The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1896-10-31
SOME POINTED QUESTIONS


friends. the enemy / think very few
persons now living can remember ever
having seen anything like the present
On the one side spon-
taneous effort Of the people for relief
On the other all manner of means |
resorted to, to prevent such result. | |
do not wish to be tedious and shall not !
try to cover the whole ground but only |
some few features of the canvass that |
needs little touching UP.
| have before me letter written by
a man Of talent in which the writer
asserts that the silver man never had
but one argument and that was the
prosperity of the country while silver
was standard coin or money. That
is surely enough till it is answered.
That writer says he can explain it
satisfactorily. why has walnut
lumber come down one-half in the last
fifteen years ?' he asks. If it has it
is very possible that it has fallen from
the same cause other farm products
have. But the fact is that walnut
timber sold higher in this county in
the last two or three years than lever
knew it to sell before. Then we are
told that England has done so and so.
England recognized the inevitable.
How have these same people talked
of England heretofore, and of her
ssruinous free trade heresys IL her
commercial ideas are so dangerous, let
us be careful lest her financial ideas
may have bad effects also.
How would we like to have the land
all owned by the money barons and
we the tenant peasantry have TO lift
our hats to the nobility as they pass
by going to look for their game field
and other pleasure resorts while we
are compelled TO toll on, toll ever?
If we say that all men were created
free and equal, and have certain in
alienable rights, must we be called
anarchists ? Remember this was
part of our education, and we are told
this is campaign of education.
But | digress; | must be brief.
Have we come to time when major
titles have no right to rule When
the bosses may dictate everything
If not, why this great parade about
the ''grandest' party the world ever
saw? Not a drone in it. The
noblest in all our history, now so
much eulogized by the very men who
could say nothing bad enough OF them
four or even two years ago. 1t is
plain they have simply sold their
birthright for mess of pottage, and
one they will never get. Mark that.
While speaking of the English heresies
| wanted to note some of the cam
paign arguments of how free wool had
ruined one of our industries and free
silver was the same. You can see
argument of that kind on rally posters
at our village stores and work shops.
Yet the n. Y. Sun of Oct. 10 says,
U. S. Consul Meeker at Bradford re-
ports to the State Department that
over 1000, 900 pounds of American
wool was sold in England early in the
fall at an average price of nine cents
per pound, and these sales would have
continued except for the advance in
freight rates and sitter prices at
home" If free wool ruined us, why
is our wool shipped to free trade Eng
| land
| But we are frequently told that the
trouble all comes from want of conf
dence, from the silver craze as they
are pleased to term the theories of the
SO called anarchists. But what caused
the silver craze-is the question we
have heretofore asked of many Of our
willing educators in this campaign
and we now repeat it. Why did il
ever come If the people were prosper
Gus Let us remember that our coal
is sold, our timber gone, our soil pro-
duces now when all our profits are
paid for fertilizers, our lands are
largely mortgaged, our oil yields only
an eighth while combines take the
residue, and we see what should haye
been left as "A heritage for posterity
already gone, and still they want
more. Is it any wonder the people
are stirred as never before
If gold is the money why don't they
let us see it +? If silver is the repudia-
zionist money, why do they compel us
poor people to take it in exchange fol
our products ? Why
One writer has called attention tC
the class of men In our National Leg
islature when the dollar of the daddies
was made only good enough for the
poorer classes, saying the senate was
largely composed of men who had
never been accused of any Legislative
ability or craftsmanship but were
supposed to have gotten there because
of the commanding influence of theil
accumulated millions. Let us pause
to ask if such parties were likely to
legislate against their own interest
The people have been deceived long
enough by the argument that on the
success of the monied plutocracy all
prosperity depends. The common
people must have pittance or they
cannot pay all the taxes, and 1t cannot
be denied that taxes of all kinds are
counted in by those handling the
goods till they reach the consumers.
A few more questions only. How
much are our farmers benefited by
the recent rise in wheat Who pays
the millions made by the brokers ?
One paper recently said il farm pro-
ducts go up remember the consumer
must pay the bill. 1t was good
Republican paper. But l have reached
the limit. We are told that Bryan
has now succeeded in running his
cause, all the preachers are against
him. Certainly not those who re-
member how the Savior treated the
money changers. 1t must be the
other kind. That Mckinley, the
great silver orator of recent date-is
now the same as elected. If so, why
all this moving of the elements and
the secret conclaves of the Mark Han
mas ? Why all this campaign thun-
der? All, they fear the people can
no longer be made believe that the
country can only prosper by making
the rich richer and the poor poorer.
l close with specimen of their
literature, -"When Willie Bryan
nominated himself and started on his
pyrotechnic tour, everybody said,
Dear, how cute he talks, and so plain
for his age" Some people certainly
never read the story of the little dog
that barked at the moon. They
might profit by the lesson it contains.
b. l. METAL.
uNFURL YOUR FLAGS.