The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1897-07-14

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tariff bill intended to curb the
rapacity of the trusts, was voted
down by the solid Republican vote
of the Senate. The trusts own the
Republican party
The school book boards are now
meeting in the various counties in
the State, and the CHM Publish
ing Co. and the American Book
CO. well supplied with men and
money, are having a halcyon and
hilarious time, capturing monopoly
contracts.
Whatever atrocities the Repub-
licans viii be guilty of for three
years to come. Grover Cleveland,
John G.. Carlisle, John NJ. Palmer
and the men calling themselves
Democrats, who followed them last
year should be held mainly respon-
sibIe.
If this country should need the
gold returned which is now being
shipped abroad, the gold syndicate
win sell it back to us In payment
of bonds. The single gold stand
ard affords a steady profit to the
gold mongers.
In considering the political out
look In Ohio, the enthusiastic
Democrats must not forget that the
Republican national campaign
fund of 1896 was not all spent, that
Senator Hanna is chairman of the
Republican National Committee,
and that Senator Hanna is can
didate for reelection.
The proposition of Mckinley
that the more a person is taxed the
easier it is to pay it, and that an
increased tariff and decreased
wages bring prosperity, is true, SO
far as the protected manufacturers
and the trusts are concerned. But
how about the working men?
Where do they come IMP
A School Book Board of eight
persons in session in each county
in the State on salary, all to be
paid by the taxpayers. The peo-
pie should remember that this is a
Republican law, passed by Re-
publican legislature and executed
by Republican officials. Is there
any cause for all this trouble and
expense? Let the people give their
answer at the ballot box the first
opportunity.
The passage of the Mckinley
bill in 1890 was followed by dull
monotony of closed factories and
mills, strikes and riots. The Ding
ley-Aldrich bill, kind of second
edition, but only little worse, of
the Mckinley act, is now about
ready for the statute book. The
closing down of mills and factor
les, and strikes of workingmen,
have commenced. Let us hope
that the riots can be averted.
The "McKinley Boom" has had
a good effect upon CIarksburg real
estate. During the Cleveland
panic Mrs. Margaret Farland
bought the Meathren lot near A.
G. Osborn's residence, for six hun
dred and fifty dollars. The B. &
o. station has been moved nearer
the property, by about one-half
mile, and it has received the re-
sultant benefits. Last Monday it
sold, on credit sale, for four hum
dred and fifty dollars. Great is NJ.
@. Hanna and his Prosperity Cir
cus.-News.
The total custom house collec-
tions at the single port of New
York for the fiscal year ending on
Wednesday amounted to $40, $780,
COO. For the last year of the Nc
Kinley law, ending June 80. 1894,
the customs collections in the
whole country amounted to only
S1S1 100000, or only 100000
in excess of New York collections
under the Wilson law for the year
just closed.
So long as we are shut in behind
a Chinese wall of protection which
not only keeps foreign goods out,
but shackles our own import trade
by keeping our own products in,
high wages are paid until over
production and the clogged home
market compel the shutting down
of the mills. Then there are no
wages at all.