The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1897-10-12


ior Of Europe's naughty lords? Does
she remember how they dreamed and
planned, how they looked forward to
long years Of happiness in "the land
OF the brave AMI the home OF the
free" the refuge of the worlds op-
pressed?"--how they toiled and saved
to pay their passage to a country
where a child born to them might be-
come president? At last they took
ship, and day by day strained their
eyes to catch glimpse CT that west
ern haven which was to be the portal
OF their heaven, and when they landed
they could have kissed the land where
"all men are equal before the law"
But the fond dream soon faded, they
were more hopelessly enslaved than
In the father!and, compelled TO live on
less, answerable not to some naughty
but generous nobleman, but to grasp
ing, insolent and ignorant parvenu,
willing to coin their hearts blood into
Doodle. And this is the end! The
husband Of her youth, already grown
grizzly in the fierce struggle for ex-
istence, shot down by his fellow
citizens" because he CHANGED to walk
on the public highway, and there met
coward, whose strange words he
could not understand, lies dead in her
arms, while around her his hungry or
phans wall! say he met a coward;
but perchance do Sheriff Martin too
much honor. Cowards are born, not
made; and IL he inherited cowardice
from mougrel sire, or d. wv 1t in with
his mothers milk, ne should not be
unduly blamed. Did he give that Or
der to fire because he was instructed
by the mine operators to make a
killing" that would terrorize the ILL
fed and unarmed miners into submits
sion to their terms? Is Sheriff Martin
a cringing coward or subsidized as
sassin? From the testimony before
me I cannot tell; but learn that the
mine operators consider that the kill
ing ha a good effect" learn from
today's (September 21) dispatches that
"a majority of the miners have re-
turned to work, and that, with but
one or two exceptions, at the old
terms"-that "the backbone Of the
strike Is broken"-since upwards of 70
inoffensive men we're shot in the back!
Napoleon learned long ago that a few
well-directed volleys would break the
backbone Of almost ANYTHING, and the
mine owners appear to have profited
by his experience. The same dis
patches say the sheriff and a number
of his janizaries have been arrested
the sheriff who pleaded in extenu-
alton of his crime that his victims
"were most all foreigners" They were
foreigners brought here by the mine
operators in defiance Of the contract
labor law, starved and abused until
they laid down their tools-then shot
at until they took them up again.
What will be done with the assassins?
o, they will "be subjected to a rigid
xaminatlon"--to satisfy the public
and avoid international complications.
They will have behind them the pow
erful influence Of the mine operators,
whom they have served so well, and
the plutocratic newspapers and mug
wump magazines will see to it that all
who demand that they be properly
punished are denounced as "anarch-
ists." But one thing is sure as that
there's a God in Israel; every one Of
those assassins should be stood with
his face to brick wall and pound
of lead blown through his back. True,
the deputies obeyed ORDERS" but a
man who will obey an order given
by frantic fool or hired assassin to
slay inoffensive people, should not be
permitted to halt four-and-twenty
hours this side OF hell. am told that
"the sheriff and most OF the deputies
are Americans" It's an Infamous
falsehood-no American ever did such
a deed. A mongrel cross between
lousy yahoo and q NANCY she-wolf
were not capable OF committing such
a crime. They are not Americans, but
unnatural monsters who committed
their cowardly crime in this country,
and Columbia can purge herself Of the
damnable disgrace only by blowing
the last one of them to fragments or
hanging him in hair natter higher
than Haman. once said tnat the
workman was at least allowed liberty
to starve to death; but even that poor
privilege is now denied-if he at
tempts It he will be shot to DEATH
Brann's Iconoclast.