Show COAL MINERS for brazen audacious exaggeration and disregard of truth there ia nothing equal to statement of alic attorney for ona of alio coal coni made before alie anthracite coal strike commission today lie opened hia address before the commissioners by declaring that the illinois were better paid had shorter houra and enjoyed a more healthful occupation than other laborers there it not a reading man or woman ill the united slates who is not able to the attorney how often has alic country been saddened by frightful disasters in the coal mines every acari almost without exception the catastrophe hat overshadows all other misfortunes ia 11 gas cAplo aion in some mine whereby hundreds of lives are ended in the twinkling r an eye there is not a mine in all the coal regions that haa not at some time been a great charnel houe from which mangled dead have been borne in long lines to squalid homes where poverty had held sway in life and and destitution were left to hapless wives and children 1 af death jhc thc boldly disregardful of known facts aa to picture the lot of a coal as utopian must be possessed of a front of brass and a heart u |