The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1888-10-17
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II sometimes happens that when.
a whole people have been talking
about a grave question, surrounded
with many complications, obscured
by technicaIities rejecting conflict
ing interests, a great man rises up
and Eliminates the issue. making
clear every obscure corner about it
and Frightening the dark places so
that they become as bright as day.
Its like going to a high point to
view a landscape so as, to look down
into bread territory and take into
view at once its hills and dales, its
roadways, its groves and its fields.
That is what Mr.. Cleveland did in.
his famous message on taxation,
and Thurman has done in his fam
GUS Port Huron speech.
There is no stronger argument in
favor of the Democratic policy of
tariff reduction than that offered by
the history of the war taxation.
One by one our Republican Con
crosses relieved corporations and
rich men of the burdens imposed,
upon them. Railroads, banking
business, large incomes were sue
cessiyely exempted from the war
tax. But the proposition to lessen
the burdens that fall upon all the
people has aroused the most viru-
lent opposition from the Republican
party. The Senatorial tariff bill,
faithful to the Republican policy
seeks to tighten the load upon lux
uries and monopolies, but gives
nothing of relief, comfort or en-
enlargement to the masses.
Among the articles enumerated
in the so-called Senate Tariff Bills
free list, will be found, ''coal slack
or culm." What kind of an argu-
mentwill Capt. Smith and his friends
Row make by way of explaining to
the miners of Mason county, that by
placing "coal slack or culmn on the
free list their interest will in no
way be atfected2 Every miner in
this county knows that we ship
thousands of tons of this article
specially prepared for the market.
In its editorial last week, the @faded
old fairy" down town, forgot to
mention this little matter.
The Chinese continue to rally
around the Harrison banner. Here
tofore the celestials have taken but
a passive interest in American poll
tics, but the cry of "Harrison, Mol
ton. monopoly and cheaper labol',
is too much for even the almond
eyed sons of non-progrcssive race
to withstand. Plenty Chinee,
washee-washee Lepublican dirty
linen, dam Mclean man" is their
campaign cry.
An unanswerable refutation of
the charge of Mr.. Clcveland's hos
tility to the soldier, if any were
needed, is found in the figures of
the report of Commissioner of PEN
sions Black. They show that the
total disbursements on account OF
pensions during she three years of
Mr.. Cleveland's administration were
s219, 045, SOB, and under the three
years of Arthur's s193 1893, 216-35f-
646,6 more under the formers adj
ministration than under the letter.
. AS to States heretofore. Republi-
can by various pluralities, there is
much confidence that the desire of
the people for the complete estab-
lisll4nent of pure government will
prevail, and that tEe influence of
such sentiment will make the ma
jority of the Electoral College and
the majority of the popular vote so
great as to end the Republican par
ty and its pretensions to control a
peaceful prospecting and united
country through "reminiscences of
strife, distress, decentralization and
disunion.
The National comnsittse, review
ing the entire field of control, and
observing the unanimity of the sup
porters of the administration, will
rely no doubt upon that sentiment,
to hrinr ont the fullest nnssihle