The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1884-10-23
Limber-JaWed Sam.
CINCINNATI, Oct. Is 1884.

CINCINNATI, Oct. Is 1884.
Davis Mackley, Esq, jackson, o.;
DEAR SIR-Whlle in the city OF
New Orleans last week., | noticed al
article in the Pickayune, ''Pauper La
Dor in Ohio" locating the scene, &c
IL Jackson Co., O. Feeling an inter
est in he good name Of Jackson Co.
and knowing it to be gross slandeI
| send you the paper in order that yo,
may call attention to it, and show t,
the good citizens Of Jackson Co. wha,
some Of their residents think of them
| also mark an article in same paper.
Value of Agricultural Implement,
in Alabama with a letter from tn
Secretary of State Of Alabama, trylns
to explain it away.
The city to-day is lively, torch
ght procession now at p. m. march
ng through the streets. What glo
nous victory. Hope the majority il,
November will be double the presen
me. Very Respectfully,
GEO. W. CAvETT.
That lying article was written b,
hat old blatherskite, Sam. Cary. Il
vas copied in the Portsmouth Times.
We give it entire:
PAUPER LABOR IN OHIO.
Special Correspondence of the World.
JACKSON c. H. O., Sept. 25.-I have jus
visited some of the ore banks in this iTol
and coal-preducing section of Ohio. RI
publican orators told III I toiling miner
III 1876 that if the Democracy got contro
OF the Government under the Leadership
of Tilden, the furnace fires would be rX-
tinguished, iron mills would be deserte,
and the wood-chOpperS. Coal and iron dig
gers would be without employment
working ut starving wages. They wOult
be reduced tn the condition of the pauptI
ldborerS of Europe; that if the Republi
can party was continued in power nigh
would be turned into day by the furnac
fires; that the workers would receive
good wages and be prosperous. A cnnfid
ing people believed these orators and vUt
ed the Republican ticket. Have ihes
promises been kept and the expectation
realized? What are the facts? Most u
the furnace fires are out and the tall
chilnneyS are the habitation of owls anC
bats. The enterprising operators are eith.
er bankrupts or i'll greatly reduced Gil
cunstances. The ore diggers are eithe
idle or working at starving wages. Their
are hundreds OF families i'll Law renee anC
Jackson counties who must have count,
aid or Starve. In jackson county, rich il
mineral resources, in Il population of les
than $4,000, there are 600 pauperS and tiy'
times that number who should have az
to make them comparatively comfortable
To-day, in company with the Hon. Irvin
DUNCAN, an ex-senator and prOminen
lawyer of Jackson county, visited SOM
of the ore banks to learn for myself tht
condition and prospects of the miners
In all my travels in Europe have never
seen such deStiLution and want. There ]
found women and children bartfooted.
with pick and shovel, working laboriOus-
ly at the ore banks. The average earning
of the men and women do not exceed 2:
cents per day, and very many do not g+t
Is cents per day, and they are paid il
store goods at the merchants own prices.
Flour, bacon and other mecessaries of lif
command from them the highest prices
The operators are not to blame, for they
are ON the trembling verge of bankrupt
cy. l asked some of these poor creature:
Why they did not go and find homes il
the West. (Not one in Il hundred of them
own the shanty in which they stay.) Tn,
reply was: I'VE cannot get away anC
can hardly stay where we are.
Some of these half-fed and halfclOthed
miners are shouting for Blaine and Lo-
gan and are afraid that if the Democratic
party succerds, the tariff which SO pro
tects american labor" will be modified
Many of them feel that they have beeI
misled and deceived, and say if this is pro-
lection they want no more of the same
kind. The same orators who made sucl
promises and gave such glowing pictures
of the benefit of protection eight year.
ago are now telling them that the present
depressed condition of things must be al
trIbuted to the fear that the Democrat
may get into power and modify the tariff
You may expect large accesSiuns to tht
Democratic ranks in the mining districts
of Ohio There would be a complete rev.
ulution but for the corrupt use of money
II your readers could witness the destitu
tion and misery brought upon the coun-
try by the vicious legislation of the Re
publican party they would labor with in
creased energy and zeal for the election.
of Cleveland and Hendricks and Il Demo-
cratic Congress. In 10 other way will
these robbed and oppressed tnilers be de-
livered from their cruel bondage.
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