The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1890-01-08
TIE Part The west VIII Take
q 1lse struggle Against High

IL Is SAID that Frank Hatton, once
q Postmaster General, and now the
editor Of the Administration organ
in Washington, was SO affected by
the returns of the election in his ma
tive State of Iowa that he bandaged
bis head with wet towel and sat
by = pail of ice-w water all night. To
= friend who called during the
evening to condoIe with him Mr..
Hatton said: s.rhis is terrible.
Two more years of Harrison and
even Pennsylvania will not be safe. /"
The sketch of Mr.. Hatton's pros
trated condition is possibly over
drawn, and it is equally probable
that Mr.. Hatton himself had a
worse case of the dumps than lac
would now be willing to admit when
he despaired of holding PennsyI-
vania in the Protection column.
Pennsylvania is there to stay. A
State that can submit to being boss
ed by Don Cameron and Matt Quay
will not be nauseated by dose of
Harrison. Pennsylvania protec-
ton stomach is not of the squeam-
ish order, to be made sick by the
little eme,ics that are worrying the
Western end OF the Republican par
ty.
Even if the protection diet lay
hard on the Pennsylvania stomach
there is no hope of Pennsylvania
going Democratic as long as the
Pennsylvania Democracy continues
to be dominated by Randall and
wallance. They are sworn enc.
mics aud fight each other with in
tense bitterness as long as there is
no prospect of Democratic success
in the State, but whenever the leaven
of tariff reform shows signs of work
ing the Pennsylvania lump Mr..
Randall and Mr.. Wallace forget their
old-time antagonisms and immedi-
ately join hands in their endeavor
to swing the State back to the Re-
publicans. No, indeed, Mr.. Hatton
need not worry about Pennsylvania
going Democratic as long as Ran
dali and Wallace are on deck to
help the Administration along.
But the very things that are max
ing Pennsylvania the Gibraltar of
protection are the very things that
are solidifying the Western States in
support of tariff reform. The things
that suit the coal barons, the oil
kings, the iron monarchs and the
railroad magnates of Pennsylvania
are not the things that suit the sun
burnt, horny-handed grangers of
the West.
Our Western farmers are willing
10 render unto the Pennsylvania
Caesars the things that are theirs,
but they are equally determined to
retain for themselves the things that
belong to themselves.
A Western farmer performs more
honest work in one day than u
Pennsylvania coal baron or iron
king performs in a lifetime. And
yet the Government taxes the Wes-
tern farmers labor to support the
Pennsylvania coal baron and iron
king in their luxury.
This is the kind of tribute that
the Western farmers are tired of
paying. Human nature is human
nature the world over. AS long as
our tariff laws enable the Pennsyl-
vania coal and iron masters to live
in baronial splendor they are not
going to renounce their allegiance
to the party which provides these
luxurious conditions, even though
the Harrison Administration is max
ing a mess of the party machine.
The same human nature that is
operating in Pennsylvania is also
manifesting itself here in the West,
but in different direction. The
Western farmers are tired of their
condition of serfdom, imposed by
the tariff laws. 1t isn't in human
nature that they should like it; and
being human beings they are organ
izing to regain their freedom. The
first blows of the great revolution
were struck in Ohio and Iowa, and
they will be followed up until the
shackles of this tariff slavery are
rent from the limbs of the producing
classes.
Let Pennsylvania be joined to its
high-tariff idol.
The farmersof the West are wedd-
ed to the Goddess of Liberty, and
under her banner they have arrayed
themselves. HNo more tribute to
monopoly" is their war-cry. In
hoe signo vinces.-.S. Paul Globe.