The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1870-06-25
FROM IOWA.
BooNsBoRo, June 90. Is7O

To the Editor Of the WoREMGA4Ss ADEOcA,x
To their promise, the study soma
Of toll, who faced danger no human
tongue can describe for Ascanty living
in the subterranean vaults Of motha,
earth. met me and such q shake ~
hand they gave me. Mr.. Editor. 4
you only had shake hand with thsu.
knights of tho darker regions, Won
would swear that your hand was in
blacksmith's vice. "But come, CONES
said they, "let's have sit down in soma
shade" which we soon found. The sub.
ject they had under consideration WA
the truck system, the store, the z,eat
goddess Of the coal and iron corpOr..
tons and monopolists, aud the curse Of
every laboring man. The firm which
l mentioned in my last, has one in
connection with their works, at which
they charge unprecedented prices fOr
their articles, and worse than all. thew
keep very scanty supply. They told
me also, that they considered it wa
their duty to patronize their trade, UrO-
viding they would sell as good Am
article, and at prices sold in other
places but they are far from being 90.
Go where you will, You can, buy 20 per
cent. cheaper, than you can with Chem.
swell" says | to them, there ID no
compulsion upon you to trade there
is there?'' "Ah. yes, my friend, Or
your chance will be very slim
Friend" says one ofthem, Can soon %
the operators and the staff connected
with it, opened their store, q pro
Clamation was given out and tho chit
of staff who lives at the Mines came
to the shaft and spoke to the men o.
follows: well sir, suppose you are
aware that we have a store? Where
are you going to trade p"
The man hesitated q moment In sn-
swering:
"Speak quick, if you don't want to
trade there, out with your tooh and
that fat footed" Friend, he was like
gousehawk, from one to another for
some days.
"Well, says l to them, providing Il
they do not have the articles wanted
in the store, viii they not procure them
elsewhere, or give an order to that
effect
No, sir, they win not" was then
reply. "We want you TO undentand
IT. Ia nnt-a store which has a sAoal n
everything for domestic use; il II only
a grocery and feed store, and more
than halfth time such as butter, cheese,
sugar, -four, &C., they haven't got; il 10
the most unprovided Of any store N
town, with the exceptions that they
keep a supply Of trash, such 40 cove
oysters, cans Of preserved tomatoes,
boxes of sardines, and such things %
diggers care but little about /; and 10
you spoke about orders we cannot get
these at all times, especially at this time
of the season. If you should be lucky
enough to be the recipient Of an order,
your trouble is not over yet, perchance
you will be obliged to run TO half q dozen
stores before it will be accepted, and
if the obliging merchant is well aware
that you are a coal digger Of the firm
he will give you a shave of 20 per
cent, on what you purchase.
| Seeing a team going to the con-
bank, by which they could ride, this
ended the colloquy, and tho usual
phrase OF goodbye was given, Pronls-
ing to meet me again. was convinced
that the coal diggers have 70 asrnly
battle with the realities Of life here,
owing to the grasping prOpensiIles Of
the bloated aristocrats, and me
voracious operators. who sucks theyery
vitals of life Of the laboring man. NY
memory was recalled to the following
lines, which I read once:
This world would be happy world, II men nO'sl'S
were grown,
Not trying 70 raise themselves, BY crushing Others
down
Were al content, by honest means, 70 live md V'
along, mo
Thered he an end to fraud and guils to Vi AnJ '0'
wrong"
PIONEER