The soup was discussed as a food to improve the health of poor miners.
The church community consisted of poor miners, sharecroppers, and a few black families.
Of course it seems hard in our affluent times that the poor miner should have to suffer all of these deductions.
Picture the poor miner cursing the mis-fired hole upon which he had laboured for several hours.
He retained his salary & pension, whilst the poor bloody miners lost everything.
What pain can be placed on those responsible that would reflect the pain suffered by those poor miners?
It may be a slave, a poor miner.
Men with stamping mills, Everybody but the poor miner.
"This is what I think of your poor little miners," he said, upending the bottle.
He was trying to express the misery of the poor miners he had seen.