Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-01-09

every month has borne witness to the
failure of
REPUBLICAN POLICIES
to bring relief to the people. Just
after the passage of the Dingley bill,
our opponents were boisterous in their
announcement that prosperity had re-
turned The Republicans were given
full swing. They framed just such a
law as their hearts desired and their
brains devised, and what is the re-
suit? Read the daily papers and you
will find the items Of news arranged
under two heads-the formation of
trusts and the reduction of wages. A
few days ago l picked up a copy of
the st. Louis Globe Democrat and
found under the innocent and unpre-
tentious head lines: "Weavers and
Spinners,' seven notices of wage re-
auctions from four of the six New
England State-one of them from
Lewiston, Me, the home of Mr. Ding
lev. the father of the Dingley bill,
reads as follows:
THE agents of all the cotton mills
in Lewiston and Auburn received dl-
rectiOns to make a general reduction
in wages on and after January IL. No
tees conforming with these instruc-
tons have been posted. The reduc-
ton of wages includes the Lewiston
bleachery and dye works"
In this the result which they prom
Used would follow, 1.-The opening of the
mills instead of the mints?" If our
enemies boast that they have buried
bimetallism, we point to these wage
reductions as
THE WEEPING WILLOWS
which have sprung up about it's tenn
porary tomb. Why is not some court
asked to enjoin the employers from
uniting together to reduce wages
Can combinations among employers be
innocent if cooperation among miners
is a crime? In most of these factories
can be found transparencies and ban
ners promising good times. The mill
owners would probably dispute the
right Of court of equity to interfere
and plead as a defense that the oper-
atives have an adequate remedy in
the ballot.
A few days ago an association of
mill owners tried to justify a reduction
of wages by laying the blame upon
the laws passed in Massachusetts for
the protection of the operatives. Their
complaint is significant because it en-
phasizes the reactionary tendency of
present conditions. If this grinding
process continues, the laboring classes
will lose all of the advantage which
they have gained in the last quarter
of a century. Instead of shorter hours
for adults and more education for
children we shall be asked to lengthen
the hours of labor and to dwarf the
intellects as well as the bodies of the
children by manual labor during the
years when they should be - school,
How many plaques will be required to
soften the heart of our financial pha-
roah Does he not know that now
as of old bricks without straw? But
presage the day of deliverance? Pres
colt tells us that the Aztecs were in
the habit Of
OFFERING UP HUMAN VICTIMS
to secure the favor of their God Our
opponents sometimes speak in dispar-
ingly terms of those who inhabit the
land of the Aztecs, but let it be re-
membered that the huge sacrificial
stone that once surrounded the great
Teocalli in the capital of the Monte
zumas, now heartless and unused,
forms one of the most interesting ex-
hibits in the Mexican national muse
UNI, while in the United States fresh
victims in ever increasing numbers
are being inundated upon the affairs
erected in honor of the gold standard.
Since the last celebration of Jack
sons day thousands of political prodi-
gals have returned to the old home
and thousands more are growing
weary of the husks. The reception of
those who have returned have depend
ed upon the spirit which has ami
mated the prodigals. Those who have
come back acknowledge the binding
force of the Chicago platform and
willing to work tremendously side by
side with the brethren who went not
astray, have been taken into full fel-
lowship and their wanderings forgiven.
Rut those who have come staggering
back, boasting of their intention to
remodel the house and revolutionize
the methods Of agriculture. have