Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1915-09-16

for coast defense; and England WITH
her navy will not attack Germany for
fear of the mines that protect her
coast. The large navy of England did
not keep her out Of the war, and if
we had the ocean floating full OF
dreadnoughts and cruisers it would
not keep US in peace. A large stand
| ing army is the shield of usurper.
4 Diaz of Mexico drove the people OF
/ Mexico into peonage with the;!ald OF
the army, which has brought, about
the three-year revolution. After a
struggle of civil war they have the
Hand grabbers and slave drivers cor
lnered. Now our own government
wants a large army to head off the
victorious army of arranza, who is
Preaching the goal of victory and place
i the bleeding patriots of Mexico back
| into the hands of the cut-throats and
usurpers. Will the American people
stand for it? If this country is to in
j terfere, let them support or recognize
the party that stands for the consti-
Tuition of Mexico and not for the party
that has robbed bleeding Mexico for
fifty years.
! A standing. army as proposed would
place every child born of 80 per cent
of the population in debt. $500 to 20
per cent of the childrenborn who will
hold the mortgage. It is time to fig
Il ure where the inequality OF birth
comes in.
Davy Crockett, the old frontiersman.
said: 49, 4
mo fruit was forbidden, for Nature
had spread
A bountiful board, and her children
were fed" -
| By the report of the Industrial COM
mission we learn that our children are
forced to work from the cradle to the
grave. What hypocrisy and assump-
ton we Of the United States and in
the name of humanity we propose to
settle the affairs of Mexico with the
report of the commission on our
Hands. Let every church. every labor
union, every Sunday school and Chris
tian Endeavorer protest against the
armament of this country. Whom need
need we fear? Germany is numbering
the Russians, Japan, England and
France are numbering the Germans;
then why all this buster for AN in
creased army and navy? They are
getting weaker and wiser in Europe.
Should we get dnmber and stronger
in this country and saddle ourselves
with an enormous debt for the en-
richment Of a few?
If we must have an army and mu-
nitions Of war, let Uncle Sam, do the
work and make his own goods:
! AS a citizen protest against Of
fering my two sons as cannon fodder
whom my wife has suffered to rear to
manhood. It is not Christianity. It
is not justice: but by the Dick mill
tary law Uncle Sam can reach out
i his hand and place them in line to. be
lshot. Yet from the day Of their birth
he cares not how or where they pro-
cure the necessities Of life. 1t is like
/ being cast into den of wolves. II
1 you get out alive and the enemy
comes you are corraled and forced to
protect their pound of flesh. Il this
Igovernment believes In law and order,
give the miners justice in Colorado.
the hop pickers of California and the
cotton growers Of Oklahoma.
We need not go to Mexico. In the
name Of humanity, let us give. our
undivided energy to bringing about
peace and contentment from onr own
chaotic Industrial conditions. We
boast of our liberty. / know had no
say in the Dick military law, and no
other citizen in Ohio county had q
say. pro or con. IL law is passed
/ by misrepresentation or graft, even
then it stands as q fact on the statute
books. It is enforced against the
rights of our citizens and bundled in
with the Law and Order league. The
king Of England fears conscriptslaw.
but we are hypnotized and cQpjured1
into believing we are free. want to
burn these facts on your dormant
thoughts: To vote for . party that
gives You the power to pass upon the
laws that govern us. with recall to
get the usurper out of Office. If Al
mother smothers her birth 1t is muir
der, but Unele Sam can line them up