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Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1913-01-16
vi Rec SPEECH
81 EVERYBODY.S OPiNION.l

who theorize on intensive farming. i
cannot understand. AS a socialist I
believe every one has a little task to
perform to carry out Gods will. But
to show the fault is not with the
farmer or gardner will name a few
prices received for food sold during
the past year. Cabbage sold from Sc
to sc per. head cheaper than forty
years ago. In Pittsburg cabbage sold
for one dollar per wagon load. Pota-
toes sold at 60c to soc per bushel. To
matoes sold at soc to roc per bushel.
Brown onions, radishes, sweet corn,
parsnipS turnips about the same price
as the last ten. years. Field corn Is
cheaper than for the last four years.
Wheat is about the same. The amount
of feed and time given to poultry
cuts a figure in the returns as many
have found out to their sorrow. Will
some one kindly point out where the
farmer is to blame? He does not
battle in champagne, or take vaca-
ton to the seashore in the summer
months, nor does his wife wear $1,000
diamond necklaces. l believe if the
experts do really wish to find the
trouble they should look to the dis
tribution of products. The socialists
have that problem solved. A few
more on the producing side. taken
from the consuming side.
Perishable goods must reach the
market when needed, or before they
get stale. If the government had con-
troll and would place the goods at
points where they are needed and
when they are needed, it would save
much loss. A farmer goes to town
with his products. By evening the
vegetables look sick. if hauled in the
sun all day. The farmer isAup against
the huckster, who sells most every
thing in the fruit and vegetable line.
Bellamy claimed we had an insane
way of delivering milk and farm pro-
ducts, and it looks like it to me. It
keeps a housewife on the lookout to
get what she wants and a farmer go
and very often hauls home what he
cannot sell.
Let us look at the United States sta
tistics and. farm receipts. The census
Of 1910 shows n per cent Of farmers
do not receive more than $4,000 or
less per year. It pays for. the labor
Of the whole family, including the
money invested in the farm. We
farmers have too much faith in Chris
tianity to- rob the people, and too
much sympathy to starve the people
We farmers are working out the pen
atty God intended man to serve. But
many people are robbed Of the earth
and soil God has given man to serve
his sentence on. It would be a good
joke if some one would get a paper
title to the penitentiary and turn the
prisoners out. There are millions In
them: refer to the prisoners.
Yours truly,
A FARMER AND SUBSCRIBER,
Mail Route, Elm Grove, w. Va.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1913-01-16

This is well named The Kiss of
Death.
It is a notorious fact that the wages
of cotton mill operatives are low and
that they have very little to say as
to he conditions under which they la
Dor. s.r?, nr9-. sf7 =
In. the Rhode Island Legislature of
1912 Al resolution was Offered to pro
mote the erection. of memorial in
conjunction with a. Perry victory CEN
tennial celebration on Put-in-Bay Isl
and, Ohio, during the year 1912. !
This was proposed in commemmora-
ton of the Battle of Lake Erie, in the
war of 1912.
The resolution. appropriated, $4,000
for the purpose. Put-in7Bay is about
1000 miles from Rhode Island.
DIR. Reid, the Socialist member of
the Rhode Island Legislature, in OPP
posing the passage OF the resolution,
said:
This resolution proposes a glorifi-
cation of war. AS a representative
of the working class, l. rise to protest
against its passage, If you say pre-
sumo too much, will modify it by
saying that voice the sentiments OF
rapidly growing section of t hat
class that believe that war is hell
and want none Of it,.
Neither do they want the money of
the State spent in erecting monu-
ments to the brutalities OF the past,
thereby raising to the eyes of our
young people an incentive to ideas
that are brutahzing and degrading,
awakening in their immature minds
pictures of glory that is not real
and in their arteries and veins "a
blood lust that is piece with the
carnivorous instincts Of the jungle
brute -. l .
"As Goth Century legislators, if we
do our duty in the glorification that
follows US, we will use the money of
the people to leave as our monument
laws that will help those who follow
to live, not merely exist. Let US help
along equality of opportunity. If we
have money to spend let us spend it
to help the living. ss
This $4,000 would do much in
that line. For instance, the opposi-
ton IN the fo-m of lobbying against
the adoption of the act abolishingI the
suction shuttle would equip all the
mills needing them with the kind
that will tend to stop the spread of
tina dreaded disease which the suction
shuttle fosters. If
Would it not .be saner law to even
appropriate this sum to that end? 1t
is safe to say that not ten working
people of this State will ever see
Putin Bay Island, and of those who
do, q majority win journey on the
trucks Of a freight. Think how many
hungry. school children this would
give breakfast too. Do you know that
for every 81 we spend on education
we spend SIS on militarism? It is time
we curb the barbarous propensities
that have come down TO us from our.
liff-dweiling ancestors, 2 cd
When the resolution was put tooa
vote. all of the Republicans and DEM
ocrats voted in favor ct 1t, and DR..
Reid, the Socialist member and sole
representative Of the working class
in the Rhode Island Legislature, was
<laa nnlv man who voted against Il.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1913-01-16
By William J. Gaynor,

In the fulfillment of Gods time all
the people now dependent on charity
will be taken care of by the govern
ment. / know of no reason whatever
why the men at work who are injured
by machinery or tohse who may be-
come sick and incapable should be
turned out and not taken care of. My
own notion is that the nation is bound
in morals and good conscience to take
care of them. u 's.'s'
Some think it is vast scheme.
Why it is not vast at all. It would
be just as easy to do it that way as
other way. The tax on the production
OF the world would do that very
thing-PAY EVERYBODY WHO
LOSES A FINGER OR AN ARM OR
A LEG, THOSE WHO GET SICK,
THOSE WHO GET TOO OLD TO
WORK ANY LONGER. The tax
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1913-01-16
DEFECTIVE LOCOMOTIVES

Washington, Jan. 16.-More than
$4,000 of total of a little more than
$4,000 locomotives examined Dy in
spectors of the Interstate Commerce
Commission. under the chief inspect
or of locomotive boilers, dullng the
last year, were found tot be defective.
Of this number 1877 were ordered
out of service for repairs. Only once
was it necessary to go to, the courts
to enforce safety orders, and only
five appeals were taken from the in
spectors to the chief inspector. Ev-
cry accident due to failure from any
cause of a locomotive boiler is being
investigated.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1913-01-16
The Kiss ofIDeath
(By Edward Perkins Clarke)

In the process of manufacturing
cotton cloth a shuttle is used which
carries the filling back and forth on
the loom.
In many cotton mills looms are in
use which are equipped with suction
shuttles. In threading them the op-
orator sucks the filling through an
opening in the side, and weavers who
use the suction shuttles, which are
covered with lint, are very apt to
suck the particles of cotton into their
lungs, thus causing bronchial roubles
and tuberculosis.
Moreover, as the lips of the oper-
ator come into contact with the shut
tie he danger of the spread OF conta-
gious disease hereby is very great.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1913-01-16
SHOULD TAKE
CARE OF DISABLED


would take care of these people with
out any lawsuits or contentious or
trouble would be very small tax
after all, on the great body of goods
produced in this country. 81
It is now a thing right before the
American people. AS is usual4vWith
them, nsuch things they are the
last IN THE WORLD. And yet we
are a vain people and have the van
ity to think we lead the world. Those
who travel in Europe know better
than that.
Over there Prussit has had such
laws since 1847, and most countries
have had them for generations. And
1 dare say wheH our courts, through
the infinity of their wisdom, will stop
declaring asueh laws unconstitutional,
as they cali it in this country, and
void as soon as they quit that we
will have such law not only in tht
national government, but in EVERY
STATE In THIS UNION
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1913-01-16
ApARAsLE foR REeoRMkRs.

Twas dangerous cliff as theysfreely confesstd,
Though ito walk its crest pleasant;
But over its terrible edge there had slipped
q duke, and full many peasant 81
So the people said something would have to be done,
But their projects did not at all tally,
Some said Put fence around the edge of the cliff;
Some IAN ambulance down in the valley"
But the cry for the ambulance carried the day;
For it spread through the neighboring city;
fence may be useful or not, it is true,
But each heart became brimful of pity
For those who slipped over that dangerous cliff;
And the jewellers in highways andsyalley
Gave pounds gave pence, not to put up fence,
But an ambulance down in the valley.
For the cliff is all right you're careful they said,
"And if folks even slip and are dropping.
1t isn't the slipping that hurts them much
AS the shock down below-when they're stopping"
So day after day, as these mshaps occurred,
Quick forth would these sally
To pick up the victims who fell off the cliff
With their ambulance down in the valley.
Then an old sage remarked: cts marvel to- me-
That people give far more attention
To repairing results than stopping the cause,
When they'd much better aim at prevention
Let us stop at it's source all this mischief said he
"tCome, neighbors and friends, let rally
If the cliff we will fence might almost dispense
With the ambulance down in the valley"
ooh he's fanatic the others rejoined;
HE has no human kindness whatever;
Dispense with all charities too, if he could
But no! Well support them forever
Aren't we picking folk up just fast they fall?
And shall this man dictate to us? Shall he?
Why should people Of sense stop to put up fence.
While their ambulance works in the valley?"
e
But a sensible few, who are practical,too,
Will not bear with such nonsense much longer;
They believe that prevention is better than cure
And thenr party will soon he the stronger.
Encourage Them then, with your purse voice andNpen
And (whle other philanthropists daily,
They will all pTetense, and put up stout fence
On the cliff that hangs the valley.
Better guide well the young than reclaim them when oil
For the voice Of true wisdom is calling:
ITO rescue the fallen is good, but it's best
To prevent other people from falling"
Better close up the of temptation and crime,
Than deliver from dungeon galley;
Better put strong fence around the top of the cliff
Than an ambulance down in the valley.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1913-01-16
STOGIEMAKERS

Garfield Local had well attended
meeting Wednesday evening, and re
ports from the various shops showed
encouraging conditions. Business is
better than it has been for years at
this season.
Henry Heller is seriously i'll at his
home in Park View.
Morris Davis and his wife have re
turned from trip to Cleveland. =
Walter. Senkbeil and John Emery
have returned from trip to Pitts
burgh. ~
Both Pollock factories were idle on
Thursday because of high water.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1913-01-16
TALKS ON TEETH
BY
Orian Hedrick, D. D. S.
Proper Care Of
the Teeth.

First-Cleanliness
Second Frequent examination.
Third-Removal of all decay.
Fourth-Filling of all cavities.
Fifth-All lost teeth must be re-
placed by artificial teeth.
Without good teeth there
can be no thorough mastication; with
out mastication there can not be Der
feet digestion; without perfect diges-
ton there can not be assimilation;
without proper assimilation there can
not be nutrition; without nutrition
there can not be health; without health
what is life; hence the paramount
Importance of the teeth.
Our prices are reasonable; all work
first class; only registered dentist
work.
Alveolar work our speciality. Pain
less extracting or no pay accepted.
Gold Crown $500 up. Plates, $500 up
Porcelain Enamel Crowns made.
Crown and Bridge Work, $500 up.
ALL WORK GUARANTEED.
Lady Attendant.
Instruments Sterilized at the Chair.
Special Attention Paid to Children.
Office Hours, 8 a. M. to o p. M.
Sundays, A. N. to P. M.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1913-01-16

know when or from what side death
will fell them-reason must give way,
But we should not lose our reason
in war, if We we're only reasonable
enough not to make war
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1913-01-16

There could not be "a stronger in.
dictment of the capitalist system as
administered by the old parties than
the fact that. fhrouge4h Though ~4ie
workers are entitled to eleven mem
bers of Congress by reason oGfhe
large number of votes they cast for
Socialism they are not permitted to
have one.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1913-01-16
NEW MEXICO NEWS

Roswell, N. Mex, Jan. 16-The
President of the State Federation Of
Labor, together with Organizer John
L. Lewis, of the American Fedora
ton of Labor, have organized a Cen
trail Labor Union in this city. Organ
lied labor Of the State is acctive and
the membership Of the local unions
is increasing.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1913-01-16
As to the Farmer.

Elm Grove, W. va. Jan. 10, 1912.
To the Editor of Free Speech:
Dear Sir:-I have been reading
much of the high cost of living, pub
lished by eminent economist profes-
sors, the President. congressman and
ohher writer's, and they seem to blame
the farmer in most every case. They
all seem to. forget that it was the
penalty for sin that ''by the sweat of
thy face shall thou eat bread"
When God pronounced the sen
tence on Father Adam and Mother
Eve no idlers were around to be ex-
empted, and why the farmer should
give the cream and best crop to those
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1913-06-21
Refuuees Arrive From Mexico.

Galveston, TeX.-With all possible
cabin and Steerage room crowded to
he limit, with officers quarters turn
ed over to the use of women and chill
dren, and with decks screened by
awnings and covered with cots, the
steamship MexicanO. chartered by the
in Galveston from Tampico. On board
the vessel were 353 people. besides
the regular ships crew, of whom 1872
were American refugees and II were
regular passengers who had paid their
way and secured accommodations be-
fore the chartering of the ship for the
use to which it was put.
The refugees, for the. greater part,
are women and children, wives and
families of American citizens who
have been driven from their homes
and possessions in the interior of
Mexico by reason of the revolution.
OF the refugees, according to the rec
ords of the American Red Cross rep
resentative who accompanied the ship,
there is possessed among them less
than 5000 actual cash, and a consider
able portion of this was obtained by
sacrifice of some cherished article left
behind in order that they might have
a few dimes in their pockets when
they landed on American shores.
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1913-06-21
SMALL BOY WAS INTERESTED
Not in Somber shakespearean Drama,
as His Mother Supposed, but in
Counting Bald Heads.

The play was one of Shakespeare s
tragedies. Mrs. Simmons and her lit
tie boy, having been unable to secure
seats in the parquet, were well locat-
ed in the front row of the first bal
cony, where they could see better and
hear almost as well as if they had
been farther forward on the main
floor
Mrs. Simmons was agreeably sur
prised at the interest that Bobby APP
peared to take iTf the sOmber drama.
He sat leaning forward, with his ell
bows on the cushioned railing in front
of him, resting his head on his hands,
deeply absorbed. AS the curtain went
down on the first act he Strengthened
up.
Well. dear, how do you like Shake
speare?" asked his mother. Are you
enjoying the play"
Mamma" said Bobby, with the air
of one who has made a great discov-
cry, there are sixty-nine men here
that have got bald spots on top of
their heads, I've counted EN- five
times! "-Youth's Companion.
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1913-06-21
ISs~WSoZ
AN OPIUM BONFIRE IN CHINA
Paraphernalia Confscated From
Smokers by Authorities Is Burned
Once Every Month.

A quantity of opium pipes, lamps,
and paraphernalia for the preparing
of the drug. to the total value of more
than 10000 taels, was publicly burned
in the presence of Chinese officials
and squad OF soldiers on the empty
space of ground behind the British
concession in HakOw.
The goods represented the results
of months raiding in and about the
city. The opium, which was the ma
tive product. and the other articles
were piled in a heap opposite the
Ningpo club and were thoroughly
soaked in kerosene and packed round
about with firewoOd.
This was set fire to, kerosene being
poured on the bonfire when the flames
showed signs of dying down. Not
a clay vial was left. The burning is
carried out once a month, this being
the second time and a different place
is selected for each fire. The opium
and utensils were wholly contiscated
from smokers. The smokers were
fined or imprisoned.
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1913-06-21
FISHES HIT THE LIQUOR LAW
Mackerel Sold in Delaware Garry Bot
ties Inside Of Them for
Thirsty Ones.

Wilmington, Del.-A new industry
to overcome local option conditions in
lower Delaware has developed at
Lewes, and at the Delaware breakwa-
ter Mackerel fishermen from New
England ports are supplying the dry"
section with liquor by selling pints
and half-pints concealed in mackerel.
Buy a fish and get big drink" Is
the slogan of the fishermen, and 1t is
netting them considerable money.
When Governor Miller recently ap-
proved an act prohibiting the ship
ment of liquor into Kent and Sussex
counties, dry" sections, the bibulous
residents of Lewes and vicinity be-
came alarmed The Webb bill had
previously stopped interstate ship
ments.
Ingenious Yankees on. a mackerel
boat from New England laid IN a large
supply of liquor before reaching Della
ware and opened a large number Of
fish and placed bottles of liquor inside.
The fish and contents" were offered
for sale.
There was soon a big demand for
the fish, and other mackerel fishermen
learned of the plan and emulated it.
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1913-06-21
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WRITING ON A SOFT PILLOW
Found Possible to Write LegibIy and
With Comfort on Train Flying
at Top Speed.

Everyone who has had occasion to
write while riding in a railway train
will be interested in the fact that the
disagreeable effects of the Earring of
the carriage are greatly mitigated by
writing on a pillow. The pillow may
be either held on the lap or placed on
a table. The pad of paper, and the
arm which guides the pen or pencil
should both rest on the pillow.
In this manner it will be found pos
sible to write legibly and with comfort
in a train flying at full speed.
The explanation depends upon the
fact that the pillow tends TO eQualiZe
the motion of the fast moving car
riage the pen is driven in every direc-
ton except the desired one, because
the constant Earring does not produce
the same motions simultaneously in
the table, or the knee, or hand and the
pen.
But the pillow, through its great PHI
ability and moderate degree of elastic
ity, not only deadens the shocks COM
municated from the carriage, but
brings the inevitable motions of the
paper and the hand holding the pen in
to accord.
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1913-06-21
THE PURE FOOD ACT EXTENDED
MEAT AND MEAT PRODUCTS MAY
BE SEIZED ALSO.
Action Taken on Strength of Opinion
by Attorney General McReynolds.
No Njsbrands or Adulterations.

Ga.
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ufu+ "'' SINCE IFS enactment ""T
made Tuesday when Secretaries iious.
ton. NcAGoo and RrdUeld. charged
with cuiorcu- this statute, ruled tha'
meat and meat products i'm interstate"
ur forc-u commerce. which hitherto
have been .>.mut.l from the pro-
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ecution AGAINST manufacturers OF
m.at food under tr. Dure food law.
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Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1913-06-21

enrich the travellers experience The
Sgven mountains offer the best
scenery of the Rhine country There
are numerous excursions to be made
in the neighborhOod, most of them on
foot, if carriages are fOund-as some
times happens-to be too expensive.
Only the Drachenfels and the Peters
berg can be ascended by rail
Not far above Konigswinter, the
steamer reaches AndernaCh, an old Ro-
man colony. There is a cathedral OF
beauty and a view worth a weary jour
ney to obtain. Coblenz is situated just
half the distance between Cologne and
Mayence at the confluence of the
Rhine and the Moselle, and from il
Ems is but half an hour by rail. Cob
LEM has many remarkable sights, es-
pecially the magnificent monument TO
the emperor William |. and the Castle
of Stolzenfels. Arenberg. a monastery.
on the other side of the Rhine, is to be
reached by an electric railway from
Ehrenbreitstein, opposite Coblenz.
Abbeville progress. (Abbeville, Vermilion Parish, La.) 1913-1944, 1913-06-21
CARE OF TAILORED CLOTHES
Especially Important II Wearer Would
Get the Best Results for Money
Expended.

The value of taking proper care OF
tailored clothes is seldom fully real
lied, but it is really almost as impor-
tant as the proper cut. A tailored
suit should be thoroughly brushed as
soon as it is taken off. especially the
bottom of the skirt and the collar of
the coat. The coat should be put on
a padded hanger, which in turn
should be hung on pole in the clos
ct, so that the garment will not come
in too close contact with anything
else. The skirt should be hung by
two tapes placed at each side of the
belt, or else clenched by trousers
hangers. In the latter case the waist
band of the skirt should be folded
in half and the hangers closed over
1t.
Pressing and repairing are eqrn'
important. A wrinkled suit is shorn
OF its style, and one with loose skirt
braid, frayed edge or a shabby lin
ing is beyond the pale. When more
than just a stitch is needed a small
tailor should be employed.
Such details as these are all-im-
portant from an economical stand
point. as they preserve the suit and
give the well groomed air that is so
essential to smartness.