The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1897-04-21

l-a are told that we must increase the rev
enue of the government by collecting high
Time was when we boasted that onr
country should be the refuge and asylum
OF the Oppressed OF all nations, OF the mar
tyrs OF every creed, OF the innocent victim
OF despotic arrogance or supershtious
frenzy; here his industry was 10 be enour-
aged, his pIety respected. his ambition AMI
mated: with no restraint but those laws
which are the same to all, and no diatinc-
tion but that which his merit may origin
ate. But are these the conditions OF our
country today7
The votes OF the farmers and of the peo-
people living In the small towns and VII
lagos, which ARE almost a part OF the firm,
are the independents votes OF the land, but
In the past few vars. through the false pres
lenses OF the tariff tinkers, Immigrants
have been brought to this country by the
BEEN ar aS ehtEnei1 e9sht @ eiass f4o% tsas
OF earlier day. when men and women
came here for the purpose OF being free.
Now much OF the Immigration consists OF
classes who are deceived by the DIngleyites
into the belief that ample employment az
femuneratfve prices can be found anywhere
and everywhere In America Such tmmi-
rrants come hero 10 offer their services In
competition with American labor In the
shop and on the farm: come here to take
away from American citizens the oppor-
tunItyof earning a livelihood for themselves
and their families; come here to work AZ
wages so low as to destroy the opportuni-
ties of realizing the Ideals and ambitions
of q respectable American family. Hordes
OF such Immigrant take possession OF large
eeetlNns or our great cities, and are douli-5
mated politically almost TO n man by the
corporations that Imported themi and the
votes OF these foreign hordess nnturnil1eu
fn form but unnaturaiized In spirit ana IN
telligence, are today manipulated and con
troIIed by the syhdfcates and trusts Who
dictate our Iarin legislationS as - eft-
denced by the fact that never yet have tho .
men IN fayor or htgh protective tariffs seen
Mt sto put single clause in any OF thelE
tarin bills 10 prevent the Importation of
free raw labor, 20 take away from Ainerd-
can citizens the opportunity 10 hold their
places In the factories anu the mills a
negro slave WAS worth from 5000 70 $ls0Og
40 years ago. To-day the wntto slave Of
America could not be sold for $780, bccause
the $500 OF the capitalist would be sure Of
earning $35 or $40 OF Interest annually
while the white slave would be quits sure OK
not being selfBustainins, bis owner
had 10 so into the market and sell his Ia
bof.
and the philosophy not only OF Thomas JET
ferson, but OF Andrew JACKSON also and
assert with him that I'VE should become .
little more AmericanIzeds and instead OF
feeding paupers and laborerB OF Europe
feed cur own" What our farmers and
manufacturers need is more commerco In
the product OF labor and less commerce In
labor itself. Instead OF bringing foreign
ships TO our ports, carrying tmmigrant9 ae
ballast, let them bring US goods and wares
TO be exchanged for The products OF our
The manlpulators and operators OF the
syadicates and trusts are obeying direction9
and instructions OF their masters In Europe
The government bond jobberg and stock
manipuIators are In coiIuaion with and un-
der direction OF their masters In Lombard
had English thought and English arfs-
focraey prevailed. George Washington,
John Hancock. BENJAMIN Frnnklin and
Thomas Jefferson would hzye been shot
down like dogs, and history would have
known them only as rebels and traitors
Ne Americans ept on from naenaEehx and
the heresIes or arIstoeracy as effectuaIiy as
this country. has cut on from the bigetry OF
superstition and the cruelty OF witchcr1ft-
1t SHOULD be unfaltering liberalization
TO bold separate and apart the North Amer
lean continents for the experiments OF gov
ernment by the people for the people.
Insist upon Il that the mission OF Amer
may never be our boast, nor the founda-
tion OF any nrrognnce within u.s. that we
shall be the mistress Of the sea, OF that the
sun shall never set on our possesalonss yet
Il should be, II We believe We are IN the
right IL should be our ambition 70 see all
the nations permeated with the spirit OF
and practfclng the doctrine Of the great
est good to the greatest number, and pro-
claiming that charity that declares that
IAN injury to the lest Of US should Be the
concern OF al -
We the strongest republic that the World
has ever seen, and today powerful enough
L 70 cope with any government on the face Of
the earth, stand Idle and impotent, listen
ing to the syren song Of the stock gambler
/ and the DfcEer.e NlIile brutal Er1tr perDe-
trates murder and assassfnaffon IN Cuba
under the disguise Of war
Since liberty has brought ns poEer. II I'm
poses upon rs the duty, both reiieioug and
moral. to promote the npiffting and MP
building OF al humanity.
The Wheeling News says that
Professor Latham, the inventor OF
the vitascope. was once teacher
IN the West Virginia University.
Wheeling is to have anew Opera
House to be built on the site Of