The Medina sentinel. [volume] (Medina, Ohio) 1888-1961, 1920-01-09
WATERS FROM POISONED SPRING CAM
GIVE LIFE

The contention of coal operators that they maxi
ing money and should be allowed an increase in prices
true the way they figure things The trouble is in the
system that has been permitted to creep into nearly all
business. man will open coal mine and in doing SO
captaizes his enterprise for $4,000 than he
invests in the business-increment he figures it;
what the traffic will bear" is the way others state it
Then he starts out to make his mine pay per cent i'm
vestment and per cent risk Both these items are
fair his actual investment and give him velvet where
they are added the $4,000 water
Few operators who are clamoring for increase in
price but have padded their stock lists quite percepby
In fact the present may have purchased the mine
after the water put in the stock and so far as he is
concerned is acting up to his actual investment.
But is not fair that coal operators others should
charge rate that will give them dividends water And
the man who buys business with water in is in the
same boat man who buys stolen animal-he can't
keep it and he can't expect to collect dividend it.
The time must come if the people who are the bone
and sinew of the Nation to have square DEAL when
dividends attempted legitimate investments only
People who have purchased stocks that were largely water
have no one to blame but themselves; they are in the same
boat as man who has purchased stolen animal And
while is certain to hurt to pull out these "horns in the
fesh" the sooner it is done the nature begin
the healing of the wound
Very naturally every who has proted by the ex-
ploation of mine-or any other project for that mat
ter-wll be up in arms against such clearing mousse
The man who steals horse and sells it is the one most
outraged when the innocent purchaser forced to give up
the animal and turns to the thevng puveyor for him to
make good People who have exploited industries OF one
character and another, and people who sat back and
profted but had no hand in it, will be against readJust
ment They made their money in the exploiting OF the
projects readjustment will take away all their excess
profits so why sit by while they readused out OF all
they had The fact that the exploitation was purely THEFT
does not cut any figure with them now that they have
been found out they at raise their hands in holy nor
hor at theft-theft Of their unfair profits.
This readusment must come before business can be-
come honest even fair This readusment must come be-
fore there can be honesty in BUSINESS it must come before
there can be rest in industrial conditions 1t is not 80
much the amount paid in wages that causes unrest but
that the wages and the commodities of life for which the
wages are spent juggled that the workman ls
robbed whichever way he turns readustment will make
an honorable start possble readustment will enable
people to make good living honestly Dishonesty IN
high finance makes for dishonesty all along the line
the waters the fountain head poison how can those
who drink along it's flow retain good health?
Cleveand's Council finally whipped into line for
the new depot the Square Now the business interests