The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1885-01-29

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"generally retained and gets big
money for it.''
With these few brambles out
of the way, we can begin TO see
light Oh the matter before us.
A little more trash out Of the
way and we are ready to use the
broad AK.
He says the Sentinel ''winked'
at all the crimes committed in
the Valley.
The Sentinel has denounced
crime when it occurred, not pos
sibly in the vulgar expletives
Col. Weldy uses in denouncing
witnesses and juries disagreeing
from him, but in the strongest
language we could muster, ds the
reader well knows.
His declaration that the De-
mocracy favor his bill is simply
assertion. We know that the
railroad, the syndicate and re-
publicans generally, approve the
bill and applaud him for his
courage in introducing it.
The charge he makes of the
terrible lawlessness and the nu-
merous crimes committed in the
Valley since the strike, is mis-
representation.
There has been less property
destroyed and fewer robberles
committed in the eight months
of t, strike in the Valley, than
have been in the city of COlum-
bus in the four weeks 'ssion of
the Legislature.
There has not been an order
of our civil courts issued which
has not been obeyed, and with
Weldy RETAINED generally" as
sisted by a dozen other attorneys
now commissioned under him,
but one poor devil has beer
jailed for crime, and he only
stole a lot of cigars and whiskey
from a saloon. The Governor of
the State, the judges .!
our courts, the grand jury,
the Justices of the peace and the
People know how much weight
to give to the reckless statement
Mr.. Weldy makes concerning the
'slawlessness" in the Valley.
The epithets applied to the
miners-''a set of lazy, mean,
dirty scoundrels" is charactistic,
and need not hurt, because not
coarser than terms thrown pro-
miscuously at most of us.
Now to the matter in hand
The Bill proposes new crime to
the law. 1t does not define itself.
1t does not propose conviction
1t is simply a drag net cunning
ly contrived by which John T.
Norris and others of his kind can
arrest and put under bonds any
man who frowns and speaks or
acts his sentiments, making
afraid" an imported niger or a
pauper contract laborer. The Of
fense being d felony, the costs
of all such arrests are collectable
off the county, a feature which
the sturdy democracy and the
tax payers of the county" will
certainly. as Mr.. Weldy says,
..nineteen-twentieths or them"
approve (D
There are sufficient laws on the
statute books against intimida-
ton, unless indeed there might
be statute TO punish able law
yers from intimid..ting witnesses
in court, and such hippodromes
as Detective Norris, who comes
down the Valley, scareing ou'
school children.
In every sense of the word
Weldy's Anti Intimidation Bill
is purely abominable and infa-
nous. Infamous in its concep-
ton and construction infamoSs
n spirit and design: Infamous,
alike TO those who concocted it,
and to him who insulted the Leg
islature, and the people of the
State, by presenting it. Ii came
into the House the child of pros
titution-a bastard spawn, be
gotten by a vicious syndicate up
on the person of the apostate
Democrat from Hooking County.
Even the caption is sneaking
and cowardly dodge. Instead of
reading "A Bill to prevent the
intimidation of Laborers' as il
does, its author should have hon
estly stated the true intent and
purpose Of it and called it "a
Bill to degrade and enslave the
laboring men of the State OF
Ohio" and it should have been
introduced with a whereas or
two, something after the follow
ing fashion
"Whereas, it being evident
that mankind, for the most part,
procure their living by the work
of their hands; and
Whereas, the workers, who are
the millions, seem 10 think that
they have rights which capital
lists and syndicates, who are but
units in the count, ought to re-
specl, and be made to respect;
and