Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1894-01-18

! tha RoK-BOToM.
The silver agitation is forever
settled and no longer trubles our peple.
The tariff reform will pas into history
as a relief to millions who's poketbook
is always almost emty, and who's
wants ar many and pressing. Our
mills, factories and prodnctiv interests
will flurish as never befor, as natures
bouutiful supply is untaxt. Under the
reform laws the peple ma buy OF the
old Regular dollar and quarters
worth for dollar, tho if they hapen
to have a Raqeter in the place sew
enty cents vii capture that Identical
| item.
The odius intolerabl Mckinley bill
was not American-iI was simply
"devlish' device to enrich the classes
at the xpens Of the masses.
The silver scare alarmed the peple,
who lokt up the big bulk OF the
mony, but the odius and opresiv tarif
Impoverished the vast masses 10 po-
tect little band of hiwa ROBBERS cald
monopolists. Now the wage erner
can get al that dollar vii fetch, tho
if tha watch the enthusiast OF the
Rouss System tina ina often gather in
for haf dollar Duty fre on the raw
and crude also givs to our manufac-
tories vast opportunities TO multiply
and magnify. Insted Of importing
we shall xport, and the Who'll world
vii be our market. The present re-
strictions contine our trade almost
xclusivly to our own couutry-les than
seventy millions. Under the coming
laws we shal hav an eQal chance with
other nations at al the peple OF the
earth-fourteen hundred millions
Just imagin the agresiy and enter
prisiug chosen children rumaging
thru the very hart of Darkest Afri-
ca" selling their nekties and suspenders
10 the nativ, naked, savage, blak
barbarans God OF heven Al our
prple want is fair, even chance with
all the nations of the world, and who
ever knu the American 70 get left? As
with nations so with Individuals.
The oldtimers dampend the ardor
of the enthusiast Of the Modern
Methods" by whispering into his ear,
for his special information, that ther
was no mony in al that section,
that it was wel-known that ArhanSaw
was hard State anyway, and that
in the Who'll cuntry Searcy was the
very tuf st town! His name was
LOVE aud it stagerd him, and he tel
egraft: Shall / risk it?' The anser
was: That's yor battlefield; jump
in at once it's twenty-percent iron
law of the Rouss System" The next
da the stranger was record-smasher
Of the frmest creed, and the Who'll
country for miles and miles had herd
of him and his matches sledgham-
ers.
The felo walked into the offs xpres.
ing desire to Sc the proprietor OF
$40, and simply sed: I'm the man"
He broke out in cuntry laf and sed:
"Ure the third man in this hous that
told ne the same thing; however,
whoever U ar, perhaps U can sci me
a good thing to put in my windo to
draw trade; Sc U make fine show
in yor large front. l don't want no
jumping. jacks or dancing tigurs; tha're
played out" l told him, among other
things, ther wer thre that wud choke
up his stor in half an our. He kept
his word. and thes wer the thre piles
and tickets that made him forget
that he had ever heard of hard
times"-?4 sheets Of note paper. IA rotcs
of Addmdntine pins, paper Of the best
nedleS. each pile laoled ONE CENT. The
mony seemd to cum down out OF
heven. Thos thre insignificant, sim
pie things Of evry da use had in one
single da changed his Who'll life-tha
had swept his stor Of many q dollar OF
other goods that had become rusty
and dusty under the old hard times
Of unfair profit; at twenty percent tba
went with the cyclone. Thre years
ago in the cornfeld at dollar a da;
now one of the most progresiv OF al
our army of successful representatives.
A genuin twenty percenter Of the
cash down creed is this master OF
Modern Methods-Wllson of Green
burg, Pa.
Yes indeed, it will be fun TO Sc thes
splendid fellows cut and slash into
sausage meat the hitarifer OF Mckin-
ley after the neat, clever, carving
down Of the Wilson bill. BILLY Will
SON! Not an ablrr. brainier man in
the councils Of the nation and a purer
patriot never lived. Wei cum TO
think of it, we wer both in the same
company in the rebel army shootin
YANKEES aud YANKEES shootin Us. at
twelve dollars q month and whisky n
thousand dollars a gallon,
The ritter goes thru some / 800 let
ters every da, SuDda included; qnik
glanc tells the story-the twenty-five
pretendsr gruuts at the hard times,
which means that he is an imitation;
in reality, getting al he can, aud the
sharpshooters are cutting him to pices.
The great majority of them lead OF
with a single word to ther order,
Bush" tha are the genuin twenty
FIVE percent. spot-cashers and ther
letters are often 80 chock ful OF con-
centrated vim and push and drive that
a fellow has to jump over half dOzrn
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