The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1899-07-13

ment, for war purposes, and when the
Register does this 1t is nearly as pref
ty, sweet, and funny as an alligator
that has wrecked the running-gears Of
Its jawbone. Dlsqulsitions on hay seed
and references to where the editor of a
newspaper may have resided, may illu-
mine the Register editorial rooms with
a dazzling radiance, but when they APP
pear in the columns Of what is sup
posed by a number OF badly deceived
people to be a great;lewspaper as
throwing light on a financial discussion
the lrreverent reader Is apt to ejacu-
late "ratsp'
References to bond Issues by Mr..
Cleveland and his administration, may
seem to display lack OF Information
ON financial matters, to the Register,
which appears to be mainly troubled in
getting "hay seed" out Of its eyes, but
any reader of the newspapers above
the age of twelve years remembers all
about them. and knows that they were
not made necessary in order to meet
the deficit of the Harrison administra-
tion. II they were needed to maintain
the gold reserve in the treasury, that
was because of the peculiar mlsman-
agement of the reserve, by the Demo
cratic administration.
This same Cleveland. whose name
seems to roll as a sweet morsel on the
Registers tongue, when 1t can get the
hay seed out of its eyes, so it can taste
anythIng,and his secretary of the treas
ury, are suspected Of very queer con-
duct in connection with the issuing of
these same bonds in time OF peace.
They were sold to a syndicate under
circumstances that caused many hon
est Democrats to rend their clothes and
tear their hair and the true Democracy
OF to-day as wearing garb Of sorrow
and Indulge in sackcloth and ashes on
account of what 1t thinks was an In
fanny.
The Register has not heard anything
about the whole dirty job, however. 1t
Is showing itself what 1t has long been
suspected of being-a defender OF the
Cleveland administration. 1t has pecu-
liar reasons for this and may be ex-
pected to carry the matter further. 1t
may not only be found defending Cleve-
land. but attacking Bryan. wIping out
the new Democracy IL 1t can-when the
fiGht comes between the two wings of
the party.
The real argument in this discussion
comes, however, in the investigation OF
what the government is spending mon
ey for, and has been using its funds
for. In this, the State Journal regrets
to see newspaper of which it is rather
fond, getting on the side Of dIsloyalty,
arraylng itself with the few who think
more of the narrow cause they advo-
cate than Of the credit and the glory
Of this great government.
sifted down, what does the attitude
of the Register mean? Simply that an
election is coming on next year, and
that for the sake of having something
as a foundation for an attack on the
administration of Mr.. Mckinley, the
wheeling Register win growl and howl
because 1t took money to carry on the
war with Spain and is taking more to
carry on the contes. with the FllIpInos.
BY pretending that the expenditure is
great, the Register is expecting to
cause trouble for its friend, the enemy.
1t acnont see that the question is not,
shall money be spent for war purposes,
but is that which is expended, well and
wisely used2 1t seeks to deceive by an
array Of figures that mean nothing as
they stand. 1t pretends not to see that
had 1t taken twice as much to carry
on tho war with Spain, 1t should have
been spent.
Did the government carry on the war
with the oppressor of Cuba economic
cally and properly? The State Jour
nal says, without fear Of successful
contradiction, 1t did. The war, in the
decisiveness of its victories. in the
shortness Of its duration, in the cheap
ness with which 1t was conducted, is
the wonder and admiration Of the
world, yet here comes the Wheeling
Register, choking with hay seed and
wrath and screeches out that the gov
eminent spent a hundred million dol
lars more the last fiscal year than 1t
took In, ms though that were any argu-
ment. The state Journal says that II
1t had cost thousand million dollars
more than 1t did. and the money were
fairly and honorably spent, that still
1t is all right.
But the really sore point that is CIV
ing the Register even more trouble
than Richie county hay seed, Is the
nnair in the Philippine Islands. It
says. aha! Including twenty millions
of dollars. paid to Spain for the Philip
pine Islands, our naval and military
operations since the first day OF July,
1898. have cost us about two hundred
and thirty millions OF dollars" Sup
posing they have. what is going to be
done about It? The Register. instead
Of tearing around like It had hay seed
IN It's immortal soul. and pounding the
mir with vain struggles instead OF I'LL
ing the state with empty nothlngs,
phoull point out what should be done.
1t does not pretend to show that'n sin
gle dollar has been squandcred, but
simply nings Its arithmetic at the
world and expects this to change the
tide Of affairs
WIN the Register take look back
wards2 When this country was en-
payed in n ,ynr for humanity. n man by