The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1898-10-26
THESE ARE CONDITIONS
IHAI DO EXIST

Hill DU LlEl0
No Prosperity There. Honest Doll
ar and a Chance to Earn It
Facts, Not Fiction Read and
Reflect.
From an Illinois exchange. the
White County Democrat, publish
ed at Carmi, we select the follow
ing, and it is worthy of perusal by
everyone:
Gas the time of election draws
near, would it not be we'll for the
voter to consider his own interests
as well as those of the political
parties asking for his auffrage3 In
1895 the Republican speakers were.
profuse in their promises of pros
perity. They had much to say
about the price of wheat and corn
and cattle They said with Nc
KinIey as president there would be
no excuse for other than dollar
wheat. The farmer. under the
.benefcent eff sots of the gold
standard and protective tariff,
would absolutely roll in wealth.
Every laborer would have steady
employment at wages calculated to
make him independent. AN honest
dollar and chance to earn it.
was beautiful, but meaningless
phrase they chanted in the work
ing mans ear. Strikes were to be
a thing known only to the dark
past. Elect Mckinley. said they,
and there will undoubtedly be an
increased activity in all kinds of
business. The factories were to
start up with an increased force
and an increase in wages. How
has it been? Two bountiful har-
vests have been garnered and sold
since McKinley's Inauguration,
and yet, despite the Dingley bill
and the restored condolences times
are growing harder. Has there
been single promise fulfilled?
Wheat is selling in the Chicago
markets for 60 cents; corn is worth
less than 25 cents, and cotton is
selling at 81 cents, while in the
state of Illinois, which gave a plu-
rality of more than 100000 for
Mckinley and Prosperity the
people are asking for militia pro-
lection because of the fact that one
of the worst of strikes is the result
of poorly paid labor. In the towns
Pana and Virden, composed of
laboring people, who were to enjoy
peace, plenty and prosperity,
armed soldiers patrol the streets
and protect negro miners who have
been imported to take the place of
whites, because they work cheaper.
The men who imported the negroes
were, two years ago, loud in their
demands for gold standard votes,
and no doubt two-thirds of the
poor devils who are now out of a
job as result of the strike, voted
for just what they got. Voted for
Mckinley and protection-protec-
ton by soldiers to the negro and
convict labor that is supplanting
them"
"Take the condition of affairs
in our county. Mortgage sales
and renewals follow one another
with excrucieting regularity. The
farmer finds his obligations as.
hard to meet as they ever were.
The laborer receives less pay than
ever, Notwithstanding the fact that
the war has taken $50 men from
our midst. Seven thousand dol
lars worth of pauper claims are
evidence of the fact that prosperity
does not exist. These are condi-
tions. They exist. If the theories
of the Mckinley party are right.
they would not exist.
'Let every man study his own
condition and the cause of it
There is no use to be fool always.
Sometimes when a man has been
buncoed the experience is profit
able. Will it be so with the voters
who we're buncoed by the gold brick
swindle perpetrated on the coun-
try by Mckinley and Hanna in