Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1900-10-05

'aul-; 1t would applaud you if ~.
burned diGrn Il thous lnh doliass'
with OF Il sleigh's lea, on he q gu
e" of $50 much tue be. ter for the
10 ACC -ir''d'" Eu, W al hi. p,re
would nay is that it marv..ls how you
control your self to call man "pros-
porous" whose Who'll, sweat won in
come makes n m ore than one- twelfth
OF what you ed TO smok.l M ,st
OF these folk of S125 day are your
moral and mental equals; sope of
them your superiois, any one of them
n every attribute which goes for
fair manhood and good citizenship
towers over such AS Hanna. They
lack his porcine force to crush, aud
crowd and claim the swill Other
Nise they're his easy betters These
men of tread mil! lives-and Sl.25 a
day-are as anxious for their wives
coniort.as tenderly ambitious OF
their childreDs future, as you or
Hanna And do you call them pros
porous on an utmost pay to equal
8 per cent of your cigar bills And
these people-these Sl25 day PEG
ple-are the envy of other laborers
Tor their luck and high good fortune
Ones day must be desperate, indeed
to found an envy OF such a poor food,
hord-palned dostinyl ID mt you as
you fill your mouth with SI5 worth
OF daily smoke, join the Verdict IN
that vlewi However. you cant; you
Say tbs Ii ~ oSperity and ask re-
election Us lis advance agent
To b. frank with You, The Verd.cl
gives y on no redit for ahght rav,. IA
selfish, gulping hypocrisy. You
have no more of CAFE for working
folk on their account than you have
OF sheep who Craze on far off Scot
fish slopes. Be their pasture scant
or deep, breeds no concern in YOU.
You sing a song of personal interest
In the fortunes of folk who labor.
It's all falseI-all moonshine in the
waterl It's for yourself aud second
Presidency, you lift that soft, melo-
dious heart-note of warm philanthro-
Ply and love and labor. You are ut
terly selfish i'll a passive, self respect
less way, which with no active power
to g It. aud less of mood to give has
still vast blvalviAn capacity TO suck
in that fatuess which others bring.
You are as selfish and rs coldly-mold,
ed toward Beney Olence as Hanna;
you aud he have both the same con.
scienceless foul genius to Gei. Bat
with this difference you Get like an
oyster; Hanna like hog You are
both great; VOC to beg and he to
seize. Hanna is mighty as a mer-
chant, in coarse aud grocery way;
you come merely 10 be the worlds
tremendous mendicant And when
one considers your sincerely us you
pretend to weep and work and wait
Tor others good, it is the sincerity of
the Saurian-the tears of the croco-
die. You serve yourself and 10, Il
and build yourself by any mean de
vice. You'll get on any horse from
either side that stands to take YOU
to your dirty interest. Do you know
why the Verdict is so sure of your
snakIsh, cold unlove of working folk?
1t has some knowledge of how men
Jared who worked for you. 1t was
two years. two months ago last
month, and you had, as the advance
aGen' of Prosperity" been President
fifteen months. The writer had oc-
caslon to visit mine in which YOU
yourself held stock. Its management
and main owner ship was in your
cousin Osborne. That coal-hole is
known as the osborne -Seeger Mine"
and on 'The Banning" some twenty
miles from Pittsburg. No miner on
your rolls made 5000 a year and
none had made 500 for the year
gone by. They were starving; and
one famished huddle of poor wretch
est called itself family and the
members spoke hOmanly in English
had killed a dog for food, and fed
upon it while the writer looked
There are those in Pittsburg now
who know the truth of this. Here
was picture of prosperity" of
which you were lot olly the lad