The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1894-05-02

noor. Its refrain Is that We are
not asking for anything for our
but We are very fearful for
our poor employees. What hy-
at this very hour, per-
haps, in tho State of Pennsylvania,
with more protection than any
country ever had, a mob of foreign
ers-Huns, Poles, Italians, apauper
laborers of Europe" imported by
those protected industries to take
the place of and drive out our
American workmen-are burning
aud destroying properly and re-
fusing to allow men to work who
are willing. Hero is the real love
they bear the American workmen
that we hear so much about.
/ desire to have read the follow
ing extract from Pittsburg news
paper on the 2sth of this month:
Fear More Riots-Mansfield Coal
Region Under Arms-A Miners
Meeting To-day The People
Awaiting its Results with Dread
Rioters Spread Devastation
Two Works Burned and Great
Damage Done to Others-Bead-
ling Brothers Defend Their Tip
Pile with Winchesters-On Rioter
Killed and About Dozen Injured
"A Force of Deputies Under
Sheriff Richards and a Posse of
Citizens Capture Sixteen of the
Mob-They are Lodged in the
Pittsburg Jail-The Rioters are
Huns, Slavs, Italians and French
men-Probably One Hundred
Thousand Dollars Worth of Prop
erty Destroyed-Armed Deputies
and Citizens Patrol the Region.
If American workmen will not
work for the wages they offer him
the employer sends to Europe for
some OF its "pauper labor" which
they have taken good care to retain
on the "free list" Yet every day
we hear the ssme old whine "that
we will ruin the wages of American
workmen." 1t is nauseating and
disgusting beyond measure.
Mr.. Chairman, represent an ag
ricultural district of more than 200,
600 inhabitants that polled more
than $4,000 votes in 1892, people
who were prosperous and happy
until the blight of high protection
fell upon them. When L was young
the man in my country who had
money to loan was generally the
farmer.
AS a class, prior to 1873, the
farmers were very prosperous and
independent, but after that date,
when silver was demonetized and
tariff for protection became the rule
no thrift, no economy, no skimping
and saving could avail to stem the
tide ofadversity which has brought
our farmers from their proud po-
sition of independence to one in
which they can eke out but scant
subsistence. Bowed down with
taxes and debts, he no longer has a
dollar to loan, his credit gone, his
lands deprecated so per cent OF
more in value, and this during the
period of highest protection; he can
see no hope for bettering his con-
dition unless some part of the great
burdens now borne by him can be
shifted to the shoulders of those who
profted by his misfortune, whe
have grown fat on the taxes he has
been paying to every conceivable
monopoly. These farmers turned
out my Republican predecessor and
sent me here TO aid in righting this
great wrong. They are in favor oi
an income tax. They believe it to
be Democratic and right that those
who have vast interests depending
upon the protection of the laws
should lot be exempt from the bur.
dens of Government, which should
be borne as nearly as possible by
each, according to his ability.
Mr.. Chairman, 1 speak to the far
mers and their interests and condi-
tions, because 1 am on familiar
ground. I know all about the far
mers of my section, because 1 am
one of them. I was born and rear.
ed on the farm that 1 have cultivat.
cd all my life, and when gentlemen
on the other side tell me that farms
have not declined in value, that the
farmers condition is better than il
was, 1 know it to be untrue. Mr..
Hopkins of Illinois gives glowing
description of the farmers in hi.
district; he says that they weal
white shirts and have carriages with
tops; another Republican tells III
that farmers have glass windows
in their houses, whereas in the time
of Daniel Boone they had none
All of these oantleman saam n