Manchester Democrat

Far Reaching Questions Involved in the Coal Strike.

President Mitchell, of the Miners' Union, concluded one of his recent statements with these words: "Involved in this fight are questions weightier than any question of dollars and cents. The present miner has had his day; he has been oppressed and ground down, but there is another generation coming up-a generation of little children, prematurely doomed to the whirl of the mill and the noise and blackness of the breakers. It is for these little children we are fighting. We have not underestimated the strength of our opponents; we have not overestimated our power of resistance. Accustomed always to live upon little, a little less is no unendurable hardship. It was with no quaking of hearts that we asked for our last pay envelopes; but in the grim and bruised hand of the miner was the little white hand of a child, a childlike the children of the rich, and in the heart of the miner was the soul-rooted determination to starve to the last crust of bread and fight out the long, dreary battle, to win a life for the child and secure for it a place in the world in keeping with advancing civilization."