Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-12-25

| pose you come ooWn W ouSAne' AOA
| moment"
That's Just what am going to do" re-
sponded the lessee with smile, II mean
Just this: / have been paying you $50, ,O0O
! o year for the past FIVE years. To put 1t IN
the plainest sort of language, things are IN
such state to-day that you will be lucky II
you get 10000 a year for the five years to
come"
"Pooh, pooh you're joking; haven't time
for any funny business, retorted the agent.
Good morning, I'll see you later"
And so the first interview terminated,
But the agent came back two days after
ward with lease made out for FIVE years at
$4,000 a year. -,
"Hold on" said the business man, II
didn't tell you I would take this property
even at $4,000"
"But you gave me to infer as much," F"
suggested the agent AT any rate there is
no harm done. Take your time and think
over it.
The merchant finally decided 20 accept
the terms, and the lease was signed by both
parties, There was single case where a
rental was lowered BY 333 per cent, not
for one year, but for q five years lease. II
have no doubt" continued the Congress
man, that the same ratio will prevail
everywhere. 1t will cause fearful falling
of in the incomes of real estate holders.
"But tell me-" suggested, whether you,
as an honest and consistent Democrat,
would concede that the election of Cleve-
land is responsible for this result"
81 would
Concede Nothing of the Kind"
answered the NJ. C. 81 believe rents here
have been too high and were certainly
bound to fall, no matter what the course OF
events might be in politics. But, seriously,
can not help owning that trade is more
timorous than it would have been, if there
were no impending change of administra'
tration. | believe that President Cleve-
land will succeed in disarming all the
fears of his enemies, however, and that he
will make a conSpicuously successful ad-
ministration. | do not look for any par
summons exhibition of economy in public
affairs, nor am | in favor Of it. l believe
that we ought to have good navy and
that the Democratic party viii build one
capable Of protecting our trade in every
quarter Of the globe. There is only one
point on which the Democrats Will strenu-
ouSly insist. In every one OF the depart
men;s where the work of our Government
is performed, each employee must do an
honest DAYS work for an honest days pay.
Sinecures must no longer exist as they have
in the past in the city Of Washington.
do not claim that the system
of sinecures extends all over the country IN
the Postofiice, Internal Revenue and Gus
toms Collections Departments. On, no.
Don't misunderstood me. | know OF many
cases where public servants are too poorly
paid in various parts Of the country and
where their pay should be increased But
| don't think anyone who has been in
Washington for any length Of time will deny
that there are hundreds of nominal clerk
ships here, where very little work is per.
formed, and where the pay is very liberal.
Am | in favor Of developing our mer-
chant marine? Certainly l am. ! don
think it wise to subsidize private corpora
tons for that purpose, but would 60 very
much farther than that, | would have the
Government build and run its own mail
steam ships with accommodations for pas
senger8 and freight to every part Of the
civilized world. There is no doubt that
such proposition would be warmly opposed
bv many Republicans and many Democrats,
but he people would favor it and it would
be finally successful
1t will be seen from this interview that the
Democratic party
IsBy No Means u Unit
in opposing the expenditure of money for
the accomplishment Of reasonable ends. 1t
is really wonderful to note how the senti-
ments Of whole party can be changed from
negative into positive magnetic pole by
putting into its hands the appointing power
with all the patronage therein involved.
There are still some Democrats who stick
as a matter OF course TO the old maxims of
economy" or more properly, ofparsimony
of which Holman, Of Indiana, was the chief
exponent in the lower House, but they are
few and far between and may be re-
garded as she exceptions which prove
the rule. As whole, the
| party does not object to expenditures, pro-
vidingit can itself appoint the men who are
to spend the money. 1t does not object to
patronage provided that patronage is gatn-
cred about itself, and helps to add to the
resplendancy of its organized batalhons 1t
does not struggle against Capitalization
when the central power is in its own hands.
The fugitive slave law proves as conclusive
ly as the Calhoun manifesto Of Jackson, or
| the purchase of Louisiana by Jeffer,
son, that the Democratic party
is historically an enemy of Capitalization
Only when such Capitalization can mediate
against itself. In other words, to use the
only expression in which the late Ruther
ford B. Hayes ever succeeded in emboi lying
a general truth, "the ins' are always in
favor Of centraliziug power, the outs are
always in favor of localizing it, which, by
tie way, admits for the way in which the
ccntralizing tendency has pushed itself to
the point in past years, and gives Republi'
cans some reason to hope that the success
of Democratic candidate is not such a
very serious affair after all, and that nc
great enterprise will be throttled or starved
out o. existence for the sake of abstract
principle by tie successful party, while thai
party can give poor men a job and make
political capital out Of its continuance.
j. A.
DIED FROM POISON.