Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-07-14
NEWSY LETTER FROM HARDY.
The south Branch Shares In the Great
Flood Losses-rhe Tariff.
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The south Branch Shares In the Great
Flood Losses-rhe Tariff.
Special Correspondence Of tie Register.
The South Branch Valley has just suf.
fered severely from another destructive
flood in the South Branch. The rain COM
menced 10 fall about 8 o'clock last Sunday
night, and continued for near thirty-sil
hours in torrents. The rain came from
the northwest. II il had come from the
south or southwest, the waters would have
been much higher and more destructive
here. Yesterday nearly all Of the many
splendid farms in the valley in this county
along the river were under water, and hun
dreds and thousands of bushels Of wheat
and miles of fencing were swept away
The wheat had but recently been harvest
ed, and was in shocks and hence fell ar
easy prey to the waters. A great deal o
corn has been seriously damaged or ruined
II is said by knowing ones that there wa
over six inches Of rain fell. II is certainly
very disheartening to our farmers. Thu
wheat crop was better in this valley thar
it has been for years.
Politics is beginning to loom up in thii
region. The people are discussing thu
tariff issue with far more intelligence thai
they did six months ago. They have
looked into the question, and begin TO I'M
derstand that the government has been pro
tecting the millionaires for the last TWEEN
ty-hye years at their expense, and now
think il is about time the masses were re-
csiying some attention. Six months ago
eyery man who said the surplus in the
treasury was q curse to tho country, and
ought to be reduced by reducing unneces
sary taxation on the common neeessaries o.
life, was denounced all over the land as an
enemy Of the laboriug people and n fret
trader. The Republicans in and out o
Congress said the surplus OF hundred
millions in the treasury demonstrated
the wisdom Of their legislation and
the prosperity of the country, and that il
should be spent in sll sorts of extrsvagant
WAYS. In their Judgment, it was criminal
in any man to demand that the revenues
be reduced to the wants Of the Govern.
ment, economically administered. Hence
they have been obstructing the progress Of
the Mills bill in Congress by all The means
known TO them. They met in National
Convention, nominated candidates fol-
President and Vice President, and placed
them upon q high protective platform
In that platform they have gone % fsr a
to say il is better for the country 10 have
free whisky and tobacco than to have tax
atom reduced on the common necessaries
of life. The only remedy they offer tht
poor man for the hard times Is free whisky
and tobacco. They say, Just let our mill
ionaires ieast on, and we viii give you al
the free whisky and tobacco you want
In the meantime the discussion going on
in Congress has put the people TO thinking
and reading. The more they read and
think on this subject the more Democrats
there viii be. Only the other day, Senator
John Sherman, one Of the candidates be-
fore the Chicago Convention, said before
the Cincinnati Chamber Of Commerce, in
40 many words, that the Democrats ars
right on the main question now before the
country. He said the revenues of the
Government ought at once TO be reduced
to its wants, economically carried on,
where il WAS when he entered Congress
thirty-four years sgo. II Democrat had
said that, he would be denounced at once
a n free trader. Senator Sherman
has sense enough 70 see "the handwriting
on the wall" He has deliberately