The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1889-06-26


The g5spsl 81 pft5lt6tti5n tsaches
that In cru Of ib% prices, which
niiisi;sans an era of ablndiince; is a ca.
lamity, and that all manhSSsri of de-
vices should be adopted to keep up
prices ind mako tSerything scared:
Thit is the stheory Of protecs
ton, but when their professors leave
politics for practical life they forge
their own formula aid ,ire as quick
toci acknowledges the value of cheap
goods as any abandoned free trader.
At the risk of advortising the now
origin 6f the tariff, which tho New
York Tribune so persistcntly ignores,
We reproduce from the Now York
Press the following photographic
headed "WherS to buy food cheapi
sHouseleepors aliover town were
talking yesterday of the speeial ar
ticle in the Sunday Press on the
prices of nIeats and provisions at the
various public and private markets
in this city. There was some
mighty interesting reading in It for
the people of moderate mcans.-
Some of them found that they wcre
pa5ing r1i0r6 for food than they need
pay if they went somewhcrc else
within walking distance.
"Those who can affort t0 pay
fancy prices are invariably given It
chance; but markets 1T Which that
kind Of customer is not cxpcctcd
figure on sfhailei. prices and profits.
1t may be money IN the readers
pocket to come to this Office to-day
and buy copy of yesterdays Sum
day Press TO put away for rotor
ence"
That the Press should so soon afe
ter the election enter into Soon
spiracy" with the consumer to buy
farm products eBesp rhftist surprise
ind shock It's regular rcaders, if it
has retained any of them. 1t has
been tcaching afl atSns that acheap
goods mean low wages, and that
the only way t6k6eb DIP the ..Amer-
lean standard" of wages &als for the
consumer cheerfully and unselfishly
to pay more fUr eeefsthing he
Bought than Il Was worth. When u
consumer objected, tho Press cnter-
cd on an involved argumentt to show
that as every e6nsHmef tsas pro-
ducor, he got back IN high wages
more than he paid out in high
prices. This was a trap sctto catclf
fools.
Now tho campaign is over, and
t66 Ptts$ 9ef3 rightly advises its
readers TO get down tS bGsiness,
and not to attempt to apply cam
paign theories TO the practical af.
fairs of life. High wages were
promised If Haffhss66iHi Vas elected
that Vas the theory of protection,
bit instead Of high wages wages there has
been reduction all along The line;
tat Bc9ding; at Falf River, ut the
thfee;ai;d mills of New Jersey; at tho
glass works in Now Albany, and in
the coal mines in Pennsylvania
Phis rs the actGal condition which
confronts the wage-e&ffhhHeif;s, and
they are no longer allowed TO dwell
in a FOOLS paradise.
So, wc tBTnfg tbs ddvico Of the
Press now is good, if it is rather
late. Cheap food is blessing; so
are cheap clothing and cfeaP shell
ter. 1t is duty cdek. man nan owes TO
all others to waste nothing, duty
he owes especially to his family To
make his Wages buy as many of the
comforts of life Dis l,ossTBic, and men
foP moderate means should be taught
not to pay moro for food or clothing
or for household utensils, or for any
thing Whatever thar fRety need
| pay if they search little farther.
| 1t is a sound lesson, but it must
have appeared in the Press by mis-
take.