Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1888-10-13
If TRUE THEN, WHY NOT NOW

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1888, to succeed Kenna, who had
been elected to the U. s. Senate. In
letter to his (Greenback) party,
giving his reasons, published in the
Wheeling Register April 10, 1883, he
says
WEST VA. INTERESTS DEMAND
PRoTECTION.
To those who are familiar with our
district it can scarcely appear at this
juncture there is any occasion Tor
partisan controversy for its own sake
alone. The temper of the people is
adverse to the disturbance and ex-
element OF q bitter campaign. The
great and growing interests of the
district demand repose. Our people
are actively and prosperously en-
gagged in the various pursuits for
which kindly Providence has fur
nished here the material and the
field. Labor is well employed and
well rewarded. Enterprises for the
development of our diversified re-
sources are springing up on every
side. A market better than our far
mers have known before is brought
home to their doors. The hand of
the builder is everywhere busy. The
wilderness of yesterday yields to the
mining hamlet of today to become
in turn the town or city of the NOR.
row. Public and private capital is
finding investment in our midst,
improving natural channels of com.
merce, building railroads, erecting
furnaces, opening mines, or gather
ing the yield OF our splendid forests
for the building and identifying of
countless distant homes. Every
material interest is prospecting and
every class is contented. | see no
reason for asking the people to turn
aside from the cheerful rivalries of
their industrial and commercial &C.
tivity to partake of the bitterness
and excitement and cutlery of con-
test whose result is foreordained and
fixed beyond the changing power of
campaign eloquence, art, or infiu.
ence.
Had the convention nominated II
man whose election could have put
in peril the future of our district as
involved in the tariff question, then
indeed an opposition not only fierce
but formidable might have been az
rayed against him. For years we
have given to the world the facts,
the figures, the statistics, and the
maps to verify our claim to the pos.
session of valuable resources in iron,
coal, salt, and timber. Upon these,
and especially upon our coal and
timber, depend our present prosperi-
ty and our future growth.
The timber regions drained by the
Greenbrier, Elk, Big Sandy, Coal,
and Guyandotte Rivers would all be
injuriously affected by free trade in
Canadian lumber. The coking Goals
of the Gauley, New River, and Flat
Top regions, the ores of Pocahontas,
Greenbrier, and Monroe, and the
gas and steam Goals of our own Kan
awha would lose their value with the
admission of foreign ores and fuels
duty free. The people identified
with these great interests fully I'M
derstand this danger.
But few days ago the first ship
ment of coal over the New River
division of the Norfolk and Western
Railroad was made from the border
of Mercer County to the sea-board.
1t was an event in the history of the
Virginias deemed worthy to be re-
joiced over at home aud cabled
abroad. 1t marked another step in
the material and political progress
of the South. When the people of
the venerable city of Norfolk assem-
bled in multitudes and hailed the
arrival of that cargo with shouts OF
applause and salvos of artillery it
indicated how resolutely, under the
leadership of her youth and progress
sive men, of whom Phil. Snyder is a
splendid type, the South is turning
her back upon all policies and cut
ting loose from all traditions that
would forever bar her wealth with
in its mountain beds.
TARIFF.
Every indication points to re.
newal of the tariff struggle at the
next session of Congress. The great
interests of West Virginia need the
fostering care of intelligent protec-
ton. From a full knowledge of his
sentiments and convictions, and of
bis ability to make himself heard
and felt, ] have the utmost conf
dence that these interests will be
faithfully cared for at Captain Sny-
der's hands. HENRY S. WALKER.
And this is the Phil. Snyder who
refused to vote for the Mills Bill like
Randall, and because he paired on
that free trade measure his own
party retired him most ignominious-
ly! And this is the Henry S. Walk
er who is now making speeches all
over the State Except Wheeling
where the smoke stacks are too high
and the steam whistles too loud,
making speeches on a Democratic
National platform which accepts and
endorses the Mills Bills, which puts
West Va. lumber, wool, salt, raw
material, ores, &C., on the FREE
LIST, which opens the gates to Eng.
lish manufactures and locks up IN the
bed of nature the material wealth of
West Virginia and the foundation
of her future prosperity OtempOra !
O MOreS