The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1911-06-08
Black Hearted Tyranny
BY L. Ernest Harper.

For many months there has been
the most dastardly, dirty piece of
work carried on in our would-be
Fair City. were it not so Eraft-rfd-
den and damned, that ever inflicted
a people.
The writer is glad of the oppor-
| tunity to call the attention of the
citizens to this damnable outrage
that IS being pulled Off almost daily
right under their noses.
AT the head of this dirty doing
Is one Mr.. Hill. whom the people
have entrusted to office, that of
Justice of the Peace, which office
he has already disgraced His al
lies or rather his undcr-dogs are:
One Jack Whorton whose reputation
is to we'll known to even be men,
toned at this time: and one Clark
Martin, whose reputation is so
| thread-bare that it would not hold
! water melons. Now this gang OF
robbers are operating under the
| Euise of law with the c. & o. Rail-
road Co. attheir back. Great de-
| tectives are these. and their busi-
ness is to catch men. Hoboes they
call them. The truth is that nine
ty per cent. of them are working
| men who are going about seeking
employment. Honest men hunting
for a master only to be hunted down
themselves by rotten raScals who
bear the same relation to society
that flea does to dog. And how
convenient for this gang of hirelings
to have at its head a Squire" to
| do the stunt of-well. passing sem
tencc and robbinG the victim if he
happens to have any money and if
| he has none-well then the County
has to cough up; and by the time
the county gets through coughing
up for the bills Tincured by this
gang of ours, all the way from Con-
stable to Sheriff. she has coughed
up in the neighborhood of twelve
| dollars and fifty cents (S12.50) per
victim. providing the sentence is not
| over ten days. in which case it
would of course be more.
How do you like that. you taxpay-
erS. farmers and otherwise? How
does it go Mr.. Taxpayer to have your
| money handed over to these ro-
Gueish rascals: these deSpoilers of
manhood; of all that is sublimc: of
all that is gentle. loving and good.
At this writing the County Jail
holds inside its dark walls several
| men whose only otJense consists in
riding freight-train and who. by
the way. fell into the hands of these
hell hounds of capitalism? Among
! those in Jail is young man. Ga
miner by occupation). who had
been working at Thurmond prior to
his arrest. according to "A statement
| given out by him in which he stat
ed that he was on his way home
| St,f 1n =
placed under arrest by one of these
Hill Thugs. This lad must do thirty
days in the County Jail before he
| can get home anG the Taxpayers
must cough up the bill. while had
| he been given his liberty. he could
have been at least making his own
way. But it is law yo know
and none are exempt-no working
man.
Now if this we're all the story:
| If here in our home town was the
only place where humanity is being
| outraged 'twould not be half sc
| tragic But all over broad America
| yea, beyond the blloway waves OF
the great salt-Seas. on continents
rs old as Christendom. are found
these organized bands of plunderers
But as a liberty-lovinG people we
can see the end OF all tnlS Dlack
hearted tyranny. 1t must pass with
the passing of Capitalism whose
days are numbered. Workers. it is
thigh time you were clawing the cob
webbs off your eyes use your heao
for something other than
That rack 90 some whole-heart
ed, wholesome thinking for your
lself Have backbone enough
to demand Justice. TO go to the poll!
on election day and vote for it. ant
last of all. but not least. have man
lhood enough coursirC through YOU
veins to fight for it if necessary.
Justice can be secured onl.
through workinE-class solidarity
let us lift together and we can mov'
the plutes from power and thus in
aucurate a system that would mak'
it utterly impossibl" for such gang
as that of Squire Hill's" to live b,
robbing the public and throwing
men who have committed no Grim
in Jail. Your little trot. Squire
| is coming to an end and of course
when it does. your little belly
. going to hurt you to 'beat tn
band