Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1900-10-30
ENR1cHEs THE FEW.
cruelties of Republican, MonopoIists
Perpetrnted Upon Cruci-
fled Labor.

sylvania coal fields is causing much
concern to the republican bosses.
| They have not forgotten the Home
stead troubles in 1892. nor their eff
| fects on the national campaign of that
ives, obeying the mandates of heart
less capitalists, make poor campaign
ers among the common people. a
needy miner shot down while assert
ing his manhood speaks louder to the
hearts of the American masses than
all their artillery
\ Hanna recognizes these facts. After
PREACHING New York the other day from
!. Chicago. one of his first acts was to
call on j. Pierpont Morgan, and re-
port of the interview says he told the
big tinancier that unless the coal
strike was stopped at once, the elec-
ton of Mckinley was in peril. This
strike will ruin US" Hanna is report
ed to have said, land you with your
great command can stop it," Mr..
Morgan was told that no money was
wanted from him, that the republican
committee had all the funds it want
ed; its pressing desire was that the
strike should be ended until at least
after the election, for every day of it's
continuance was winning thousands
of votes for Bryan. Cornelius N Bliss,
former secretary of the interior; Sem
ator Scott, of West Virginia, and the
president of the National City bank
were with Hanna, and they joined
their voices in an earnest appeal that
for the sake of party success, the
strike should be settled at once.
1t is too late. The harm has been
done. The pitiful wall of the miners
that they might as we'll starve idle
as starve working has been heard
throughout the land, and the infa-
nous industrial system that enriches
the few and pauperizes the many
must go. 1t would be incredible, were
not the facts adduced, that men with
families of young children were com
PEELED to work in the mines at an av-
erage OF less than $3.50 year. Some
of them, as was recently stated, at a
meeting of the miners never had in
their possession even one dollar in
cash of their earnings. It is all |
traded out as fast or faster than it |
was earned, in the ''pluck-me" stores
owned by the coal barons, where the
unfortunate Underground delivers were
forced to purchase their insufficient |
necessaries of life and the materials
used by them in their occupation.
They were compelled to produce, too,
for ton of coal as high as $500
pounds, which the coal baron sold for
nearly the equivalent of two tons.
These facts and conditions are now
known to all voters throughout the
and, and even We're the few moder.
ate demands of the miners granted,
t would not, in the minds of an out
aged people be regarded as a con-
of the crimes and cruelties
against robbed and crucified and too
,atient labor.
Hanna's presentation of the politi-
al situation seems to have convinced
Morgan that the strike was a grave !.
md dangerous one, and the latter i'm.
nediately set to work to bring it to !.
| close. The next day he held con-
erence with the presidents of the i'm
,ortant coal roads and representatives
# the coal operators for the purpose
# devising means to end the strike,
md the result will probably be that
he coal trust will offer some con-
sessions to the miners, for the time
being, at least
Hanna's assurances to Pierpont Nor
gan that he had all the money needed
to run the national campaign was
doubtless true, but was no pledge that
the work of ''fatfrying" would be
That he should forget his
role of TOUGHER" in the presence of
a multi-millionaire showed how deep
ly the strike had troubled his mind.
1t is sure sign that he is unnerved
and frightened, and that he sees in
the strike political catastrophe that
contributions cannot avert.
He wants the coal barons to do VIC.
lence to their feelings by pretending
to sympathize with the woes of the
miners, and taking some steps to tenn
porarily remedy some Of their griev-
ances.
The Helena Independent, of Helena.
Mont, furnishes some interesting fig
ures in regard to the strike in the
anthracite regions of Pennsylvania,
1t is estimated that if the anthra.
ute coal strike should last two months
the men will lose $s,ooo,oOo in wages;
and operators $4,000, 600 and the rail
road companies like amount.
Hara ie oorl,<;ox ,,,o11 |
Illustrating the power of private mo-
nopoly to rob the producer, arbitra.
rily fix the terms and conditions of
labor, and appropriate the fruits of
industry for the benefit of the few
at the expense of the many.
1t is estimated that some $4,000 or
10000 workers will lose ss,o0o,OOo in
wages while few monopolies will lose
S2o,0o0,0oo. In other words these
few monopolies get 2A times as much
for mere ownership as the great army
of laborers get for doing the work.
Every 500 got from mining and
marketing the coal is distributed as
follows:
To the coal miners. &c
TO the monopolists. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. Al 81 |
10 the railroads. Observation-Disclosures. Al 81
Leaving the railroads out of ac-
count, every 500 got for mining the
coal is distributed as follows:
To the miners. sos 57
10 the monopolists. ..............Y a
The railroads get 2A times as much
for carrying the coal to market as the
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