West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1896-08-20
cranssville.


Npftt~lfonoencc OF the Argus
Quite a lively crowd from Fairmont
are camping down at Lake Browning.
James Williams seems 10 be in a crit.
ical condition from the effects o sure
arm
Qo'tc number Of our people were in
Attendance at the picnic At Mt. Carmel
ON saturday.
Your humble scribe was calling at
the Teachers Institute aud found the
teachers more Interested in politix than
educ0ts ou.
A little child of j. c ReclSart was
burried at this place on sunday after
noon The cause of its death was
Cholera lnfan,un.
Our Republican friends don't seem TO
appraise UoNie and his army "a they
os>'d 10 do since they see that they are
uaanpnous tor Tree silver and Bryan.
Some OF our young men mad a rough
amt tumble llereulean Hug on Thurs
day last aud the consequence was that
quit" number seemed TO nave huSi-
neSs a. the tow0 OF Haywood on Sat-
nrday. One man did not agree To ac-
cept OF the company OF the Constable
anu - now residing over in the State OF
Mari laud.
Two families who claim TO be from
Brow nsviiie, Pa, were camping near
tnis place during the past week aud
after 0dtl lag Oh the poop. OF this Sec
ton a few tunes and Obtaining an
amount OF charitable goods they left
Tor parts unknown They claimed 10
oe among the ma nbcr who nad their
property destroyed by the recent flbous.
Why dou't some Que tap the craninnn
OF tne correspondent OF Marques and
hli IL with SAT- aud pepper which We
tntnN womb, perhaps, drive out the
NTH and AT the same time be "A good
substitute Zoe brains. since we venture
the assertion that his brains az no has
uny) are wholly extinct since he does
not even give evidence by his writing
lhat ne possesses Ood instinct.
Perhaps / write too much politix and
we arc we'll aware that too much of
nythinR IL obnoxious, but Lever-the.
less we are daily hearing CRITICISMS
from the hov-headed sound money ad-
vucdtes regarding the free silver plan.
and the deficiency OF tue United States
Treasury, and in reply 10 them, desire
To give few stubborn facts.
In the trst place we will notice that
the entire income OF revenue from nil
sources In the year 1897 was less thnn
$3.50, 900, coo and even this small sum
was sufficient TO meet the expo nditures.
Two years later the Repu blicans came
into power with Messrs. Mckinley and
Reed AS mediators, and they claimed
the world and the fullness thereof
They enacted appropriations TO the
amount of nearly 5000, 600, 900 and the
consequence were that the excess OF APP
preparations over revenues were $685. .
600, 600 year from SOL and 1898, thus
turning the Government over to the
Democrats, with ITS expenses greater
than its income. 1t was also bankrupt
instead of having the large surplus
which il inherited ia 1889. from the
Democratic party After this the Dem
| ocratic Congress reduced the expenses
as much as was practicable under the
existing circumstances and framed "A
revenue bill that would have liquidated
all expenses, were IL not partly de famed
10y the action OF one man in the Su-
preme Court yielding to his false God
(inamnon), and now again we have
Republican legislation To the amount
OF OO,OOlOOO apr opriatioh, and the
same stream Of gold going out OF the
Treasury that began TO flow as soon ms
the Mckinley law was passed and put
the Sherman law into ful! operation
We are very sorry TO hear so many
intelligent men discrediting themselves
10y pleading for money that IN desired
by the syndicItes and foreign nations
after formerly hearing them derlde the
foreign nation and plead for protect
i've tariff and say that we could live
independently of them They seem 90
want money expressly for foreign ma
tions and syndicates
pity the party that will be In power
and have 90 face the $500, 600 600 APP
preparations Yet. think that hear
u still voice saying that
The gold bug soon shall cease TO reign,
Wall Street shall bee in snow,
Free silver men shall have the sway,
The syndicates must go
SAIAMANDER