The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1889-10-12

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On the 10th of May last year, during
the debate on the Mills bill, prominent
member OF the House, while speaking on
the subject, made the following modest
reference to himself: 81 stand upon INV
record at home and with my people, and
| if haze ecer been tie OppreSsOr Of ia6or, II
haze eUer elected Il man from hiS home, II
l have ever endeavored in my lite, al
though 1 have been, may say, large
| employer of labor, to put one laborer in
the place OF another, or to force one man
in the place of another; if have employ
ed detective-not a PinkertCn detec
tive merely, but any kind Of detective
to come and protect my property, or 10
protect 1t against the men who are work
ing for me, or have worked for me, I, sir,
will resign my seat and leave this hall
the day it is proved" This very beauIt
full testimonial to his own virtues reads
very prettily. and ought to be framed
and hung up by the side of a somewhat
similar statement made by Zlccheus of old,
behold, the half of my goods L give to
the poor, and if have done wrong to
any man 1 restore unto him four fuld.
To read the above extract from his
speech one would hardly suppose it was
uttered by the heartless, graspng mono
polist-the Hon. w. L. Scott, OF Eri2, Pa.
who has just locked out all his coal
miners at Spring Valley. and ordered them
all evicted from the house which they
have been occupying, because they
would not accept his cut Of 10 cents a
ton In their wages. WRile the otLer
mine owners and operators in the section
have compromised with their miners at
reduction of Z cents ton, and partly
off setting this reduction by other CON
cessions, the Hon w L. Scott, who is
financially able to buy out every other
mine nwner In the district, shows his
Demo-mOnCpelistlc tendencies by refus
ing to compromise in any way, ana will
only allow his men to return 10 work,
even at the reduction offered, upon con-
dition that they renounce their labor
unions and contracts as individuals,
demand which none OF the other operat-
ors probably thought of making. n
This same tariff reform antI-monopoN
list, who had much to say in his speech
about the trusts and monopolIsts which
are plunderiug the people, who has
been able to accumulate fortune eStl-
mated at $20,O00,O00 or upward within a
comparatively few years, who modcs.ly
says of himself in his autobiography in
the Congressional directory, Engaged IN
1850 in coal and shipping business, cwn-
ing and running several vessels on the
lakes; subsequently became largely
interested in the manufacture of iron
and the mining of coal as well
oc in
lion of railroads, either as president or
director of various lines aggregatipg over
$4,000 miles of completed road, the great
est number Of miles Of railroad, probably,
aohich any one individual aoas eUer officer or
director cf'--tbe man who thus talked |
about himself, aud who was able to con-
tribute sum varIously stated at from |
$3.50, 900 to 81 900. 900 toward Cleveand's |
fund, whose race horse- have |
just won 100000 in single race, says he
is unable to pay his workmen as good |
wages or offer them as liberal terms as
are gwen by bis poorer and smaller COM
petitors, Notwithstanding the fact that
the Spring Valley coal veins are among
the richest and most easily worked Of any
in that part of the State.
While Frank Lawer and the Demo
cratic pers-notably the st. Louis Re
publtc-are endeavoring to hold the Re-
publicans and the tariff responsible for
this strike in particular and all others in
general, it is rather unkind for the boss
Democrat of the last reform" admins
tration and the London and Liverpool
strikers to act as they have done and thus
spoil all their ammunition. Many Of the
coal miners of Northern IIliaois have al
lowed themselves OF late years to he de
luded by demagogues into voting. the
Democratic ticket, but Is is 20 he hoped
that having before them a striking ex-
ample of Democratic love for the work
ngmen, their eyes will be opened to tho
fact that they have been steadily voting
against their own in erests.