The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1884-09-20
DrArt, or JUDGE WILL.ox OF Tx

DEATH OF JUDGE WILSON OF Ux
IoNTowS. On Tuesday morning o
last week Judge Alphens +. Wilson
died at his home in Uniontown, 0
that dread malady, consumption. HI
was born at Rock Forge, on Decker
creek, about four miles from Morgan
town, but had lived nearly all his lifi
at Uniontown. He was fine schol
ar, graduate OF Princeton colleg
class of Al, lawyer eminent in hi
profession. an able judge and with
al an honest man. Upright anc
honorable at the bar below, he stands
uncondemned at the bar above.
FIVE THOUSAND OVENS OUT OIL
BLAST. = DESTITUTE MINERS = TIL
STRIKE CoNTINUEs.-Just across til,
line in Pennsylvania there is mor'
trouble and destitution among th,
miners and furnace men than ha.
existed in that region for many /:
long day. Hundreds of men are on
of employment, and business in Fay
cite and Westmoreland counties !.
in state of stagnation. At Fair
chance, Dunbar, Scottdale, Connells
vile, Mount Pleasant and Uniontowr
there is bitter wall of hard times
Nearly half the cokeing ovens have
shut down and coke is selling as low
as $l.15 to $1.25 per ton on board thu
cars at the ovens.
Several circumstances have united
to bring about this state of affairs
For more than year there has beer
war of races among the miners. A
year ago the Miners Association o.
the Connellsville coke country de
manded that the Hungarian labor
ers, with their wives and children be
banished from that region. This
has raised such disturbance tina
it has demoralized the whole business
Added to this the miners have STRUCK
for higher wages, and are sticking
persistently to their demands. The
struggle continues. The wives oil
the miners are as sturdy as theil
husbands and declare that they shall
never submit. OF course this, lik'
all other strikes, will be failure ant
the laborers will be just that mucl
poorer, and the restitution of the 40,
600 people who inhabit that stretcl
of country will be horrible to con
template
This last strike of the Pennsylva
MIA miners suggest thing or two
Pennsylvania has alwayes rolled tar
iff like sweet morsel under hel
tongue. To-day she hugs it to he
bosom and is spending money Law
ishly in order to keep the tariff party
in power, yet somewhere within heI
domains there is almost constantly i:
strike ofsome of her laborers. The cap
italists and monopolists rejoice anC
laugh at the strikes but the laborer'
the men who make the wealth of TIL,
State, do not find it SO pleasant. 1
protection is such good thing fo
the laboring men why are they con
stantly on strike? Wonder if Tom
Staggers ever thought of that.
Mr.. T. H. B. STAGGERs ADDREssE
THE PEOPLE OF Moro ANTowN -
LAME EFFORT AND THE USUAL AMoUN,
OF REPUBLICAN CLAP-TBAP.-Our tai
ented young friend, Mr.. L. H. B
Staggers, of Fairmont, delivered al
address in front of the court hous,
in this place on last Friday evening
After vast deal of humping by III,
court house bell and more blowing
by the brass band small crowd as
sembled to hear what the racket wa.
all about, when Tom opened on then
in very tame style. Mr.. Staggers il
a rather talented speaker and is gen
orally interesting, but on this occa
sion he fell far below his standard
He seemed to feel the weakness o
his cause and couldn't get his enthu
siasm up to the sticking point. HI
talked at random for few minute!
and then announced as his text .
few sentences taken from cores
pondence of the New DOMINION refer
ring to speech lately made by DR.
Mackey on the tariff question. HI
tried to be severe ON the Doctor
but couldn't deliver his blows will
any effect. The Doctor must hav'
smiled at the way he was "demol
ished." The speaker then went into al
unlimited panegyric on the blessings
that follow high protective tariff
He must have forgotten thu
pledges made in the republican plat
form to reduce the inequalities of thu
tariff.
He must have forgotten that til,
Secretary of the Treasury besough
Congress to reduce the tariff ane
complained that hundred millions
of the peoples money more than wa!
needed was collected every year.
He must have forgotten that many
of the iron mills of Pennsylvania arr
now idle, because they are too mucl
protected.
He must have forgotten that thu
daily toll of thousands of American
workingmen barely suffices to main
tain themselves and their families.
He didn't explain that the tariff
made all manufacturing monopolist'
millionaires and their laborcrs pauper
and dependents.
He did not say that every manu-
featuring monopoly in the country
wants a high protective tariff-th'
higher the better-because they cal
then make consumers pay any price
they desire to extort from them.