Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1913-06-26
Clarence barrow Delights
Audience Affair Grounds

Clarense s. Darrow, the famous La
Dor lawyer, delighted an audience at
the Fair Ground Saturday, at the pic
mic Of Crescent Lodge, Amalgamated
Association. The audience, unfortua+
ately, was small, owing to the heavy
rain that spoiled the afternoon, but
those who attended were well pleased
as was evidenced by the general opin-
ion: Wouldn't have missed it for a
dollar" AS a matter of fact, people
in Rochester paid SO cents the evening
before to hear barrow, while Crescent
lodge arranged the price at but ten
cents.
Darrow is a big man, as big physi-
cally as his reputation proves him to
be mentally. And he looks enough
like his pictures to make the audi
ence sure of it. His face, scanned
with years of battle, shows strength
and sincerity. He has winning way,
that inspires confidence at once. and
makes friends.
The meeting was held in the dane
ing hall, because of the rain. He ar
rived at 2 O'Clock and left at Z for
Chicago. He began speaking after 5
o'clock and spoke for an hour. He
was introduced by l. V. Barton, State
Labor Commissioner, and the meeting
was called to order by T.. j. LaFlam,
president of the Assembly. A joint
reception committee from Crescent
Lodge and the Assembly made his
brief stay in the city as pleasant as
possible. and he expressed a most
kindly feeling for Wheeling, and a
willingness to come back whenever he
could be of service.
The Address.
He spoke, in part, as follows:
The Lawyers Union.
Il belong to union. not a working
mans union-mine is a respectable
union. l belong to the Lawyers I'm
your union to death-every chance it
gets. The Lawyers Union has "a
closed shop that is tighter than your
closed shop, and an apprentice system
that is tighter than yours. People
may complain about workers COMPEL
ing the serving of an apprenticeship,
but the Lawyers Union sees that be-
fore you can become a member you
must serve through high school and
then go three years to college. II
any one tries to practice law without
having served the apprenticeship, the
Union demands they stop him. They
don't throw bricks at him-that would
be too dangerous they get a work
ingman to arrest him.
The Doctors Union.
"The Doctors have union, too, and
they have apprenticeship restrictions
that skin yours to DEATH. You have
to go through high school and then go
| to college for four years, before you
are considered by the Doctors Union
to have a right to kill a man. And
they are making the restrictions more
severe, for they are having q pretty
hard time nowadays, with the competi-
Etion of osteopathy, and Christian
Science-and a good bit of common
sense.
The Preachers Union.
Even the preachers have union.
They see to it that you have to go to
high school and to theological GENE
nary for three years. don't know
what they study there, but they have
to 60. They have to do this before
they have the right to save soul.
of course, you might go and get your
soul saved in q Salvation Army open
/ shop, but nobody wants their soul
saved that way.
Everybody has unions and believes
lin them-for themselves They only
Iobject to the Workingman's unions.
They find fault with the working.
linens unions. And there is q good BIZ
LOT fault to find. Nobody ever claimed
THAT the workers. unions are ideal
The war Is raging all the time. and