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

Labor a"itators have created "a
universal unrest all over the field
with the fair promises, none of
which are seemingly realized.
1t Is an old maxim and n very true
one that tie graSS is always green
est over on the other hills. News
comes from these fields that men
are carried there like shipping so
many cattle and put down in Il
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 sympathizcrs
with the labor agents, say men are
not free here. Poverty is IL hard
master anywhere.
1t is currently reported that II
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
and will give their employees more
for their work. 1t is hard to make
the masses feel that corporations
have rights MS well rs individuals"
What are corporations but
combination of individuals, and as
such should be protected, not to
the dctrlmcn of the masses, how
ever, but us any other individual.
Take from Pocahontas our coal
and mining interests, carried on
by the so called "hcartlrss corpora.
ton" and the owls and bats will
take charge of many of our now
fairly good business houses and
the grass will grow uumolested 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 lnborcr'S toll and lake 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 fiji
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 wears
past, and break mp and moved
Away, listening TO the siren song
Of these socallcd friends of the
l,boring man. The man who offers
me Il pamacea for all my ills, und er
the gnlSe Of a friend and gives me
strychninc by mistake. is an enc
my to ne and my family all the
same, tho"gh 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 All old proverb and is as true as
the gospel. Men sit on our streets
corners and spend their time crit.
lcising t. life and conduct of the
people WHO in many respects are
by far their supcriors. see dead
carcass thr.'wn out OH the hill
side and the little honey bee and
tho green fly, both find it. The
bee finds something IN it las often
slvc as it is) that is good for mans
use, while the green fly deposits
its egg and assists in carrying 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 AlINTER
Some quite severe criticisms has
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