Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1890-04-04

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H.. [. SNYDER, Editor and Proprietor,
SHEPHERDsTowN, w. VA.
FRIDAY, APRIL a, 1890.
THIS Congress does not believe in
hereafter.
THIS is an uncommonly hard year
on the surplus.
WHEN a western tornado once gets
started, everything else must get out
Of the road
THE Mississippi river is spreading
itself all over the country through
which il runs.
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IT NAV be noticed that very few OF
the trusts are opposed to the Repub-
lican tariff bill.
THERE i not such a great rush after
Offices i'm Washington now-it pays
better to strike for a pension.
THE sooner the country puts Dem
ocratic majority in Congress again
the better il will be for the country.
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CHICAGO had an election on Tues
day. and the Democrats carried the
dav handsomely. Every little helps.
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THE Republicans cannot agree
among themselves as to their tariff
bill anv better than the Democrats
did last year.
THERE is only one way TO stor this
pension extravaganza. and that is TO
retire from Congress the demagogues
who do the mischief.
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THERE is no disputing that the Me
Kinley tariff bill has been framed by
the tariffs friends But the friends
of the people have had no say in it.
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GOVERNOR HILL of New York has
vetoed ballot reform bill passed by
the New York Legislature. Governor
Hill is a reformer in theory, not in
practice.
THE Senate passed the dependent
pension bill Monday. This will make
the annual expenditures for pensions
amount to $3.50, O,00O-an increase
of $50, 900, 900 per year.
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CONGRESSMAN ATKINSON of this
State has started in on his legislative
duties by introducing a big batch of
pension bills. He probably believes
in the old flag and an appropriation.
CONGRESS having pensioned all the
men who fought on the Union side
during the late war, is now consider
ing a bill TO give pension for every
wound man received. Anything TO
get rid of the surplus.
Hon. WIN. l.. WILSON, of this State,
has been elected chairman of the EX-
ecutive Committee of the National
Association of Democratic Clubs.
This means that West Virginia will
be looked after in the future.
IN one end of the Capitol during
the past couple of weeks the Senate
has been discussing bill to abolish
trusts, wilhelm the other end the Ways
and Means Committee has been
framing a tariff bill to perpetuate
trusts.
OUR Republican contemporaries
are trying to make party capital out
of the entertainments of Treasurer
Archer of MARYLAND. 1t is unfortu-
nate that the Democrats have not the
shrewdness which generally enables
the Republicans to conceal Their ras-
cality.
THE Mckinley tariff bill proposes
to double the tax on tin plate, and
this, too, when there is not a single
mandatory in this country that
makes it. The effect will be to in
crease the price of tinware TO the con-
sumner, of course.
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GOVERNOR ALGER, who is prancing
around the country and posing as a
great friend of the soldier and the
poor man. is at the head of the match
trust in this country-a greedy mo
nopoly that robs every citizen every
time he buys box of matches.
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THE Baltimore american l. enjoy
ing itself very much in commenting
on the Archer defalcation and SINH
lar stealings by other Democratic of
icers. But take all these cases and
multiply them by themselves and
then double the result-what are they
in comparison with the theft of a
Presidency for four years
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