Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1914-11-19


This country belongs to the people
who live in it.
The power that made the Rocky
mountains did not so make them tha>
viewed from aloft, they spell "Rocke
tfeller"
The monogram of Morgan is no
where worked out in the course Of the
'tundson river
Nothing above ground or below
round indicates that this country was
made for anybody in particular.
Everything above ground and below
round tndicates that it was made for
everybody.
st, Ills country as it stands today,
Is not for everybody. Everybody has
not an equal opportunity nit. A few
cannot see poverty-they are so far
away from it. Millions cannot see any
thing else-they are so close to it. The
few who cannot see poverty do little or
no useful labor The millions who
cannot see any thing else do nothing
but useful labor. They are born to it.
They live by it. They die at it.
A great many gentlemen are engag-
ed in the occupation of trying. to make
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They write political platforms to make
them seem right. They go to congress
to make them seem right. Some go
ven to the White House to make them
seem right. But no mere words, how
ever fine, can mako these wrongs
right.
The conditions that exist in this
country today are indefensible and in
intolerable. This should be a happy
country because it contains an bun
dance of every element that Is requir-
ed to make happiness. The pangs Of
hunger should never come to single
human being, because we already pro
duce as much food as We need and
with more intelligent effort could cas-
lily produce enough to supply popula-
ton ten times as great.
No one should be without a good
home and good clothing, because good
homes and good clothing are but mat
ters of wood, brick, cement, cotton,
wool and 1abor-and we have an
abundance of them all.
No one should be compelled to en-
bitter the best years of his life wor-
rying about involuntary idleness or the
feat of it, because the wants of each
of us are so many that, if we were free
to work, the mind can picture no time
when there would be nothing more
to do. H.
Gentlemen who are hugely profting
from the present unjustifiable condi-
lions may try as much as they please
to smudge up these facts with fine
phrases. They may confuse you, but
they cannot confuhe the facts. The
facts stand. This should be happy
country. Poverty should not be in it.
Involuntary idleness should not be in
It. Worry about the fear of unem-
ployement should not be in it. No
chilud should be compelled to- abor.
Each child should be given the oppor-
tunity to complete, at least, the high
school course. Everybody should be
just as happy as confident, prosperous
men and women can be.
Yet, instead of this happy land, I'VE
have land in which the task of max
ing living is constantly becoming
greater and more uncertain. Every
thing seems to be tied up in = knot,
that is becoming tighter.
You do not know what is the matter.
Your neighbor does not know what
is the mateer.
Why should you know what is the
matter?
You never listen to anybody who
wants you to find out. You listen only
to men who want to squeeze you out.
Their word is good with you every
time. You may not think it is good.
but it is good You many not take
advice from Mr. Morgan, but you take
advice from Mr. kilograms presidents,
You may not take advice from Mr..
Ryan but you take advice from the
men whom Mr.. Ryan controls. If you
should go straight to Mr.. Ryan you