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The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1888-09-05
As to Wool.

The New York World is at great pains
to show that the wooden manufacturers
who oppose the Mills bill arc great fools
and do not know what is good for them.
The judgment of the active business man
who sees financial ruin staring him in the
face as the result of Democratic measures
is quite as much to bo relied upon as that
of q partisan newspaper which supports
the party, right or wrong.-Tacoma
Ledger.
The world does not support the party
right or wrong" Itsupports its party only
when and SO far as 1t believes the party
to be right. AS to the wooden manu-
fecturers, The World appeals from their
present talk, when they arc frightened
by the menace of the wool growers and
the rest of the tariff ring, to their calm
and candid appeal to the secretary of tho
treasury only three years ago. In that
letter, signed by the officers of the
National Association of Wool Manu-
facturers, it was clearly and conclu-
siyely argued that they needed free
wool to enable them to hold the home
markets against foreign competitors and
to extend their market to other countries.
The manufacturers were honest then, and
we take them ut their honest wori. New
York World.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1888-09-05
Democratic Funds.

The contentious of the Democratic
party in 1888 are SO just that third parties
are continually urged into the vortex OF
practical reform. They meet, but their
true path lies in the Jeffersonian high
way. Thomas Jefferson was the best OF
all reformers, and the st. Louis conven-
tion, forced by the president, confessed
its sins when it recanted from class gov
ernmcnt and prepared for return to the
charter of liberties which Jefferson affixed
to the Independence of America.
Whenever n third party meets. be II
in the smallest or the largest hall. be it
town or state, trade or national, there
arises in its midst suggestion that its
aims arc Jeffersonian, and that the Demo
cratic party has again become Jeffer-
sonian. The agitator, whose interest
lies in fomenting separate action. hears
the use of Democratic funds"
1t is tho same trouble for agitators,
whether they strive to Inal1ea Labor I'm
ion party, Union Labor party, United
Labor party, or an American party. In
each asscmblage are honest hearts who
sec hope for better government in voting
this year for Cleveland. The beaters on
the tomtom of separate action have in oil
cases to charge that Democratic campaign
money has done it's insidious work It
has not occurred to the disappointed
editors and orators to inquire why there
IS no high tariff money at hand.
Tho best fund is the treasure of truth.
The money that buys an honest third
party man quickest is the coin of upright
aim, which passes current in public and
secret places. as the Blaine party will see
next Chicago Herald.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1888-09-05
Tho American Tory Party,.

The presidential campaign, In It's es-
sence. is a struggle between the privileged
classes and the laboring masses of the.
country. The RepGhfiean party, IN All
vital points, IS a reproduction ON this side
of the Atlantic of the Tory party of Eng
land The likeness between the two or
ganizations is well worth examining, for
It presents to the rejecting mind ss7H6
extremely pertinent suggestions. The.
English Tories have aIsgsys made It their
boasts. and feVef mora arfogantly than
today, that they represent the Wealth
property ana culture OF England
The Republicans are constantly ssseTt<
ing that they represent the Same thiHRs
here. And the claim In both cases Is ael
conpanied by r. constant assumption of
superior patriotism. ehaFseter srd sokfaf
standing. which the common, vulgar MIL
lion, who labor in the mine, the factory
and the workshop, are expected to recoS4
nize and defer to as q matter of course
Boston Globe.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1888-09-05
t,ct Eor.l,s o1a Ar.iclcs.

It was rather cruel on the part of The
New York Star on the very day of the
great Jimborce to rcpublish certain edi.
torials contributed few years ago by the
now eminent Dlainiac, Mr.. Patrick Ford.
Among other pleasant and sprightly things
Mr.. Ford said: Mr.. Blaine is reported as
having presidential aspirations. AS Mr..
Blaine is o thorough demagogue he thinks,
perhaps. that he may succeed in winning
some 1rish-American votes by figuring as
banquet. He forgets that his presence at
such meeting, after what he has done,
is an insult to every intelligent Irishman
present. OF course 1Ir. Ford has changed
his mind, for reasons best known to Mr..
Ford. But after all wasn't Mr.. Ford about
nine-tenths right when he sized up Mr..
Blaine at the timo of his presidential
aspirations?"- City Times.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1888-09-05
a TOTAL ECLIPSE.
Blaine Defends ..rrusss.,,

he Financial Chronicle publishes an es-
say on the merits and demerits of trusts
with the result of concluding that their
faults are merely incidental and pardon
able while their merits in many respects
are ineontestable and important.
These conclusions arc wholly untena-
bic. Their faults arc always Of over
tyacl ming potency for evil. and their Iner-
are tlii. The essence of them all is
deadly hostility to the great balancing
principle OF all the economies of trade and
industry - competition. Competition in
its natural. unhampered condition is ire
sistiblc in regulating both production and
prices. When there is merely plenty
competition does not endangcr reasonable
profits. When there is plethora conpe-
tition imposes the penalty of loss and re-
duces tho supply as it should. Free,
equal, honest, beneficial trade conditions
cannot exist without healthy competition.
1t is this which the trusts are all created
to destroy.
The Financial Chronicle goes to the in
sane extreme of mentioning the Standard
Oil company as an example of the salutary
work they may accomplish in preventing
extreme fluctuations. The public would
perhaps prefer fluctuations to the neces-
sity of buying an important commodity
from monopoly which extorts profits of
800 Fer cent. and collects in few years
$3.50. .00o. 600 largely from the industries
of the poor. Trust agents and tributaries
sell their oils ut IL to IS cents when
tho crude oil costs them about
cont, and the by products of dis
tillation help materially to pay the
cost. An article which gushes infinitely
more freely from many thousand acres of
the earths surface than the work of arte-
sian wells. If it had been left to free COM
petition would probably be making today
good profits if retailcd at to cents q
gallon. This is striking illustration of
the genius of the trust to baIk and par.
alyze the natural evolution of economic
results. Here is an agency which ought
to be a powerful and cheap generator of
power in an immense variety of indus
tries for the benefit of the people, har-
messed TO the chariot of single monop-
oily and denied its sgeneral. legitimate uses
by charges which made S160. .000. 900 in
twenty five years for one little concern
among 6o,C00.O00 people. Louisville
Courier-Journal
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1888-09-05
NO. 13.
md OrIaa,n,p,, n i,laine.

= = = =.
NOW glory. 70 the q. o. p whose glorlea lAtely
.ans.
And CORY TO our sovereign liese, good james
Now isa there s the merry SOUND of music aid
Throusa as sSy aupsS sSruas green and sunny vines
And ,s9a saa ssw Ssss Toss 6s o1a New YORK. proud
CIV Of the vFat.rs.
Again L. = Tap1ure ss Ihs ts sy.s Of an thy sons
an ans iSs s9 psoaa moaopol... re,o.cs il
ee>'-.e =. - -
rhey 5e,er es had leader me our James since scsor
HurrSSl Sai hnls, 99s our ,D ham CONS up ..,,.m
HurraS 70 ioe sei1ss sas CRY Of New xo. and ha for
G. At
Our Jimmie cano % marshal N N an his nrzaor
And ht bound. n i,,e,e Of lie s1 shirt ,,I,or, his
49, .s,isnt .s-.. l's --.-,s
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1888-09-05
nepabIfean Ineensistener...

Sherman and Butterworth of Ohio ara
knocking to pieces all that Blaine's PariS
letter has left of the Chicago platform.
Lutte fees trade between Canada and the
United States IS twin sisters. - Yet
both OF these Republicans oppose the 40
per cent tariff Of the Mills bill IS a free
trade measure, and both oppose as "a
Siemese twin of the Mills biIl'' that secz
ton Of the fisheries treaty which would
merely make it optional with our own
Congress to establish free trads N fish
with Canada, and at the same time confer
the freedom OF the Canadian Gsheries apon
our fishermen. The incongis tencies of
Republican protectior theories are fearful
toeontemPlataSN Louis Post Dispatch.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1888-09-05

Mr.. Blaine's active participation in the
campaign will, perhaps, increase the Irish
Republican vote, but it will turn more
thoughtful, conservative men away from
the Republican candidates than it will
attract to the thoughtIess party. Mr..
Blaine is q defeated candidate; his party
dared not nominate him again; he does
not. as a rule, command the confidence
and respect of honest men. The more
prominent and influential he is IN shaping
the course of his party In this election,
tho worse for the partys-Samuel Bowles
IN Boston Globe.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1888-09-05
No sectlonalism: No Republican part1.

Local elections in Tennessee and Ken
tucky show large Democratic preponder.
ance, and the Republican organs of course
cry fraud" We do not believe in jug
handle politics in any state, but the Re.
publicans arc largely responsible for it in
most of the southern states. They main
tain tlIeir organization for national con-
vention delegates only, make no nomina,
tions and conduct no canvass. The Dem
ocratic vote in any northern state would
soon disappear under such policy. There
is interest enough, and full vote and a
fair count in the charter elections at the
south, with both races divided according
to their interests or convictions. The
same result would follow complete
abandonment of the old sectional cry and
feeling and campaign upon national is
sues by the Republicans.-New York
World
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1888-09-05
oueer KInd OF F,se.lo,n.

In little speech made by Candidate
Harrison to little railroad excursion
party the other day he referred to the old
cry of Free speech, free press. free schools
and free territories We have now
widened the last word, the candidate
says. into free patton" But there is
not nearly SO much freedom as he pre-
tends. Let any man speak above his
breath In favor of freedom Of trade-of
the right to buy the most his earnings
will purchase-in any workshop controlled
by tariff fed monopoly. and he would
soon find ont how dear free speech is N
this country Or let him undertake TO
vote against the orders of a protectionist
factory boss, and he would soon learn
what it costs to exercise the electoral
privilege of an American citizen.-Phila-
delphis Record
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1888-09-05
Cleveland anll enc pen.Lops.

Have his Republican predecessors, by
their official acts. made better record
than he hast What does the comparison
of the figures OF the pension bureau tindEs
that bureau under Cleveland showP Ac4
cording to the published tables the num-
ber of pension claims admitted since ths
inauguration of the Democratic ffsstdenf
is nearly twice the number of thos6 al.
mitted during the last three years Of Ara
thurs term, the exact figures of the FIRST
being 359, 452 and of the second 101, ,22L,
Carrying the examination TO the statistics
of the bureatI for tine period mentioned
while it was under the control of the Re
publican commissioner, Dudley. and then,
placing those statistics by the side of tho
figures reported by Commissioner Black
We have the following result;
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1888-09-05

Blaine, the tricky
politician, with a sly
wink indorses this:
eff there shall re-
main a larger revenne
than is requisite for the
wants of tho govern
mert, we favor the en-
tire repeal OF internal
taxes THAT Is, free
whisky rather than
the surrender of any
part of our protective
system"
And his organ, The
New York Tribune,
adds:
AAS IJtsAbAOkALAb b4tOulu
declare, in unrnistak-
able terms. for high
license. The conven-
tion should take its
stand squnrely for high
license, because the
Republican press and
tho Republican legisla-
turc have made It one
OF the party principles
IN this state, and be-
cause it Is the right
thing to do. The party
has gone too far on
this question to falter
or retreat now"
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1888-09-05

'Ihave been life long Democrat"
Amohopolist began,
Is why Pm a Harrison mani"
'tam voting for Kane and for Ryder too
And for olyphant' I'll vote;
am voting for-ny bank account
And tax on the workmants coat.
"a tax on his wooIen stockings
And his dinner pail, for you see
The more he is faxed by protection
The greater my profits win bel
I'm delighted now with my party,
And fear but one thing. and that
Is that may come In for a roasting when
They fry out The tarif fatr"
New York World.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1888-09-05
For the People.

A Democratic president and Demo.
cratic house have at last given us law
to compel the land grant railroads to con-
struct and operate the telegraph lines
which they bound themselves to give us
in part compensation for their lands.
This kind of work and the vigorous war
the Democratic state government of New
York has opened in the courts against the
sugar trust will stand as pretty fair
Offset to the presence of few million.
aires of Wall street affiliations in the
Democratic national COMMITTEES. - st.
louis Post Dispatch.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1888-09-05
T1,e 1ffil,on.rr.in earrr.

There IS at least one Republican paper
which speaks with moro zeal than disere-
ton about Its party's reaf candidate for
the head of the government. n an article
lauding the rich ancestral blood" Of
James g: Blaine. The st. Louis Star says
that tho "iInerowaed kings father was a
thigh liver and would have the best
people stop with him all night and drink
some OF his old Madeira or good rye
whisky" Hreports speak true and wrong
not the white plunled son. he 8 as fond
of good eating and dff5ktng and as much
of q toady as his sire Before him His
jaunting round with millionaike Garnegiel
and hobaob6fng with the EngE nEof n
sselsss 70 prasc i..--Nep York World
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1888-09-05
Tho piumed Knight suspec.ed,

Mr.. Blaine may be sincerely eager to
prove by the election of Harrison that it
was tho candidate, and not the party,
that was beaten four years ago. But Mr.
Blaine's adorers are not manifesting a
very feverish eagerness to be confronted
and stultified with any such proof a large
majority of the Chicago convention pro-
claimed in actions louder than words that
Blaine was stronger than his party in
1884 and was the only man who could
lead it to victory in 1s55.-St. Louis Post
DISPATCH,
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1888-09-05
Yes, blaine and Quay rhlnI, IYo Arel

In November the cry will be: Its a
d cold dayl' The Republicans will say:
Have some free whisky Democracy
will say: Have good warm suit of
clothes, and some large. soft. warm blank
cts for your wife and little ones" Is
there q man in all the land that is in doubt
as to what the decision of the people will
be2 Has any party grown so imbecilc as
to think that we are ell idiotsI-Tyler
CTex.l Record.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1888-09-05
A-Ra,4 Criterion.

Al protectionfst organ insists that ''free
wool means an actual beginning of abso-
lutc free trade" Did freehfdes mean the
actual beginning of absolute free tradea
And has that policy destroyed" the cattle
not added largely to our tanning business
and to the manufacture and export Of
leather goods?-New York Wotf&
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1888-09-05
Why Burchard laughs.

It seems to worry the politicians at
Washington because the most distin-
guished private citizen in the Republican
ranks. James g. Blaine, believes that no
one has right to interfere With the
pranks of the trusts. The one man who
enjoys Mr. Blaine's slip of the tongue Is d
gentleman by the name CT Burchard. His
mirth Is sincere even IL Il Is eoayulsinR.
Now Haven Register.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1888-09-05
4 Scarcity of 1sepublican miners.

Tho effort to get up miners demon
stration in favor Of Harrison failed, and
the telegraph said that it was postponed on
account of rain. The miners of locking
Valley have rendered Mr.. Thurman a re-
ception. and that event will takc place.
rain or shine. The Republicans were
short of miners.-Troy IN. W Press.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1888-09-05
LeaIsr Repnb1icans.

It is q lealzy year. brethren. awful
leaky. The Republican league circular,
which threatened to fry tho fat" out of
protected manufacturers for a campaign
fund; ingalls, Phelps or some other fel-
low who can get money" letter and Mister
Mahone's circular to the Virginia Repub-
icans have all leaked. 1t seems to be q
first rate year not to have any secrets
Alta California.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1888-09-05
ola ana .sev s.ylo rro.ee.lon....a...

Scores of factories will shut up should
Cleveland be elected. because their man.
ayers Know that his success means the
employment of every effort to put all the
raw materials Ilsed on the free list
San Francisco Chronicle.
There are four modes by which the In
dustry of the country can be protected,
and one OF these Is the admission, free oi
duty. of every article which, aids. the
operations of the manufacturers.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1888-09-05
Blaine. the moralist,


wrote this:
81 would not advise tho
repeal of the whisky tax.
There IS a moral side to
It. To cheaper the price
OF whisky Is to increase
its consumption cnor-
mously. There would be
no sense In urging the re-
form wrought by high
license in many states If
the national government
heutralizcs the good ef-
feet by making whisky
within reach of every
ono at twenty cents a
gallon. Itwould destroy
high license ut once In all
tho states"
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1888-09-05
The Deadly Parallel.

FnoA Mr.. BIaISE's FROM nR sRERaAs,s
SPEECH AT PORTLAND. SPEECH II THE SENATE,
The point which wishl kCo. ~
TO impress Upon y0 is It Is certain that these
that trusts are not the combinations grow out
oTtgrowth nor in any iof revenue laws as tho
way the incident of the sugar trust which Is one
protective policy, as the of the most dangerous
president charges; that and wrongful trusts ever
a protective policy noiorRenizcd In this conn
more breeds what ketry; this trust can GER
considers the peStilenca tainIy be reached by tho
of trusts than does Incorporation of our revenue
verieSt free trade coun- laws.
try In tho world-Which
Il England.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1888-09-05
AMER a D6;g,s;i.estis ona4IT1eI'

Somewhere down east u IE1arTied pair were
in the habit of airing thctT differences audi
bly,. In these spats the wife, having The
loRccr tongue, was usually the winner The
result WAS made knosFr m one case to an in
qG.riil., iieiSiibor-B asked where hs could
lII;d Mr. McI3lsnls.z Sin these words:
,;o.,'t l:.sssi. g.'ess hog up stsirS.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1888-09-05
AnotI,er st..,v.

Shelby county. Tenn, an old stand BIZ.
Republican county has reformed and
gave at the late election Democratic
majority Of / 300. Thus does Tennessee
become one Of the Doubtful Co states.-
Honey Grove CTex.) Citizen.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1888-09-05
Ex-Chairman jones' employees In the
American iron works of this city were given
this to carry in public parade in 1880:
Tariff.
Pay Day-Sfa0. 600.
Democratic Free Trnlie.
Pay Day-S00o.O0l

This is not statutory intimidation, but
how much -unswerving devotion to, the
supreme and sovereign right of every law
full citizen, rich or poor, to cast
one FREQ ballot In public elections does il
showg-Cor. New York World.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1888-09-05

Free trade In Hungarfans, Poles ana
Italians but prohibitofy duties on the
lumber for tbs American aorkingnan's
House, is RsFst1iezn 'doctr sss
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1888-09-05
tEDEa conanssIolER DUDLEY (nEF.J J

In addition to the foregoing It may be
stated that the total Disbursements for
pensions during the years specified under
Arthur were $1S3. .399, ,216, while the dis.
bursements since Mr.. Cleveland came into!
Office reacK SOL, 7,399j jT57. = Brooklyn
Eagle.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1888-09-05
q. P. SIMPSON.
JOHN w. ENGLISH,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,

Point Pleasant, w. Va,
MILL practice in the County of Ma
wv son; the United States District Court
tor West Virginia, and in the Supreme
Court OF Appeals of this State. Office in
Court House. Jan 3, 1888.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1888-09-05

Princely. fortunes Galore Have Been
Amassed There since 1860, while wages
Rave Desn Persisteatiy Pared and
Rents Have Gone Up.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1888-09-05
PRYsTcIAMs,

A. R. BARBEE, M. D.,
(Northwest Cor. 9th and Main Sts.,)
POINT PLEASANT, WEST VA.
Office hours from a. m. to 2 y. M. and
) to 10 p. M. may 3, 1882.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1888-09-05

D1ssToE SAW ToEss.
TAcoNY, July %, 81 !:
:. EPartfes employed at these yor.s win:
further the interests of the nm by voting the:
:Republican ticket
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1888-09-05


1t reminds one of the Sheffield manu-
fscturer who said to this man: Vote as
ycu please. shall not tell you how ann,
going to vote. After it is over am going
to have barrel of bear brought into my
Yard-fhear hearl-but 1 shall not tap IS
unless Nj. workey. thu Tory candidate.
On July % National Chairman Matthew
Stanley Quay stopped in Philadelphia to
see Hamilton Disston and Col Henry K
Boyer, the speaker of the state house of
Representatives. Mr.. Disston was with
Col. Quay for an hour and a hall, and the
Question of raising the needed funds for
the campaign was discussed at length.
Mr.. Bisston has been assigned the duty
of raising money for the national campaign
in this city. Mr.. Disston is the famous
saw manufactures who during the last
presidential election had this notice p 1sted
up on his works at Tocony:
brssTog Saw foaEs
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1888-09-05

ITe 3 sa.gto thesalae. q leally ,noaaa .hs.1l.