The bee., 1901-02-21
DOWN IN THE MINES.

this increase in our prosperity, who
would destroy the entire interest.
Not only have such failed TO lend n
helping hand, to push along our
prosperity, from this standpoint, but
are only an atom for any purpose,
and that atom is full of microbes and
destruction to all honest ondeavors,
toward happiness, peace, prosperity,
and comfort.-Christian Advertiser.
There is no better way to judge a
true IN IN than by the company he
keeps and the way he handles the
truth. So we desire to call the at
tention of tho miners of Hopkins
county to the following letter from
Agitator Tate, now temporarily To-
Gated at Maditonville by the chief Of
mine wreckers, one Jim Wood. The
charge made in this letter that our
miners as class are poor ign )rant
beings is a gross insult, but just
what you might expect from one
who has become close associate Of
the common saloon loafer. Great
love he certainly has for the poor
abused miner, as he. calls those for
whom he processes to show SO much
sympathy, when he stoops 30 low,
even IL his charges of ignorance were
true, as to abuse them for their mis-
fortune. But Tate knows full we'll
the falsity of his charges, and tells
this tale to mislead those who are
contributors to the corruption fund.
Read closely this letter and you will
see the ear marks of his satanic ma
jest7 all the way through, but he
I must do Woods bidding and write
| Just as he dictates. Read what the
ignoramus says about the st. Ber-
nard Coal Company, and how he
spells "Reinecke:"
I'VE are getting along exceedingly
we'll organizing. We have a great
deal of ignorance here to contend
with. You have no idea how the
operators raise the laboring class
when the operator 10 destitute of
manhood or principle. You can find
lots of people here that can't read
their names on sign-board. They
have had full control of the labor
ing people here for the last thirty
years, and great many Of them say
"Massa" J. b. is God. learn that
| the st. Bernard Coal Company are
building their cars larger at No. IL
mine; say that the new cars will
hold all Of seventy-five bushels of
coal screened, but only get an aver
age of about, fifteen bushels to the
car. You see by these weights that
n man only gets One-fifth of the
lump and nothing for the balance.
This is the condition reported to me
by several in tn past week. want
the public to understand that the
Cour er-JOurnal reporter is one of
the Renica Coal Company's superin-
tendents. His name is Q. Baily.
ave are going to gain the day in
this section. We are on gaining
ground. Recollect it takes money
to uproOt ignorance and wipe out
evils. The papers are making big
reports of running coal, but it is not
true. We have got a large produc-
tion of their output stopped and are
going to continue to do so until they
Lrecognize our craft and make q set
tlement and respect us as law-abid-
ing citizens, and then all that they
will have to do is to comply with
Il o law, and then our troubles will
be over. Yours in the cause,
j.. H. TATE
Msdisonville, KY. -.
Topeka, Kans., Feb. 9.-The State
Society of Labor "had fun" with
Mrs. Nation by adopting the follow
Ing with mock ceremony:
Resolved, That we, the members
of the organized laoor Of the
State of Kansas here assembled IN
our annual convention, would re-
spectfully ask our president to ap.
point a committee of five to wait
upon Mrs. Nation and ask her to
conform her working hours to har-
monize with organized labor, namely
to work but eight hours in one cal
endar day, commencing at a. m.
and finishing at p. M, and TO see
that she performs no overtime work
except in cases of extreme necessity
for which overtime she is to receive
time and a half"
The clays found in close proximity
to coal seams are usually Of the
finest quality for the manufacture OF
pottery and tiles, owing to their fine
close grain. These clays are often
mined in quantity in connection
with coal seams and are taken to the
surface and there ground to an in
palpable powder to furnish material
for the manufacture of tiling and
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