| Show prosperity NOT IN pennsylvania IT is reported in a recent publication of the new york world that great distress exists among the miners of the avondale mine in luzerne county pa the mine according to miners parlance is on a squeeze that is it is caving in on the dinst the avondale caved in and soon oon 11 the whole workings was one immense lake the mine already has a death record of over one hundred but in this instance the miners escaped with their lives although the bosses kept persisting that there was no danger mines on a lower level adjoining the avondale have been abandoned for fear that the water would soon reach them thousands of miners have thus been thrown out of work and their families are on the verge of starvation in consequence the report says language is inadequate to depict the miseries of the wyoming valley women and children are actually suffering for bread with no prospect of relief in the near future the poor houses are already overcrowded most of the miners miners are compelled to remain in the valley they are without means to seek other quarters their rents are due and although a majority of them occupy houses owned by the companies they fear that they will be compelled to vacate the mines affected by b y the cavin caving 9 in of the avondale are the nottingham employing 1500 men the woodward employing 1200 men and the pettibone employing the lowest estimate is that persons are affected by the several shutdowns shut downs we dont know what to do said the miners who were seen by the world correspondent in a tour of the mining district there is no work for us we have families depending upon our labors for years we have learned to live on half and sometimes quarter rations work has been so slack for some time that we have been unable to save anything we see nothing but starvation ahead of us when republicans read this what excuse can they make for the destitute condition in which thousands of pennsylvanian Pennsyl laborers laborer find themselves will they blame it to the democrats we are not responsible for anything that republicans do or sa say y that would place us in a very pre cario cariola us position bostio n the miners say we see nothing but starvation ahead of us that does not sound like eke there was to be work for every willing hand these same game men were all employed during daring the late democratic adain admin administration is tra tion that too in a time when the whole world had been laboring under a financial and industrial depression but when republicanism should dawn upon the world and esPe espeja especially Jl y in the U united states hunger hun ge r want w ant and idleness were to take the wings of the morning and fly away yet how sad and fruitless is the result of republican predictions they are as barren of good a and nd fell as flat as darius greens flying machine pennsylvania you yon ought to pronounce those republicans Republic am who stumped your soil last fall false prop prophets bets and resolve to follow them no longer along the path of sorrow forroi delusion and want mant we we are hopefully waiting for mr mckinley and mark hanna to do something for the poor working man but we fear that it will be be a long sad wait |
