Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1895-02-27
Rockingham Railroad Meeting.

A month ago we noticed the meeting
held IN Harrisonburg at the January
County Court on the proposition. to
raise $150,000 by individual subscrip
ton to ensure the passage of new
railro ad through that county from
Elkton to Bridgewater by way of Har-
risonburg, in which we gave the names
of those who made speeches on that
occasion. AT the February Court
Monday of last week-another meeting
for the same purpose was held, al
which Ex-senator John Acker pre-
sided and speeches were made by Geo
H. Hulvey, County Supt. of Schools
Prof. j. N. Fries, of Dayton, DR.. E. A.
Herring, Geo. n. Earman, w. H. Rick
ard, Hon. Geo. B Keezell, George
Chrisman, and W. H. Ride nour, who
offered the following resolution. which
was unanimously adopted =
ResotUed-That we, the citizens OF
Rockingham county, reiterate the
sentiment expressed in mass meeting
at January county court favoripg the
acceptance of the railroad proposition
now under consideration, and woulo
urge all our people to use their best
endeavOrs TO secure subscriptions 10
the amount of $l5O.0O0 within the
period specified in said proposition
The Price Of Sugar Raised.
Apparently encouraged by the OBJ
az ron r, la or I h.
Senate to prevent the passage of the
House bill repeating the differentiaI
duty of one tenth of cent per pound
on sugar imported from bounty-paying
countries. the Sugar Trust has prompt
Iy raised the price of sugar to con
sumers.
On Tuesday the Trust ordered an ad
vance in prices. The increase is cents
per hundred pounds on cut loaf
crushed, powdered, granulated and.
altogether, twenty one out of twenty
nine varieties of its refined sugars =
Consumers must now pay the Trust at
least 81 Is per hundred more than
English refiners charge. If Congress
adjourns without repeating the differ
entail duties on sugar. the Trust will
be securely intrenched in a position to
force all consumers to pay at least
81 25 more per hundred pounds than
refined sugar costs in foreign markets.
On account of our proximity to the
chief sugar growing countries, all re-
fined sugars ought to be cheaper in the
United States than in England. But
they never will be so while we have a
protective tariff-N. Y. Herald.
Even if the Senate were to pass
free coinage bill. what could that body
do with it? We all know what the
President would do, and we suspect
that the House is far from willing to
follow the Senate's lead. Mr.. Jones
victory is, after all. a very barren
victory. even assuming that the vote
on the passage of the bill we're as de-
cisive as the vote making it The special
order. And unless the republicans go
back upon their pledges, a free coinage
bill would not stand the ghost of a
chance in the 54th Congress. But next
year is the Presidential year, and the
may, after all, eat their
professions of devotion to honest
and bodily go over to the
white metal camp for the sake of the
votes they would gain. Reeds coin
bond scheme was the entering wedge.
With the disastrous result of the re
cent Brooklyn strike yet before their
ewes, the electrical workmen in New
York, just across the river, have now
gone on a strike, and the walking dele
gates of that city threaten to make a
sympathetic strike of it, in which all
the other trades in that city will take
part. No matter how much a striker
may be brayed, he will be striker
still Strikers seem to be incapable of
even learning the plain lesson taught
by hard personal experience.-Alec.
Gazette