Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1915-10-07
Anything---But Get Off Their Backs,


didate for the City Council applies
to so many candidates and officials in
other cities that with a change of
names it can be properly used nearly
everywhere. The latter part of it
would fit many so-called Economists"
occupying chairs in prominent univer-
stiles. Mr.. Noren says:
eat meeting of the lProgressives
to consider candidates for Pittsburgh
Council, Mr.. A. IS. Hunter siad he
would agree to and support all social
ed progressive measures except the
Single Tax. In other words, he is will
ing to do everything for the poor ex-
cept get off their backs. Beside this
robbery of the earth from men there
i is no evil worth mention. Cad gave
nothing else to mankind save the
earth.
'iFrom the earth you must get all
that goes to sustain life. Ninety per
cent of the people of Pittsburgh are
tenants. They have no legal right to
remain in Pittsburgh save at the land
lords terms. And yet this man who
aspires to 1egislate for the people To-
cally says, to all other things will he
agree, but to stop, by ever SO little,
this outrageous robbery he will not
agree.
"Year in and year out and at an
ever increasing rate the poor are
unlisted of the products Of their toll,
by handful of landlords. Last year
the toll Pittsburgh labor paid direct
to The Schenleys and their ilk amount
ed 20 $3O,00O,OOO and probably as
much more indirect. Don't forget that
tPittsburgh's labor must pay this
hold-up price before they are allowed
to work or eat or sleep or buy or sell
or do anything and yet this candidate
for council, this A. S. Hunter has the
brazen affrontry to tell his own con-
stituents that SO far as he is concern
81 III ftchl IN
SO long as we don't interfere with the
land robbery.
els there no limit to human endur-
rance? Year in and year out We toll
and slave and toll and save to keep
body and soul together. e...
'1Children die for want of food. Mo-
theirs die for want of care Fathers
fare broken and worn out when they
should be in their prime.
"We make human bee hives of
whole sections of our city. Gods
earth is sold by the foot instead of
used freely by the acre. The menace
iof the slum threaten everywhere.
''The city lacks funds for perform
ling most important functions. Con
denmned bridges can not be rebuilt
for lack of funds.
streets must remain unpaved for
lack of funds. Garbage remain I'M
collected for lack of funds.
Getty officials and would4be city Off
Gals stupidity discuss economy, and
iall the while landlords, largely made
I'D Of useless worthless flunkies OF
princelings. over in Europe carry OH
unmolested every year over thirty mil
lion dollars of the city's own funds
/ "And A. s.. Hunter, candidate fol-
lcouncil says to all other things he will
agree. but to the Single Tax, the only
means known by which this thirty mil
lion robbery can be stopped, to that he
will not agree.
Hunter wants to conduct your bust
mess but he does not know what it is
Il 'iHe wants to administer your pro
perry but he says it isn't yours, it's
your landlords"
Since writing the above we have
|learned that "A. s.. Hunter is an eeono
Imist. In fact he is said to have taught
Economics, whatever that it. we guess
It must be a scheme Of economy fol
something or other. In fact it can DC
most anything save political economy
The sum total of political economy il
1.-The Single Tax and Hunter eliminated
that himself.
It must be that he taught econo
-lmics of knowledge ~ reversed. M
lunay teach how to economic on learn
ing. That may be an important branci
of teaching, too; to show young hope
fuls how little they really need =
/, know.