The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1888-10-31
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No other country of the world offers
those spectacles of periodical panics.
strikes, booms and speculations that curse
America 1t has come about that a half
year cannot pass without sons enormous
unsettlement of public affairs through q
concerted st6ptage of work in channels of
industry directly c6inected with the heart
of our social life That strikes are the
outgrowth of underlying ills is every
where felt, but few are the honests at
tempts In the Industrial world that are
made to go to the root of the evil.
The Herald believes the protective tariff,
it's false method of taxation and the class
privileges it has nourished are the secret
springs of these characteristic ills of
American civilization The protectif6
tariff. taking S22O. .000. 900 for the govorn-
ment, charges it all to tho poor because
the tfc1i mostly make a profit on the tax;
Along with the tax for the government is
an Increase of value on 1000 articles
which effectually robs the consumer of at
least $500, 900. 600 more. This is '.protec-
tion. Along with the tax and its pro
lection" is the encouragement to forestall-
ers. whereby the country has become
''plastered with trusts" The other day
the sugar trust STOPPED 500 men III Bos-
ton; last week it discharged l, 100 meii in
BROOKLYN Thus, while sugar has risen .
NCA4Io On bA0 PNhtths INV nsANG DSGll
thrown on the people and the people will
be charged higher prices for the sugar
which the /, 400 eat so long US they may
remain idle.
No other country is cursed with SIS
tenn SO false. 1t intrudes on every home.
1t poisons every cup. 1t weighs on the
car driver and the conductor. To ease
the chatting of inter1ninable taxation, in
visible, indirect, insidiotis, they strike
hraS Il
of 10 cents. Is there anything in our sys-
tenn to prevent an immediate session of
the coal ring to take the 10 ceiits!La ses-
sion of sugar men, wheat men, bakers,
butchersg Cannot the takers III the rear
assess the car conductor for every penny
BE may gain!
The same conductor who today looks
gloomily on the law that secures order
and prevents murder and pillagc. last
week assured his friends that unless the
people protected American Industries
all.would be lost. If the coal men took
his money without equivalent. there was
never a strike. If a man wanted the coal
duty abolished. the conductor looked ut
that man nslIance. Yet with i. GOO rings
smallest stipend rather than the largest,
what good could come TO that conductor
by striking for more money to put into
the treasury of those private takers?
There is but one way to strike and
that is with the ballot box. There is but
one way to view the protective system,
and that is to regard It as tho parent of
all the unpleasant social phenomena
which for twenty years have afflicted
America more than any other land. Why
will tho striker, who, under tho present
arrangement, must forever feel tho goad
to strike-wly will he submit TO a system
of taxation which his vote would cllangeS
Why will he uphold false forms of sup
porting the government whereby tho
taxes are farIsed 10 coal men. iron men,
sugar men; whereby the consumer bears
absolutely oil the burden of one of the
largest public fabrics on earth, the rich
gaining percentage as collectors of the
revenuc2
To strike is to plaster wound that
will burrUw If it canIiot como To the snr.
face. The proper treatment must be at
the polls. When the protective system
shall end class strikes will die ont and
class llatrcls will languish.-c Chicago
Herald. .