The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1900-09-29
BLOOD AND THE DOLLAR.
STRIVE HARD FOR SUPREMACY.
Eyes of the World Are Turn
ed to the Pennsylvania
Coal Miners Strike Caus-
ed by the Anthracite Coal
Trust---Mark Hanna's Sort
of Prosperity.


Trust---Mark Hanna's Sort
of Prosperity.
One hundred and twenty-fiyc
8 thousand half-starved miners and
laborers in the Pennsylvania an.
thracite coal regions have laid
4 down their tools in despair.
One hundred and fifty thousand
women and children must starve
with them unless public conscience
is speedily awakened to q true
sense of the infamous conditions
which prevail under the rule of
The coal trust, and railroad trust
and all other trusts that have COM
bIned to coin dollars out of human
blood and accumulate wealth
Through the distillation of human
tears.
M Empty stomachs and paupers
graves give answer to the Repub-
ilcan cry of the full dinner pail
and prosperity.
The anthracite coal barons fore
cd down the price of labor and
torced up the price of everything
VIC miner had to buy. There
could be but one result. The end
has come. The greatest labor cri-
sis of the century has been preci-
plated by the coal and railroad
husts.
In the meantime the trust has
jumped the price Of coal into the
realms of wholesale larceny. Eve
~ consumer in the land is a VIC
tim to the robbery--a robbery
moro Infamous because it steals
hfst from the starving miner and
Then from the consumer.
On Monday OF last week Mark,
hanna made speech in Chicago
n which he defantly declared
that there are no trusts.
The issue is before the Ameri-
can people - whether Hanna is
right or whether more than quar-
ten Of a million ragged and starv-
Ing human beings in Pennsylvania
are right.
Last Monday week Mark Han
na, boss of the Republican party
and defender of Imperialism and
trusts, gave a banquet at the Union
League Club, Chicago, to a party
Of gentlemen whose combined
wealth aggregated 1925 ,000, 900.
On the same day 125,000 Penn
sylvania coal miners laid down
their picks and shovels because
the coal trust refused them living
wages.
AT the Union League Club ban
quet,' given by Hanna, the plates
cost SIS each. The wines were
costly beyond the dream of Licul-
llis.
The ragged miners fed their
wan-faced babes that day on black
crusts and water.
look UPON THESE PICTURES.
Mark Hanna depicted to his
millionaire glests the prosperity
that had been thrust upon them
sby Mckinley and himself. and
domanded a lordlv contribution
from them wherewith to "perpe-
tuate the present administration" /"
On the same day the hard coal
trust raised the price of it's pro-
duct one dollar a ton. The pro
cccds of this robbery is expected
to buy the election Of Willie Nc
Kinley.
~ the meantime $50, 900 men, |
women and children were left to
starve by the coal barons. while
Hanna brutally declares there are
nj trusts and that everybody has
q Toll dinner pail,
GRIEVANCES WERE MANY.
The miners grievances have |
been many of long standing. For
Noars the average wages has been
less than so cents a day. While I
haafis have forced miners To paw
aaincrease from 15to AS percent
fpr clathing and the wage scale
has remained the same. The min
er was compelled to pay $2.75 per
keK for powder, which cost the
coal sts1.00 keg. The miner
VIVA forced to dig $500 pounds
~ coal for ton, and was also
eonpelled to purchase his sup
i,iles at y company store at trust
prices.
The situation in the mines is
perhaps best described by James
feelman, who's making such d
personal Investigation Of the
NANses that led to the present
S1Vike. As Mr.. CreeIman SAYS
The American public should un-
l}erstand the situation:
ENOUGH TO DAMN THE SYSTEM.
se For d number ofsdaYs,s' SAYS
Creelmau, II have been wan
eFing from shanty to shanty in
fhe dreary anthracite coal settle
3sents gathering from the miners
ma their wives the actual facts Of
kIIe situation.
No exaggeration is necessary to
Rjs story OF patient suffering, for