The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1898-09-28

face of a foreign foe plundered the
nation, and out of the patriotism
of our gallant soldiers, forged
chains of death dealing destruction
in order TO enrich the cohorts Of
Mammon.
Good marksnanship at tho bal
lot-box is just as essential to ma
tional safety as good marksrnan-
ship in the navy
The game Of politics not SO
dangerous as the game Of war but
is sometimes fraught with more
important consequences.
The man who rails against the
monopolist and then votes for the
systems which make monopoly
possible is entitled to no sympathy
for his troubles.
Chairman Babcock, of the Re
publican Congressional Committee
said on the 7sh Of September
we are already defeated for he
next Congress- If omething does
not happen In the meantime, can
not see how we can expect Re-
publican Congress.
Right you are Mr.. b. the Amor
lean people are heartily Disguised
with the rule of men ike Hanna
and Alger.
People reading Republican
weekly newspapers, should know
that the political matter contained
therein is not the product of the
local editors mind. 1t is manu-
factnred by Wall street Journalists,
located at the National Capital,
and forwarded by Mark Hanna's
Bureau of Boodleism' to the
journalistic slaves who feed on the
political carrion thrown them from
the Republican table Of corruption.
If the voters of the country are
wise, they viii see to it that a Con-
gress is elected that viii Investigate
the rascality carried on during this
war waged in the name of patriot
ism; a Republican Congress will
cover up the crimes of their party
leaders; a Democratic Congress
will investigate and report the in
side facts to the people.
The bondocrats got that 5000,
100000 issued and now the tax
payer can go to work to pay it off.
There was not particle of neces-
sity for issuing bonds for war pur-
poses. It was a foregone conclus-
ion that the war would be very.
brief and that the war taxes would
pay off the entire cost in less than
a year. The issue of bonds in the
name of patriotism was only a
Wall street trick.
We have to-day the hamilitatingl
exhibition of a Republican adj
ministration welding with one
hand the mighty sceptre of seven
ty million free men, Wills the 9TH
er is busily engaged In picking
the pockets of sixty=nine million
of that number.
Mckinley Hanna gerism, re-
suited in death and starvation to-
our nations defenders Weyler-
ism brought death and starvation
to the enemies of Spain. What
American citizen can fail to blush
with shame and Indignation at the
contrast.
1t is not the wealth Of the coun-
try but the labor of the country
that is paying the war tax. The
Republican party has never yet
framed revenue measure that was
calculated to tax therich-
Let5the Republicans party pro-
coed with its schemes Of bank cur
rency and the gold standard and
it viii dissolve society into am
archy or PROSTATE it at the feet of
despotism.
Though the administration will,
and should. be blamed, during the
coming campaign, for its conduct
of the late war, the main issue of
the campaign viii be the currency
question. as was the case two years
ago.
The Republican party with the
instinct of the spider is busily en-
gagged in weaving himsy web of
words with which to cover up its
The Democrats demanded an
'sincome tax as war revenue
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