Public addresses, etc., of Geo W Atkinson, governor of West Virginia, during his term of office . ang their songs at the birth of thehuman race, Labor is wealth, and labor alone produceswealth. The whole world knows this to be true. Therefore, asa State, we should honor the producers of wealth; and this isthe reason our Legislature created a holiday which shall beknown and honored as Labor Day. It is, in consequence of all these facts, especially fitting andproper, that all men, employers and employees, should lay asidefor this day their usual vocations, and by meeting in public as-semblies, a
Public addresses, etc., of Geo W Atkinson, governor of West Virginia, during his term of office . ang their songs at the birth of thehuman race, Labor is wealth, and labor alone produceswealth. The whole world knows this to be true. Therefore, asa State, we should honor the producers of wealth; and this isthe reason our Legislature created a holiday which shall beknown and honored as Labor Day. It is, in consequence of all these facts, especially fitting andproper, that all men, employers and employees, should lay asidefor this day their usual vocations, and by meeting in public as-semblies, and in all practical and fitting ways, seek to empha-size the dignity and worth of labor, and consider ways andmeans for a marked elevation and improvement of the condi-tion of the honest, faithful, industrious toilers and wealth-pro-ducers of our State. Lynchings. 325 In witness whereof, I have hereunto set myhand and caused the great seal of the State to[seal.] be hereunto affixed, at the Capitol, in the cityof Charleston, this 5th day of August, A. , and in the 37th year of the By the Governor: Secretary of State. LYNCHINGS. Governor Atkinson Emphatically Against Lynch 9, 1899. Editor Broadway Magazine, 1123 Broadway, New York, N. Y. Dear Sir: On receipt of your letter of the 7th instant, I purchased acopy of your August number, and I judge from your editorialcomments, referred to in your letter, that you had, in your Julyissue, made some statement indorsing, under certain circum-stances, mob violence. I am a Virginian and know pretty well the character and 326 Public Addresses, &c, of Gov. G. W. Atkinson. make-up of our Southern people. In many ways we have beenmisjudged by our Northern brethren. Our people are free-hearted and full-blooded. We try to take care of ourselves asbest we can, and we have never allowed anybody to trampleupon us. In these matters we are, I think, pre-eminently I confess that some parts of the South, by the hot-head
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