West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1898-10-13
Do YOU REMEMBER!
A9olt That "H0nsSt Dollar and
CalaGs to Earn IT,"

"Ne "i PROSPERITY tl.Tt was To
sweep over this country when
Dayton aud Mckinley should hare
been elected ?
DO you %rcmember that wheat
was to be 81 so per bushcI? Do
YOU remcm Der tbIt every labor
Tag man IN the country was to
have employment at''liying wages"
That this same l,borng mnn was
TO have IAN honest dollar anl a
chtncs ~ earn it? That al the
mills were ~ DO opened, kept open
aud L.at the goll standard was In
IN Axe AS all prosperous aud inppy ?
VI course you do. Do you re-
member thai all the t~aDncri.s were
scheduled To begin doing double
duty and that you were to receive
~ 90 per cord for bark, as you did
under a Democratic administration
u few years ago?
Do you know that the prosperity
procession has called only upon
Dayton's ~postmasters /? Do you
know that wheat is worth less than
n half Of the promised price,
which is less than the cost OF pro-
sduction and it has been kept up to
the present price only because of
the failure in foreign countries ?
do you know that il the Mckinley
bill was responsible for the rise IN
price a year ago, as Mr.. Dayton
tells you, that 1t is then also re-
sponsible for the fall in price now ?
DO you know that the only classes
overloaded with prosperity in this
country today are the trusts and
Dayton's oficeholders {? Dou't
you knewthat all of the great tan.
ming companies of the country are
into u combine or trust, controlling
the output of leather, running. the
most of them, on half or quarter
time. trying to squeeze out indie
pendent tanncries and compelling
you to pay a tribute to Swift and
Armour, OF the beef and hide trust.
by reason of the Is per cent duty
upon hides under the Mckinley
law? Do you know hat it has lust
been announced that the wool ex-
change In New York will 90 out of
business, "by reason of the depres-
sion in the wool trade 2" That all
the banks Of Boston have entered
into Que grand combine, or rust,
Tor the purpose, even, Of removing
all competition in that business q?
Do you know that hundreds of
union coal miners, in Illinois, are
new out on q strike, by reason of
the starvation wages paid to them
and that only last Wednesday the
streets OF Paua ran red with
blood, as u result thereof? Do
you know that the Mayor of Gin
-cinnati has appealed to the people
OF his city to contribute money for
the support Of the starving people
OF that section that are without IN
ployment, aDd all of this in the face
OF the fact that a war has Just been
fought out, which took two hundred
thousand men out Of the trades,
the workshops, and off the farms
and left their places. some Of them
to be filed forever, with other and
unemployed men? That this war
ought and did put much money in
circulation, by reason Of large con-
tracts for clothing, srms. ammuni-
ton, supplies. &c?
Do you know too, that the peo-
pie OF this country have paid Con-
gresham Dayton $4,000 to look
after their Interests in Congress
and that be has been absent at
tending TO his own private business
% days out OF every hundred when
Congress was in session? Do you
know that the people would have
boon better of, though, bad be been
absent all Of the time, for he voted
Tor every measure there introduced q.
which looked toward the formation
or the M sintenaucs Of a trust or a
combine aud that he voted to vir-
tnally give 20 the Pacific Railroad
Pirates the money due the Govern
ment from the Union Pacific Rail-
road ?
Do you know the Republican
party is nov in power lu every
branch Of this Government and is
responsible FOR the state Of affairs
.med aud for The terrible and