Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1914-09-17

United Mine workers sending thou
sands of stories each week it can pc
seen why. the sentiment Of the country
soon became favorable to the United
Mine Workers and against the state
militia and operators"
Oh, no, then! So the Pueblo Chief
tain admits what the Free Press has
been saying all along and what 1t (the
Chieftain) has steadfastly denied! me
country is with the miners and against
the militia and operators, is it? All
right! Having settled that fact
through the Chieftain's own belated
confession, we will go on to the next
point.
Public sentiment could never have
been brought over to the strikers side
had the papers of the country not
printed the strikers side. Isn't that
clear? Surely It also is admitted by
the Chieftain when it says, ''it can be
seen why the sentiment of the country
SOON (mark the word "soon') be-
came favorable to the United Mine
Workers. This would appear to not
only establish the power Of the press,
but something vastly more.
The editors first had to be willing
to print all this matter which the
Chieftain complains was sent out
through the really remarkable press
bureau of the miners. To be willing
to print it the editors of the country
would first have to be on the side OF
the miners.
You see whittier we. are getting,
don't you?
1t would have been useless for the
miners to maintain any sort OF a press
bureau4if they could not get their
stuq into the papers after they had
written it and sent it out. Therefore,
if it be true, as the Chieftain says
land for once we will admit the Chief
tain is truthfuD, that the miners main
tanned the greatest publicity bureau In
history, then it must be equally true
that the stuff sent out by this remark
able press bureau was in demand
and it required the greatest press bu-
reau in history to keep up with this
demand. The papers OF the country
were already convinced the strikers
were right and the militia and opera
tors wrong The people of the coun-
try were willing, to be convinced. The
papers were willing to convince them
| Thus the editors cried for stun. to give
to their readers, and the greatest
bureau in history" had to be organized
to supply that demand.
It all follows like the links in a
| well-formed chain. Anyone can keep
lup with the logic and reach the logi
cal conclusion, and the Pueblo Chief
tain. must have indeed reached its
senile and dotage days when it whim
pers and puts forth such statement
Now, the power of the press having
been proved, and it being equally clear
that the press and the people are with
the miners, because the Chiefta1n
which sheet certainly would not lie on
such a dangerous point, says so, wen
say a bit about that publicity bureau
which has confessedly done so much
Up in Denver man named Walter
H. Fink sits at a desk. He mauls 9
typewriter and he works pretty hard
He puts a good bit of stuff on the wire
and he mails out bit more. This
stuff goes around over the country
and has been, as the Chieftain walls
greedily snapped up by the editors
who are molding opinion and bringing
it to the strikers side. Mr.. Fink. with
the aid of the truthful. fair and intelh
gent papers of the country, is thai
greatest press bureau in history"
Mr.. Fink doesn't receive any more
than would q miner working on fuA