West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1897-09-16
CAUGHT on the Ely.
A Characteristic Letter From Aaron
William Frederick.
- RnITE 10 LODGE.

IL lt''IE TO LODGE,
Fresno Co, Cal. Sept. z, 1897.
My DEAR BROWNE am laid of
at "a small railroad station named
after the iliustrious knave, Marcus
Pollasky. | begin school at Lodge
on Monday next. Change ARGUS
to Lodge, as above written.
go shopping to Fresno a day or
two and then to camp-meeting at
Academy, where l first taught m
the State. Possibly ] may get re-
lIgiou. a wife, both or either,
at camp meeting-two Of the iniis-
pensables Of we'll ordered life.
have just begun at the stump
to improve my raRch-made 1 900
cedar posts with my own blistered
hands. ! think | have improved
in ayoirdupois several pounds; have
a beard that think more OF than
PETERS, through which the soft
airs flow, and have gained two feet
in appetite.
The gold bug papers exult over
gold discoveries in Alaska and her
borders. They magnify outputs.
1t is easier now to reconcile the
supposed fool working people to
the single gold standard. The
burden is upon the people to make
heavier discoveries Of gold to keep
stable values-increased values.
rather, in their property. Stability
OF values is uncertain if enormous
strikes Of gold are to be made IN a
day. Japan lets silver down some
farther. Well, well be pleased to
see gold demonetized and an honest
national currency issued by the
government and based upon the
thing of value itself, property-not
upon an arbitrary preventative Of
value bullion or metal of any kind.
Wheat has gone up and the tariff
didn't nor couldn't do it. McKin-
leylsm hardly is accountable for
natures failure IN India and an in
creased market over the seas. Be-
sides, there is no way tariff could
help wheat as an export. Still the
tariff did 1T, of course, in some
indirect way. The tariff has, they
prove by saying, raised the price of
everything upon which it has been
levied. Every protected article
goes up. Some unprotected 90 up,
and of certainty the tariff catches
them, too. Great is the tariff. Ey-
cry article manipulated by trusts
goes up aud few are raised by de-
mand abroad. That which pro-
duces the article Of raised money
value has q downward tendency-I
mean labor. | asked a mill opera
tor few days ago what was the
matter with the Dingley tariff, that
prices went up under it and wages
down, whereas in former days wages
did go mp after high tariff legisla-
ton. lie replied, Capitalists are
getting on to their job; they DON
have TO raise wages" But ! digress.
California will remain gold
producing State, if not the g0lde1.
State. In conversation with S. S..
Van Meter, a leading lawyer and
Populist-a former West Nirginian
he gave it as lis opion that as
the years go by with the funeral
train of business in the wake Of the
gold standard, California will be
the best State in which to live. Her
gold product will sluice the chan
nels of trade rs it cannot be done
in the east. The very region ! live
IN l expect to see develop as u
mining region. Why go to Klon-
dyke j? | have an old mine on my
land, out of which several hundred
dollars were taken few years ago.
have another good vein of gold
bearing quartz on my homestead
Only give me time to grow up as
the country develops. Sixteen miles
from North Fork week ago mine
had been bonded for $50, 900 anG
the mining brokers made 100000
clear on its sale. SO much for
MADEIRA county. We have now just
starting q mining boom.
Say, / remember reading OF
Marsden's patent non-fillable bottle
Let me give you one idea farther
on. You get the patent-soe? and
give me a half interest. What Is
the matter with a coupon bottle
The coupon could be OF metal OF
other substance; could be blown il
the bottle, or 50 blown as to b,
broken of without estroying tn,
bottle. The coupons could be gath
cradle for rewards, premiums, etc
Sabe ? haven't time now nor golC
to elaborate, but you put hcl
through for fun and funds. Dom
/ 1911. I.-.-.L- y