The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1885-03-21

MIN, which makes 1t agreeable and
inspires feeling Of safety in dealing
with the road.
We do not know whether the com
pany has acted on Mr.. C.'s resigna-
ton, but we add our protest to that
of our people generally, against his
retirement from the road.
Eek. A udifOr Miller for Comm is.
siOner of the Revenue
Our own Auditor, Col. Joe. Miller,
seems to have the inside track for
u. S. Commissioner of Internal Rev
enue.
No more worthy or competent man
will fill the place, if Mr.. Miller does
not get the appointment.
No man of better Judgment, of bet
ter business capacity, of better prin-
ciples and steadfastness to the right,
could be found to fill this important
public trust.
The appointment would not only
be creditable in itself, but would
give general satisfaction to the peo-
pie of our State. Mr.. Miller would
have been Governor of West Virginia
to-day, but for his tenacity in adj
herring to what he believed to be
right rather than to what was polite.
We need more of such men in public
places.
p. S.-As we go to press the news
from Washington that the President
has sent Mr.. Miller's name to the
Senate for the above office.
We congratulate Mr.. Miller and
the people of West Virginia This
is the first recognition of any sig
nificance, that West Virginia has
ever had from a President. We are
glad to see that Grover Cleveland
has a fair appreciation of the
quality, strength and fidelity of
the West Virginia Democracy. The
position given Mr.. Miller is not
quite so dignifed, but is more inhu-
entail and greater in its responsible
titles than portfolio in the Cabinet
And Mr.. Miller will bear his honors
worthily. He has in him the quail
ties of statesman. and West Vir-
ginia will have reason to be proud
of him. 1t is not the last that will
be heard of Jos. S. Miller.
Robbery by Law.
That feature of protection on the
Pennsylvania plan which enables its
beneficiaries to impose an.eXorbitant
tax upon consumers, and at the same
time grind down its employees to the
European standard of wages, is re-
ceiving a startling illustration in
the strike of the Philadelphia carpet
weavers.
The carpet monopoly is of the same
general character as other monopo
lies, for the special benefit of which
the high tariff exists. 1t is pro
tected against foreign importations
for instance, on what are known as
two-ply ingrains, by specific duty
of eight cents to the square yard
and an adj valorem duty of thirty
per cent. Goods of this class car
be bought in England at forty cents
yard, but they cannot be imported
and sold here for less than sixty
cents.
The American manufacturer prof
its by the difference, but the Amer
lean operative, instead of sharing
in the benefits of this artifica
protection even in a small pro
portion, is compelled to accept The
wages of pauper labor for his
work or strike for pitiful increase
to better keep soul and body to
gether.
Before the present strike the Phil
adelphfa weavers could make al
average of $40 month working ter
hours a day, six days in the week
Now those who are employed receive
barely 1886 a month or dollar ant
twenty cents day, and the purchas
/ ing power of dollar is considerably
less in Philadelphia than it is il
Manchester.
Not only is American labor thu
degraded by a system fruitful il
facilities for its oppression, but tn
American consumer-what of him
Where comes in the blessing of pro
lection to the purchaser who is com
PEELED to pay for the product of pau
per labor here fifteen to twent,
cents yard above the cost of tn
same product abroad simply to pu
money into the pockets of a monop
oily created and pampered by th
/ Government?
! Yet.the carpet is but one item on
of many others. for which the grea
masses of the people are systemati
1 cally and shamefully taxed, that
few n,en-a few classes of men-shyp