Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1888-10-27
THINK !?
WHAT A LITTLE THINKING DOES
IN MIR. WILSON'S RECORD?
Hoao the Light of Reason shoes up
has Debateg

IN MIR. WILSON'S RECORDT
Hoac the Light of Reason shoes up
has Debates
Mr.. Wilson has been in Congress
six years. He comes here every two
years and is sorely distressed over
the condition of the taxpayers
Where are the laws he introduced TO
relieve them 7 Where are the pub.
lie interests he served ? What bills
did he get passed /? NONE! He kept
up high social and intellectual ap.
pearances, fit for a representative of
English Courts, but for you home
people, what did he do? NOTHING |!
A Republican Senate passed Mr..
Faulkner's 800, 00Oappropriation bill
for a public building at Martinsburg
at once! Did you hear anything of
it in a Democratic House? Six years
Mr.. Wilson had to work up some
thing for his District! What is it I
The Mills FREE LUMBER, FREE
WOOL, FREE SALT, FREE POTATO
bill? Is he the man to weep with
you IN the distress he pictures 7
Should he not turn in shame and
modification Monopolists he says
grind you up! Six years in Congress
and wants two more, and do moth
ing, Is UnaJ not political monopoly :
Did you think ?
Mr.. Wilson said in his Martins.
burg speech, that the American
workmen wear " shoddy Clothes" Ii
the American laborers could wear
English cloth or Scotch or French
goods, they would not wear it. Their
torefathers were satisfied to wear
homemade goods, out of fax or wool
raised by themselves. and spun by
their wives and daughters and the
American fathers and sous to day
are satisfied to wear American goods
made by American workmen. A
few "dudes" are excepted and they
would be English, You know"
Neither do the American workmen
wear $3.50 a yard clothes. Business
men and laborers get a decent suit
and an Atwood suit for from $40 to
500, wool raised by w. Va. farmers ;
cloth made by w. Va. manufactur-
ers; suit made by home tail0rs,-
and nothing foreign about it. But
does Mr.. Wilson really know what
he is talking about, or is he only
working on the feelings of his hear.
ers for political effect, and his own
reelection
Matthew Arnold, a celebrated
English writer, said in the Nineteenth
Century, April, 1885,
On the other hand for that i'm.
mense class of people, the great bulk
Of the community, things in
America are favorable. Socie.
ty is organized for their benefit.
n Luxuries are, as 1 havs said,
very dear, above all European luxu-
ries, but the working-man's clothing
is nearly as cheap as in England,
and plain food is, on the whole,
cheaper. Even luxuries of certain
kind are within the laboring mans
easy reach.
Mr.. Wilson has been in Congress
six years, and in Democratic
House. He has also been a men,
Der of the Ways and Means Com.
mittee, by which legislation is shaped
and directed. Every two years he
makes campaign trip through his
district, not to see what laws the peo-
pie need or want, but to secure his
own election. In his Martinsburg
speech the burden OF his argument
was that the farmers and laborers
are oppressed by unnecessary tax.
alton and that the root of all our
public evils is the terrible surplls. in
the treasury. Naturally the people
would expect from his TALK that a
man of his experience and ability,
seeing the great evils and oppres-
sions term after term, would devise
means to remedy them. His record
shows quite the contrary. He went
with his party,-that and nothing
more. He processes great love for,
and apprehension of, the farmers
interests. He voted against the
oleomargarine bill, that protected
the genuine butter maker from the
bogus article vender. He voted
against the Educational bill that
would have distributed hundreds of
thousands of dollars among the
schools and thus reduced the school
tax and increased the efficiency of
the public schools. The grangers
petitioned him ON the wool question
he admitted they were right and he
was on their side; went right into
the Ways and Means Committee
and voted for the Mills Bill that
made ioOol free in competition with
the foreign product.
But the surplus oppressed the
people. Last April there was a bill
The Direct Tax Bill,-to refund
to the States certain war taxes paid
by some of the States, amounting in
all to S17,000,000. Had the bill
passed West Virginia's share wonld
have been 1851, 900, paid into its
State treasury, large amount to
individual citizens of Jefferson, Der,
kelley and other counties. Gen. Golf
voted for the bill; Messrs. Faulkner
and Kenna voted for the bill. That
bill never got through the House !;
w. L. Wilson, our Congressman.
coted against 1t. The only reasons
are political ones,-that it would
have helped to reduce the surplus so
many million, and left the Democrat
ic party no danger signal Surplus
cry; or for fear it would increase the
bills that the RennhIi