Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1915-03-11
a FEW REMARKS

Wv against Miss Anne Morgan: me 1reslueA. "a
pressed his amusement at airs that high society gives
itself and branded high society those who had stopped
Working and had nothing important to do lie also sa
the world could dispense with high society ana never
Miss Anne Morgan defends: 'The foundations oil
ngh society rests upon wealth. and it only the Worke
who attain wealth. Business is kept alive by the taou
sands of dollars spent by high society," Scores OF ne"
York society women devote many hours to working TO-
better conditions. :, 49,,
society does rest upon wealth. 1t surely IS not WorCn
Men and women have given the whole Of their lives to pct
terng conditions for the people and making this happier
world in which to ive and have still been ignored by hgh
society Even in Europe where social position theo
retcav hereditary nevertheless rests upon wealth. OF
1.-The possession of the for exploiting the masses II
has ALWAYS been thus The people who live without work
set themselves up and apart as adstct separate cs
and have condescenson contempt for those who work
But wealth is not the result OF work 1t IS not the
workers who attain wealth Those who work the hard
lest get the least Thoseho work the least get the most
Wealth comes through tickery schemng hard hearted
ness violation Of the law Of God and man, but never
through hard work The foundation OF the fortune when
Miss Anne paddles about in now was laid when her tatne
bought condemned useless rifles from the government
during the civil war; and sold them back to the govern
ment at quadrpled price, and put them IN the hands OF
Helpless soldiers whose lives were thus placed at me merry
oher enemies That fortune has been swelled with the
Altering of stock corrupng of legislators the charging
exhorbitant interest and all the ways OF grinding the
ices Of the poor But never by hard workuness 1t can
e said that the porch climber, the hghWayman, the
ocketbook snatcher the second story has hard work
Neither is business kept alive by the spendings Of
high society Rather is business kept hall dead by Wha
high society takes from it, as unearned increment rent
interest dividends for absent Her plea is the
plea Of burglar who robs wayfarer Of $500 and gives
back carfare that the victim can get out OF the way
1t is that in their deness ads are Bred and that
some take to socal upft' instead Of Pomeranan pup
pies But it is in the spirit 1t is IN giving bacF
las charity fraction Of that which they have taken by
force They vsit" the spms and tell the exhausted
mother Of nine hun CRY children that she ought to keel
them tidy and the home beautiful. They tell the
husband as he drags his weary way homeward that he
ought to save his money Yet would take 80 more out
its Of clothing to keep the children tidy $1,000 to make
the home cheerful and So day wages before the
husband and father could even meet the cost Of decent
the family is because they have already been taken BY
the high society that does the welfare' work Of vis
ing"
| The only fault we find with President Wilson s
utterance that he does not far enough We not only
dispense with high society, but MUST It is not
only useless weight cancer that eats into the life
Of real societythe normal relations of civilized humans
toward each other.