The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1877-08-11
Letter from Mauch Chunk.
MAucH CHUNK. Aug

AhAbbh bheshAAt nus - '''''
When my last eplstle left me, the star
of the striking element on both Of our
roads was still In the ascendant, as
Uncle Sans soldiers had not yet arrlv-
ed. This latter event did not happen
until Friday morning, when they were
set down here, bag and baggage, about
800 strong. And from the moment of
{ their arrival the strike began todecline,
and already before evening scores of
anxious men, lately on strike, could be
seen running after the several Superin.
tendents. begging to be reinstated and
loudly protesting that they had had no
hand in the matter. And more alb.
ject crew never kicked for a job. This
sort of skirmishing continued all of Sa-
turday, and on Monday the pressure
was at its height, and while some sue
ceeded 10 obtaining permission to work,
others perhaps equally as many-were
refused the much coveted boon. They
are now thrown upon their own resour-
ces, or left to the cold charities of the
world. But it serve them right. They
might have known from the beginning
that the sentiments of the community
we're opposed to the venture, and they
should have counted the possible cost
before entering upon it. But, as 1t is
now too late to learn, it is to be hoped
that hereafter they will be more prud-
ent, and that all their future steps will
be guided by the lamp of experience.
With both roads again in operation,
things, though more lively than they
were fortnight ago, are far from what
they should be. And now it Is the
miners who are causing the trouble by
an attempt at demonstrating to the rest
of the world that If an individual can
barely subsist by working steadily, his
condition may be vastly improved by
idleness. They call it a strike, but it $
a strike in the wrong direction, opine.
If true. what I've learned to-day from
various sources, much distress already
exists in the Summit Hill and through
) out the Panther Creek Valley, where
the people are clamoring for the where.
. withal to keep soul and body together,
!, and the merchants, needing the lessons
taught them by past experience, refuse
: to sell except for cash, and this the
. majority have not got. So WHAT'S to be
" done? Go to work? Not they, as they
. are evidently determined to ascertain
l how much misery, self-impOsed, man S
: able to bear. And yet there is certainly
. sufficient cause for strike, but strike
in different dirpctiOn-an entire new
; departure striking out EN- MAssE
from the poverty stricken coal fields of
: PENNSYLVANIA to the vast agricultural
!, regions of the Great West. Nothing
a else will do, and the sooner men will
act upon 1t the better. Why starvt
"down in coal mine" when compare
h tive ease and comfort may be yours
n elsewhere? l: Is, indeed, the only way
y in which the much talked of labor prob
o lem can be lastingly and practically
= solved. The consumer of to day mus
Il become the producer of Tomorrow. II
there is to be overproduct0n, let it bC
overpr0duction of the staff of life.
= wOuld at least avert the dangers o.
I starvation. Anthracite will not do this
1t will furnish heat, hut will neither I'll
Z the belly nor enable us to purchase the
staff of life, unless there first be a de
mand for the article to enable us to con
Il vert oCr labor into cash wherewith t,
+ purchase the neceSsaries. A sorry stat
of affairs this but how is it to be rene
died while men persist in remaining
where they are and court starvation by
y persistingly adhering to unproftabl
!, employment?
" And now, after three months reflec
tiOn, Judge Dreher has at last granite,
Patrick O'Donnell another chance to d.
- legal battle for life. AS no other de
- csion had been expected, the granting
to the prisoner of a new trial did no
surprise anybody and was accepted b.
TX all rather as matter of course. Tha
I, the prisoner will have better luck in til
n hands of a more intelligent jury is no
:, to be doubted. Indeed, the number o
IN those who predict an unqualified acquit
" tai is already by no means small. How
n. ever it may terminate, his second trif
ll will surely be more interesting than tn
first That he will be ably defended b
. Mr.. Kalbtus may be accepted as fore
~ gone conclusion, also that strong, a
10 =. most superhuman effort will be made
~ invalidate the testimony of certai
:" Spurious Witnesses" (as Mr.. K. cal
y u them) ; and as the "sinews" will M
% be wanting to secure prominent assist
~ ant counsel, grand legal fray will cel
W tainly be in store for us during the en-
:" suing session of the Court of Oyer an
g Terminer. Continually and freel
u minging with all sorts of people,
surely ought to know something of thi
gs great power behind the throue-publ
lg sentiment-and this, | assure you,
is rapidly changing in favor Of O'Donnei
d. the man who, as nearly all are agreed
in neither looks nor acts like guilty maj
SO But time will show how he is to fare.
0l PEU DE RIEN, PEU DE soIN" IL
IL only Sci ene-lOoking Individuals OI
tsi meets with upon the streets are the DO,
N, in blue. They are being fairly liol
IS. lied by our citizens, wherefore "sOldi
40 on the brain" is said to have lately b
'ty came very general complaint her
,to But, poor fellows, not having been pa
al for over four months, aud as likely