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IN WEST VIRGINIA.
A telegram was published in
yesterday’s issue to the effect that
the West Virginia Legislature at
its last session pasesd a so-called
^‘Anti-Idleness law,’ under (he pre
text of aiding the war by putting
professional vagrants to work.
Under this act it is unlawful for j
any citizen of the State of West j
Virginia between the ages of 16 i
and 60 to fail to work a certain
number of hours each day. And
now the inevitable (which is the
ulterior motive why such an ob
noxious bill to the laboring-class
was passed) has happened—tl.e act
is being used to break strikes.
In the Madison and Clothier coal
fields are transpiring scenes which
call for comment.A wave of (so
called) patriotic anti-union feeling
seems to have been poured forth
by the blotcd coal barons and
their iickspittle spellbinding j
blatherskites, as well as their |
spineless satcllitious politicians of >
the legislature whereat such a bill
was passed, with the intent of di
verting attention iron: the real is
sues which unionism involves. Con
sider the facts in these West “Vir
ginia coal fields cases which are|
as follows:-—practically all I lie J
employees there are Americans to |
a greater extent than prevails in I
the Pennsylvania and in the higher J
paid coal regions ol' the North.
The miners in West Virginia have i
been®,ving in aistata which borders I
so close to absolute poverty that j
for scientific purposes it can be
considered such. Gocd Americans
some of them; whose fathers and
fathers' fathers have been instru
mental in establishing the United j
States of America. They worked
for a living in the mines, which
were opened on the mountain sides
of their native haunts. They toil
ed under distressing conditions but
complained not, nor did they ask
what became of the profits which
arose from their labor. Who
owned the mines mattered not to
them; apparently they did not con
cern then selves in the remotest
degree about it, until this recently
enacted bill comment - d to stir the
social life of tin- mining camps to
the dephts, when Capitalism witn
its array of subservient satellites.
And the irony of this matter is that
practically all the capital diverted
in the Madison and Clothier coal
fields is held by financial Magnates
in Loudon, Peris and Naples. Good
Americans like “Elkins,” a few
_vear3 ago disposed of a consider
able amount of stock in those fields
while in Europe, the .irne his
handsome daughter was making
goo-goo eves at the Duke of Ar
•/ruzzi. His partner Davies while
visiting in London at that time,
also sloughed off a large amount
of slock to Lord Northcliffe. ’’Pa
triotism don’t go then worth a
cent. It is all right to claim to be
patriotic, when all that is necessa
ry is. a long distance gaze toward
Vstat battlefield, but that butters no
parsnips; neither does it signify
ahat whenever we hear some one
allude to themselves, I’m patriotic,
or he (the other fellow) is a pro
German, that the exalted one is in
svU sincerity responsible lor what
he says, and such statements
should be digested with a grain
of salt, yes oft’ time3 with a hand
fui! or salt. The way one can look
-at this matter is this. Here are
good American Citizens, decend
auls t£ the best and bravest of the
-earliest of the earliest pioneers,
the men who made the wilderness
to blossom, and fought gallantly
lo uphold the banner of freedom
when it wts surrounded by daring
and by desperate and by tyrannical
foes. They lived in this mining
camp as their fathers and their
grandfathers and their grand
fathers’ fathers had done before
them. They lived and worked and
fought . Now comes along such an
act with a pretense of compelling
“vagrants” to work a certain
number of hours each day. When
in reality it was passed for the sole
purpose of disrupting labor orga
nizations. But there’s at least
some consolation, in the fact; that
it’s not very soothing to the "self
exalted patriots “to learn that the
union coal miners of West Virginia
will not tolerate the enforcement
of the "so called anti-laziness law"
when it is being used to intimidate
union men.
There is no patriotism in the
war between capital and labor. Not
a i article!
The mar. who owns the property
be he Mongol or Ethiope,Caucasian
or Molynesian has only the supreme
"rights". All wars that have been
fought everywhere since this sad
world began have been to renew,
confer or abolish certain titles to
propelty, and the property so abol
ished, if abolished, has been trans
ferred to others who were still
supreme. Who in the name of
Prcvidence has the better right to
[the good things of West Virginia,
the working pqople or the capital
ists who buy and sell nations and
the people of nations like commo
dities? Who trade and barter the
virtues and the vices, the morals
and the crimes, the bodies and the
souls of human beings for the pal
try gain to bo obtained thereby?
This is in truth a serious matter.
Consider the enormous buncombe
that one used to hear concerning
American dags dying on the seas,
when you could walk on board
some of those elegantly built boats
dying the House Flag of the Pacific
Mail and see them manned by
Chinamen.
Very few shipping masters have
ever asked a man what his nation
ality was just so long as he could
trim a helm or furl a sail ond
worked at low wages. No
employer ever turned down
a worker because he was
not born on some particular part
of this earth just so long as sulfi
cient profits were to be extracted
from that particular piece of labor
power he purchased. Prodts not
patriotism is what counts in bus
iness, nothing else. It is for the
workers that this humbug is perpe
tuated by the bosses that they may
be ccntent to have their attention
diverted from the real facts at is
sue to some particular form of
mental slavery which will paralyzo
the efforts and benumb tlio ener
gies cf the workers struggling for
Industrial freedom. And the next
time unions are attacked tor lack
of patriotism, just think of the
patriotism wlich was recently ma
nifested in West Virginia Legisla
iure to maintain the profits, and
“rights’’ Qf property against those
wlicce labor alone made :t valu
able.
l!.M I>K SAM AND
BROTHER JONATHAN.
BROTHER JONATHAN, looking
excited.
UNCLE SAM—Whr.t's the mat
ter? j
B. J.—I’ve f)oen reading a So
cialist screed that makes me tired.
U. S.— (raising his eyebrows)—
What about?
[ B. J. (with Irrlatior)—Knock
ing the Anarchists! \
U S.—Have you become an An
archist?
B. J. (bracing himself up and
with a dare-devil look)—Yes; iand
I don’t care who knows it!
i U. S.— ‘Tis your right, old boy!
; ‘Tis your right!
j B. J.—Arid I do object to this
; nonsense that you Socialists get
| off against us.
I U. S.—Wihat nonsense is it we’ve
! been “getting off?”
B. J.—This pretence of “politi
cal action”!
U. S.—Oho!
B. J.—The screed I read admits
| that the ballot without physical
force to back it, is a rattle to en
tertain fools with.
U. S.—Is there any nonsense in
that? Is the ballot worth anything
without the physical force to back
it?
B. J.—No. Thats sensible
enough.
I U .S.—That makes one charge
j of nonsense knocked out. Bring up
the next. i
B. J.—Well, the nor sense lies in
that very sentence. If the ballot
is a rattle, unless there is a phy
sical force back of it, then it must
be sheer nonsense to b"ther with
the ballot at all. Physical force
will have to be used anyhow. Why
not start with physical force?
What's the sense in frittering away
energy on the ballot, when it
'needs backing? That's nonsense;
sheer nonsense, I say.
U. S.—And I say you made a
misstake to invite me to that meet
ing of Anarchists the other night.
B. J.—How so?
U. S.—Because I saw you people
elect a sergeant-at-arms
B. J.—Why shouldn’t we? We
want order at our meetings.
U. S.—Was there any disorder
before you elected the sergeant-at
arms?
B. J.—No;-but there might be.
Ar.d there has been disorder be
fore; and we found it harder to
elect a sergeant-at-arms after the
disorder started than before. We
simply provided for the emergency.
There were several people there
who we know would create a dis
turbance if they had a chance.
That’s why we elected a sergeant
at-arms. And we gave them warn
ing.
U. S.—And you thereby did the
very thing you claim is nonsense,
when done by the Socialist^. If it
is nonsense to try the ballot first
before using physical force, then
it is nonsense to give the disturb
ers warning before firing them out.
I B. J. begins to look silly.
U. S.—If sense consists in start
ing to fight first and discarding
l the ballot, then sense would have
consisted at your meetings in start
i
Ing to put out the known disturb
ers before setting down to bus
iness.
B. J. looks still sillier.
U. S.—If, seeing the necessity
for physical force is possible, or
even probable, therefore the use
of the peaceful means of the bal
lot is nonsense, then, seeing the
necessity for a sergeant-at-arms
at your meeting was probable, you
were a lot of perambulating
lumps of nonsense in not starting
to work with your sergeant-at
arms first.
B. J.—Well. I did make an ass
of myself! 1
U. S.—Jonatnan, the man who
can see and, furthermore, admit .
hi3 error—that man is no ass. Such
a man erred, and one time or an
other, ho was bound to discover jj
his error, admit it, as you do, and j
strike solid ground again. You
erred. You were humbugged with
sounding phrases. But you did
worse. There never is an error, but
it spreads the area of error, Hke a j
contagion. The moment >ou took
in the Anarchist microbe, ycu help
ed to spread it
B. J.—I didn’t
U. S.—You did unconsciously.
The error that is not fought is an
error that is encouraged. By not
fighting the error, seeing you De
lieved, in it, you encouraged it.
Now, then, redeem yourself by re
sisting the police-spy-invitirg fatal
error of pure and simple bombism.
Fight it everywhere. ,
—Weekly People.
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