The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1893-10-26
A WORD
To the Union Miners
OF the Hooking Valley

When the attempt is made to mis-
lead the Miners of our Valley, the
SENTINEL claims hearing. " hen
the enemies of organized Labor, like
the serpent in Eden, come before
them in the guise of friendly
advisers, we are provoked to strike
down the reptiles.
During that long and fearful strike
in the Hooking valley;
When the issue was made by
Corporate Capital against organized
Labor, and it was death struggle
for Labor; and when the further
isshe was made, whether the Hook
ing Valley should be the home OF
intelligent white men or a colony OF
beastly nlggers and barbarian Huns
and Poles and the offscourings of
the old world, in these times of
darkness and distress, the SENTINEL
stood by the miners in :heir death
fight, the only paper in Ohio that
stood by the Miners without waver
or falter to the finish. This our old
time friends well know, and we
only repeat it now, as prellm mary
to plain talk which we assume to
have the right to say.
A warrant of arrest, zone Lewis
Green editor sc" by the United
states Marshal. for melting to riot
and sedition by sundry publlca
tions urging opposition to Plnkes-
tons, and the laborers introduced in
the Hooking Valley, etc etc. is
Souvenir we have to occasionally
remind us that we were in the strike
with the miners at that time.
Men who have no identity with
you in your pursuits, demagogues
who have no sympathy with you as
class, are parading the Valley, ac-
companind with mounte banks TO
make speeches and cannon, rival
ing the Plnke-ton WInchesters, to
make noise, advising You how to
vote for your best interests.
COOP Pursell whose paper.
the Gazette, denounced miners as
anarchists, outlaws, and everything
that was odious and disreputable,
associated with sCol'' Vlckers and
Col John I Norris, is now, lectur-
ing the Miners, telling them that
the financial distress is chargeable
to the democratic party.
Does not every intelligent Miner
know that the same vicious laws
| still exist which produced the b ONE
stead tragedy, the came laws are
| still 90 the statute books which
brought Secretary Foster to his
ruin, and destroyed the confidence
of the people in the corrupt corpora
tlons and rotten banks that grew in
to gigantic proportions like mush :
rooms in the night of Republican
domination.
Does not every Miner know that
every constitutional means has been
resorted to by President Cleveland
and Democratic Senators to repeal
the laws which all Democrats and
Republicans agree, are the causes
of our trouble, and nothing has yet
been accomplished for the reason
that Republican Senators from Sill
yer producing states, stand in the
way of repeal.
The Miners are suffering with the
mechanic, the mercb ant, the farmer,
All are alike the victims of VICIOUS
laws rlpening at Homestead, and
yet fostering and corrupting every
industry in the country. The future
gives promise of hope. The Dem
ocrats can make things no worse.
We ask a chance. And we caution
the Miners to take with much allow
ance, the advice rendered them by
aiyiers, who in the past, were theiI
worst enimles and carpet baggers
from West Virginia, who can have
no interest in you, other than the
pay he gets from Pursell to make
speeches to deceive and delude you,
and till after the election, as good
joke on the Laboring men of the
Hoe king Valley.