Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1896-08-27
From the Warren (ya.,) Register.l
PLuTocRAcY VS.. DEMOCRACY!

VI the many OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES an"
their myrmidons, including PARTISAN
for-revenue press and complaisant
Supreme Court, that are ranting and
railing, crashing their teeth and froth-
ing at the mouth, lest the almighty
dollar be made smaller, 1oho of them
all SAID NO when this same worshiped
dollar was made bigger? Of the mill
ions who are now crying (patriotical-
ly!l) protect the creditors, who the"
cried protect the debtors ?" Not one
voice was then raised in behalf of JUS
tice; nor million speak, why? Then
the debtors or was being gored; m0w
the creditors bull is TO be tenderly
saved at all hazard Aye-even though
it light the flames of civil war.
These plutocrats, and their prosti-
tute henchmen, will even tell you with
unwinking eyes and brows Of brass
that the dollar has not been, by gov
ernmental action or any other cause,
enhanced in value That gold has not
appreciated. That it only seems so to
the eyes of anarchists, Democrats and
ignorant Republicans. They will tell
you this in face of the fact that hand
full of the precious metal will now buy
twice and over all it ever bought IN
the years gone by. Ola hundred, aye,
thousand, examples ready to hand,
we will take only one-hour The
money that once bought only one bar
rel of flour will now buy tro. Two
barrels of -four are worth more than
one and if two barrels Of flour are
worth more than one, then, the money
that buys two barrels Of flour must be
more valuable than the money that
would buy only one. Please remem-
Der that flour is only one Of the ten
thousand articles by which this en-
hancement of the value of money may
be proved
They vainly seek to invalidate this
argument with the cry of "over-pro-
duction -" over-production and un-
der-consumption" they shout. They
will dumbly or dishonesty tell you
that the producers of the wealth of the
nations are starving because they pro
duced too much wheat and corn, naked
because they have too much cotton and
wool, barefooted because of the super
Auitv of leather According to this
"over-production" theory, the man
who makes two blades Of grass grow
where one grew before, is a public en-
envy the man who irrigates waste land
and makes it blossom as the rose, Is
foe to his kind and the man who in
vents an improved pillow, better reap
er, any machine that eases labor, should
be crucifed. In short, their argument
means, if it means anything, that the
people work too much and eat too lit
tie, and that the remedy for hard times
is to work less and eat more be lazy
and extravagant and we will soon be-
come prosperous as of yore. Can any
sane man consider seriously such argu-
ment?
The poor laborer is tared on every
hand for the mere privilege of laboring
aye, even taxed ION the mattock or
hoe with which he grubs his living
from the earth The class-protected
multi-millionaire draws in sweet idle
ness the revenue from his ,natarcd gold
bonds, fattens on an untared income OF
millions, because his humble servant,
mammon-worshiping Supreme Court,
decides that it is unconstitutional for
the rich man to bear his share of the
burden Of that Government that legls-
lates so shamelessly for him and his
class" Unequal taxation is the cum
ningly constructed syphon that draws
from the pockets of the poor to swell the
Golfers of the rich. And whosoever
would right this wrong-equalize, even
partially, this burden of taxation-is
denounced as a Democrat, a Popuhst,
l6 to l robber. How cunningly the
rogue raises the hue and cry Of "stop
thief
These plutocrats argue only with SUI
perlative praise, or insulting epithets'
The superlative praise for themselves;
the insulting epithets for those who
presume to have adverse opinions. The
class-legislator who will vote to tax
the masses to the starvation point, that
he and his class may double their mill
ions, is a statesman and a patriot and
whosoever objects to such partial
system of taxation, such iniquitous
DISSATISFACTION, is demagogue, an
anarchist, an unconstitutional thief.
They call him a sound fnancier who
bows the knee to wealth, and kisses