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The Somerset
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VOL. X.
SALISBURY. ELK LICK POSTOFFICE, PA., THURSDAY, JULY 28. 1904.
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OUGHT 10 BE LOCKED OP
SUCH IS THE FATE DESERVED BY
LAW VIOLATORS AND THEIR
SYMPATHIZERS.
Meyersdale Commercial an Inciter
of Riot and Crime, Also a Char-
acter Assassin.
What is the Province of Govern-
ment, If not to Protect Life and
: Property?
Notwithstanding the fact that the
strike in this coal region is completely
broken, and the fact that our opera-
tors have more men at work than they
really need to fill their orders, as is
evidenced nearly every day by the
turning away of men applying for
work, we still have people in this re-
gion who deny that the strike is broken,
but who must know that they are ut-
tering an untruth every time they
make such an assertion.
The fact that all kinds of depreda-
tions are being committed, such ss
burning company houses, attempting
to blow up tipples, shooting at guards,
entering mines and breaking tools,
stoning the houses of men who are
working, etc., is proof positive that the
strikers feel their utter rout and defeat
most keenly. It is only natural and
reasonable to lay the depredations and
crimes enumerated at the door of the
vicious element in the ranks of the
strikers, as the operators and men at
work could have no motive in resorting
to such things.
As we have often said before, many
of the strikers are good, law-abiding
citizens. They deplore the lawless
acts of their vicious brethren, but they
do not deny that they have in their
ranks a considerable number of men
that ought to be in penitentiary, or at
least out of this region for the region’s
good. .
We do not blame the criminals for
trying to conceal their crimes or
smooth over their dastardly conduct,
but it comes with remarkably bad
grace for any newspaper claiming to be
a respectable journal to side with crim-
inals, help them to cover up their
crimes, and at the same time try to
blacken the characters of men who are
good citizens. The Meyersdale Com-
mercial is the only paper in Somerset
county that has thus far followed such
a course, and we hear it condemned
and denounced every day by the better
class of people, while it is praised by
the low, vicious and criminal element
in the ranks of the strikers. The Com-
mercial is only upholding outlawry
and inciting the same by its outrageous
course, and in so doing we believe its
editor guilty of a great outrage against
the safety of life and property in this
region. We believe that he deserves
to be locked up for the public good, for
we can see him in no other light than
as a moral leper and a menace to law
and order. Of course, due allowance
must be made for an old man in his
dotage, who is probably driven nearly
insane by being haunted , with the
thoughts of a misspent, debauched,
worthless life—a life that has wrecked
the fortunes of others, and, viperlike,
turned and struck its venomous fangs
into those who rescued it from utter
ruin and despair. Misery loves com-
pany, and we believe that is why Luei-
fer Ananias Smith tries to uphold
criminals and condone crime, while at
men and drag them down to his own
level.
Following we will reproduce some of
the vile, outrageous and ridiculous
stuff that appeared in last week’s Com-
mercial, together with our comment
on the same:
Commercial—“The strike is broken,”
shout the Meyersdale Republican, Sal-
isbury Star, Lonaconing Star. But
here comes the Somerset Standard say-
ing “peace is maintained at a cost of
thousands of dollars.” Who is the
liar?
Comment—Neither of the four pa-
pers you name is the liar. The strike
is thoroughly broken, and has been
broken months ago, as the Commercial
well knows. At first only one mine in
the lower end of the region was run-
ning, while now a majority of our mines
are running, and gradually increasing
their output from week to week. A
broken strike does not always bring
peace, and the Standard was right in
saying that peace is maintained at
heavy cost. The strikers are badly de-
feated in their struggle. and because
they are sore over it is the reason we
have outlawry. They would not work
themselves, and some of them want to
make it impossible for others to work,
by resorting to violence, in which they
are upheld only by the Meyersdale
Commercial and the Georges Creek
Press. The liar in the case, can, we
believe, be found during business hours
in the Commercial office.
Commercial-—It appears Boswell
operators demand the county should
pay its proportionate share of the costs
of maintaining a force that is exempli-
fied in that other condition that “the
strike is broken.” The county com-
missioners would better go a little slow
in paying out the people’s money to a
class of men who made the intolerable
condition they complain of themselves.
They brought on the strike; now let
them maintain and pay for the costly
luxury. It’s their business, not the
people’s.
Comment—It is untrue that the
operators brought on the strike. They
reduced the price of coal mining, but
that is a right they have at any time,
just as Lou Smith has a right to re-
duce the wages of his printers, if he
sees fit. All employers have a right to
reduce or increase wages, and last year
the- coal operators of this region in-
creased the price of mining without
being asked to do so. It was not call-
ing a strike when the wages were cut
which had been voluntarily increased
before. The miners’ organization call-
ed the strike, which the organization
had a perfect right to do; but the
strikers have neither a legal nor a
moral right to resort to violence,
threats and intimidation to keep others
from working. It is because a lot of
dirty thugs and criminals have over-
stepped their own rights and want to
trample the rights of others under foot.
destroy their property, etc., that depu-
ties have become necessary. It is the
province of government to protect life
and property, and no matter whether
it is the Commercial printing office or
a coal company’s property that is
threatened with destruction, it becomes
the duty of all to belp pay for such
protection as may be necessary. The
coal companies pay large sums of
money toward keeping up our schools,
our highways and all other things that
the whole people get the benefit of,
and the Commercial only makes itself
ridiculous when it says the companies
are entitled to no protection or county
aid when their property is being de-
stroyed and their ives and the lives of
their employes are endangered. When
Cain slew his brother he answered
God’s inquiry concerning him by saying
he was not his brother’s keeper, but
God told him otherwise. The anarch-
istic Commercial would have us be-
lieve that it’s none of the people’s bus-
iness when company houses are burn-
ed and life and property are constantly
threatened. And it would teach that
coal companies are entitled to no pro-
tection, but common sense, common
decency and common law all teach us
differently. The Commercial’s position
simply amounts to this: If coal com-
panies do not pay and concede to the
miners just what they demand. and the
miners destroy their property and run
away such men as are willing to work
at the operators’ price, it is the concern
of no one but the companies. Such
logic is simply ridiculous and tends
only to foster outlawry and anarchy.
Commercial—As we expected, the
Salisbury Star charges the union min-
ers with burning “Noah’s Ark” at Coal
Run. This is a grave statement to
make, and there is no doubt Mr. Liven-
good will be called upon to substanti-
ate it, when he can at the same time
give the names of the Union miners
who said they also so believe.
Comment—It is not reasonable to |
the same time it tries to ruin honest
suppose that the said property was |
fired by any one outside of the miners’
union, or that any but union men en-
tered Meager’s mine, last Friday night,
breaking the workmen’s tools at that
place and scattering powder about in
such a way as to cause a series of ex-
plosions if a spark from a lamp should
ignite it. We are not in the least
afraid of consequences if called into
gourt. “Sufficient unto the day is the
evil thereof.”
Commercial—There are a good many
mysterious fires. We have had them
in Meyersdale and in Salisbury. We
have people here walking around with
insurance money in their pockets who
should be wearing striped suits and do-
ing time in the pen, which is equally
true of some in Salisbury.
Comment—We know nothing about
the origin of the fires you have had in
Meyersdale, and we don’t have the
least dea whether any of your people
hove been burning themselves out to
get insurance money or not. Neither
do we know anything about the origin
of any of the fires we have had in Sal-
isbury, but we do know that there isn’t
a decent man or woman in this town
that for one moment believes any of
our citizens ever burned themselves
out. But the Commercial says there
are some in Meyersdale and some in
Salisbury who have done that very
thing. If that is the case, the people
here would all like to know just who
the incendiaries are, so that they could
be compelled to suffer for their crimes.
Editor Smith says in his closing para-
graph that it is a principle of law that
“every man is innocent until proven
guilty.” That being the case, there
can then be no doubt that the persons
he is hinting at as being incendiaries
are guilty, but just when they have
been proven so, no one here knows. If
they have not been proven guilty, then
why does Editor Smith not practice
what he preaches? Or, if he has any
evidence that will prove them guilty,
he is particeps criminis if he does not
reveal it, for it is crime to conceal
crime. It will not be a hard matter to
compile a list of all the people in Mey-
ersdale and Salisbury who have been
burned out. Among the list that could
be compiled, there are some in each
town that have burned themselves out
to get their insurance, according to the
allegations of the Commercial. If this
is true, it is now up to the Commercial
to point out the guilty ones in order to
lift the odium from the innocent ones,
and at the same time help to bring the
guilty ones to justice. If Editor Smith
can not or will not do this, he brands
himself as a liar and a slanderer; and
if those who have been burned out in
Meyersdale and Salisbury take him in-
to court to compel him to tell whom he
meant and produce his evidence, won’t
he be in an awful predicament? That
may be done, too. Just wdit and see.
Smith says positively there are some in
this town and in Meyersdale who have
burned themselves out for their insur-
ance. THe Star did not speak quite
that plainly in regard to the Coal Run
fire. We did say that there is no doubt
that it was the work of some union
miner or miners, meaning, of course,
that there was nodoubt of it in our
own mind. There may or may not be
some doubt of it in the minds of others,
and besides, we did not say or intimate
that the Coal Run fire was the work of
union miners in Coal Run, Boynton or
from some other region.
Commercial—It is the meanest of
little littleness to turn on the miner,
who did more to build up Meyersdale
and Salisbury than any other single
agency.
Comment—This paper is not turning
on the self-respecting, law-abiding
miner, but it is dead against a loc of
thugs and criminals that have blown
into this region from various places
and have been a detriment to the
honest miner and the operator alike, as
well as a menace to law and order, life
and property ever since they are in the
region. Especially is this the case
since the union gained a strong foot-
hold in the region. The thugs hold the
dominating hand in it, and the time
has come when they should be run out
of the region, together with the worth-
less agitators that have been coming
in here at intervals from other regions.
We give the miners due credit for the
great part they have performed in the
upbuilding of Meyersdale and Salis-
bury, but the operators must also be
given due credit. Without their capi-
tal and development the miners would
not be here, and we contend that the
operators have a right to be protected
in their rights and property, the same
as the rest of us. The present predica-
ment is principally the fault of the
miners’ organization, and the best
class of miners admit it. The strikers
made some great blunders early in the
strike, and one of the first and greatest
was when they called out the men at
Boswell, where no cut in wages had
been made. Their next was when
they fired on the deputies who were
called there to guard the men who
wished to continue working. Since
that many other forms of outlawry and
violence have been resorted to, and
during the whole strike many of the
strikers have resorted to nothing but
bulldozing, trying to force everybody
to think and do just as they do. The
have been carrying their meanness nd
the churches and everywhere else, and
they have just kept up their foolishness
until they have lost the sympathy of
all decent people. As a result the
strike is broken, the union in this re-
gion is completely knocked out, and all
that is left is the lawless acts and
crimes of the vanquished, which will be
at an end only when the guilty persons
are brought to justice, which is only a
question of time.
The Meyersdale Commercial is the
only newspaper in all Somerset county
that has the audacity to try to conceal
and condone the crimes of men that
ought to be in penitentiary, and it is
welcome to the stinking brand of no-
toriety it is getting by its course. In
nearly all the strikes that have ever
taken place in this regian, the Commer-
cial has nearly always been against the
miners, no matter whether they were
in the right or wrong. This instance
is the only natable exception, and there
is a reason for it. By acting the filthy
hog and the dirty dog, the Commercial
and its polluted masters have been
driven away from the party pie counter.
They have beeu trying every ruse im-
aginable to get back, but have been
spurned away from all decent people.
The only thing left now is for poor old
Lucifer Smith to try to get back to the
trough by the votes of the miners, the
very men he has fought for years. But
it won’t win, Lucifer, for not all the
miners are fools and criminals. Many
of them are good citizens, and the re-
liable, steady, sensible ones are all onto
your little game. Selah!
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Tue Chicago Chronicle, an influen-
tial Democratic newspaper, has come
out against Parker and Davis, and is
supporting Roosevelt and Fairbanks.
—
THE Gleaner compares the drunkard
to the “little crippled one in our home
circle,” and thinks that both appeal to
sympathy with equal force. What a
burden of fool fanaticism this Prohibi-
tion cause must carry! So says the
Somerset Standard, and so say we.
Se
Hox. A. W. MaxweLL, State Chair-
man of the Towa Democratic Commit-
tee, has resigned his position and re-
pudiates the Democratic national
ticket. In a letter he states that he
“cannot countenance, aid or support
the candidates or platform of the St.
Louis convention.”
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J. H. TIMBERLAKE, who was nomi-
nated for Congress upon the Demo-
cratic ticket, in the sixteenth district,
in Ohio, has declined the nomination
and announces that he has withdrawn
his allegiance to the Democratic party.
He declares that “the paramount is-
sue is the curtailment of the privileges
and immunities of trusts, but nothing
is to be hoped for from Parker or his
backers on that question. The Re-
publican party seems to haye settled
convictions on questions of public
policy, he says, “while the Democrats
seem to have none.”
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School Teacher Killed.
Hyndman, Pa., July 22.—Miss Bertha
Poorbaugh, of Fairhope, was struck by
a freight engine, this evening, and re-
ceived injuries which caused her death
shortly after being taken to the West-
ern Maryland hospital at Cumberland.
The unfortunate woman was a school
teacher amd was about 19 years old.
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