The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1898-10-19

people OF the Fourth DISTRICT now
much better the gold standard is
now, than it was fifteen or twenty
years ago. But, Mr.. Freer was an
enthusiastic greenbacker them
St.Mary's Oracle.
Restoring Coffdence.
Confidence continues to increase
at the headquarters of the Demo
cratic Congressional Campaign
Committee at Washington, that
the Democrats will elect major
ity of the next House. Present
indications are that the gain nee
essary to put the Republicans in
minority, will be made in the Mid
die and Atlantic States, in which
States the committee is doing much
work that promises results
The wool producers are not sat
isfed with the prices they are re-
ceiving, although they have all the
protection" that the Dingley law
gives them. Yet they find it a
failure in raising prices of wool,
just as it is failure in raising
revenues for the government. The
gold standard is no respecter of
any class of producers and blights
alike the producers of wool, as it
does the producers of wheat, cot
ton, labor and the factories. Let
them help the country to return to
the double standar money of re-
demption and the old time prices
previous to 1873.
By the way, while "" are over
whelmed with prosperity, it is re-
freshing to state that in the gall
ant old Republican stronghold of
Illinois, the miners are not at all
happy. The $500 who have been
dismissed from employment at
Virden and who are in almost a
starving condition would be glad
to stumble over some of the pros
perity about which we hear SO
much from in certain quarters in
Point Pleasant. Willn not our pros
perity preaching brothers send a
small budget to the suffering mi
ners of virden?
The st. Louis Star says: "a
St. Joseph girl who had no faith
in banks or bureau drawers, placed
$14o and her jewelry in one of her
stockings, put the stocking on and
went to bed, In the morning she
found her stocking and the con-
tents gomez" Foot, leg and allP
In 1896, according to the Re-
publican national platform, bimet-
allism was the true policy. That
party only differed with the De-
mocracy as to the mode of secur-
ing it. To-day the Republican adj
ministration is endeavoring to es-
tablish more firmly the gold stand
ard. The Democracy adheres
more firmly to bimetallism. Now
which is the more consistent?
Up in Massachusetts where the
gold standard party is the strong
est, the Democrats, in state con-
vention, have nominated a free
silver ticket, and made platform
which endorses and reaRrms the
national platform of 1896, demands
free silver coinage, and strongly
endorses w. j. Bryan and George
Fred Williams.
An ostrich, when in danger
buries its head in the sand. The
ostrich brings to mind some mer-
chants. When business is dull
they drop out of the advertising
columns. After the danger is over,
they don't realize it as soon as the
man who keeps himself before the
public all the time.
In all the years that that this
State was controlled by the Demo-
cratic party, she never elected
Legislature that so belittled the
State as the last Republican Leg
islature. The people should see to
it that the coming Legislature is
not repetition of the last one
Spencer Bulletin.