Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1892-08-13

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living in the workshop or on the
farm.
THE ONLY TRUE POLICY.
AS West Virginians, we are in
favor of that policy which has
developed and made great States
of less wealth in natural re-
sources than our own, bringing
the workshop class to the farm
and gathering about the opened
coal seams large communities of
wage-earners who make a ready
market for the products of agri-
culture. AS West Virginians.
we denounce the Democratic
doctrine that it is unconstitution-
al to open coal mines and estab-
fish factories in West Virginia.
We accept as better authority
the decision of the Supreme
Court of the United States that
the Mckinley tariff act is a con-
stitutional measure. Moreover.
we believe it to be one of the best
ever passed by the Con
gress Of the United States.
PROTECTION OF LABOR.
Believing that the labor of this
country should be amply protect
ed against the products of the
labor of other lands. we are as
well of the opinion that Ameri-
can labor should be protected
against the ship loads of foreign
labor pouring in at the rate of
600, 600 immigrants a year to cut
into the employment and the la
Dor of our own people. AS we
put a duty on foreign products so
we should put a duty on foreign
producers coming to this coun-
try to the end that our labormay
be protected in both directions.
THE HOMESTEAD TROUBLE.
We regret the deplorable con-
tiict at Homestead, Pennsylvan-
ia, and we are glad to be assured
by the wage-earners themselves
that the tariff and wages under
it are not involved in the unhap-
Ply controversy. We have seen
with pain the employment of
mercenary troops called Pinker-
ton men, and we favor the pas
sage of a law that will prevent
the invasion of West Virginia by
such an armed force as that
which the Democratic governor
of West Virginia recently per-
mitted to invade this State to in
terfere between West Virginia
miners and their employers.
We congratulate the people of
West Virginia on the fact that
this year no United States depu-
ty marshals will be used at the
polls to intimidate honest voters
as they were used by President
Cleveland in his own behalf in
1888 for the first time in the his
tory of the State.
STATE ADMINISTRATION DENOUNC-
ED.
We denOunce the Democratic
administration in this State as
wasteful, extravagant and in
competent. They have broken
every promise made to the peo-
pie as an inducement to be trust
ed with power. They increased
the number of officeholders and
increased their salaries. They
increased the average assess
ment of State taxes. They in
creased the objects of taxation
by repeated re-assessments of
property, thereby increasing
taxation by every method in
their power. They have, while
protesting to be the particular
friends of the farmers, and while
acknowledging by official reports
that a large amount of personal
property escapes taxation, re-
peatedly increased for taxing
the value of the lands
of the farmers, thereby adding
to the confessed inequality of his
burdens.
MADE A STATE DEBT.
They have made a LARGE State
debt, according to the last off
cial State reports, fragrant viola
ton of the constitution of the
State. They have used the funds
set apart sacredly to the educa-
ton of the children of the State
for other purposes, in plain VIC
lation of the constitution of the
State. They have wasted large
sums of money for public print
ing, and the steady increase of
the cost of stationery and public
printing have now arisen to an
alarming annual expense. They
have placed the public penal and
human institutions, almost with
out exception, in the hands of
partisan boards and have to a
large extent selected the man
ayers of these institutions from
INSCRIPTIONS politicians and
have managed them in the inter
est Of partisan politics and not
in the interest of the people nor
of the unfortunate inmates there
of.
EDUCATIONAL INTERESTS PROSTI-
TUTED.
They have selected professors
and teachers in the public educa-
tional institutions of the State
solely on the ground of party
service and not for fitness, and
they have driven out of these in
situations competent and deserv-
ing men for mere partisan pur-
poses. They have by crude leg
islation and illiberal policy re-
tarded the development of West
Virginia, naturally the richest
State of the Union, and they now
l.