The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1900-11-03
Lesson for the People in the Pirati-
cal Methods Of the Coal
Trust.
MEANING OF M'KINLEy's REELECTION.
H.rr.,. Hand In the settlement of
the Coal Miners Strike-EnortH
of Republicans to Mislead Voters
some Facts Regarding Trust
Legislation.
Especial Correspondence

q republican mpai scHeAhe' WIN
his usual Grass stupidity, he assumed
that the starving miners would jump
at the bait and fail to see the trap
which it concealed. Hanna fastened
to take the credit of the offer to him
self before he knew the result of the
employees conference.
How disappointed he must have been
when he found that the miners had de-
tached the cheese from the hook and
refused to walk into the trap. If the
strike is prolonged until it causes suf-
fering to poor people unable to pay
advanced prices, the responsibility of
such expense and Inconvenience to the
public rests solely with the coal COM
bine.
The miners waived recognition of
| their union, and merely asked that
the ten per sent. advance be guaranteed
to them for six months, until April /,
1901. They offered to leave the other
grievances to arbitration and abide by
the decision. Nothing could be fairer
than that. As a matter of fact, the OPP
orators could afford to guarantee the
six months advance in wages purely as
q campaign investment if they had any
idea of the popular resentment that is
growing against their piratical proceed
ure and the protection and encourage
ment which it receives from the Nc
Kinley administration.
There are various reasons why the
coal combine has not been too anxious
to end the strike at once. They are
purely business considerations, and
these weigh more heavily with the
trust than any political advantage,
ever of the party which stands for its
aggressions.
While the coal operators and the rail-
road combipe have reaped a profit of
more than $4,000, 900 while the strike
has been in progress, this is not be-
cause there has been any scarcity of
coal. On the contrary, there was
than a million IONS piled up at various
points in New Jersey in anticipation of
this strike. 1t gave a splendid excuse
to reap an extra profit from the help
less consuming public.
Mark Hanna may persuade the oper-
ators to accede to the very moderate
demands of the miners, and settle the
strike, but the country has had it's les
son. 1t has seen how unlimited is trust
dominion in the coal fields, and how
the trusts Cypress and degrade the
workmen on n hand and rob the con-
suming public on the other. The vot-
ers have already made up their minds
that this piratical method of doing
business is dangerous to the liberties
of the people. The reelection of Nc
) Kinley means the extension of coal
trust methods to every industry in the
country controlled by trusts-and they
!. already number 400 and over.
. Restraint of Trusts.
! The republicans are taking much
r pains to confuse and mislead the vot
ers on the trust issue. Bryan is helt
up as the bugaboo who will interior,
: with legitimate business when he
brings the guerrilla trusts under tn,
operation of legal remedies.
No person should be in doubt as Il
the result Of trust restraint. In indi
vidual cases the arresting and punish
. ment Of a thief means more s%ecurit,
e for all honest men.
: In the business world the same prin
ciple applies. The arrest and punish
ment Of lawless trusts and combina
Q tons means more security and bette,
opportunities for all sorts of homes
n and legitimate business.
i To permit the trusts to go unpun
ished and unrestrainsd. as they are do
ing now, is to introduce a condition o
X anarchy and disregard of law wherei,
no citizen will feel sur of employment
4 or Of being able to cast a free vote.
10 Republican Trust Legislation.
10 Roosevelt grows more quiet as h
lr progresses eastward. By the time h
- struck Illinois he had exchanged v
tuperation of the democrats for bare
faced Misrepresentation.
II In relation to trusts he made severa
p- untrue and misleading statement,
It One was to this effect:
" at was the democrats who refuse
IN to vote for the constitutional amend
e. ment proposed by our party durin
d. the last session, thus they made it in
possible for the republican majority t
apply HI eHectlVe remedy.
- 1t Ia true that the democrats refuse
10 to join with the republicans and Civ
~ the necessary two-thirds' vote to pas
!. the amendment in the house. BIZ
I" why?
~ Here is the real status of the case
=. The proposed amendment would new
have restrained trusts nor interfere
y, with them in any way, ever if it ha
passed and received the sanction of tn
necessary number of states. It wa
ne not intended to apply to trusts. 1t wa
OF intended to crush out all organic
MS tons among farmers and laborers.
to proposed to prosecute them out of e.
Is istence under the general head of icon
binations."
No less an authority on practic
economics than President Samu
Gompers, of the American Federatio
lie of Labor, declares that the amendme,
proposed by the republicans was Il