The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1886-07-22

the very able and careful mannel
it was handled before it was sen
: out, and when a man bought
f ton of coal, he got coal. 1t wa'
not until the Valley was shadow
5 ed by the wing of the first greaI
r corporation that sought to mo-
, nopolize our trade that the indus
/ trial system was touched by the
, poison that has since eaten away
; the arteries of commerce. That
was the bornin' Of the evils that
have since come upon US like the
plaques of Egypt. That was the
natal day of the Goths, the Van
dals, the Huns, the night riders
that have laid waste a glorious
estate and heightened the season
of fasting and lessened the days
of grace among our peasantry.-
Onr peasantry!
l When a second shadow fell up
on the Valley it was even more
portentious than the first. 1t
was a conception that grew out
of months of deliberation. There
was no weakness In any part. 1t
was the child of a skilled and
crafty mind, and if it had thriven
as was expected, there IS not a
concern in the Valley that could
have lived only as the henchman
Of the master. That was the
design. 1t was to dictate terms:
1t was to be the autocrat of
the western coal trade. There
was no point west of the Alle-
gheny mountains to which it
would look to for supplies. Great
warehouses and stately business
blocks were to hold the stores
and in a word, the vast trade that
| was fast enriching the towns and
cities ct central Ohio was to be
absorbed. Labor was to be gov
erned with iron clad rules, that
if once transgressed, sent it forth
an exile, and as hopeless of Glenn
ency as Adam, when he was
driven from out the gates of
Eden.
It was a mighty compress that
could have been fashioned and
brought into perfection only at
the forges in the work shops of
Wal! street; an instrument that
would have gathered the golden
mead from the thinned blood of
the toiIing masses, that would
have left not even a trace Of the
thrifty plant that grew up by the
wayside.
Fortunately the Valley escaped
with comparatively slis sht evi-
dence of the havoc that would
have been wrought if the talons
of the Eagle had remained un-
trimmed.
But there is still another sha-
dow that distracts the crippled
giants and harnesses the concerns
that have not wandered away
from safe harborage- Coal is be-
ing mined and delivered at Mil
waukee from the mines in the
Sunday Greek Valley at 50. .05 per
ton. At such rates that Valley
is having plenty of work and some
one is sinking lots of money
There is something as heartless
in that kind of work as anything
that can be found in the history
of the region. The Hooking Val
ley or no other Valley can hope
TO compete for trade under such |
circumstances, and the only de- |
ductions that can be made, is, that |
the Managers of the O. G. r. R. |
are booming their road with the
hope of putting a big block ofl
stock on the market.
In doing this they cripple the
industries Of this Valley, while
fulfilling the only mission the
road ever had, that of being a
wrecker. 1t is not now, it never
has been and never will be a pay
ing institution. 1t is a spider
web that has caught many VIC
Tins in the past, and is again be-
ing worked for all that is in it.
The unholiness of the scheme
will be better appreciated when
it is known that the same syndi.
cate that controls that road, also
the @. q. V. & T., and
that the head of this same syndi-
cate is even now making prepar-
ton to open up new coal terrific
ry, indicating vast operations and
that, too, i'll the face of the pres
ent condition of trade
We appreciate the fact that this
was opened up mainly
by foreign capitalists, and we
could certainl y wish them no bad
luck, but we do hold that when
the strongest combined 10 coerce
the weaker into an alliance, pre-
paratory to a conquest Of the
Valley, they struck a blow that
fairly paralyzed the interests
tributary to the region. They
brought about condition of af- {
fairs that was bound to be follow
ed by the terrible scenes that
nave since been enacted, because !
t was plainly the aim to lead in
o subsection not only The labor,
ut ITO n.,:t,i tb,t -bo,,yl ,