG THAT LIVES
1t is easy to sing when the heart is
light
And the singers mind is free
From the cankered cares spreading
gloom and night
Where the sunshine ought to be !;
But the deepest note, and the one that
lives
When forgotten the lighter strain,
Will be found in. the song that the
sore heart gives + I'
When a-chime are the chords Of
pain.
For the verse that is born in Pleas
ure's hour
In the world there's a kindly smile;
But its life is the life of a summer
flower. ~
It endures but a little while;
It's the song that proclaims, with a
trumpet tone,
For the Right in the shade or shine
That will live while the minstreps
art is known
If the heart throbs with each line,
Charles s. O'Neill.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1912-06-20
held to the straight and narrow pata
Evening World. d
Another Nail in the Coffin OF the
Senate.

Another Nail in the Coffin of the
Senate.
Senator Isaac Stephenson, of the
State Of Wisconsin, has been white
washed" by the United States Senate.
By a vote of 40 to "a, Wisconsin's
senator has been able to retain his
seat in the upper house of lawmakers.
Though Stephenson was forced to
admit he spent 100000 for his sena-
torial toga, yet ttat8dignified body, by
a majority, refused to recognize the
fact that Stephenson Of Wisconsin. had
committed any aGt Of dishonor that
made him ineligible for the fellow
ship of United States Senators.
Even BILLY" Lorimer, the Blonde
Boss of the Chicago Stockyards,' cast
his ballot in vindication of the poll
tical giant of Wisconsin, and it is
reason able to presume that when
"Billy'' OF the Sucker" state felt no
dualms OF conscience in voting a
"clean bill of health" to Stephenson,
the lin en- of Wisconsin's statesman
must have been immaculate!
Even Guggenheim of Colorado, of
the Smelter Trust, did not hesitate to
vouch for the political cleanliness of
the m nawho squandered 100000 to
become d member of the Million
aires Club" at Washington.
It is probable tfratzthe senators who
voted that Stephenson should retain
his seat, had personal ermembrances
of the wads that they had distributed
among those pure and unsullied mem
hers of state legislatures, in order
that they might reach the summit OF
their political ambition. The fact is
becoming apparent that it does not
require brains, honor or sterling in
tegrity to become a member Of .'The
American House of Lords but that it
requires "long green" no one, who is
a close observer. will dispute.
The brazen rottenness that was vim
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1912-06-20
3: Accessory Before The Fact" 3:
(By Olive Bakery

test against the installation of this
Internal machine-ARE WE NOT?
From five thousand Socialist locals
should come as many shouts Of de-
nuneiation. From every union in sthe
land; from every organization OF
working people in the nation should
come resolutions denouncing this mon
strous Interpretation Of ACCESSORY
BEFORE THE FACT" III an attempt
to convict Ettor and Gioyanitti and
set this precedent-and DEMANDING
the immediate acquittal of Ettorsand
Giovanitti From all the unorganized
working men and women should come
letters Of protest to these Capitalist
tools and their masters. Not only be-
cause two working men are to be con-
victed OF murder who are innocent
should we protest, but because this IS
a TEST CASE. This is a terrible eff
fort on the part of the masters to set
a precedent That will literally convict
working men of all crimes perpetrated
in labor-capital disputes; to- Shrottle
free speech and right of asseAlbage.
Fellow workers, if this precedent is
established, it will be crushing blow
to us. If it is established without a
protest from US, then we ought to be
crushed. Fellow workers. LET US
PROTEST.!
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1912-06-20
Roosevelt Again.

Roosevelt had a dream the other
night He dreamed that he died
and went to- heaven After St. Peter
had shown him about and asked him
what he thought of everything, Mr.
Roosevelt said:
Il like everything but your choir.
Ought to. improve that
well, what would you suggest?"
asked St. Peter.
"Well, first off, send for ten thou
sand sopranos"
"ThatIl be pretty hard" said ST.
Peter, but if you say so I'll do it."
Then get five thousand altos
Eyes"
'-Then ten thousand barttones."
Eyes"
Then you'll have a real choir"
"But how about the bassos."
ooh, I'll sing bass
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1912-06-20
What Is Success?

there is in the world. All else IS
sham, pretense and unreality, 1t
does not matter what money or posi-
ton one gains, unless the world is
better and humanity higher for his
having lived, he has been a flat failure.
Says Thomas Carlyle
''If the great cause of man, and
mans work in Gods earth, got no
furtheSance from the Arabian Calf,
then no matter how many scimetars
he drew, how MANY gold piasters he
pocketed, and what uproar and blar-
ing he made in the world-he was but
a loud-sounding inanity and futility;
at bottom he was not at ALL
True success and mercenary mo-
tives cannot exist together. -They are
in deadly hostility. When they ap-
proach one another in the same in
dividual, they engage in mortal COM
bat and one of them dies.
NO, we SOCIALISTS 90 not ABUSE the
successful men. When we absue any
body we abuse the wretched failures.
But we do not mean to abuse any
one at all.
No one knows quite SO well as we
that t4e failures who spend their
lives getting rich are creatures OF
their environment. It is not a square
deal to blame them for their own UNI
desirable qualities or for the effects
of the capitalist system.
We fight the system, not the men.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1912-06-20
>. SOCIALIST NEWS =.

f, for future agitation and organization
work among the Firms in America,
and for getting them in closer touch
with the activities Of the American So
cialists and the Socialist party; rout-
ing of organizers in the Eastern, Mid
die and Western districts of the Fin
nish organization was left in the hands
of the respective district committees,
as 1t has been for two years past, and
the committees were given more au-
thority ,>as well as greater proportion
from the regular income of the organi-
cation to enable them more success
fully to continue their work; the Fin
nish Socialist papers now published in
the United States and also the Work
ers' College at Smithville were taken
under direct control of the organiza-
ton. but the consolidation of the re-
spectiye stock companies which now
are the legal owners of the papers, as
well as the proposition to take them
into the ownership of the organiza-
ton, was left for further investiga-
ton until the next convention; special
plans for work among women and
young people and publishing of So
cialistic school books for children
were also adopted, and some revisions
in the constitution of the organization
made The convention was the long
est in the history of the organization,
and in every way most successful in
it's deliberations.
AS instructed by the convention, the
Finnish trahsla1or will prepare brief
statement of the work of the conven-
ton for publication in the English
Socialist papers.
Assignments Of National Organizers
and Lecturers.
Prudence Stokes Brown-June 1929
California. under direction of the
State Secretary.
John C. Chase-June 1929, Alaska
: VIM. L. Garver-June 23-29-Mis-
souri,, under Atlirection Of the State
Secretary. '
w. G. Hills-June 1929, Nevada,
under direction of tAe State Secretary
Lena Morrow Lewis-June 1929,
Alaska.
J. e. snyder-June 1929, The South
at large.
Florence Wattles- June 1929, In
diana, under direction of the State
Secretary.
Carl Legion June %, Altoona, Pa;
2e, Schenectady, N. Y; %, Philadel-
phia; 20, Providence4sR. T.; under di-
rection of the. German State Agitation
Committee of New York.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1912-06-20

all be in heaven before 70 o'clock ITO
night"
The chaplain, terrified at 4he express
sion, cried out, The Lord torbid. =
Life.
The Frogs.
ONCE upon a time two frogs fell
into a pail Of milk.
Dear, DEAR" said the one, tbs
Fate" and he sank to the bottom with
only few efforts at survival
mot on your frogs life!" said the
other, and he proceeded to kick the
milk about SO furiously, kicking, kick
ing, kicking, that presently he had
churned the milk into butter and sat
high and dry on the top, where he
soliquized thus:
"The frog that accepts is dead at
the bottom, but the frog that kicks
against conditions it is who
changes conditions and sits on top!"
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1912-06-20
THE Basis Of Our Confidence
by c. E. Ruthenberg.)

larger and larger u manufacturing a.
Adjustments.
The struggle for supremacy between
the large units of production led to
further concentration-to the trust
stage of production. The elimination
OF competition, the carrying on Of the
work of production on a larger scale,
means less waste, more efficiency and
greater productive power. Trust pro-
duction means, too, still more social.
lied production.
The above is a brief sketch of the
Industrial development of this coun-
try, and every other capitalist country
during recent years.
During the same time that machine
production has developed and the con
centration- of industry has taken place,
the workers have become more and
more dependent upon the class owning
the machinery of production, for a
livelihood. Divorced from the tools of
production, they must sell their labor
power to those who own the machin.
cry, and therfore the opportunities to
produce.
Fhe concentration and consolidation
of industry gives greater and greater
power to a few individuals over the
lives of the workers and in the mad
ri tot nd
oppression of the workers becomes
worse. The chasm between the pro,
ducing class and the exploiting class
widens and the struggle between them
becomes fercer.
For the workers there is only one
way to secure relief from this situa-
ton. If they are not to submit to
further enslavement, if they are not
to become victims of an industrial
plutocracy, they must organize indus
trially and politically and prepare to
assert the power of their class and
apply the only solution which will in
sure economic justice for them.
The concentration of industry will
go on. The industrial power of the
master class will increase. This con
centration and increased industrial
power is the logical and inevitable re
suit of our industrial development.
And here is the basis of our conf
dence in the coming of Socialism,:
The development of industry points
to only one way in which industrial
despotism can be avoided and all the
benefits of trust production insured to
the workers.
We cannot turn back the hand OF
time. We cannot go back to the days
of hand production. To do so means
TO sacrifice the splendid achievements
of the most wonderful era in the his
tory Of the world. :, =
We must go forward.
The same process which has brought
into existence the present situation
has developed the intellectual powers
of the working class. It has placed
them in position which makes future
Drogress and the birth OF new So
ciety based upon new idea of justice
and equality dependent upon them,
and given them the knowledge how TO
use their power.
We Socialists have faith in the
working class. We believe the work
ers have advanced too far to submlti
to industrial slavery, and therefore
our confidence that they will assert
their power to bring into existence the
only alternative to capitalist despot-
ism, which is the social ownership
Of the already socialized means OF pro-
duction.
The working class has the power,
and to save itself must establish so
cialism.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1912-06-20


Nearly every priest and preacher
who stands out in opposition to So
cialism, becomes pathetic when they
plead for the protection of the home
Even the press that is owned and
controlled by the money power is a
pretended defender OF the home, re-
CARELESS of the fact that theg reed of
a master class for profit is slowly but
surely destroying the home. The
home, for the working class, under
the present industrial system, is be-
coming but a joke were it not for the
tragedies that are being written in the
desperate struggles to keep bodies
and souls together.
Habitations that are called homes
are being deserted by wives and moth
ers, because husbands and fathers can
no longer earn enough to keep the
family larder supplied. If these de-
tenders and advocates for the preser-
walton of the home were earnest and
sincere, they would inaugurate a cam
paign for the employment of husbands
and fathers at,such a wage that wives
and mothers could remain at home
and not become slaves in the mills,
factories and sweat shops of the coun-
try.
This 10 an age when men who preach
for the preservation of the home
should be judged by their deeds and
not by their words, for words unsup-
ported by acts, are unworthy of the
serious consideration Of intelligent
Miners Magazine.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1912-06-20
The MONKEYS.

Two monkeys were swinging from
the tree by their tails.
''Im tired. of facing the ground,
said the one. I'm going to try to
stand on my hind legs and have my
eyes face the sky
He tried and tried; the monkeys
laughed loud monkey laughter at the
idea of a monkey standing on his hind
legs.
And after a few thousand years he
stood erect and looked into the sky,
and the children Of the monkeys who
laughed still swing by their tails and
run on all tours.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1912-06-20
weekly RuIIetin.)
NATIONAL.

The National Executive Committee
andthe Campaign Committee met to-
day, June Is, at '.he National head
quarters.
The ballots for Referendum B, the
platform, constitution and resolu-
lions adopted by the national conven-
ton, are being shipped to the State
Secretaries. Any State Secretary not
receiving the same in due time. should
notify the National office.
State Secretary Schawe, of Ohio,
reports as follows: This is to notify
you that John Adams and Jacob Nc
Coy were expelled from Local st.
Marys for being traitors to their class.
Also Thomas w. Rowe was expelled
from Local Toledo for advocating the
candidacy of Republican"
The first announcement regarding
the Lyceum work for 1928 together
with a neat folder has just been sent
to Local Secretaries. Any Secretary
who may not have received this letter
will be sent full information by send
ing a postcard request to the Lyceum
Department, giving his name and adj
dracc MAINLY written.
State Secretaries who have not re-
Gently sent the National office a com
plete and corrected list of the names
and addresses of the local and branch
secretaries are requested to do SO at
once, in order that the mailing list
may be kept as nearly correct as pos
sible. When the up to date address IS
not on the mailing list, the Monthly
Bulletins go to the wrong person and
frequently never@reach the members.
National misunderstanding Sar-
lund of the Finnish Section, reports as
follows:
The fourth convention Of the Ma
tional Finnish Socialist Organization
Of the United States, held at the Work
ers' College Building, at Smithville,
MINI, having lasted nine days, com
pleted it's work on June 10TH.
There wer 6S delegates, elected from
conventional election districts, one for
every 200 members or major fraction,
representing the Finnish locals and
branches Of the Socialist party in rs
different states.
Among the questions under discus
sion at the convention the following
were the most important; Plans made
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1912-06-20

- ORIGINATED
= DNAJAJED- fABRlIIhII.E
Would Linaer Longer.

In storm at sea, the chaplain ask
led one-of the crew if he thought there
was any danger.
ooh, yes" replied the sailor; "if it
blows as hard as it does now we shall
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1912-06-20

dicated in the seating of Stephenson,
will only hasten the time when the
sentiment for the abolition of the
United States Senate will become ir-
resistible The people may be sleep
ing, but the people aren OF dead, and
such an outrage as the retention OF
Stephenson puts another nail in the
coffin Of a legislative body that is
doomed for the graveyard Miners
Magazine.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1912-06-20
COSSoRE0r 4
CQnliEY55l|
Then Why Not Heinz

zone need be neither Socialist nor
syndicalist to realize that industrial
democracy lies in the near future. -
The Outlook.