Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1915-05-13
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We workers know that no filtration system will make
us pay taxes because know that will be taxed
always to the very limit Of legality that it will continue
it is now that shall be taxed with food with our
clothing with homes, that shall be taxed with our
medicines when sick, and that when we die, and
soul fees from its body saaried official some
where will somehow manage to stretch out and stick one
tax stamp on the flying spirit We don't expect low
er taxes but determined that hereafter shall
get something for our taxes We determined that
there shall be an end to 900 grabs and that the money
that wrung from childrens needs shall at least be
used to protect their lives!
The Smith System may not last forever. The Ohio
river may dry up and blow away and may lay with oil
the dust it's broad bed to make roadway for the Barney
Odfelds The brass pipes rust and rot Nature may
change her method OF all the ages and longer purify the
water by it's Slow persistent percoaton through the sand
and gravel None say that these things may not hap
pen But since that they ever have happen
ed the burden of the proof brghen hope that they
won't occur until we've got the interest paid, at least
Since Smith offers guarantee as broad and sweeping as
was offered any city by any filtration company we
can have no brighter hope
THAT SMITH HAS SPENT MONEY to advertise his
goods should not weigh heavily against him with the
proprietor of paper whose every issue urges every other
merchant to do the We may buy two cents worth
tomatoes for dme and pay eight cents Tor the cost OF
selling them to ode sabn watahs oh de rbber OBJ Jor
dan am free explained the negro preacher in justyng
his plea for collection, but yo hab t. pay TO- pipn it
to yo And is with particularly poor grace that this
objection should from who has made it neces
printing charges against his system and forcing him to
pay 80 cents inch to reply and by lining against him
all the workers of the political machine and forcing him
to secure workers to protect his facts.
The advertising in favor OF the bond issue IN this
weeks issue of the Majority paid for by the Ohio Val
ley Trades and Labor Assembly. Neither the Majority
or it's editor have received even been promised
cent from Smith nor ony one connected with nm
either directly or indirectly The Majority the other
hand has maintained since it's first ISSUE more than eight
wears ago. "Free Speech column in which any one s
views on this any other subject could be given without
one cent Of cost Never have refused to do this even
though the article antagonisc to our policies and
never has the Ogden papers permitted this But 1t is only
natural that who live for selfshness should tnlnK
that the actions Of every other individual guided by
the same impeling motive
r. HE WELL SYSTEM is advocated by them as
strenuously as the yopposed it at the referendum
election Their arguments against would defeat 1t
now were it an ISSUE But 1t Is because 1t Is nog an Issue
that they have dragged it out 1t is the old trick OF mud
dying the water, of couding the issue They say wells
would be cheaper They talking OF hundred wells,
when the Smith System will be equivalent to eight hun
dred wells The Smith System will be laid in just the
right place the river to get just the results that
wanted while the drilling Of water wells is as filled with
the element of chance the drilling OF Oil wells Inc
Smith System be cleaned if it becomes dirty
WHILE if wells would become contaminated there would be
nothing to do but drill 800 The Smith System water
is as soft as the river ITSELF while we'll water is SO hard
that Warwood people still treasure their rain barrels and
those who have non spend the price OF spring water IN
soap and softener.
Shoddv is cheaper than yard-wide WOOL the false is
cheaper than the tue do therefore prefer Is not
every conscious act of lives toward getting the best
can9 We try to clohe children warmly and keep
their feet dry with good shoes We pass the specked
tomatoes the market stall to treat somachs to the
best we can afford. Our complaint is not that cheap
Peterson and Ogden with their homes supplied with cool
and crystal water from healthfu spring may wish on US
the LIQUID and germ laden mud of the Ohio but we have
worked hard for the little that have we have gwen OF
our years of toll and striving that they might have their
peace and ease have walked that they might rdeand
serve notice here and now that henceforn the oest
shall not be too good for us!