The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1897-06-16
balance.
More Hardship at the Store.


The JOnes-Laughlin Company also
operates company store. " One can
get every coarse thing, whether of gro
ceres, clothing or furniture, at this
hard bazaar. The prices are higher
than at other stores near by. But no
money and lack of credit at other
places drove the men to a brisk trade
with the Jones Laughlin store. 1t
sold beef at Is cents per pound that
was worth IA; it got a 81 80 for a pair
of mill shoes that were worth % cents
next door, and it collected all the men
owed the store from wages as soon as
earned. Yesterday when the men were
paid Oft there was no money coming to
many; they owed it for rent or at the
store. They went away from the pay
window penniless to begin the strike.
l approached this pay window yes
terday. Just beside it, on the build
ing, is copy of the notice of the cut
given above. AS one looks through
the window, through door beyond
into an inner office, one sees as of the
! last campaign pleasing large lithO-
graph of Mckinley, advance agent of
prosperity" pulling the giant lever
that turns the multitude of tall fact0-
ries, which fill the background of this
work of art, into big theatres of toll
ing activities and happy full-paid labor
| life.
should have supposed Jones would
have had the sense and taste to pull
this Autograph down. But Jones
would seem to be blunted in more WAYS
than one. There the Autograph hangs
as If in sarcasm, and the poor, buncoed
devil of workman, with his pay cut
and his work departed, looks at it and
remembers the vote he cast for "Han-
ma, the friend of the workingman, :"
and Mckinley, who would rather
start the factories than the minis"
Usage indiana Better OFF.
1t would be of no avail to describe
how hard and straitened are the cir
cumstances of these work folk even
when they work, A house with four
rooms and as many as ten people, two
and half to room. They ate and
lived in one and slept in the other
three. What sort of home life would
that be? With such a house, and then
to face fate and fill the mouths of a
family on what was left of $I.25 per
day, after rent was taken out. These
folk looked ill-fed, ill-clothed, unkempt
and bathless, as well they might and
must with their slight money.
Our Indians are better off. Cur Os-
age Indians draw annually with only
the labor of coming to the agency after
: it more money prOportionately than
I the JOnes-Laughlin Company workmen
earn. The Usage has, besides, his land
and his time. He lives a cleaner,
warmer and better fed life. He is far
better situated than the workmen |
visited yesterday.
This case of the JOnesLaughlin Co..
people is only sample. There are
thousands Of others as badly off. The
present is painful and bad for work
people in this region; the future is to
| be biacker and blacker still. Mean
while Carnegie goes to Europe and
Mckinley represents prosperity" at
Washington. While want, gaunt and
threatening, stalks among work pc ople
here | learn that more hideOus situa-
tiOn is to be found among the coal
miners. | will and visit coal mine or
two tomorrow and report how black
that blaCkness is.
McLain's Tasteless Chill and Fever
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