The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1899-10-18
ZEE INTELLIGENcER.
ohnirmnn Jones M Proeperlty.

Senator Jones, chairman Of the Chi
cago platform wing of the Democratic
party, who has Just arrived home from
an extended stay In Europe, has raised
his Ebenezer to accompany the misan-
thropic song sung by the dismal prophet
ofthe cave Of Adullum. Jones, like Bryan,
sees no occasion to shout over the pros
perlty the country is enjoying at the
present time. and to him no good has
ever come out of Nazareth. He has SOL
emily declared in the press that AL
Of this talk about prosperity was ride
uious, and that the country was mot
prosperous"
Mr.. Jones might be excused on the
point of ignorance of affairs, as he has
been absent from the United states the
greater part of the year, but he is In
sistent in knowing what he is talking
about, claiming that he has been kept
informed on matters of interest by his
party friends"
The Richmond Times seems to cut In
to Mr.. Jones' remarkable observations
in an inclsive manner when 1t says:
Now. for any man to stand up in the
face Of the American people and tell them
that they are not prosperous, Whsn wy
country Is In such rush anu Llus o.
buginaaB as was never heard Of before
K Simply 10 dlBcredlt himself with all OBJ
servant men. But N point o. fact Sen ~,
TOT Jones % not suffering from s3cn ~
extravngant deluslon, after all; what ne
means Is that the calamity VIZ ~
make them rich arc not prospecting III
i6esS 81 prosperity centre In and reNolve
around them. Unless they can get cSsh
10 buy whisky and tobacco, While tney
gossip about the court house IN REGARD v
&c Country going to ruin because the
SaIS4erS won't work" Senator Jones inl-
1Slnes the country Is on the brink OF ruin
They are the people to prosper. ~ ~
thew can loIter around and swap anec-
dotes, while they repeat every hlteen uln-
iffeS what the governor OF North Cafollnl
e reported to have said 70 the governor O'
South Carolina.
The Times then shows where pros
perity in the south is dwelling in the
habltations of contentment; how the
negro laborers who produce the cotton
are getting better wages than they
ever got in their lives, have clean shirts
to wear on Sunday, and are able to give
their barefooted children shoesi that
the Industries are paying their en-
ployes the best wages they ever recelv-
ed, and that every man who is willing
to labor can get work with the best
wages the world has ever known to be
paid. The Times is a Democratic pa
per, but Is not of the hybrid Bryan
stripe. Nevertheless, 1t speaks the
truth.
And the Far West raises its voice in
protest to such astounding statements
as those made by Chairman Jones. The
great mining interests which suffered
severely under the depressing blight
inflicted upon the country by Democrat
ic folly and misgovernment. A Denver
dispatch Of a recent date states:
The steady Increase Of ore production II
the state has reached point now wher'
railroads, reduction mills and smeltefI
are totally unable 70 handle me tonnnE!
offered to them. The output OF Srippi,
average Of 8. 900 month 10 double tina
sum. Every mining camp Of the STATE
this season will show an Increased Outpu
OF ores over tne TeCOFu OF lhhE yNAEs ~
though the reduction mills have Increased
their capacity and new eatablilhmenti
have come into the field. the shipment
offered are too heavy for prompt treat
Prices for the base metals have iikewiB'
been favorable for this increase OF orr
Shipments Ores that last year did no
nay expenses Of freight and smeltel
charges, this year AFFORD a small profit tt
with 4 monthly output OF 100000 ant
n prornise or n total dividend roll OF 1900.
005 more than that OF last year. the Grip
Die Creek district II happy. Besides thu
result. the iessees on large number o
mines have made greater protitB thnu tn
dlvldend-paying mining companies. Las
month the royalties paid INTO nc JACK ro
treasury amounted TO $4,000. and afte
paying $4,000 In dividends the cnmpan!
viii have nearly 10000 at the end OF IN
year
Sun another witness appears agalns
Jones, and has companion calamity
howlers in the form of an extract from
a private letter printed in an eastern
paper, which says:
~ have lived in the west thirty years
and I must say that never saw sucl
conditions existing as do now. For IN
stance. I am running a smelling plant an
mine, and I am paying WnEea from y
4 dny to "a day, and cannot get mel
enough here, where formerly there WoulI
h. from three 10 i've hundred men idl
IN this little town, am running on
smelling plant on half capacity, Tor IN
reason that cannot get cars TO brinl
In coke. Coke Is g ton higher. ana
can't Eet Il az that. Steel rails for Oh
mines, two years ago, were bought for "
IN Chicago, but to-day can't get then
for prompt delivery for $40; that IT,, 70
only i2-pound rails. Everything else y y
proportion n ! order 4 piece Of chttinl
] can't get Il for fourteen months, and
don't 500 how this II going to stop for
long time 10 come. The crppS are 900
and farmers have plenty OF money an
Cnttle men are getting rich sold ~
head Of cattle this year, and thee, ncttel
me 9t4 per head more than they did las
year and so more than they did Two year
ngo. All or these things are golnE 70 ooun
m the long run I DO not see anything I
encourage the bears, II prosperity count
for anything. think you VIII see "a
market higher than Il has ever been be
fore"
Perhaps the shhrpest dig under tn
ribs that Mr.. Jones has received come
from the rabid free trade New YeFI
Evening Post While the Post ia some
,rzbat cratic in politics it 10 univerOall!