The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1884-09-11

battle of life.
We hava vainly looked thro
the worlds history back to the
Middle Ages to find parable
case TO this. but it cannot b.
found For refined cruelty, de
structive despotism and the i'm
pove.ishment of industrious men
it has no parable. The Syndicate
are displeased with the miners
they claim that they demand
wages that are too high, and be
cause they refuse to work fo
pauper wages, the mines are t'
be shnt down. the Y switch o
the railroad is TO be locked Ol
torn up. and the town is to be
blotted out aud destroyed ant
the unhappy property owners as
completely and as hopelessly i'm
poverished as though a torch had
been applied to every house.
The Syndicate, to take their own
most exaggerated statements
have only sustained petty losses
that stand as cypher to Their
millions. But in the contemplat
ed destruction of New Straits
vile, the head of every family
will be doomed to lose everything
he has in. the world-all the ear
nings of ten or fifteen years and
90 forth a homeless, houseIess,
ragged. hungry wanderer. lead
ing his sheIterless babes-God
only knows where!
Had we read of such a thing
perpetrated by some barbarous
despot of Africa or Asia, or by
the satrap of some half-civilized
tyrant of Europe, how our indig-
nation would bnrn, and how we
would boast that under the Stars
and Stripes Of the free, 40 such
expressions could be perpetrated
But here we have it at our own
doors mot wrongs and outrages
made enormous by distance and
transmission, bat a cool, deliber-
ate proposition to destroy town
and bankrupt its hardy labor
loving people, because, forsooth,
they do not choose to work a.!
starvation wages. 1t is enough
to take ones breath TO think that
such a thing could occur in the
closing years of the Nineteenth
Century and in the very heart Of
the Republic!
If New Straitsville can be
bankrupted, destroyed and swept
out Of existence by the fiat of a
Syndicate of associated capital
representing some millions of
dollars, no community is safe
when it refused to submit to the
demands of that or some sther
Syndicate. 1t wouldn't be very
much of a step for this Syndicate
to demand an annual tribute
from the city of Logan, and if il
was refused, set to work TO wall
it in from the rest of the world,
or impoverish and destroy it in
some other way.
All we desire to say to the
Syndicate this week is for them
10 be wise in time. They MIS-
take manhood If they imagine
that a civilized, christian and
freedom loving community will
permit the commission of such a
crime as contemplated without
taking steps Of self defense.
The Syndicate is only inviting
its own destruction-not with |
fire and sword-not by rude vio-
ence, but by the machinery of
he law, and the fire of public in
lignation. Do they know what
4 monstrous violation Of the law
hey are threateningg Ifthey do
,ot, they should hire some attor
ley who can advise them, and
axe counsel from an independ-
mt and an intelligence that al
ways has, and we hope always
will control the destinies of this
to the advantage of its
earnest working people
In the baby books is the story
# the cruel giant who exacts
rom the toilers as tribute the
'est fruits Of their labor. The
liant gets on "tare," asserts
imse!f, so to speak, and armed
With big club trods down the
lain, crushing hamlets, spolia-
ing fields,and for spite crunching
he bones Of the babies he meets
n his path.
AS this story is read, the weak
ngs seek shelter shiverlng under
apron, but the warm
looded boy who is the beginning
+ the man clenches his fist and
AVS, if not in words or types iii :
ght lin
Weaklings, blanched by the .
,ectre Of the Syndicate are I;
uniting hiding places now. but =
'en who can't be bought nor !
allied are setting their teeth I
ard, and inquire one of another o
ow soon this thing will stop. v
The election of Blaine Means put u
Dg co o'ored men in office and Fred
oug!ass in the Cabinet. Fed "
ounlass Is d fair minded colored II