The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1897-09-23
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another season Of tariff tinkering.-
Pittsburg Post.
Slaves i'm the COal Fields.

another season Of tariff tinkering.-
Pittsburg Post.
Slaves in the Goal Fields.
According to the story of Mayor Alt.
miller of HaZelton who is presumably
a patriot and Il friend to law and Or
der, since he is an eX-union soldier, the
savagery of the corporation-hired dep
uties at Lattimer was Il fit complement
to the greed of their employers.
Heads of families among the striking
miners have been receiving 20 cents a
day for their labor when they were so
fortunate as to get work. Steady en-
ployment then meant $4.20 week.
With this $4.20 the men must provide
food, fuel, clothing, and shelter for
wives, children, and other dependents.
All purchases of supplies must be
made at company stores. This is not
mandatory, under the statutes of Penn
sylvania, but it is an unwritten law of
| the companies that no miner dare dis
obey. 1t is law that confirms the
servitude of low wages. From the fact
that meat sells at cents Il pound
above the market price in the stores,
| the prices of other articles may be
judged. There are no cheap coats to
make cheap men in that locality.
No, the coats and everything else
but the men are protected there. There
is new and high tariff on coal, on
household goods, on everything that
the miners buy, but there is no tariff
on the miner, nor is he to have any
benefit from the tariff Oh coal. With
his pitiable wage he must go on getting
into debt at the stores and sinking him
self deeper in slavery. That is the
moral of recent American legislation.
Partial Relief for Farmers.
1t is nonsense to talk about this
years crops relieving the farmers
from all their debts. Much of the
money obtained will have to be used
in meeting current expenses and In re-
pairing the OutwOrn agricultural i'm.
plements which are the result of the
last few years of hard times. But no
doubt great many long-standing
mortgages will be passed through the
thrashing machines, as It were, this
fall-Boston Herald.
Giving Work to an Idle Man.
There will probably be a good many
candidates for office to call upon Presi
dent Mckinley when he returns to
Washington. They should stick to
I,
moment to do except to attend to his
constitutional duties as the appointing
power. The tariff bill is law and the
President has no policy on finance
Cincinnati Enquirer.
Last week West Virginia judge ell
joined a preacher from holding Sun
day services. The next stretch of this
judicial usurpation inspired by the
trusts will doubtless be to enjOin the
ushers from taking up a collection on
the ground that the practice of drop
ping suspender buttons in the basket
is uttering counterfeit money.-Chatta.
nooga News.
Putting Handouts on the Pulpit.
A minister of the gospel has been en-
Joined by the mine-owners' Federal
court from in any way encouraging
the strikers. His offense consisted, it
is said, in preaching sympathetic ser
mons. We are not far from despOtisn
when religion is handcuffed for de:
nouncing the robbery and starvation of
free neutrality-suspicious. City Times.
Enough Revenue, TOO Much Ex xpense.
From 1884 to 1890 the average July
disbursement, the heaviest monthly
payments in the year, was S34, 100000;
in 1912, $37,OOO,000; in 1899 it was
S3S.O0O,0OO: in 1896. $42,000,00O; in
1897. S5O,OOO,OOO. This shows the real
basis of the deficit. 1t is the one which
ought to receive the greatest share of
attention. Expense is the trouble, not
revenue.-Milwaukee Journal.
What Has Restored Confidence.
Two of the cabinet officers who have
returned to Washington agree that
confidence is restored. No doubt. but |
it is not confidence in Dingleyism that
has undergone restoration, but con-
fidence in the natural resources of the
country. Famine abroad and fertility
at home have opened the mills.-Phila-
delphia Record.
Rrief Comment.
If you are an employer, have you
taken any steps to pass along the pros
perity tnat is coming to you now? In |
other words, have YOU raised wages?
And, if not, when will you go about it? |
st. Louis Star.
Oddly enough the man of unsavOry |