Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-10-16
a VIEWS.
From the Baltimore sun.

From the Baltimore sun.
Messrs. Edltors:-I address this to
intelligent voters. Let the shouting
politicians on both sides go to the
devil and talk on through their hats.
Stop. and think for a moment II 1t is
to your interest now. or will your IN
~terests be further advanced by vot-
Ing for Mckinley? Up will jump some
Republican and will say prosperity Is
in full blast. So 1t is-with the trusts.
A whole lot Of these gold Democrats, IS
they style themselves, are specially in
terested. They run tr1st companies, na-
tional banks, canned goods, dry goods
and other goods they are putting on the
Government al long prices and ming
their pockets. Is it surprising they sac
rifice principle and vote for Mckinley?
They get the profits. l was in York.
Pa, some time ago and was impressed
with the numerous factories of various
kinds there, and inquired why was l.
that York was such a manufacturing
center. The reply was: Labor Is Sd
cheap" The wages of the best mechaa-
les are only about s12 a week. and
working girls get little or nothing.
The profits from the manufactured
goods have advanced in many instances
from so to 100 pre- cent. Does the la
boring man gets his share of the pros
perity? No. Everything the trust has
had a finger in has advanced. and a
dollar will buy but little in market.
Workingmen, stop and think n mo-
ment before you vote! AS it is, the
voters of this country can turn the ras-
calls out, but If Mckinney goes through
this time it will be the last vote that
will ever be cast for President in these
United States. Some loot at this. The
people will never stand it. They viii
rise up, they say. Yes, to be shot down
by a standing army big enough TO do
the job and paid S12 per month each for
so doing.
Some old fellow with one foot in the
grave and short of the right principle
might vote for Mckinley with his I'M
perialism and his special fondness for
trusts, ETC., but how any white man
outside of those that are fleeing the
people through Government iavors can
do so, | can't see. The saying was IN
olden times, Let a good man touch
anything and it would turn to gold.
Different now. Touch a man with gold
and he will turn to anything. and this
accounts for so many So-called gold
Democrats.
The Republicans say, "Oh, If Bryan
is elected capital will go into a hiding
place. If some OF the capital now
, used was in a hiding place and legiti-
mate capital used and worked honestly
and net so mach watered stock to be
accounted for in the profits, things
would probably be better for the man
that has TO earn a living in a medium
business or by his labor. There is
plenty of honest capital to do business
on. The Republicans have not got it
all. II they get frightened when Bry-
an is elected November 9th and want
to sell their mills out and go and hide
there will be cash to buy them. Did
you ever see any business start that
looked like a success that there were
not forty to jump alongside the fellow
and push TO get in? This alleged pa
ralysis of business is all a bugaboo to
brighten the timid workingman who Is
now gritting his teeth to hold on.
| was in a market here some time ago.
1t was or Thursday. / was dealing at
a stall. A workingman came up with
his empty tin kettle on his way home.
He asked of the butcher the cheapest
meat he had. 1t was the toughest-look-
ing neck meat (beef) | ever saw and
the price was s cents a pound. GIVE
me IA cents WORTH" he said. 1t was
weighed and came to 20 cents. mo. I
have but IA cents" The butcher took
off a piece. The man then asked the
butcher to give him some bones. as he
had to make a pot OF soup to last his
family until Saturday-pay-day. This
is tough on the poor man.
The same butcher told me that he
! scarcely made a living; that they (the
%butchers) were merely agents for Swift,
Armour and other large packers who
controlled the market.
A cigar store proprietor told me since
the trust had controlled the tobacco
market that independence was no more
for them. He bought a certain lot OF
cigars, and when he opened them he
found some one had spit tobacco juice
on top of the lot. He made a COM
| plant and was told to go to Helen
Hunt for the next lot he wanted, or TO
that effect.
If had children growing up | would
be worried very much as TO their fu-
ture in case an empire is made of our
free country. / am getting on the shady
| SiIt vi Illt ait Aai pAdilh III io&hEbf
! but may God have mercy on the young
er generation. However, they will grow
up under the yoke Of despotism and
will not know what liberty is, 81 what
is the use OF making so much ado? /
intend to push the Bryan end of 1t,
and when l give him a lift ! feel as
though ! am helping one worthy Of the
job and who has brains, honesty and
backbone, and these three ingredients
are essential for a President OF this
old country of ours
This is a plain, unpublished article
from a plain workingman. and while II
Is void of the s~tatesEnanlike ring, Ii
says what | mean as near as | can say
it. II you think 1t worth publishing
you will kindly do SO. II may cause
some poor devil" TO think.
WoKINGMAN.