South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1892-10-28
the poor poorer but IN making the
rich more selfish and more corrupt,
and therefore less patriotic.


rich more selfish aud more corrupt,
and therefore less patriotic:
THE ELECTION OF 1883 WAS BOUGHT
81 am not OF those who cavil q!
the presence OF rich msn in the com.
munity. Great differences in for.
tune are inevitable in the present
industrial organization of society,
and. while ! think surplus wealth,
as Mr.. Carnegie calls his, some.
times Injuries the possessor, in thou.
sands Of other instances it not only
does him good, but overfloxs in
countless benefits to the commune
ty. All that 1 demand is that the
rich shall not use their riches to
destroy the very source Of the ina
tional life and OF all true respect
for law in free country like ours
Ian unbought ballot.
"Almost as soon as the canvass
OF 1888 was over rumors began to
circulate that the elect o, had been
bought aEsi that the gentlemen who
collected the money, as well as
those who paid 1T, were determined
to exact such recompenscs as had
been promised them, and the reye-
lations which have occurred from
time to tina have strengthened the
conviction in my mind that unhap-
PLY there was only too much truth
in these rumors. a prominent
manufacturer of this city, q life
long republican, has quite recently.
over his own signature, spoken of
the Mckinley bill as our bill, be-
cause we bought and paid for it,
A REPLY To SENATOR SHERMAN.
Mr.. MacVeagh then went on to
reply to a recent speech of Senator
Sherman and criticised that gentle
man for his financial and tariff in
cons.stencies.
Nobody knows better than Sem
ator Sherman that the cordage trust
is an illegal monopoly" said Mr..
Mcveagh, ''having the absolute
control on the price of binding
Irvine, and that the sugar trust is
an illegal monopoly, having the alb
solute control of the price OF sugar.
Yet in his speech here Senator Sher-
man did not venture to utter a sim
gle word in criticism of either
of these trusts or any ore of
tho hundreds of illegal combina-
tions of capital now plundering the
people, in utter contempt of ell laws
and all morals"
In speaking of tho increasing
poverty of the farmers Mr.. Nc
Veagh said
"While great fortunes are being
made In so many other departments
of American business, the hard
working American farmer has each
year found himself poorer at the end
of it than at the beginning, until
now in Senator Sherman's State Of
Ohio and in this State of Pennsyl-
vania his land ia worth in many ca
SEES less than half what it was TWEEN
ty years ago.
"The total depreciation in the
value of farm lands in this county
since 1870 is greater, in my judg-
ment, than the cost of any manu-
factory In it, and yet when the far
mer of to-day comes to bind his
wheat, which he must sell for the
price fixed in Liverpool and less
than it costs him, he is confronted
by the fact that the Mckinley bill
puts an artificial price upon the
Irvine he must use in order to give
q bounty to the wealthy cordage
who contributed to
the election of President Harrison
in 1883, and as if this was not
enough, he finds his poverty furth-
er increased by having to pay an
additional and illegal bounty in
consequence Of che formation Of the
cordage trust and Of the monopoly
it enjoys, and so it ia Of almost eV-
cry article he now buys.
"The sugar trust is another Illus
trasion applicable to the working
man. The laboring man, whether
farmer or artisan or day labOrer, is
obliged to use sugar for himself and
his family every day in his life, and
when he comes to buy it he finds that
an artificial price has been placed
upon il by the Mckinley bill as 70
compense TO it's wealthy manufactu-
rers for the money they contributed
to assist in the election Of President
Harrison four years ago.
RECKLESS PENSION LEGISLATION.
''Wbat is true Of the Mckinley
bill and The great group Of gigantic
monopoIIss which have mainly
grown out Of it is true also Of the
reckless pension legislation which /
followed it. IL money found its /
own way into the treasury it would |
still bc wicked to vote it ia the 1
name Of the nation, under the pre-
tense Of rewarding gallant service in
Tho war, to vast mum bors Of people /
Who had never entitled themselves
% the gratitude Of the nation.
"But the Wickedncss Of such le-
yislation is far more apparent when
{ is remembered that every dollar
10 voted involves q distinct dimi-
lution Of the wages OF labor and
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