Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1892-12-23

Gb, Sbspbsrasto6n Ssgisttr.
n. L. SNYDER, Editor and Proprietor,
sHRFHKRpsrowN, w. VA.
FRIDAY, DECEMBER %, 1892.
WE think the victims will not get
the spoils next administration.
CONGRESS has been actively en-
gagged in doing nothing nearly all
this month.
THE man who has gotten fat
Mace himself generally thinks it quite
rude for other folks to seek office.
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IL Santa Claus could drop few
postoffices into the Christmas stock
ing he would be more popular than
ever.
HELEN GOULD will have an income
of two hundred dollars a day. She
can have pie at every meal II she
wants to.
Ir is said that the Prince of Wales
will visit the United States next sum
mer. Heaven help him if he falls in
tothe clutches OF Chicago.
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THE Republicans have only been in
four years, but they have made mole
hill out of the mountainous surplus
that the Democrats left in the treasu-
ry. -
Ir is more than likely that new
sources of revenue will have to be
provided by Congress next year. The
proposition TO levy an additional tax
on whiskey strikes us as being just
the right thing.
SOMEONE has started report that
Mr.. Cleveland will make Senator Da-
vid b. Hill Secretary of State. This
would be about as sensible as the ac-
ton of the old rooster that once in
vited hungry fox to spend a week
i'm the family hen house.
THE most infamous piece of bus
mess Of the age is reported from
Chicago. The management of the
worlds fair has sold to syndicate
the privilege Of placing three thous-
and urinals upon the exposition
grounds. Comment is indelicate-
and unnecessary.
WE have not yet heard mentioned
the name of any person who is better
qualified to be speaker of the House
of Delegates than our own MIR. Dan
bridge. There was no candidate from
the eastern panhandle on the Demo
cratic State ticket. 1t would be the
graceful thing to give us the speaker
ship.
WE think the worlds fair at Chi
cago ought to be opened on Sunday
in the interest of morality. The Wis
itors AMI home people will be subject
to less temptations and will get into
far less deviltry at the exposition
than they will if thrown upon their
own resources in the wickedest and
greediest city in the United States.
A FEW newspapers-a very few
have been fighting the pension hum
bug good many years. The REGIS
TER has been one Of them, and month
in and month out has had its little
say on this subject. The newspapers
now that are calling for an abatement
of the evil are legion, though most of
them are rather late in joining the
procession.
TIE people of Canada are discuss
ing very serio, sly the question of cut
ting loose from England and joining
themselves to the United States. 1t
is only a matter of time until the
whole of North America shall be uni
ted in one government over which the
stars and stripes shall float, and the
good work may as well begin now as
at any other time.
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IT is said that there are two hun
dred thousand completed cases on
the files in the pension Office at Wash
ington, but that the President and
his cabinet have forbidden the isSu-
ance Of the certificates for the simple
reason that there is not money enough
in the treasury to pay them. Nearly
all Of them are granted under the de-
pendent disability act-an act which
ought to be promptly repealed.
THE Worlds Fair commissioners
will doubtless come before the Legis-
lature of West Virginia for more
money at its next session. Not one
cent should be granted them. Not
one mite Of encouragement should
be given to the rascally managers -
we mean the Chicago end of the con-
cern-who are arranging to run the
great fair as the most outrageous
plucking machine the world has ever
known.
THE Blaine family complain very
bitterly that the newspapers have
published sensational reports Of Mr..