West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1895-12-19
CKANEsyILLE.
Correspondence OF the Argus.

Correspondence or the Argus.
Clinton Sanders is on the sick list.
DIR. Grant Martin, of Oakland, is
selling our people spectacles.
NJ. w. Sanders, of Hazelton, was
calling at this place Saturday and
Sunday.
wallus Browning had the misfortune
of fracturing one of his legs during the
past week
quite business at this place canvasing
kitchen cabinet
DIR. Durham is preparing to leave
our town and locate at German. We
regret To lose so good a physician and
citizen.
III. Il. Lewis, who lives across the
State line about two miles from this
place, was lately appointed Justice of
the Peace, which is very convenient for
our near neighbors over in Garrett
county.
Our little town will be well repre-
scented at court this week. Men like
children, must sometimes quarrel lit
tie and then call upon larger people to
settle the dispute, and often times in
so doing they get badly welted.
True love does not always run
smooth by any means" This assertion
was lately illustrated in our little town
by a good natured, good looking, stout
young man offering to whip both his
father and intended father-in-law's
families for making some interference
with his eonjugal affairs.
Congress is again In session and our
people are again talking high tariff so
much that the smafl boys are wonder.
ing why our merchants do not make
the countrymen pay a duty on produce
before bringing II into town. They
say it would do IL this was the only
available town but otherwise we would
all have to starve. They are right
and IL il would have this influence in a
town, why not have the same ia a po-
litical division. 1t is estimated that we
ship in the shape of cattle, beef, pork,
corn, wheat, flour and cotton To Eng
land to the amount OF $780, 600, 900 worth
annually and 1916, 100000 worth 20
other countries of the same products.
All of which we must depend on selling
in other counties and were we To legis-
late in way that would annihilate
this trade we would be ruined in one
year as nation of farmers. The ques-
tion now is how can we hold this
trade Can we expect TO hold il by n
tariff that will drive foreign commerce
to other places? Can we expect other
nations TO sell their products elsewhere
| and bring us their gold and silver ?
Can we hold the trade by leaving a so
per cent. tariff on the foreign trade,
thus making our products worth 100
per cent 90 us and the foreign products
worth but so per cent. to them p. We
make the assertion that high tariff is
| selfish, that il is robbery, that il is det-
rimental TO prosperity and that IL
availeth nothing as a means of revenue
since we can compete In our manufac-
tories with any other nation on the
! globe. In time past we could pay s27
/ duty per ton on steel rails that were
imported, but now we can buy them
| for less than one-half the amount.
| High tariff to-day, to the monopOlIes
| Is just the same as the patent right IS
| 90 the inventor II enables him TO sell
= at what ever price he wishes, which is
mostly about double the intrinsic value.
! Will anyone dare 20 dispute this asser-
/ ton? II 50, let him do IL logically.
HALA MANDHR.