The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1896-08-19
DIR. c. W. JAMISON,.
A Prominent Physician. Declares for
Bryan and Sewall.
A Well Written and Able Exc
position of tile Causes that
Led to His Change.


quently asked by my friends and
associates what 1 think of the pres
emit situation in politico-f financial
affairs and what 1 intend to do
during the impending conflict be-
tween the adherents Of gold and
the partisans of silver. 1 will in
form them through the medium of
your valuable columns. have
been farmer in Mason County,
West Virginia, for twenty-five
years and have voted the Republi-
can ticket for twelve years. Ipro-
pose, now, after thinking the mat
ter over for eight months, to con-
serve my own interests by voting,
this fall, the Democratic National
ticket on which is inscribed the
legend Free and unlimited coin
age of silver, at the ratio ofd6Sto'
L." For the last six years | have
been hoping against hope that
changes would occur which would
save myself and perfect hosts of
brother farmers from the pain of
seeing our families denied the nee
essities and comforts of life, our
fields grow less productive, our
roofs rot from over our heads, our
fences go to decay and our tiocks
and herds decimated by the disas-
trous prices we receive for our
products. Week by week and
month by month, during these six
years, prices have had a general de-
cline; and every New Years day
has found us poorer than one year
before. And, as we export as much as
formerly and consume as much as
usual, why this grinding depriva-
ton of the guerdon of labor and
brain? The only answer to this
question is that tie gold standard
IS cutting or returns an t'cO, and
the debt-paying power of our re-
ceipts has fallen to such n level
that farmers have become tie sel1S
of gOl6 and it's owners and arc no
longer the freemen, the nobility
who used to till the soil and in hap
piness enjoyed the reward of effort.
Without paying returns for their
products farmers are unable to pat
ronize the merchant or to give en-
ployment to more labor like their
own; the merchant is unable to
patronize the manufacturer; mills,
factories and furnaces are shut
down; transportation goes into the
hands of receivers and starvation
stares hundreds of thousands, yes,
millions of willing workers in the
face, and that in land running
over with plenty. The wrongs
which are perpetrated by Wall
Street, and it's golden product,
crush, first tho farmer and next
the rest of the industrial circle.
These wrongs are first visited upon
the devoted heads of the toilers
themselves workers, the wage
earners, the lockers ahead of our
glorious land of freedom and plen-
ty and through them, upon their
wives and mothers and then upon
the children of to-day, the man
hood and womanhood of the future.
Lack of proper money-return for
labor and it's product makes useless
the purse and the savings-bank and
other modest investments; man
hood is unnerved, the weaker are
pushed out of the ranks, tramps
abound, desperation is abroad even
to the dissolution of the ties of
affection and blood; distrust and
all the enemies of home and farm
are turned loose. "Where poverty
stalks in at the door love flies out
of the window" and the chords of
filial duty are ruthlessy broken;
son parts from father, daughter
from mother and husband from
wife; and all this from want Of
reward for labor and effort.
The demand of the, laboring
and middle classes of to-day
is not for pomp and state and
power; it is only for the
opportunity to ,cork and to receive
such reward, in the market, for the
result of that work as will purchase
the necessities, yes, the comforts
and luxuries of life-for, as moth
ing is too good to use," one man is
just as we'll entitled to comfort and
luxury as another. Let us have
work and it's need and we won't
complain if others do enjoy pomp
and state and power. Deny us,
and the desperation and power