The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1892-08-13

silly to answer were ii not that there are
some who would believe every word OF
it. In the first place he nisquotes Mr..
Cleveland Mr.. Cleveland is, Of course,
in favor Of a revenue tariff and only de-
nounces protective tariff. Mr.. Cleve-
land is not in favor OF direct tax, nor
is the democratic party, as whole, but
few Of us are. / am in favor of all in
comes of five thousand dollars and all
above this being taxed. If this should
become law, is there a single farmer in
either Monongalia or Barbour that would
pay cent of It?
As regards pensions you Republicans
said eight years ago, when Cleveland
first became a candidate for the presi-
dency, that il he was elected he would
take the the pensions away from every
Union soldier and would pension the
rebel soldiers. Time has proved that
to be lie, and the same bugaboo wont
work now. Farmer asks: "Why did
Cleveland veto 741 pension bills ~ That
is easily answered. Because they were
unjust; and secondly, because the re-
publicans Matched up these TAI spurious
pension bills to make political capital.
Now, my farmer friend, please answer
this. Why did Cleveland sign more pri-
yate pension bills than any other man
that filed the presidential chair?
Farmer again asks, 'sWhy did Cleve-
land veto the dependent pension bill ~
Because majority of the union soldiers
opposed il and claimed it was an insult
to the soldiers. The commander OF the
G. A. r. opposed it and said that if SOL
diers got a pension under that bill they
must swear that they are paupers.
The same article says Nearly half
million OF old yanks are bringing out OF
a flooded treasury So per month. read
letter from Sidney l.. Wilson not six
weeks ago to soldier who had Just been
allowed a pension. "That there was no
money in the treasury to pay him and
he would have to wait for his money"
Now which is most reliable as regards
the condition OF the Z. S. Treasury PEN
sion Agent Wilson or Hillside Farmer
Again quote from the Posts cores
pondent. "And again we oppose free
trade because we lived under that meth
cd from '46 to go and remember that
from twenty-five to fifty cents was all
that we could get for days work on the
farm" Well, ! suppose the reason was
that you was poor hand and did not
deserve any more. As lived also I'M
der that method ] remember that l
got from IS cts. to sl.50 per day during
a portion OF that time, and could get all
that ! wanted to do at those prices.
Again ] quote "during that time wheat
was so cts, corn 25 cents, oats 2ia cts. y
Now, Mr.. Farmer, don't you know that
during part of that time wheat was
worth from sl.25 to $500 per bushel and
other grains as high in proportion If
you don't then buy Tribune Almanac
which gives the prices Of
grain from 1910 up, and then state facts
hereafter.
Every school boy above ten knows or
ought to know that supply and demand
regulates the price of the farmers pro-
duce and stock and the tariff has moth
ing whatever to do with it. And supply
and demand also regulates wages, for
instance corn has sold in the west at Is
cts. per bushel at the same time it was
70 cts. in Monongalia.
But, Mr.. Farmer, you fail fail to tell
us that wool was worth from so to 90 cts.
per ID. under that free trade period and
is only bringing 25 cts. now Again |
quote, store goods can be bought for one
half the price of the free trade days OF
'46 to so. Well, has the tariff anything
has lowered the price of manufactured
articles from year to year on account OF
machinery and decrease in
price OF raw material and the manufac-
turers OF America were compelled to
bring their goods down in order to COM
pete. Besides this, three-fourihs of the
goods worn during those days of '46 and
go were made at home by our mothers
a nd eli OF
mothers spun all the wool for our cloth
ing and some of them even carded it by
hand, don't you know that after carding
and spinning it they woye upon hand
loom jeans for our pants, linen for our
shirts, lindsey for our sisters dresses and
blankets and coverlids for our beds?
Well, goods ought to be cheaper and
much cheaper than they are. When one
man or one woman can do fifty times as
much in one day by the use of improved
as our poor mothers did by
hand cards, the spinning wheel and
hand looms. Now it is wonder to me
why republican leaders who know the
above facts will send their souls to hell
by lying and attempting to deceive the
common people by telling them it is the
protective tariff that has lowered the
price OF manufactured goods. | again
quote, "We wonder if Mr.. Cleveland will
retract this saying when he learns that
the Homestead strikers are getting from
Sc to $40 per day. Havn't you got it
too Tow Mr.. Farmer? ] see in the Tole-
do Blade it is from SIS to S27 per day.
But this is all lie, the fact is they were
getting from $3.50 to $500 per day, ac-
cording to their own evidence, but this
is good wages and is one of our best ar
against protective tariff.
| compelled the Toledo Blade to par
tally admit that the consumers paid the
tariff and every intelligent man knows
that they do. Then are not the farmers
and farm laborers who get from so cents
to S1.00 per day the most foolish people
on earth when they vote for tariff on an
average OF so per cent on their clothing
and their hats, boots and tin ware in or
der that manufacturers may pay their
hands from 81 to Sc per day, or to make
it palmer farmer who gets from 80 cts.
to $l.00 per day will vote to tax himself
in order that other laborers can get from
81 to Sc per day Men that do this are
Git subjects for the Weston Asylum.
Now, that idea of the West India farm
er sending his wheat to New York to sell
and has to pay 5000 to get to sell 200
bushels. l feel sorry for this cores
pendent that he has thus exposed his
ignorance and | also have the same feel
ings for the editor OF the Post. Don't ey-
cry school boy above the age of II years
know that there is not bushel Of wheat
raised in the West Indias. And why
should we buy from any country when we
have a surplus of over two hundred mill
lions bushels per year OF wheat, and are
anxious to find market for this sur
plus.
Golf would not accept the nomination
for Governor. Now don't let us hear any
more croaking about Golf being elected
in 1888 and the Democrats cheating him
out of his seat. Golf has had the chance
to vindicate himself, II he believed that
he was elected in 1888, but by his refu-
sal to again be candidate he acknowl-
edges that Fleming was fairly and hon.
orably elected and that it was the re-
publicans who attempted to cheat Flem-
ing out of his seat, but, thank God, they
failed.
Married.
DENT-TRAvIs-M Miss Mabel Tray
is and Mr.. Marmaduke E. Dent, gen
eral manager of the Merchants
Parcel Delivery Company, both of
this city, were married at the Fourth
Preshyterian Church on Ninth ST