The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1899-11-15

100 per cent if you want to put a
tin, iron or steel roof on your home.
you are bled for another 100 per
cent. over former price; if it is win
dow glass you want, you must pay
for it price advanced 100 per cent.
In short, for any thing you are
compelled to purchase you must
pay prices ranging from so to 100
per cent. higher than formerly.
Do you receive prices for your pro-
ducts which justify you in paying
these increased pricesP-Braxton
Democrat.
Farmers, how much more are you
receiving for your farm products
than you did one, two or three
years agoP How much more are
you paying for what you have to
buy than you did one, two or three
years ago? In fact, don't you be-
lieve all this boasted prosperity is
among the trusts, which, by gigan-
ito combinations, have silenced
competition, raised prices enor-
mously, increased wages but slight
ly, if any, and thrown out of en-
ployment an army of bread-win-
ners2 If there is SO much pros
perity at large, have you gotten
your share of itP
1t begins to look very much like
the business of the country is to be
conducted in the future by few
gigantic trusts. That is, if the Re-
publican party has it's way about
the matter. But there is to be a
trial of the cause next year, in
which trusts will figure as the plain
tiff and the American people as de-
PENDANTS. The Republican party
is retained for the plaintiff. Bear
this in mind and vote accordingly.
Organized hypocrisy, the power
of money and corruption will be
the implements of warfare used by
the Republican party in 1900.
But they will be as harmless as n
gentle breeze if tho outraged mill
ions will wake up to the condition
that confronts them. Eternal Wig
ilance is the price of liberty" Con-
spirNtors can rob the people while
they sleep.-Braxton Democrat.
Miss Helen Gould has been
writing letters protesting against
the seating of Congressman Rob
erts, the polygamist from taking
his seat in Congress. We sec where
Miss Helen is right. No man with
a plurality of wives should be per-
mitted to sit in Congress or hold
Office in this country.
If Congress should reverse the
Republican policy, and conclude
to accept no other reward than the
ablishment of free republics in
all the territory wrested from
Spain, we shall show that we did
not make war for conquest or plum
der, but for justice and humanity,
and thus set noble example to all
the world
Some women of Chicago have
inaugurated movement toward an
effort to show in some substantial
way to Gems. Fitzhugh Lee and
Jos Wheeler the appreciation of the
American people for their bravery
and patriotism in the late Spanish
war.
In this republic to have colonies
is to be false to the principle on
which it was founded, which en-
bodied protest against the as
sumption that a people could right
fully be held in subsection at the
pleasure of another country
All this talk that we hear from
kentucky about the killing that
will be done il SO and SO is not
elected sounds moro like the effus-
ions of the Cincinnati liar than the
genuine from the blue grass sod
where if we take precedents for a
guide, they don't do business that
way They do the killing first and
the talking afterward.-Mounds.
Vile Herald.
1t remains to be seen how the
people will take it, when they come
to understand that the massing Of
strong naval force at Manila, is