The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1897-12-15
DECEMBER Is, 1897.

DECEMBER Is, 1897.
Advance Agent of Prosperity
In looking at cartoon, in an ex-
change. we see man. Who is the
man9 He is the advance agent of
the Sheriff. What is the man do
ing9 He is posting notices of
foreclosure sales. Has he lots Of
work? Yes, his work is increasing
in volume every week. Why does
the advance agent of the Sheriff
look so much like the advance
agent of prosperity whose portraits
adorned the fences last year? Be-
cause they are the same person.
Oh we see; the advance agent of
prosperity was fraud to make the
people vote for Mckinley. Was
not il a bold fraud2 Yes, and the
people were warned, and if they
voted for Mckinley they have
themselves to blame for his cleo
ton. Do the people blame them
selve? Yes, very much; fourteen
thousand persons have killed them
selves since his election. LIS he
sorry for them? No, he is too
busy working for the Sheriff to no
tice them. He must be an awful
bad man. Yes, but the Sheriff for
whom he works is much worse.
The agent was once good man
and tried to help others when the
Sheriff caught him and told him
that he must not help other men
in debt. Then the Sheriff gave
him back all his goods, and he has
worked for the Sheriff ever since.
Do the people know all these
things? Not yet. What will they
do when they find it all out2 They
will 90 after the Sheriff and exter-
inmate him. And what will they
do to his agent2 They will con-
sign him to oblivion.
A New York clothier, discussing
the beauties of the Dingley tariff
as an advance agent of prosperity,
says one of its result is to advance
the price of clothing: ga suit of
Clothes" he says, 'tthat could be
purchased for SIS last year cannot
be duplicated now under $50, and
that fact is a source of annoyance
to dealers and customers alike.
The poor man is paying dearly for
the luxury of voting the Republi-
can ticket to protect the working
man from the pauper labor of
Europe" 1t has advanced the
prices of everything he buys, but
no advance in wages. The tariff
tax was never intended to help
anyone but the millionaire manu-
facturer.
The Republicans in Congress
are now up in arms about the large
pension list, and are charging that
it is full of frauds, and that mil
lions of dollars are paid out annu-
ally ON fraudulent pension claims.
They are also preparing bill to
cut off the widows of soldiers, and
also to provide for stopping the
pension, if the widow should marry
again.
The wise. patriotic and COM
mendable policy President Nc
Kinley is pursuing toward Cuba is
the un-American, cowarily, foolish
and contemplate policy used by
one Grover Cleveland undersimilar
circumstances.
There are SAB defendants to a
suit brought in chancery by the
trustees of the Improvement Build
ing and Loan Association of Mar
tinsburg, to settle the matters in
volyed
Senator Teller, who usually
knows what he is talking about,
says the passage of financial bill
that would accord with Mr.. Nc
Kinley's wishes is an impossibility
in the Senate.
Saving money may be the very
best thing to do, but if everybody
started in to do it, and kept it up
for awhile, about four-fifths of the
world would soon be staring starva-
ton in the face.
The value of the silver money of
the world is about equal to the
value of the gold money of the
world. The gold standard advo-
cafes want the gold alone as the