Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1899-09-15
The Grass Is Aiways Greenest
Over on the Other HHis.
Editor the NEWS:

Labor a9itators have created "a
universal unrest all over the field
with the fair promises, none of
which are seemingly realized.
Ii ~ AN old maxim and n very true
one that tie yrasS is always green
est over on the other hills. New
comes from these fields that men
are carried there like shipping so
many cattle and put down i'm IA
foreign field, many of them pcuni-
less and are put under guard like
cOnvicts and put TO work to pay
transportation. How abou' that
for freedom? The sympathizers
with the labor agents, say men are
not free here. Poverty is hard
master anywhere.
1t is currently reported that u
number of the operators have made
contracts for coal at ruinouSly low
figures, and just rs soon as they
| fill their present contracts they can
aud will give their employees more
for their work. 1t is hard to make
the masses feel that corporations
ha\e rights as we'll as individuals"
What are corporations but a
combination of individuals, and as
such should be protected, not to
the detrment of the masses. how
ever, but us any other individual.
Take from POcahontas our coal
and mining interests, carried on
by the so called "heartlesS CORPORA.
ton" and the owls and bats will
take charge of many Of our now
fairly good business houses aud
the grass will grow unmoIested i'm
our streets. No man lives To him
self nor dies to himself, the mer-
chant, mechanic, the doctors.
preachers and lawyers and every
class of men live on the horny
handed labOrer'S toll and take from
HIM his means of support and the
main master wheel to the whole
machine stops.
The travelling statesmen say they
are doing comparatively nothing.
The merchant cant afford to fill
his shelves with goods today. when
to morrow he may wake To find
his customers all gone to another
field. Who is responsible for this
state of things! Let an awakened
conscience answer. Poor men with
large families sell for mere song
all their hard earnings for years
past, and break mp and moved
away, listening to the siren song
of these socallcd friends of the
ltborlng man. The man who offers
me panacea for all my ills, und er
the gulSe of a friend and gives me
stTychnine 10y mistake, is an enc
my to ne and my family all the
same, though unintcntiohal. This |
state of things is also destructive
TO the morals of society. Men, if |
they have nothing to do, will find
something demOraliZing TO engage
their attention many of them. An
idle BRAIN IS the devils workshop.
is an old proverb and is as true as
the gospel. Men sit on our streets
corners and spend their time crit
icising t. life and conduct of the
people WHO in many respects are
by far their superiors. | see a dead
carcass thrrwn out on the hill
side and the little honey bee and
the green fly, both find it. The
bee finds something III it (as often
sive as it is) that is good for mans
use, while the green fly deposits
It's egg and assists in carving on
the miserable work of putrifactiOn
aud decay, and poisons the very
atmosphere around so many homes
in our lands.
Evil be to him that evil think
eth. Out of the abundance of the |
heart the mouth Speaketh.
If have any thing good to say of man
Let me say it before he is lain to rest
For eulogies spoken when hearts are
broken,
Is am empty thing at best.
w NJ. MINTER
Some quite severe criticisms has |
been made to us OH the editorial of