Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1913-05-01

hours after its soul has slipped Of its scaly envelope
THERE IS BUT ONE TICKET that any citizen IN
Wheeling vote at the approaching election and vote
for principle If he votes the Republican ticket because
he is in favor of 4""tiv tariff ~ the Democratic tick
let because he avOs lower tariff he cannot be glatc
even his artv wins, for neither do anything with
the tariff That is the why the reomers declare
that we need nonnartisan municipal elections "for ma
-iOna issues have no local place.
There is party and only One of which this is not
true the Socialist party When this party declares against
the rule of the private profit SYSTEM it declares against
in the world, in the nation, in the state and in the city
Thus its national issue becomes local. For the de-
sire for private profit that mpels trust to buy presi
dent and congress or governor and legislature will
the buying OF mayor and council \.
In every seat OF government national, state and
municipal the influences at work-the desire OH
part of the few to live at the expense Of the many The
things that humanity needs in order to live gobbed VI
by the pirates of industry and commerce. and every vn
soul pays tribute all their lives.
Naturally this is worked through private ownership
# natural resources iron timber; through the
ershp of the land which food is grown through t.
ownership Of the railroads upon which the products
be transported through the factories in which they
shaped into marketable conditions and through the
distributing agencies These national issues lone
city can make little impression against them national
movement is required
But the same coven hoof of capitalism-of private
ownership OF the means of lfeis in municipality
such as Wheeling, and this city deal with them
We need more than we have mentioned even to sus-
tain life. We need homes, and light and fuel If city
IcOud go farther could solve those problems By
system OF taxation could make andordism so mattrac
1--WE that it would not be grabbed choice OF
exploiting the people. BY public ownership Of light and
ue and transportation and communication we could wipe
the private profits out Of all these things and the people
could serve them to themselves at cost By inspecting
regulating the food supply that could not directly
we could protect ourselves.
Now these distinctly municipal problems. They
could have been solved long ago. but the people who are
and have been in control Of city do not
want them solved They live and fatten upon the profits
they derive from their ownership Of all these things And
they nominate for Office year after year who are
willing to let them remain in undstubed possession the
means OF lief Of the people, Municipal campaigns thus
oecome merely the scramble Of individuals for the snaps
that lie in the Offices And is true this year. as it was
ru last year, and will be true next year, that the people
who earn their own living by their labor and who dc
lot other peoples means of life have absolutely
nothing to gain, whether Republican or Democrat is
elected to any particular office. For they all believe in
the private profit SYSTEM and is the private profit svs
tenn that is making it hard for all Of us to live
Because of this the working class are banding them
together to take government away from those wh
are using it for their profit and administer govern
ment for the good Of ALL This the for the exist
ence OF the Socialist Party Wheeling Its victory would
be the victory Of the common people and blow to al
graft Legitimate" and illegitimate It would not mean
the abolition OF the capitalist (prvate pro system il
the whole country for national issues must be handled
nationally
But will be vastly beneficial for the common people
70 get possession % ~" government They canl
cure the local evils Of private profit And they cause per-
lhaps half Of our ills