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

RE WI NOW HAVE
"A eu, Remarks

n TGlU REMARKS
BIZ WALTER 3. HILTON
IN a DOUBLE BARRELED EDITORIAL the In
eigencer last Wednesday called the republic
can IaFolete muckraker and demagogue and express
ed belief that the country was too sane sober and calm to
follow him. 1t called attention to the wonderful achieve
Of the Taft administration and defended Taftas
"a wise executive and able administrator,
This is Exhibit A:
e T1a r s s ps & @ bureau Bpso g i sas ms s
ss e S s
voting IL energies On large scale toward & nine
81 leading miners and mine operators Z 's $50
If that is what it is the cosummaton of its
demnatiOn We have killed more men in the mines than
killed in war; and every time and that
the poor coal miners have attempted through their
zaons to make their working conditions less unbearabe
they have met with the united opposition of opera
tors TO minimize the Importance of this step toward
mine safety would be unjust but it but poor fatering
step, and was only taken by the after
hundreds Of thousands Of mine workers have lost millions
nsrkes and tens Of thousands have lost their lives And
after every other civilized government IN the world has
gone much farther The step was taken to hold off gov
eminent control Of mines It will not be Tafts fault that
it will prove step toward it.
Second round:
has S oss ss s g and oss s last
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ns ms1ssf @ 5an been nd that
sounding Ling. halt e re tran s
1ual Talk about entirely controlled
tSsussy @ the operations the
Commission the railroads
When the Court of Commerce was created and whe1
the famous decision Of the Interstate Commerce Commits
sion was heraded forth the Majority init absolute
collapse Of the claim thata mans property his own
it that property happened to be public utility. The rail
roads claimed that they had to raise rates order to pay
decent dividend upon their capitalization That this was
not allowed solely because the people coming tt
realize that corporations capitalization was not by any
means its Investment In the fact Of the popular
this halt necessary But Taft by the way did not
render decision against any corporation and in favor Of
the people.
an elective for te maintenance competition Successful
IS has Been Mss
Injunction recobne openly secretly con-
cmpve restored Competitors spring up
Nov the Intelligencer cannot POSSIBLY believe this
Even If the writer believed everything else he wrote it is
possible that he could believe that the Standard Oil
Company has been dissolved that the American Tobac
Company has disintegrated. The Inteigencer being
part of newspaper trust ITSELF publishing republican,
democratic and Independent editions knows that the
tendency is toward consolidation everywhere that it is
forced tendency and that whether the captains of indus
try like not they must get closer together and make
their combinations larger go out business The only
kind of competition that still exists is the competition oil
The workers for work, which enables such trusts he
the Intelgencer represents, to keep down wages
1T cannot be denied that the Sherman law has been
brought out and busted off after its Rip Van Wrinkle sleep
and wound for action It has been put to work against
labor unions being combinations in restraint of trade
That is absolutely the only work that the Sherman law has
done, or wdo, do And will all give Taft credit
that for it is only carrying the decisions that came
from him when he was on the Federal bench.
But there is yet nore
enacted which, whatever its defects protected
few
things would have seemed Big but this soeansa
hey cine crying
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