Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1888-03-22

Gould would have $50 and be at the head
of Jamaica ginger trust. Wednesday
Mr.. Gould would have $3.50 and an Or-
der on Henry Georges agent for the pro-
ceeds of his next lecture OF anti-poverly.
If infant industries here are to be fos-
tered, and protected by the way, why Is
not the American lecturer protected from
competition with foreign lecturers ?
Whether YOU regard an American leciu-
rer rs a manufactured article or raw ma
terial, it is generally essentially Ameri-
can, and ought it not to be protected? ?
Lecturers build up town. They make
business for railroads, hotels, opera houses,
newspapers, laundrymen, iailors, etc, etc.
and if successful they 20 abroad and their
lectures become an export, bringing mon
ey into this country. just as soon as our
lecturers here produce more lectures than
are absolutely required for home con-
sumption we can send them abroad, but
as it is now our struggling lecturers here
are forced to compete with foreign leciur-
ers like Wong Chin Foo, who can live
much cheaper than our native born lee
lurers, who have been used to dried apple
pie three times day.
How is it with the American farmer?
He has been driven up further and fur
luer into a corner by the legislation OF
the past twenty-five years, and yet, be-
cause he is not actually starving to death
he is pointed to with pride The Ameri
can farmer contributed more TO the war
than most anybody else, both in blood
and money, and really got less in return.
He got the priceless boon Of liberty, It l.
true-the liberty to pay big war prices
for everything he wanted, and TO sell hi,
crops for less and less year after year
competing with foreigners abroad and
foreigners who came here to compete with
him; liberty to pay big prices for ma
chinery, help, clothing and everything
else he bought, and then to ride into town
on a December day, accompanied by the
cold and still remains of an assassinated
hog, only to be told that the threatened
foreign war had fattened out, and that
pork had gone down to four cents. 1t Is
depressing to ride sixteen miles in the So
ciety Of hog that has died by ones own
hand. and every time you look around TO
see the same frozen smile, with chip in
it. while his chest is thrown open in an
ingenious way by means Of a hickory
stick in order to show that his leaf lard
is all that it has been represented. 1t Is
not cheerful to ride all the forenoon with
no one near YOU but this cold and pulse
less clay, with no eye upon you but the
leaden eye Of the dead. Let the reader
who never tried it ride sixteen miles whel
shades of evening begin to over, ride
over a lonely road over bare ground
with a pair low browed bobs, a green cal.
leo comforter over your knees, and tn
clammv fcaturcs Of the dead and decol-
| lete hog in your lap. Then if YOU want
10 f cl your spirits sink out Of sight, a.
certain, after you have laid out all the
money in your mind, on a basis Of eighi
cents per pound, that three or four cenl'
are the quotations on an animal that you
have loved in its infancy. hid down in th
cellar so YOU couldn't hear him squcal
when be was killed, ard aiterward help
ed to scrape with a case-kniie, so TIA.
even in death he would be q source Of
pride to you
Men tell Us that manufactures make
prosperous towns, so we must foster man
ufactures. On the same theory violent
death every morning before breakfast was
what made the flush times in California
Nevada and Colorado In order to have
prosperity We must have more murders
and l,nching soirees. Why, when mai
was killed every day or two in LcadyiIle
Iaborers got as high as SO a day. There
fore crime makes money plenty and wa
ges high.
do not claim to know how to maxi
times more prosperous otherwise than f
open my own whooping Golfers and pu
in circulation the surplus which ! hav
been cliuging to so long. Ihave resolve
to do 50. Let others follow the example
Who will be the next? Let the Govern
ment itself fall in. Let US do good Wit
our riches. Let US form what | ma
term the Do Good party. Mr. Goul
wires ("collect" from Rome that he wi
lend his heart and soul, such as ihey arr
to 4 movement Of that kind, and at li'
ing rates. Mr.. Gould says be would az
wise ne TO communicate my plans-b
wire over the Western Union--to ever.
body and seek the cooperation Of Il
, Government. He thinks that Congre
4 Ill l.. r-;llino IN make an apnrOprI