The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1911-11-30

men, they beat up the representa-
tives of the Miners Union; they
slay and kill with impunity, and
never for once. Notwithstanding all
the depredauons they have commit
ted, in direct violation of the law.
has one of them ever been brought
to Justice, or made to pay the pen-
atty of his depredations And Why?
Because the politically rotten Gov
ernor, and the politically rotten
Judge, and the politically rotten
Prosecuting Attorney. each of whom
are sworn to uphold the law, before
this trinity of usurpation evasion,
and political corruption, the work.
ing man has no redress. And why?
Because the political rotten Govern
or, and the politically rotten Prose-
cutting Attorney, and the politically
rotten Judge, every ono OF them to
the last man, owe their politically
rotten jobs to the rotten Capitalist
system, to the rotten coal barrons
and railway kings, who furnish the
Ta1nted Money" that bought the
rot-gut whiskey, beer and cheap
cigars, that bought the rotten votes
that elected them into power, and
made them the executive heads of
a rotten political regime.
Now, 1t is well to ask right here.
what is the motive back of the ar
rest of these twenty-seven men?
claim it is Graft. Pure Graf. Won
will notice that His Honor. the
Mayor, gets five dollars per head for
each man that he turns over to the
county Sheriff. Five dollars each
on twenty-seven men, is $135.OO.
Pretty good for the Mayor, eh? The
Sherif gets twenty-five cents per
man, on 125 men, which is a net
profit of s31.25 per day for the
Sheriff. Pretty good picking for the
Sheriff. His deputy makes Ave cents
per day per man, which is s6.25. and
the Baldwins get theirs. and of
course, Mr.. John Riley Sanders gets
his.
The Motive.
rs this then the motive hack of
these twenty-seven arrests? II SO.
what is it, persecution, prosecution
or blackmafl? If this is the motive
pack of these arrests, is this not
clear case of blackmail, in which
law and government have actually
become partner in the crime. and
all IN the name of Justice? If such
nigh handed villany can go on with
impunity in Fayette County, involv-
ing the highly elected officials. as
well as the pimps and stool pigeons.
how long will it be before we will
have evolved ourselves into stale
OF organized injustice and intellect
ual barbarism?
To claim that these men are pro-
fessional hoboes, is to mistate the
facts i'll the case. Professional bo-
boes do not infest the coal fields.
To claim that they are delinuuents
is but to heap infamy upon abuse.
III these men are delinquents, then
they are made such by the hopeless
economic condition of their lives.
ana these conditions are made hope
less by the remorseless tyranny of
wealthy men. who use their lawless
wealth to exploit, enslave and bru-
taliZe the workingman. What pen
or tongue, from primeval man to tho
loftiest intellect of the present gem
Grafton, can fttingly describe the
more than Satanic crime of stealing
the jewel of Liberty from the Crown
OF Manhood. and reducing the VIC
tim OF the burglary to slavery or
TO prison, to crafty these Monsters
OF lnlquity who, for some inscruti-
Die reason. are given breath to
breathe, to contaminate the atmos-
phere and poison every fountain
and stream designed to bless the
| world? AS Americans we have
| boasted of our liberties, and con-
tinue to boast of them, and if some
have vanished, it is we'll to remem-
Der that a remnant remains. Out of
prison beyond the reach of Russian
injunctions, knowing the location of
Cabin Creek, Fayetteville and other
Russianized sections of West Virgin
ia, we may still indulge in the glori-
fications of liberty, though pusued
| through every lane and avenue of
life by the baying hounds of usurped
and unconstitutional power, glad If
I when night lets down her sable
curtains we are out of prison, though
still the wage slaves of Plutocracy,
which. were it in the New Jerusa-
lem. they would wreck every ave-
nue. leading up to the Throne of God,
by stealing the gold with which thew
are paved, and with that Same gold
they would debauch- Heavens Su-
preme Court, to obtain an injunc-
ton that the command, Thou shalt
!