Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1897-10-02
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

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smile.
Buckwheat cakes and sausage next.
Saturday night markets are good.
Products OF old Berkeley is not sur
passed.
The city is for once in many years
deprived of the benefits OF Building
and Loan Association. There is no
doubt but that these associations have
done much good in the past, in as
sisting in getting numerous industries
located among us; they have also
been instrumental in procuring many
men homes who otherwise could not
have been in possession OF one; but
when the railroad shops closed here
the larger source OF revenue ceased
and men were forced to 60 elsewhere
to find employment, and Withdrawals
were numerous. 1t is to be hoped,
however, that the loss incurred will
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heaviest on the laborer who often
strained a point financially to keep
up his dues. Prudent and careful
management in the settlement of the
association affairs will do much to-
ward allevating the suffering this
collapse may have brought on among
those whose entire deposits are con-
fined within its limits.
A passenger train, recently, on a
western road had as one of its passen-
gers Mr. w J. Bryan who had been
requested to give a fifteen minute
speech in town OF several hundred
inhabitants. He requested the con-
ductor to hold the train that length
Of time, so he might accomm odate the
people The conductor wired the
train master for instructions. The
reply came Immediately that the
road was too busy now hauling dollar
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silver speeches. So it would appear
as though prosperity stands ahead of
friendship and adversely, by their
fruits you may know them. 1t is
very clear now, that in voting for
Bryan last year, persons cast their
ballots against their own interests,
and were only saved from the calami-
tious consequences by the success of
their political opponents. 1t is a
common thing to hear of farmers,
these days, who, having cast their
ballots for the free silver party last
year, freely express their gratifca-
tion that the cause they favored did
not succeed. They are willing to con-
TESS their error when prices of stock
and farm products have made such an
agreeable advance. 1t is becoming
pleasure as we'll profitable, to raise
stock and it is evidence conclusive
that protection is essential, because it
protects. For example, sheep which
sold year past from $I.75 to s. 50
per head, are now worth from SIS 90
to 5000. This did not occur prior to
the passage of the Dingley bill. Those
engaged in buying and selling this
kind of stock though they be Demo
Gratis will not deny this fact On the
contrary, we have known them to
make plain acknowledgment of the
above facts No farmer who is con-
WINGED that the deprecated dollars for
which he voted last fall would be det-
rimental to the interests of the coun-
try can afford to vote the Democratic
ticket at any future election. The
cause of Protection and Sound Money
is the cause OF every American indus
try; it is that which rolled the OBJ.
struction away from the doors of the
manufactures and gave labor to the
thousands Of honest toilers; it is that
which has put new life and activity
on the farm, and the way to keep it
up and encourage a continuation of
it is by continuing to vote the Re-
publican ticket. RALF.
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