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The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1889-09-21
MoRGANTowN VIRGINIA, SATURDAY,

percentage of labor that is in direct
competition with the cheaper labor
of Europe.
Business interests; national pride
in supplying our own markets, and
the enlargement and better payment
of labor in woollen industries, all
demand free wool; Doodle political
interests; fat-fryers of manufacture
ers; monopoly combines to Cypress
consumers, all demand increased
tariff taxes on both wool and wool
lens, and which shall it be? The
wool manufacturers can settle the
question at once by simply manful-
ly presenting the exact truth to the
country, they can leave it unsettled
and involved in perilous uncertainty
by temporizing with plain and i'm
perative necessity. They had free
wool during the first half century of
the government even under the
highest tariffs; they had practically
free wool from the first Republican
Congress that ever met in the tariff
of 1857, and they will get free wool
whenever they decide that business,
and not politics, shall formulate
their demands. Which shall it be?
OF course, the wool-growers will
insist upon taxing the people as
long as any will listen to them; and
the power of the wool growers in
several of the States and the money
extorted from them under promises
of protection, will be embarrassing
to political powers; but either wool
must be made free or both wool and
woollens must be taxed even above
the present oppressive duties; and it
is simply question whether the
wool manufacturers will honestly
and boldly meet and settle the issue
for themselves, or provoke popular
revolution that will settle it without
them. Which shall it
be? Let the National Association
of the Wool Manufacturers answer.
.Philadelphta Times.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1889-09-21
JEFFERSON DAVIS ROMANCE.
How He Eloped with Colonel Zachary
TaylOr's Daughter.

The first marriage of Jefferson
Davis was Of somewhat romantic
character. After graduating at
West Point, he was ordered to Fort
Crawford, at Prairie du Chen, Wis,
the post then commanded by Colonel
Zachary Taylor The daughter of
the latter, Miss Sallie Knox Taylor,
at once fell desperately in love with
the handsome and intellectual young
lieutenant. The rash pair eloped
one night and we're married. Colon
ell Taylar was enraged, and declared
with an oath as strong as ever used
that under no circumstances would
he ever forgive Davis or become rec
onciled to his daughters disobe-
dience.
But sixteen years passed. sold
Zach" was in command of the Uni
ted States Army in Mexico, and
serving under him was Colonel JEFF
ferson Davis at the head of the ia
nous First Mississippi rifles. AT
the battle of Buena Vista this regi.
ment covered itself with glory.
Davis, while leading one of its char
ges at critical moment, fell severe
ly, and it was supposed mortally,
wounded. He was borne from the
field. That evening General Taylor,
mounted on sold Whitley and paid
him visit. Dismounting, he stepped
to the Colonel's cot and extended his
hand.
jeff" he said, Sou have saved
the day with your glorious rifles,
Let by cones be by.gones! Knox
the name by which he always called
his daughter) knew your worth and
mettle better than ! did"
They shook hands. From that
moment, through the war, and in
deed until the death Of Presid emf
Taylor, the warmcst friendship exis
ted between them.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1889-09-21

The Only Child Born in the White House.

Mrs. Wilcox, clerk in the Treas
ury Department at Washington. hus
an interesting history. Her father
Andrew jackson Donaldson, was an
adopted son of President jackson,
and she is said to have been the only
child who first saw the light of day
in the White House. Mrs. Wilcox
is lady Of refined tastes and splen-
did information. She has seen many
European Capitals, and has . com
mand Of Spanish and other Language
es that serves to good purpose in her
sphere. Mrs Wilcox's husband, who
died in 1865, was a member from
Mississippi Of the Thirty Second
Congress, and was afterwards elected
to the Thirty Foorth Congress from
Texas. He was also = member Of
the Confederate Congress.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1889-09-21
There Will be no Extra Session.

The decision of the President and
his cabinet Saturday that there
shall be no extra session of Congress
will be generally welcomed. The
proceedings of the Fifty first Con
gress when it meets in regular ses-
sion in December will not, it is safe
to say, be so interesting and wise
that the country will regret that
they have not been begun sooner.
The tariff will be tinkered with in
the advanced protectionist sense,
though there has been since the cleo
ton of members last November a
great movement of public opinion in
the direction of the reforms proposed
in the Mills bill. New pension bills
will be proposed and probably pass
ed, though the country shrinks from
the increased burden to be imposed
upon it. Sectional legislation look
ing to an increased Republican rep
resentation from the South will be
attempted at the outset, and there
will be great efforts to unseat South
ern Democrats in order to enlarge
the small Republican majority in the
House. The substituting of shipown-
ers and shipbuilders, the multiplied
ton of naval jobs and other devices
for promoting private advantage at
the public expense will give the tax
payer cause for grief. Before the
session is over the country will
probably be thoroughly tired of it.
The motives, however, which infu-
enced the cabinet to decide against
an extra session are supposed to
have been of party character, the
majority in the House at present
being too small to make much head
way. But with the new members to
be had from the new States by De-
cember the prospect will be better.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1889-09-21
Protection and Trusts.

The official organ of the American
Iron and Steel Association has this
to say of trusts:
The newspaper which undertakes
to make light of their tendencies, to
defend their methods, is therefore a
public enemy, and it falls under the
very natural suspicion of having
been paid to advance the interests of
monopolists. More particularly is
that newspaper to be suspected
which advocates protection to home
industry in one column and in an
other defends trusts. The protective
policy is absolutely at war with all
trusts, since the very aim and es
sence of protection is the encourage
ment of competition that prices may
be reduced; whereas the object of
trusts is to restrict competition and
to artifcially and arbitrarily advance
prices.
This note of alarm from highly
protected industry is as significant
in its way as was the declaration of
the Iowa Republicans in favor of
protection "where it does not foster
trusts or trade conspiracies." 1t is
due to sense of danger ahead for
the trust-fostering tariff.
The Every aim and essence of pro-
lection" is to enable the home man
ufacturers to charge more for his
product than he would be able to do
without it. If this is net the effect
of a duty it fails to protect" The
direct effect of this system of boun-
ties is to stimulate an artificial in
crease of the production thus favor
ed. Money makers are anxious to
share in the profits from over-charg-
ing. The natural result is from
over reproduction, and this leads to a
trust or other combination to "re-
strict competition and to artifcially
and arbitrarily advance prices y
Protection favors this by shutting
out or restricting foreign imports,
leaving the home market at the mer-
cy of the conspirators And thus
the tariff becomes the foster mother
of trusts
The truth of all this has been a
hundred times established. 1t is IL
Illustrated just now in the operations
of the Sugar Trust, the White Lead
Trust, the Jute- Bagging and Irvine
Trusts, the Linseed- Oil Trust and a
score of other tariff-promoted "trade
conspiracies." The campaign of ed
ucation proceeds at rapid pace
N. Y. World
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1889-09-21
The Next House.

There are now no vacancies in the
new Congress, excepting the add
tional members for the new States
to be chosen on the LIST of October
and the status of parties is just as
it was made by the elections of las,
year-viz., l64 Republicans and 161
Democrats, of which 1913 constitute
quorum.
1t is quite probable that the Octo-
Der elections in the new States will
add four to the Republicans; two
from South Dakota, one from North
Dakota and one from Washington,
and that Montana will add one to
the Democrats. The House would
then stand l6S Republicans and 1862
Democrats, and requiring 166 to
make quorum. 1t should be re-
membered that no party is in power
in the House for partisan work with
out full quorum of members pres
ent to respond to their names. While
the Republican majority is likely to
be . at the meeting of Congress in
December, it must have 166 votes
always ready to assure any exercise
of party power, such as the election
Of Speaker or the settlement of con-
tested seats.
There is side element in the Re
publican Majority in the House that
may be very embarrassing and posi-
bly, prevent the command of party
quorum when most needed. Con
gresham Brewer, a Republican from
North Carolina, voted for the Mills
tariff bill and was reelected as
regular Republican while his adjoin-
ing fellow Republican voted against
the Mills bill and was defeated at
the polls. Brewer now demands
that the entire abolition of the In
ternal Revenue tax system shall be
accepted by the party in caucus as
a condition precedent to his action
with the party, and he claims to be
backed in this position by several
other Southern Republicans whose
people are oppressed by our prohigate
revenue laws. If the internal reven-
ne of over $131, 100000 shall be abol-
ished, the severest economy must be
enforced, with a searching revision
of Tanners pension policy, to save
the Treasury from immediate bank
ruptcy, and such schemes as the
Blair educational bill, the Disability
and the Service pension bills and
various contemplated public improve
ment bills, would be at once buried
beyond the sound of the resurrection
trumpet.
or course, if the Republicans get
their line entirely solid 10 start with,
they will soon unseat enough Demo
Gratis to give them safe working
majority. They have a number of
Southern contest which revive the
flavor of the olden time carpet-bag-
gers who could get seats without the
pretence of ever having made seri
Gus effort to obtain majority vote,
and there are other close contests
which always tempt the majority in
the House to manufacture doubts as
to the true return and then resolve
all doubts in it's own favor; but it is
evident that some serious complica-
lions are feared by the administra-
tion in the struggle to get the House
organized with reliable party quor-
UNI to obey party orders.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1889-09-21
A GLOWING DESCRIPTION.
How Sunset Cox Came by that Some
WHAT Peculiar Appellation.

The death of Congressman Cox
brings to mind the cause Of his pc
culiar nickname. On May 10, 1853,
he published in the Statesman the
following article, and ever since he
has been known as sunset Cox;
What a stormful sunset was that
of last night. How glorious the
storm, and how splendid the setting
of the SUM- We do not remember
ever to have seen the like on our
round'globe. The scene opened in the
West, with whole horizon full of a
golden interpenetrating luster, which
colored the foliage aud frightened
every object in its own rich dyes.
The colors grew deeper and richer,
until the golden luster was trans
formed into storm cloud, full of
finest lightning. which leaped in daz-
cling zig gags all around and over
the city. The wind arose with fury,
the slender shrubs and giant trees
made obesiance to its majesty. Some
even snapped before its force. The
strawberry beds aud grass plots
"turned up their whites" to see
Zephyrus march %. AS the rain
came, and the pools foi med and the
cutters hurried ava thunder roared
grandly, and the llie bells caught
the excitement and ung with hearty
chorus. The South and East re
ceivcd the copious showers, and the
West all at once frightened up in
a long, polished belt of azure, worthy
of Sicilian sky. Presently cloud
appeared in the azure belt,
in the form of n castellat.
ed city. 1t became more vivid, re
veaing strange forms of peerless
fanes and alabaster temples, and
glories rare and grand in this mum
dane sphere. 1t eminds us Of
Wordsworth's splt "a verse in his
Excursion
The appearance instantane, y disclosed
Was Of mighty city, boll say
wilderness Of buildings, shaking far
And self withdrawn into wondrous depth,
Far sinking into splendor without end
"But the city vanished only to
give place to another isle, where the
most beautiful forms of foliage APP
peared, imagining Paradise in the
distant and purified air The sun,
wearied of the elemental commotion,
sank behind the green plains of the
West. The great eye in heaven
however, went not down without
dark brow hanging over its depart.
ing light The rich flush of the I'M
earthly light had passed, and the
rain had ceased; VIXEN the solemn
church bells pealed, The laughter of
children come out and joyous after the
storm is heard with the carol of
birds; while the forked aud purple
weapon of the skies still darted illum-
ination around the Startling College,
trying to rival its angles and leap
into its dark windows. Candles are
lighted. The piano strikes up. We
feel that it is good to have a home
good to be on the earth where such
revelations Of beauty and power may
be made, And as we cannot refrain
from reminding our readers Of every
thing wonderful in our city, we have
begun and ended our feeble etching
of sunset which comes so rarely |
that its glory should be committed |
to ira mortal type"
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1889-09-21
The Valiant Women Of Washington
Boston Herald.

The women of the new state of
Washington are going to the polls to
vote at the first election just the
same as if the new constitution gave
them the right to. They will estab-
fish separate polling places through
out the state, and if no account is
made of their ballots, they are going
to carry their case up to the Su-
preme Court. The Washington WON
en- are to be commended for their
yalor, which seems 70 overtop their
discretion considerably.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1889-09-21

Abraham Lincoln was the tallest
President in this country, being six
feet four inches. Benjamin Harrl-
son is the shortest, as his height is
only five feet five inches. The diff
ference between the two men, how
ever, dosn't stop here.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1889-09-21
A new business directory of Johns

A new business directory of Johns
town and surrounding boroughs con-
tains the names of over 500 business
and professional men. 1t also shows
that there are now thirty six grocery
stores and fifty-one saloons open in
the place.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1889-09-21
INCIDENTS OF PHIL ROGERS.
How the Murderer Of Polly Williams
Spent His Last DAYS,


SMITHFIELD, Pa, September H.
A short time ago a correspondent
had occasion to spend few weeks
at New Brownsville, Greene county,
which is about one mile from where
the notorious Phil Rogers spent his
last days on earth. While there !
became intimately acquainted with
an old gentlemen who frequently
employed him to work on his farm.
He said Rogers was very indus
trious man, and was so superstitious
that he had terrible dread of dark
ness, so much so that he was never
seen out after dark. Not only was
he in continual fear of the spirits of
the departed, but if he should chance
to see two or more persons together,
he would evade them, thinking they
were plotting to mete out justice to
him, for his terrible crime at White
Rocks. At one time he was work
ing in meadow in company with
several men, and after they had par
taken pretty freely of ardent spirits
they concluded to force Rogers to a
confession, and securing a rope they
drew him up from the ground for a
few seconds and then lowered him,
asking for the desired confession.
Rogers, after he had time to get his
breath declared that he was inno-
cent of the crime they charged him.
They drew him up second time,
with the same result, and, after as
surfing him that the third time they
would never let him down, while
there was any life in him, they pro-
ceeded to execute their threat, and
nerved as they were by strong drink
they fully intended to do just what
they promised, but fortunately for
the doomed man, some men came
riding by, and discovering the body
dangling between heaven and earth,
they succeeded in saving his life.
Rogers was the father of large
family of children and truly, in his
case, was the iniquity of the father
visited on the sons, for it is said
that three out of five of them lost
their lives in way that caused
some folks to think that the hand OF
Providence had been against them
on account of their fathers sin.
One of the three was killed by an
assassin, one by falling tree, and
the other committed suicide by
hanging himself on beam of his
own barn. One of his sons was SO
cruel in his family that when he
was going away from home for day
or more he would give his boy, lad
of thirteen, a task and would thrash
him within an inch of his life if he
failed to complete any work he lett
for him. He was going away to be
gone for a week and he showed the
boy patch of grubs that must be
taken out by the end of that time,
and, with an oath, he assured him
that he would take his life if he fail
ed to have them out at the end OF
the week. The boy knowing full
we'll that his brutal father would al
most, if not entirely, carry out his
threat went to work and worked till
the time had nearly arrived for his
father to return. When he found
that it was impossible for him to
finish his task he determined to put
an end. to- his troubles by becoming
his own slayer. When his father
came home he found the lifeless
form of his boy hanging from the
top of one of the trees he had been
commanded to dig out by its roots.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1889-09-21
VOLUME XIV.

The republicans of Ohio have be-
come SO desperately alarmed over the
prospects for Foraker's defeat, that
they have changed tactics by appar-
emily dropping Forakers, and resur-
recting the tales connected with
Payene's lection to the Senate more
thanfour years ago. They hope by
such course to hold the party in
line. They declare that "a vote for
the Democratic ticket is a vote for
Payne" but we don't believe it's eff
feet will counteract the feeling
against the third term. Even our own
Imtettigencer tries to wag the trail
of the desired resurrection BOOM"
ane asserts, among other things,
that the coming election affords
the first opportunity of rebuking
the "Payne Scandal" when. in fact,
Foraker has been twice elected since
the "Payne Scandal" was born.
The shadow of Ohio's next Govern
or favors Campbell.
Every Democrat in the United
States will feel sense of personal
loss in being deprived of the firm
and cheerful guidance of most cx-
perienced, versatile, sagacious and
devoted Democratic leader in the
death of Hon. S. S. Cox. Regret
will be wider than the broad lines of
of the Democracy, for Mr.. Cox's pa
triotism and ability won universal
recognition. He will be missed in
the world of letters as we'll as in the
field of craftsmanship; his brief
diplomatic career was creditable;
his genial brilliancy in debate and
his great parliamentary skill we're
realized by every one of his associates
in Congress; his conduct in the deli
cate and perplexing business of the
Speakership proved him fit to fill the
place of Carlisle, and his ever ready
wit was never divorced from wisdom.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1889-09-21

1t must be great satisfaction to
the Republican papers of the State
to tear their hair and yell fraud"
over the result of the contest com
mittees labors and it would be in
human to attempt to deprive them
of the privilege. 1t is about the only
way they will ever have the oppor-
tunity of enjoying themselves in
West Virginia.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1889-09-21

A peculiar case of conflict of juris
diction has occurred in Wetzel coun-
ty. A short time ago the village Of
Brooklyn, lying on the south side OF
Big Fishing creek, adjoining New
Martinsville, was Incorporated. The
Brooklyn authorities are in favor OF
licensing the liquor traffic and have
given permit to the county com
missioners, and the county court has
granted license to sell at retail spir-
ituons and malt liquors. This was
done against the protest of the New
Martinsville authorities, who have
filed a bill of injunction against the
county court, and the matter comes
up before the circuit Judge of that
circuit for consideration. New Mar
tinsville' claims that under her char
ter her jurisdiction extends for one
mile beyond her corporate limits, and
includes the whole village of Brook
Ign, and as she has not given consent
to sell liquors and don't want any
sold within her jurisdiction, she asks
that the county court be enjoined
from granting any license to her
Brooklyn neighbors.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1889-09-21

IT WoN'T BAKE BREAD.-In other
words, Hoods Sarsaparilla will not
do impossibilities. Its proprietors
tell plainly what it has done, sub
NIT proofs from sources of unques-
toned reliability, and ask you frank
ly if you are suffering from any dis
ease or affection caused or promoted
by impure blood or low state of the
system, to try Hoods Sarsaparilla.
The experience of others is sufficient
assurance that you will not be dis
appointed in the result.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1889-09-21

The use of calomel for derange-
ments of the liver has ruined many
fine constitution. Those who, for
similar troubles, have tried Ayers
Pills testify to their efficacy in
thoroughly remedying the malady,
without injury to the system.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1889-09-21

An explosion of dynamite in a
cartridge factory in Antwerp, Bel,
GUM, Sept. 6, killed 800 persons
and wounded over 900.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1889-09-21

One of the most profound thinkers
of the country has truly said. THE
farmers dollar is heavy. 1t is no
waif to him. He knows how many
strokes of his labor it represents.
His bones ache with the days labor
that earned it. He knows how
much land it representative much
rain, frost and sunshine He knows
that in the dollar he gives you so
much discretion and patience, SO
much hoeing and threshing. Try
to lift his dollar, you must lift all
that weighs" Still many farmer
votes for the party that makes him
pay an unjust and unnecessary tax
Of Al cents on every dollars worth
Of material he buys with his hard
earned dollar.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1889-09-21

The present administration refus-
es to allow three professors for tina
new Catholic University at Washing,
ton to enter this country, because OF
the contract labor laws. Yet the
same officials allow Andrew Carnegie
to import hundreds of Hungarians
to take the places of striking Ameri'
can laborers, and only few weeks
ago fifty three imported glass blow
ers took the places of other men in
Piusburg.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1889-09-21

The circulation of the NEW DOMINION
steadily increases and is larger now than
ever before.