Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1888-10-27

exceptional case that the Crlmean
and Mexican wars created "a spas
modic riseY Did he tell you that 2
months after wheat sold for 80 cents
a bushel? Did he call your atten-
ton to the prices of wheat under
high tariff
Fifty years after this some Will
sonian demagogue will point the
farmers TO the fact that under the
influence of tho Mills Free Trade
Bill in 1888 wheat went up from 80
cents to 50 in Chicago, and -four in
New York and Minneapolis from Sc
to SO barrel! He'll say nothing
about "oid Hutch " and the specula
tors! Did you think!
But why go back to 1910? Did
not this same Mr.. Wilson promise
you two aud four years ago that {" a
change"of administration and "tuin.
ing the rascals ont" and showing
the frauds would make good times,
more work and higher wages? Did
1t Go down in the Court records of
the past two years and see what
properties sold for at forced sales
for less than half their value? Did
you think of that?
Mr.. Wilson asked the farmers and
laborers: "Do you want to pay a
tax on the lumber to build your
house, OF the clothes you wear?"
Did you think: Do you want to
pay a tax on rice, and sugar, and
tobaccos
Did you think again: Do you want
houses out of English or Canadian
lumber 7 Do You want to wear
clothes mad out of English or Aus
tralian wooli Who wears $3.50 a
yard wooden goods, who builds hous-
es out of English material, and furn-
ishes them with fine foreign up
holstery, bric.a-brac, and English
mantels and sideboards with foreign
wines and brands with crown or
crescentf Not you, nor +; but the
professional aristocracy and high.
toned statesmen for whom We vote
Isn't American goods, made by
American labor, that patronlzes us
in return, good enough for us?
Mustn't it be? II even you can get
foreign trash cheaper, do you want
it will it give you work
Mr.. Wilson shows that rich manu-.
facturers cry Protection :" but do
not raise the wages of the laborers
they employ accordingly. Sophistry
Is seli-interest any different in men
because of their politics. Mr.. Elem.
ing, Democratic candidate for gov.
erBor in this State, pays his coal
miners less than they get in other
mines, and ne takes ten-day leases
on the shanties they occupy! The
Pittsburg coal operators agreed to
raise the wages of miners if all the
mine owners would do the same. j.
N. Camden, Democratic leader, re.
fused as far as be was concerned.
Mr.. Wilson charges the Republi.
cans with funding the government
debt in thirty-year bonds in the
interest of capitalists. Why did he
not tell the honest truth, which the
record shows, that Mr.. Ferdinand
Wood, a Democratic Representative
from New York, and Chairman of the
Ways and Means Committee, offer.
ed resolution to make it forty gears
and that Democratic statesman in
West Virginia, on whose bald head
the light ofpolitical perfection and
personal sanctification reflects as
brightly as an October moon on the
clear ~ waters of a mid summer
Tuscarora, introduced resolution in
the State Legislature for W. Va. to
issue bonds for thirty fue gears at
fire per cent. for eight millions of
dollars so-called "West Virginia
Certificate" debt, which she does not
owe. Who holds and would hold
these bonds of State and Nation
Not YOU and l, common working
people, but financiers and profes,
sional men like these spouters" that
appeal to your sy mpathy, your pas
sion and your prejudice! Did you
thinks
Under the highest tariff we had
wool sold for S1.20 a pound in Bos-
ton, and now under the pressure of
free wool in the Mills Bill it sells for
from Is to 80 cents pounds
Mr.. Wilson almost shed tears over
the poor lot of our working people
and farmers. The great surplus evil
was crushing tbem. He said Golf
would spend it. What did Mr.. Will.
son help to do with it? Put 100000
900 ont to National Banks, qcithout
interest. making S13,OO0,O0O interest
given away,-to the poor people, oh
no! Ito RICH BANKERS, of banks in
which he probably. and Camden, and
the whole administration, and the
Republicans too, of course, hold
stock But do you see the hollow
ness of his piteous appeal for you!
There is nothing in the history of
this country to sustain Mr.. Wilson's
assertion that the Democratic party |
is the laboring mems party. Our
laws and institutions were built up
by the statesmen and patriots of all |
parties. The tendency to a division
of society in this country, and the
adoption of customs and class rules
that lowered and degraded the com.
mon people in Europe for centuries,
finds all Its sympathy and support
sectional aristocracy that
would hold up the white.trash of
the South and the "mud-sills y of
the North as beneath its notice or
association. So with his claim that
his party was the public school party