The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1899-10-18
Labor is IansIaved.

Labor is to-day in the grip oil
the trusts They control one-third
of the American workingmen and
the per centage of the enslayed ia
growing daily. twenty-five com
binations now employ nearly 3,OOO,-
600 men, and the artisans and la
borers are fast losing their indie
pendenoe. Trusts not only mon
opolize production, but monopolize
labor as we'll.
With the present unerring and
rapid tendency of nearly all lines
of industrial enterprise the future
of the American workingman is
indeed gloomy one. When we
consider that railroads, coal min
ing, print cloth, dressed beef, iron
and steel, lumber and timber, to-
bacco, leather, telegraph, telephone,
wooden goods, furniture, flour, knit
goods, silk goods, glass, cracker,
traction. worsted goods, agricultur-
al implements, palace cars and tin
plate industries are now operated
under the control of trust COM
bines,. it is enough to make the la
boring man and skilled mechanic
stand aghast.
In the face of these facts, the
man who is compelled to work for
his living will bepowerless to raise
his hand in opposition or resistance
to the entertainments and exactions
of corporate greed and combined
oupidity. He will have no more
voice in determining the amount of
his wages than if he were child.
Will the pople of America awake
to this danger in time to avert it ?
-Ex.
Good Insight Into Public Affairs.
The following complimentary
notice of our worthy young fellow
townsman is from The Fayette
Free Press.
"Griff T. Smith is enjoying quite
boom for the House of Dele
gates from Mason. His long con-
nection with the Secretary of
States office gave him good in
sight into public affairs, and Mason
could hardly find, among her pop.
ular young men, one better fitted
for that responsible position, or
who could be more useful to the
people he would be chosen to rep
resent"
The blending and uniting of la
Dor, brains and capital together in
to general utility is the solution of
all economic questions.-Wetzel
Republican.
No doubt this is true as to the
men who "blend together" but how
is it with the poor laboring man
who is thrown out of employment
by this offending together?" We
see it now, here in our own Pome-
roy Bend, where all the salt fur
naoes have been dead rented" at
$1,000 year, for five years. The
owners of the furnaces will make
money, but at the same time they
will entail misery upon hundreds
of workmen.
The latest candidate for the Dem
ocratio nomination for State Audi
tor, on the Democratic ticket, is
Hon. James A. Miller, of Hinton.
He is hustler, a popular man, and
would make a good candidate. He
is at present chairman of the Third
Congressional District Democratic.
Executive Committee.
a New York business man, now
under arrest, is said to have made
more than 100000 by removing
cancellation marks from war reve-
nue. stamps and selling the stamps
to employees of big establishments.
He was, of course, in favor of in
definite retention of the war taxes.
IT the other nations of the world
were not also engaged in land piracy
they would cry out against England
and stop her from stealing the land
from the Beers, but what can we all
say2
The financial affairs of Mason
county are in very bad condition.
The taxpayers can remedy this by
voting against the gang when the
election rolls around.
There is now considerable adj