West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1894-01-04

Our GAINESVILLE Correspondent Gives
the Republicans Some hard
Nuts to Crack.
CnANEsyrLIE, Jan. i. 1894.

our DumOfc Two listed scribe
had the pleasure OF taking holi-
day trip to Pittsburg. Pa, and was
indeed very agreeably surprised to
learn that the city and surround
ings were not in the poverty strick-
en- condition that our Protection
lists (?1 have been representing it to
be, but. on the contrary, we did
not see single extinct coke oven,
but found them all In full blast,
and the iron works in the same
state of action. Dir. Carnegie's
works were running twenty-four
hours day, and most all the iron
works were in the same condition.
or course a very small per cent. OF
some kinds of works were dormant,
We defy anyone to mention time
VIXEN some works among so many
are not idle.
was several times on Market st.
and found it jammed full of wagons
ladened with grain, fruits, meat,
eggs and butter. Eggs were retail
ing at 80 cents per dozen. butter at
30 cents per pound, and bacon at
from Ia to 18 cents per pound, and
other things in proportion. which
surpassed anything that ever we
knew in the boosted Republican
times of teasts (') To besure. wheat
was selling little lower than the
normal price, yet it was but little,
and corn was selling at four times
what 1T sold at in the western cities
just four years ago in those times
of corn and wine. / talked to a
man (Mr. Van Fossln) who has
dealtln Xmas trees at this place for
twenty-five years, and he reports
that during the holidays he sold
three carloads of trees at an ad-
vauced price, and found the trade
more active than ever he knew it
before.
We also noticed that there was an
increased line of steamers running
from New Orleans to Pittsburg in
terchanging the tropical and tenn
perate products.
After noticing these things, j re.
fiected on the time when | was at
Pittsburg just nine years previous
when could not pause on corner
without being approached by beg
gar, and | am glad to say, that
during my stay this time ! saw no
one ask for aims single time.
But alas am at home again,
and the we'll meaning Republicans
of this place seem to think that the
cities are nothing more than den
of hungry beggars. They don't
seem to reflect on the facts that
most all of the farmers produc-
tions are selling at an unusual high
figure, and still we hear the cry of
panic. When the people get good
price for all their products, what
more do they want? Can it be-
that they want "Unclc Sam" to
come and feed them, to give them
money and avert the droughts or
cause the cattle dealers to give them
$40 for 1000 ID steer and feed
him two tons of $40 hay and $40
worth Of pasture, and then sell him
for perhaps $50 Ia this kind of
a transaction he would make $40
on the steer, but lose on the feed
1t would be little like the AmerI-
can people paying two and half
times as much for imported wool as
other nations do, and at the same
time try to compete in sales of wool
EN- products by reducing the rr.ce
Of labor.
We do not know why the Mar
guess correspondent SO often refers
to those times of AZ. Why does
he not refer to the panic of rs,
when there were quite number Of
soup houses in the cities for the
sole purpose of keeping the poor
from gong to hungry grave.
In the year 1879, five years prior
to the first reign of the father Of
Ruth 4 Co., ETC., your humble
scribe, with all the rest Of the daily
laborers, was compelled to work IN
The harvest fields at fifty cents q
day, yet this was protection.
We now close by giving final
adieu to the so-called protection.
You have gone about as q roaring
lion and devourcd many. Yop
have torn the wooden shirt from the
/ tabOrer'g back You have fonoLt