The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1922-08-16

who apparently seek to destroy ana null.
lify this source Of benefit to tho Nation
and It's people. Our platform today
should be one demanding Of the people
abroad Hands on" And Of our rep
rosentatives at home the courage &c
tell the truth; the courage to stand up
for their own; the courage to throw
back in the face Of malignant c%onspira-
tors the lies they circulate. and coun-
teract by speech and act the wrong and
injury that these latter seek to do. Dur
party in its state convention assembled
today should have the courage to lay
down a platform that stands for the
protection and tho development Of this
State and the protection Of those pion-
GERS who seek to give rein to riches;
and We should with no uncertain voice
demand the recall Of every timid. fall
terinE and cowardly representative.
whoever he may be. and wherever he
may be, who has not tho courage to
frankly speak out and resent tho con-
spiracies that have been born and are
sthl, breeding in the dark around us. II
matters go on the way they have for
the last few years. the cream OF cur
wealth and our greatest capacity for
doing good. will have been frittered
away, We left bankrupt and the outside
people who should have the reasonable
benefit Of what we have in our hills will
live to see It's exhaustion without know.
ing that It could have been used, had
a little intelligence been exercised, for
their benefit and ours. I admonish the
Republican party today upon his Ques-
ton, but what good Is a warning II
our own people fail to appreciate the
situation. or approaching 1t have not
the courage to stand up?
"sveep Before tho Door"
We have had nothing but libels and
SANDERS. Senatorial Committees made
up from representatives from remote
states utterly ignorant Of the situa-
ton have been appointed TO investigate
our internal problems with resulting
agitation. confusion and distress. There
was an old law in the city of Jerusalem
which required every man TO sweep be-
fore his own door, and the time has
come to boldly tell. the American Sem
ate that its particular members. and
members from far-off states. should not
only learn but should sweep before
their ow INDOORS before they undertake
10 SWEEP "ItIc llcS dIc lOl u otN
where they do not understand. This is
a suggestion. and I hope that the Com
mittee which drafts our platform this
day will embody this suggestion in
proper language and speak in no UNI
certain terms. A Senator from Cal!for-
MIA. instead of studying his aJpanesc
situation. must assume TO study and
manage West Firginia's coal problems.
A Senator from Idaho. instead of study
INK the interests Of his own people,
must play politics by meddling in West
Virginia with something that he prob
ably would not understand II he were
to work at II until the crack OF doom.
a Senator from New York. instead or
studying the problems OF the East Side
and bringing them to the attention or
The American Republic from his seat
in the Senate. passes them by and med
dies with a situation concerning whlch
his complete ignorance is shown when
he discloses the fact that he does not
know even how coal lies In the Nils
and how il is mined. A Senator from
the South. who's constituents are en-
gagged in raising peanuts. desires to Gre
ate a political stir by hurting anathemas
at West Virginia mining operations ana
ConditionS: and 50 TIA" matter goes until
the Common business sense or tnis
country is confused by the loud noise
Of political quacks whu should De re-
tired to private life.
II will he remembered that during
the World War, when this Nation was
every energy to furnish the
sInews thereof to our tottering friends
across the sea, in order that civilization
might not be blotted out In bankruptcy
and in blood. the coal operators OF our
Mountain State. regardless OF sell IN
terest and moved by a spirit OF patriot
ism. Increased their forces and their
output. and ran their mines night anu
day sometimes at a loss. and neVc
with A reasonable profit. to the end that
the calls of the Government might be
met. They kept the fires Of furnaces
and factories burning. 1heE
fired railway engines and kept our
TRANSFORMATION system In motion. lhes
filled tho jumpers Of transport vessels
and kept our war ships moving upon
all seas. Through their instrumental
ity food supplies and clothes and NUM-
lions of war were manufactured, trans
n,rted and delivered in England. France
and italy to the contending hosts OF our
Altos The West Virginia coal oper-
atnr needed the call Of the Natlon anu
hent his back to the burden, ana large
w through his efforts were the Scales
turned and the world saved from appah-
ing disaster. repeat that this was
dnno sometimes upon a small margin
of profit, but mostly at an actual ioss'