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The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1894-09-01
No Staunede

The figures of the recent elections
in Tennessee and Alabama do not
sustain the view that democrats are
this fall going to jump out of the
frying pan into the fire by voting the
republican ticket or not voting at
all. In Tennessee the total vote was
unusually large-276,477, as against
264,9 1928 in the presidential election
of 1892. In that year 136,477 votes
were cast for Cleveland, but this year
the democratic Judicial ticket-a
ticket less likely to bring out a full
vote-received las, I5S votes. Nor
is fusion a success in Tennessee as
against a straightout democracy.
In 1892 Harrison and Weaver had
together 1913, 1896 votes, the republi-
cans and populists having separate
tickets. This year the two opposi-
ton parties fused in the confident
hope of sweeping things. Democrats,
Disguised with the failure to pass
speedily a tariff bill, protectionist
democrats, republicans and popu-
lists would make, it was believed, an
ample majority for the fusion candi-
dates. The actual result is MAORI
ty of 1859 votes for the democratic
candidate. Yet Tennessee is a state
in which the republicans could hope
to win this year if any where in the
South
In Alabama fusion scored like
failure, though assisted by the con
tributions of Senator Hoar, the Phil
adelphia protectionists and other ex.
ponents of lofty political morality.
The Kolb movement was a grand Cd.
portunity for the alleged numerous
democratic protectionists of Ala
bama to show their disapproval OF
President Cleveland's administra
ton. Their tenderness for the Nc.
Kinley tariff on ore and coal made
them susceptible to the offers of the
Home Market Club, and fusion
seemed to present the very opportu-
nifty they desired for a demonstra.
ton. But on election day the tariff
lords of Alabama, along with the re-
publicans and Kolb populists, were
"snowed under" The lesson in Ala.
bama, as in Tennessee, is that dem
ocratic impotence under the delay
Of relief from McKinleyism does no,
go to the length of voting the pro
tectionist ticket.
There is further lesson-that flu
sion does not pay. This has beer
learned to their cost by the demo
Gratis of number of States in
the Northwest. This year, accord
ingly, there is to be no fusion of the
democrats and populists in North
Dakota. The policy of managers OF
the congressional campaign is to dis
courage fusion everywhere, on the
ground that fusion obecures demo
cratic principles and at the same
time lessons the number of demo
Gratis elected. Few populists can b,
elected, it is believed, if republicans
and democrats both decline to lend
them votes. Sun.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1894-09-01
Resumption Business Circles.

1t was not expected that the gen
eral business revival would follow so
quickly after the settlement of the,
tariff question, as has been the case
but it is highly gratifying fact that
the reports coming from every d.
rection-not alone in this State, but
in the country at large-give glow
ing account of the upward turn in
the trade and industrial situation.
In the Pittsburg end of the State,
as well as in some of the central
counties and the Schuylkill Valley,
iron furnaces that have been long
time idle, or in operation under the
halftime principle, are now running
under full hours and with full com
plements of men. The extensive
Reading shops at Reading, the
Pennsylvania Steel Works near Har-
risburg along with similar plants at
Bethlehem and Scranton, have re-
sumed on full time, and throughout
the Pittsburg section every iron and
steel mill, along with the glass fac
tories, is enjoying veritable boom.
No condition in the circles of in
dustry could be more gratifying
than this, nor can the welcome be
too generous. Close upon the gen.
eral revival, which will increase rap
idly from day to day as soon as man
ufacturers and business men know
just how to adjust their concerns to
the new tariff schedule, the hard and
soft coal fields and the coke regions
of the State are beginning to share
in the general resumption.
Altogether the fall trade opens
with every prospect for great results
and with the markets down to the
boards and the demand general, ev-
cry line Of industry and trade will
share in the great business revival
just begun.-Times.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1894-09-01

From all sections of the country
come announcements of the revival
of business. 1t comes in spite of
the calamity howlers and will soon
be plain enough to everybody. The
calamity howlers will then be out
Job. In discussing this matter the
Philadelphia Times says:
The rising tide of business pros
perity, visible every where except in
the New England cotton manufac-
tories, is putting the calamity howl
ers to their wits ends. They have
predicted the destruction of all pros
perity as the result of the passage
of a reform tariff bill, and now that
the bill is certain to become law,
with every indication that business
is to improve from the very day it
goes into effect, they are furnishing
all sorts of queer and absurd expla-
nations for the failure of their pro
phecies. Only the New York Tri
hume OF all the list of calamity or
gans has had the manliness to own
up that the business tide has turned
for the better and that the settle
ment OF the tariff question is the
cause of renewed business conf
dence.
Thefimproyed business conditions
which exist in defiance of calamity
theories, are certain to compel ca
lamity partisan bowlers everywhere
to admit that prosperity 10 return-
ing and the sooner all fall into line
behind the Tribune and prophecy IN
cheerful vein the sooner will they re-
establish reputation for being able
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1894-09-01

Gazette" In its statement Of sn in
crease by the Crisp congress over
the billion congress OF 100000 600 is
only ont of the way $63,7s7.s79,
which is quite moderate for that en-
terprising journal
Chairman Savers also shoxs that
$65, 723, AL of the appropriations
made by the Crisp congress, as above
stated, we're necessitated by the prof
ligate legislation of the Reed billion
congress. The Republicans of the
Reed congress, to fasten their extrav-
agance on the government, passed
what are known as continuing appro-
priations-the sugar bounty, for in
stance.
The Gazette" demagogues that
the appropriations of the late SEES
sion were S29, 100000 less than last
years appropriations in the matter
of pensions, and therefore Democrat
ic economy was at the expense of
sthe old soldiers" Great scott, how
small and pitiful this is. Has not
the Gazette" in common with all
papers, recorded the fact that the
pension appropriations have reached
their maximum, and are now on the
decline? That is something every
taxpayer should rejoice over. But
comparing the pension appropria-
tions of the Reed congress first ses-
sion with those of the session that
has just closed, the official figures
are as follows:
Reed congress-pensions 1928, 799, sos
Crisp congress-pcnsions Isl, 5S1, $40
So that in pensions, instead Of the
Crisp congress falling behind the
Reed congress so many millions, as
the Gazette would have inferred,
the first session of the Crisp con
gress appropriated for pensions $27,-
500, POP more than the first session
of the Reed congress.
The maximum of pension appro-
priations in the history of our own
government, or any government on
the Lords footstool, was reached at
the second session of the fifty second
congress-1S93 Of and was $780,
6S1, 074. OF this amount some $15,-
was covered into the treasury as I'M
necessary, which caused the esti.
mates epd appropriations for the
current fiscal year to be cut down to
$151, 800, 900.
Ofall the Liliputian demagogism
we have ever heard of the Gazette
is entitled to the premium in its eff
fort to make political capital of the
fact that by death and the decrease
of applications the pension appro-
priations have passed the maximum
and are now on the descending scale.
General Garfield promised this in
1878 in reporting Il pension bill that
called for an expenditure of only
$35, 900, O00.-Post
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1894-09-01


The Monongalia Teachers Insti.
tute, opened on Monday with a good
attendance, and a propitious outlook
for weeks exercises.
1t is needless for us to add that it
was not only good attendance but
OF good teachers. No more faithful
and efficient body of teachers as
sembles in the State than that
which gathers annually in Mononga-
liza county. They are an intelligent
cultivated, and earnest body of men
and women.
1t will pay our people to use the
opportunity which is open to all, to
look in upon the exercises of the In
stitute. We are confident they will
bring something away from each
session well worth the storing away
in mental pigeon hole.
The Institute is under charge Of
Profs. Armstrong and Wade-two
experienced and able instructors
which is the absolute assurance
that it will be entertaining and prof
liable.
Welcome this elf-sacrificing
hard working, immensely useful
body of teachers, to our town; trust
ing that the hospitality, and warm
interest Of our people may make a
weeks stay among us, not only prof
liable but remain as green spot in
their memory which it may be pleas.
ant hereafter to recall.
Pull the latch string of the New
DOMINION Office, Ladies and Gentle
men-it is on the outside.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1894-09-01

The Wilson tariff law went into
effect on Tuesday at midnight and is
now the law of the land. President
Cleveland refused to sign it and al
lowed it to become law without his
signature. Although it is not what
the country wanted, it is infinitely
better than the Ubiquitous Mckinley
law and will afford great measure
of relief to the people
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1894-09-01

to see and understand what is as
plain as day to every body else. The
manufacturer whose. works are run
ming on full time TO fill orders, the
employees whose wages are regularly
paid, the merchants whose counters
are thropged with buyers, the rail-
ways whose cars are crowded with
merchandise or passengers and the
farmers who are harvesting bounti-
full crops, cannot be made to believe
that calamity conditions still pre-
vail, no matter what organs and
politicians say.
And these are just the conditions
that are giving the lie to the calami-
ty croakers every day. The improv-
ed business conditions are showing
themselves even in advance of the
opening of the usual fall season,
while, in fact, many of the business
men are still lingering at the sum
mer resorts. Business men know
that a stable business foundation
has been reached in the settlement
of the tariff question, while all the
other conditions of reviving trade,
such as depleted stocks of manu-
featured goods, excellent crops and
an easy money market, are in exis-
tence.
This greater business confidence
is in the air, it is in the quicker and
more confident pace at which men go
about their daily work, it is in the
grasp of their hands when they meet
friends and it is plainly registered
in the larger orders for merchandise
which are being placed with manu-
facturers and wholesalers. The APP
parent fact that business revival
of healthy proportions will run over
the calamity howlers in little while
in spite of their most frantic efforts
to stay its coming should induce
them to face about and turn in with
their confident neighbors to herald
and hail its coming Calamity
bowling has had its day, now let the
calamity-howlers turn sensible and
become heralds of hope. They will
be the happier Tor it and their
Deighbors will like them the better.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1894-09-01
Debs stands Revealed.

ting the recent railway strike has
done the public service in securing
an admission from Debs, the strike
leader, that the ordinary processes
of law as administered by the courts
put an end to this unlawful obstruc-
tion of the country's business.
When Debs was lorGing it over the
internal commerce of the United
States, ordering workmen to stop
work everywhere until the travelling
public would submit to the Debs
should ride in, he imagined himself
superior to courts, law and even the
army and navy of the United States,
but low that he has had time to get
revised measure of himselfhe owns
| up that courts and law were too
many for him.
OF course Debs thinks laws and
courts which compel Debs and his
riotous followers to allow other peo-
pie to go about their business in an
orderly way are the instruments of
tyranny and should be abolished.
He supplemented his testimony adj
hitting the supremacy of the courts
in the late strike with short dec
laration containing three articles of
the Debs creed. Il believe in gov
eminent ownership of the railways,
| believe in abolishing the wage sys-
TEN, / believe in co operative Com
monwealth," said the strike leader.
Probably if asked to give his creed
in full he would have added: II be-
lieve in abolishing government,
courts and law" anG several add
tional tenets of faith of like ua-
ture
The Importance of this declara-
ton Of the Debs faith before the
commission, made in GOODNESS and
deiiberation and without heat or ex-
citement, is that it reveals Debs in
his true colors as man out of sym
pathy With and in open antagonism
to the American system of govern
ment. Instead of the government of
law founded by Washington and his
associates, designed to protect every
man in his rights and privileges so
far as they do not infringe upon the
rights and privileges of others, Debs
would introduce Communistic
form of government which should
try to do everything for every body,
leaving neither opportunity nor in
centive to individual effort or devel-
opment.
Debs could have done the public
no,greater service than to reveal him
self and his aspirations in their true
light. In his declaration before the
commission he ranks himself with
the class of the half baked foreign
theorists, who have imported them
selves into this country With the
avowed purpose of trying TO convince
the American people that their sys
TEN Of government is all wrong. 1t
is true Debs just escaped being
foreigner by birth, but he has i'm
bibed the cardinal principles of for
eign Socialism and to all intents
and purposes might just as well have
been born in Continental Europe
Real Americans will be thankful
that he is no longer masquerading
under false colors, but that he stands
confessed the real Communist that
he is. And they will be quite as
thankful for his reluctant testimony
to the effectiveness of the courts in
defeating a well-organized attempt
to override all law and place the bus
mess and convenience of sixty five
millions of people at the mercy of
few enemies of all government
Times.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1894-09-01
What Caused the Hard Times

',."" ehO "a liuCss
Conductor and Driver.
Judge Hubbard, of Iowa. SAYS it
is the existence of private corpora
tions.
George Gould says it is the hos
tility to corporations.
The farmer says it is the low price
in wheat
The silver man says it is the ac-
tion of Wall street.
Wall street says it is the action of
the silver men.
The manufacturer says it is the
fear of free trade
The debtor says it is the creditor.
The consumers SAYS it is the tariff
The creditor saws it is the debtor.
The Democrats say it is the Re
puhlicans.
The Republicans say it is the
Democrats.
The Populists say it is both.
The Prohibitionists say it is whis-
key.
The preachers say it is the devil
Now, what is your idea?
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1894-09-01

The Pittsburg Gazette" in some
loose figures founded on speech
made by the unsavory Joe" Cannon,
of Illinois, alleges that in the matter
of expenditures 1.-The Crisp congress
exceeded the billion dollar aggre-
gate of the billion Tor Reed) con
gress by about $60,000,00O." The
present congress is the only one in
which the Democrats have had a
majority in both branches, and we
are not boasting much of that ma
jority l. the senate. Therefore the
proper comparison to make is the
appropriation made by the first ses
sion of the Fifty third congress COM
pared with the appropriations By
the first session of the Reed con.
gress, popularity known as the billion
congress. Mr.. Sayers, the chair
man OF the committee on appropria-
tions of the house, prints in the
Congressional Record" as an APP
pendix TO his speech on the subject
of appropriations, reviewing recent
history, an official tabular statement
which Completely oyerthrows the
"Gazette's" statement. The totals
are as follows: Reed congress, first
session -$494. 456, 24S Crisp congress
tirst session $430. 666, 369.
According 70 the official data, the
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1894-09-01


Merchants who sell playing cards
should note the following facts: The
new tariff law imposes a tax of two
cents on every pack of playing cards
in the hands of manufacturers or
dealers and on every pack manufac
tured after the law goes into effect.
1t also provides penalty of $50 for
the sale Of every pack of cards after
the law becomes operative without
twoeent stamp attached Every one
who has playing cards intended for
sale is required to forward to the in
ternal revenue collector Of the dis
tfiet 10 which he does business a
sworn statement Of the number Of
packs q cards be has on hand the
day the bIil becomes . Law.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1894-09-01
In speaking of the nrooress IF

In speaking of the progress of
Morgantown one might refer to the
advance in the value of property.
One gentleman who owns As feet
fronting on Main street that he
bought over 20 years ago at 500 a
foot has several times of late refused
$3.50 a foot for the same property.
And the property pays good in
terest on the above valuation.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1894-09-01

The enforcement of the law by
Speaker Crisp in docking absent
congressman has resulted in saving
$4,000 to the Government. Under
Democratic rule extravaganza is
checked wherever possible.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1894-09-01

Silas B. Davis has bought the
Clarksburg News and gives promise
of making it great power for good.
The first issue under his editorship
was that of last week and it was ex-
cellent.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1894-09-01

While we are complaining in West
Virginia the West is burning up.
The worst failare of crops ever
known in this state is not to be
compared with the present situation
in many western states. Many peo-
pie are on the verge of starvation
there, yet we have plenty and to
spare here.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1894-09-01
Republican Party Depending
Upon ldlenesS and Dis
treSS for Success.

The Republican party this day ba
SEES all its hopes Of 1894 and 1896 on
the continued depression of business.
In the whole history of politics it is
the first time that any great party
ever welcomed hunger. nakedness
and enforced idleness as allies-Hon
Champ Clark, of Missouri, before
Young Mems Democratic Society,
of New York.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1894-09-01
Democrats Must Not Make Mistake

To the Editor of the New DOMINION:
The Democratic party in National
Convention said that tariff bill like
the one just passed by Congress lis
a fraud"
The Democratic party at the polls
said the same thing.
Therefore don't let the Democrat
ic party go into the campaign this
Fall defending that bill, or calling
it Democratic tariff. A protective
tariff is as much of fraud now as
it was two years ago; and the sole
difference between the Wilson bill
and the Mckinley bill is one of de-
gree. If the Mckinley bill was
fraud, from Democratic stand
point, so is the Wilson bill.
If there was not courage or consis-
tency enough in Congress to carry
out Democratic pledges, neverthe-
less the people can still be courage
Gus and consistent at the polls.
When this Democratic fraud was
being forced upon the House by
eowardly Democrats, Rep. johnson,
of Ohio-an honest Democrat and
also one of the largest manufsctur-
ers in the country, said:
"The responsibility for this mock
cry of our pledges which this House
is now about to endorse cannot be
shifted upon few men.
"That we are about to go back to
our constituents giving a stone where
we had promised bread, that party
brought into power in overwhelming
victory has ny en- so soon covered
with shame, is !, ee primarily to Mr..
CfeUeland, ana seconddst1y to the
Ways and Means Committee of this
House, Which has, / doubt not, act
ed from first to last IN .fuH sympa
thy Nth him. Here is the story in
brief:
From the very first the Ways
and Means Committee showed that
it did not want to carry out Demo
cratic pledges; that it did not want
to give us a revenue tariff bill. In
stead of presenting to us brief,
clear bill, eschewing protection and
aiming only at the raising of reve-
nue., the committee smade the fatal
mistake OF taking as their model for
the framing Of bill the Mckinley
act itself; the very measure we had
promised to wipe off the statute
books. The inevitable consequence
was that they brought into the
House Republican bill, Protec-
zionist bill. an evasion of promise
and political blunder of the gravest
kind; confession that the Demo
cratic party lacks courage and hon
esty.
Their bill did not begin to be as
radical measure as the House even
then was prepared to adopt, but hav-
ing behind it the advantages of or
ganization and the enormously pow
erful support of the Administration,
it was rammed down the throats Of
of Democratic members of Congress
who wanted to carry out Democrat
ic pledges.
Every Democrat who reads the pa
pers knows that this is the bottom
truth.
Nevertheless, we hear many Dem
ocrats talking as if they were re
sponsible for the Mongrel bill just
passed, and have to defend it in the
coming campaign.
If they do, the people will repudi-
ate both the bill and them.
The people have asked for Dem
ocratic tariff.
They haven't got it-yet.
AN OLD FASHIONED DEMOCRAT.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1894-09-01

With John A. Howard in the First,
VIM. L. Wilson in the Second, John
D. Anderson in the Third, and James
Capehart in the Fourth district, as
the democratic nominees for con-
gress West Virginia will again have
solid delegation. Contrast these
men with the Doodle nominees of the
republicans.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1894-09-01

One of the most indecent abuses
of privileges is that of the Congress
sional Record by senators and rep
resentatives. Senator Quay recently
occupied 226 pages of the Record
with speech that was for no
other purpose than to consume the
time of the Senate and obstruct the
passage of the tariff bill.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1894-09-01

Some of the lying papers and poll
ticians that are trying to make it ap-
pear that this congress spent more
money than Reeds should go off and
kick themselves.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1894-09-01

The North American Review for
September contains, among other
timely papers, three valuable arti-
cles on the relations of "China and
japan in Korea written by three
men specially qualified to deal with
the question: The Hon. Augustine
Heard, late United States Minister
to Korea; Durham White Stevens,
Counselor of the Japanese Legation
at Washington, and Howard Mar
tin, exSecretary of the United States
Legation at Pekin.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1894-09-01

A few days ago in the Senate, when
permission was sought for the ex.
penditure of a few thousand dollars
to enable a couple of committees to
seek relaxation and information dur
ing the recess by making long
trans continental trip, with the nee
essary adjuncts, Senator Camden OBJ
jected on the score of its being a
costly and unnecessary junketing
tour,--inexcnsable in the present
financial condition CT the treasury.
The project was abandoned.