Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1914-01-08


death of Tolbour The papers tell that he
cellent man, kind and LOVING husband and father good
citizen, and helpful neighbor Ills employers tell that
he worked for them for many years. and that he was
faithful and efficient employee. and YETI he leaves his
family pemiless! N.~
Then must be that excellence Of character Kindness
tenderness goodness hepfuness efficiency, fathfulness
and hard labor do not after ALL financial well be-
ing 1t is not, after all certain that live life
OF Christke sacrifice and do the greatest thing OF
al Lay down his life for his felowsand leave behno
enough bread for the babes that he fathered!
Why, you have told us differently. You editors and
professors and priests and preachers have told us that
our life was IN our own hands, that character
making! Ah it takes something like this to upset
your fake philosophy strip the cloak from your false
teachings And needs something like this to make even
the kindly minded the truth Cut out your platitudes
set aside your golden" generalitieshere is who
lived his Life filled with the thought of the welfare OF
Others and who gave that fe the end for Others and
now his bier IS wet with the tears Of hungry wife and
babies.
But you are giving $1,000 or 50! WHY if YOU cave
$4,000 you would not wash clean your hands, He and
his wife and babies the victims of the OPEN SHOP
and you bankers and lawyers and preachers and teachers
and editors and merchants and employers are the fathers
and mothers and wet nurses of the OPEN SHOP And so
are you who of these but who hide in cringng
coWardce behind the ageworn lie Of selishness: Il AM
not my brothers. keeper i.sst,oz.4sas
There would have been no public appeal for aid the
widow and orphans would not have had laid about their
white backs the sting Of private charity had the husband
and father belonged to labor The labor union
could have brought joy into the life Of his loved ones
would have buried him in glory when he died bravery
and would have kept the wolf of want from the door Of
his home after he had gone but that would have meant
hat his shop was a CLOSED SHOP and you denounce
his as ''unwise, unreasonable, and un-American
II may be clerk next week. or straining slave of
he Hazel underpaid girl from the Neuralgy
me- and will you toss back penny from your twenty
per cent dvdens so that the editor whose soul you buy
with your advertising will publish your name as a phian
hroplst and then will you to church next Sunday
morning and thank God that you are not as other
Small wonder that you afraid to look a labor I'm
on in the facet For the labor union helping while YOU
under IS binding up the wounds while you are staying
small wonder that you boycott the Majority for soaring
FOUR hypocrtica souls with these burning truths that
your pastors dare not tell yeu But the Majority viii tell
1oq ana to tell YOU ndshoud you be able
hat you have coined from the sweat Of yoiIr IDbbe an
oloyes to bring the pressure of the lies your kept ed
the decisions kept courts and se this voice
Labor, then will tell you in hand bills and that fail
ng then will we still tell you upon the street corners
sor the cry q the oppressed viii not be stiedl