Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1915-08-05

0F TIE THREE COL AlL1ES Englands y WORKERS I
u have been the worst off. The sluns Of the big
sh cities have grown bigger and direr with the pass
inc years with the result that the working masses have
into Weakng carrcatres Of the sturdy
Brtons who owned the seas dominated EUROPE anu cap
tured countless colonies
Charles Edward Russell brings out the facts strlk-
;ngy in Pearsons under the capton Why England has
fallen down. He shows that England has reduced the
inch tall and still cannot get enough to hold than A
miles Of the battle line in France.
France has done all the holding.
That THERE ARE complex contributing causes for
these conditions and that one reason will explain
is plain In the first place the is unpopular Eng
land Again the feuda system, in giving way to the in
dustria carried so many Of the old evils with that the
baron simply changed task master; the British peas
ants became factory hands, with worse work do and
poorer living The factory system has taken away from
them the sunshine and fresh air and cabbages of which
no land could deprive Them Russell calls them
jam eaters and jewellers :"
Much is made of their drinking, and OF their tendency
to drink still more that the has brought higher
wages If drinking their only pleasure, their only
stimulation in dreary and work life is possible
that they could pleasure now that their finances
were suddenly increased, except by drinking more?
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- HE FRENCH are not drinking more; they are drink
ing less. OF course the French feel more per
sonal than the English about the for their land has
been invaded but they have shown themselves able We
have heard great deal in the untruhu press about de-
generate France" but have noticed that her children
have become men who stand the terror of the trenches
land women who do Etheir mans job" at home The
economic explanation is that the Napoeonic period laws
have had time to work out and the sers that day have
become sturdy home owning farmers. They have the
strength to fight and they believe that they have
We know Of ox-ike Russia, and how, ox-Hke she is
being belabored *
The soldiers of so far as they seem
to show any interest whatever show It admiration for
the Germans motley crew of dozen fight
ing blndly and without understanding because they
think they have to-
So from every angle the attempt to- blame the Allies
lack Of success upon the trades unions fails
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n ERMANY has made the best showing 50 far, and
NJ France the next best. In Germany the trades
ion movement has been the highest developed and in
France the next best in participation in in
shorter hours, in increasing pay in protecting life and
limb, and in providing for old age sickness and unem-
ployment. D y
Also and this is not the least, governmental dis
regard for the "sacredness Of private profit When pri
vate profit has nterferred with national e the govern
ment spurred by the working class agitation has regu
lated controlled taken private business England
has kept the unhoy hands Of the public from interfering
with the sacredness Of private profits And now England
is reapng the reward in populace too unfit to fight and
too disinterested to even want to: -
n NDWE NEEDN'T BRAG. We couldn't fight either.
~ Twothrds Of the applicants for the United States
army rejected now, 1time Of piping peace. They
cant up to the standard And yet the standard is
higher than need FOR the battle Of life in indus
trial pursuits We have killed more men in Industry than
we killed in We cant fight the battles Of peace
as the crowded sums PRISONS insane asyhms bear loud
witness to- But cannot be satisfied with the MUIR
Of the mines and mills the railroads and rookeries
and must have death brass buttons let content
selves with the privateprofit submarines which have
made practice dives-and never come up yet.
Following the English styles in worshipping at the
shrine Of private profit about our speed; that and
shooting down members OF the working class who dare
try to improve the physical mental and moral standard
by protesting against underpay and overwork.
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