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

it VIII mean but one thing more
bonds.
The railroad men will be asked
to cooperate with the striking
miners, by refusing to haul coal un-
I'll the strike is settled.
The Presidents sudden change
of front on the monetary commits
sion recalls the hypocricy of the
last campaign.
a contemporary asks: If pro-
tection proves failure and sound
money fake, what VIII the Re-
publicans do in 1900? The answer
seems plain enough to us; it is
vote for Bryan, of course.
The contract was given out last
week for new addition to the State
Penitentiary at Moundsville, to
cost $4,000. The addition was
made. necessary because of the
large increase of conyicts.
The largest frnit farm in the
world is said to be at Olden, Mo.
1t consists of 2, 500 acres, ON which
are more than 100000 peach trees,
10000 apple trees, 1000 pear trees
and 40 acres of blackberries.
1t is more than likely now that
the miners strike will be settled by
arbitration. The miners seem to
be willing to submit their griey-
ance to arbitration, but the opera
tors are holding back.
The attitude of the Mckinley
administration towards trusts is
not frightening the Standard Oil
Company any, as its stock is now
quoted at $40, the highest ever
reached.
Some of the gold bug papers are
now offering the theory that prices
must go up and business revive,
because they can get no worse, and
must improve. This is about the
most sensible argument that class
of papers have contained for long
time.
The owners of industries to be
protected under the new tariff bill
have already been raising the prices
of their products. but they have
not said word yet of lifting the
wages of their employees, and they
are not likely to, either.
How do our farmer friends like 8
cents a pound for butter, cents
dozen for eggs, Is cents bushel
for potatoes, 20 cents for corn and
so cents for wheatP Is this the
kind of prosperity that was prom
ised last fa1lP
No such infamy was ever before
placed upon this State in the way
of legislation, as is the law provid-
ing for county school book boards.
1t gives the school book publishers
an opportunity to rob the people.
Farmers were promised % cents
pound for their wool last fall.
They are getting f6 cents. which
is one-half cent more than they got
year ago.
Senator Lodge and his Republi-
can colleagues would exclude Eu-
ropeans and Canadians from this
country if they can not read and
write. Now these same men are
engaged in Juggling into citizen
ship some $1,000 people who are
not half century out of canni-
balism.
Who are holding the 81, ooo,o 900
Sandwich Island bonds that the
President and Secretary Sherman
wish to saddle on the United
States? IF put to the vote, how
many intelligent people in this
country would probably vote for
the proposed annexationP
The avowed intention of the
Dingley tariff bill, as interpreted
by the Republican press, is to de-
stroy our trade with foreign ma
tons, and it will most likely ac-
complish that object and great
deal worse besides.
The Ohio River Railroad under
its present management seems to
be doing fair business. The re-
port for the month of May shows,
the gross earnings to be for 1897,
$78.311.89, as against Ss3,Ss9.78,
in 1896; operating expenses 1897,
$40, 925.s6: in 1896. s63, 262,62; net
ono coo on oOl. 400 oclE 90