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The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1900-04-25
The Intanny.

Parkersburg Sentinel.
The Porto Rican tariff question
will not be downed. It is one of
the issues of the campaign. In
MoKinley's message to congress
on the subject he expressed him
self in few and plain words
saying:
"Our plain duty is to abolish the
customs tariffs between the United
States and Porto Rico, and give
her products free access to our
markets"
There can be no misunderstand-
ing of what the President said, nor
is it possible to misunderstood the
meaning of the few and simple
words he used. Secretary Root,
in his annual report, which accom-
panied the message of the Presi-
dent, concerning the same subject,
said:
"The highest considerations of
justice and good faith demand that
we should not disappoint the PEG.
pie of Porto Rico. We should
treat the interests of this people as
our own. l shall most strongly
urge that the customs duties be.
tween Porto Rico and the United
States be removed"
So it seems that not only the
President, but the secretary of war,
within whose jurisdiction was the
government of the island pending
it's military occupation was of the
opinion that Justice and good
faith" demanded free trade between
the islands and this country,
When Gen. Miles, commanding
the army of the United States, went
to Porto Rico, he issued procla-
nation, in which he said:
"We have not come to make war
upon the people, but, on tho con-
trary, to bestow upon you the i'm
munities and blessings of the lib
eral institutions of our govern
ment."
Commissioners Schurman, who
has twice been the selection of the
President as his personal represen-
tative to visit the various colonies,
in letter said:
"Shall we repudiate or shall we
fulfill the national engagements?
Shall this great republic break
faith with the little island of Porto
Rico? Having secured tho fruits
of General Miles promise, shall we
now renounce the promise? The
American people will not tolerate
any faltering with solemn obliga.
tons. Recognizing that national
good faith is the nations chiefest
good, they will condemn any viola
ton of it as the blacklist crime"
With these declarations of the
president, the secretary of war, the
general commanding the army, and
the presidents private commission
or, in favor of maintaining the
governments good faith and keep
Ing it's promises, we find congress
passing tariff bill against Porto
Rico, and more surprising than all,
the president declaring himself in
favor of it. The real reason of the
base conclusion to such noble SEN
timents is found in the fact that
the sugar and tobacco trusts want
ed the tariff and they got it. Even
tire presidents own convictions as
expressed in his public message
were cast aside as nothing when
tho trusts demanded protection.
Communications.
EIIUcD I2rcICCED. Ao onpIiCn
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1900-04-25

Eleoting Senators by popular
vote is in popular favor.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1900-04-25

The discovery that MoKinley's
grandfather was British soldier
in the war of the American Revo7
luton accounts perhaps fornthe
vagaries of his Tory administration.
-Parkersburg Sentinel.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1900-04-25

If Senator Hoar will read the
crazy republican party organs he
will learn what an awful traitor he
has suddenly become.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1900-04-25
Made $4,000 Last Year.

AT the annual meeting of the
Ripley & Mill Greek Valley Rail
road 90, Jno. 81. Riley, Geo. A
Burt, Fl. P. Camden, ely Ensign
and Warren Miller we're elected
directors, and George B. Grow
chosen attorney to accept service
of process, in lieu of Geo j. Walk
er, deceased
The report showed the gross
earnings for last year to be $50,
O81 60 and net earnings $4,000, as
against $1,000 the preceding year.
This road runs from Wildwood
on the Ohio River railway to Rip
ley, jackson county.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1900-04-25

And then again, we need the POI.
sition; we need the salary; we have
but one position at present that
affords us any means of support,
and that is assistant correspondent
to the "Buffalonian. And all we
have of this worlds goods are two
"achers" and nine (fishing) poles.
The achers are two hollow molars.
i had almost forgotten to mention
lead pencil that was given to me
by the chairman of the Gold Stand
ard wagon bolster.
Now Mr.. Editor, we hope you
will publish this, and if you happen
to see the man who appoints the
people, tell him it is his "plain
duty" yes it is his plain ad valorem
duty to give me the job. Tell him
if he can't appoint me to let me
know as soon as possible, il not
sooner, SO 1 can run for congress il
1 don't get the job.
A. w. ASHER
Sloan, w. Va.
p. SIN next weeks issue OF
the Register we will have some.
thing of interest to say to the farm.
ers of Mason county. IVA.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1900-04-25

Judge Henry Clay Caldwell, OF
Arkansas, who is talked of as a run
ming mate for Bryan, was appoint
ed to the United States district
court of Arkansas by Lincoln in
1864 and held the place for 26
years. He was made circuit
court Judge by President Harrison.
He was born in West Virginia, but
grew up in Iowa, and was Colonel
of the Third Iowa cavalry in the
war of the rebellion.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1900-04-25
Archbold's Little Joke.


ST. Louis ost-Dispatch.
With 1920 men thrown out of
work by the Steel and Wire Trust,
5000 thrown out of work by the
Tobacco Trust and 1000 thrown
out of work by the Sugar Trust re-
comfy, John Archbold's assertion
that trusts insure men wages all
the year round smacks of irony.
The young man who puts his
shoulder to the wheel and labors is
always respected more than a
dressed up idle dude. 1t matters
not SO much what kind of labor it
is, SO that it is labor, either mental
or physical. The boy who will
take a buck saw and earn some
thing with it rather than be idle, is
entitled to the respect of all good
people, and may some day be ex-
peoted to fill higher places of trust
and honor. It is worse disgrace
to be idle than it is to be boot
black.
Man proposes; woman disposes
of him.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1900-04-25
Organized.

The newly appointed county
Democratic Executive Committee.
met in this city Saturday and or
ganized by eleoting Q. S. p. Ed
wards, Chairman, and VIM. M.
Duffy Secretary and Treasurer.
The Hampshire Review wants
Winfield Scott Sohley nominated
for vice. president, on the ticket
with Bryan. Sohley is the real
hero of the Spanish war. No SOL
der, no other sailor SO distinguish
ed himself for gallantry and brav-
cry. Schley met and conquered
real foes and not mere shams and
windmills. He attacked real mod
ern war vessels and not mere rotten
hulks and junk boats. Schley was
always at his post of duty and
ready for fight. The fame he
won was for actual fighting done
and not for victories won in his
absencet. The navy department was
organized against him, but he
forged to the front in spite of the
obstacles placed in his way.-Char-
lesion Gazette.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1900-04-25

The roads have improved Won
derfully and if the machines could
be put to work all over the county
we might have good solid highways
from this time until next winter.
There seems to be no way to
pave our streets. but to issue more
bonds, and this the people will
never vote for, if the proposition
is submitted
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1900-04-25

The House of Representatives
has passed the constitutional
amendment for the election of Uni
ted States senators by the people
three or four times, and once unan-
imously. Last week it passed it
again with only Is votes in the neg
alive out of a membership of 357.
The reform has been endorsed and
advised by the Legislatures of
thirty-four States. This is num-
Der of States sufficient to ratify it.
Yet the United States Senate holds
back. It will neither approve nor
reject the amendment, but proposes
to smother it in committee and SO
prevent vote.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1900-04-25

The English are arming the Bas-
utos, a warlike tribe of native Afri-
cans adjoining the Transvaal, that
they may join in the war against
the Beers. In 1776 the English
performed similar service for CIV
ilization and humanity in this coun-
try by arming the Indians and
turning them against the Ameri-
cans and granting them the privi-
lego to loot, destroy and approp-
rate whatever they ran across
whether it was property or persons.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1900-04-25

The speech of Senator Hoar in
opposition to imperialism ranks
with the best efforts of Clay, Web.
ster, Calhoun, Sumner and Seward
Even those who dissent from his
views will admire his ability as an
orator.
The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1900-04-25

Man proposes; woman disposea
Of him.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1900-12-14
NEW PLAN REGARDING CHINA.

The news from PEakin, wired from
there Tuesday, that serious negotia-
tions for peace are about to begin
comes in the nature of a welcome
message after the weeks of jangling
and controversy that have obtained
at the Chinese capital. The plan as
outlined by the correspondent send
ing the message is for the formation
of a temporary protectorate, leaving
the matter of indemnity and CONNER
cial relations to form the subject of
future conventions. The intervening
powers are to retain troops in China
until such time as pending negotia-
tions are settled and the empire gives
satisfactory evidence of it's intention
to honestly fulfill it's engagements
and carry out its contracts. The plan
probably contemplates a different
method of procedure than may have
been originally intended, and some OBJ
jections may be urged against its
adoption, still it is not without
features that commend it. If, as the
correspondent says, the progressive
element of China favors it and will
seek to make it the opportunity for
carrying ont the wishes of the reform
party to depose the present dynasty
md its ancient prejudices against
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1900-12-14
A WITH CHINA.

William Barclay Parsons contributes
an article to the current number of
Popular Science Monthly on Chinese
commerce. The portion relating to
American trade with China is of spec
ial interest and value, as Mr.. Parsons
has been a deep student of all matters
pertaining to China. He takes occa-
sion to describe the trade Of the 20
treaty ports and then says that the
lack Of internal communications great
~ restricts distribution of Chinese
commerce. In 1899 the foreign COM
MERGE was, in imports, of the value of
1885, 1924, 900 and in exports of native
goods of the value IF $127, O49, 900.
More than half of the imports are
cotton goods, cotton and opium, and
silk and tea make up half the exports.
The export trade of the United
States with China, insignificant in
1878, in 1899 had outstripped the COM
bined exports from the whole CONT
nent of Europe and was catching up
with Japan and India. The increase
has been due chiefly to manufactured
and raw cotton, machinery and oils.
American drills, jeans and sheetings
entered the three northern ports of
i u-Chwang, Tien Tsin and Chi Flu to
the extent of SO per cent of the total
trade. American flour in the fiscal
year ending June 80, 1900, went into
China to the extent of 81, OO2, 031
worth. Mr.. Parsons, discussing the
future possibilities from this basis.
takes the ground that we can greatly
increase our Chinese trade by finding
out what Cinnamon want in the way
of manufactures, etc. The Chinese
needs must be studied and the consul
lar service will have to be reformed
and the practice Of sending such off,
Gals to China who do not understand
the language, customs or idiosyn-
cracies of the people should be
stopped. A permanent consular SER
vice, where consuls are not changed
for political reasons, is decidedly nee
essary in China.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1900-12-14
DESERVES

Postmaster General Smith is at
tempting a service to the nation and
the publisher of every legitimate
journal by seeking to exclude from
the mails as second class matter the
many fake publications which now
burden the service and add enormously
to the cost of transportation. In his
report the postmaster general calls at
tention to what he terms fragrant
abuses in connection with second
class mail matter. He truthfully re-
marks that the exclusion suggested by
him would in nowise interfere with
the publishers of periodicals or jour-
mails Or abridge the privileges they
now enjoy under the law. The re-
form, lie says, is aimed at "the serial
paper-covered books, at the private
house organs at the spurious trade
journals and sheets of an exclusive
advertising character, at bulk distri-
button of what is called subscription.
There is no objection to serving these
purely private enterprises through the
mails but there is no reason why the
government should carry them at the
second class rate Of d cent q pound,
involving a dead loss to it of millions
of dollars a year, when other articles
of the same kind rightfully pay the
third.clas rate of eight cents a
pound" r
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1900-12-14
MR.. R MISTAKE.

It is beginning to look as if those
who have been advising Mr.. CLARK
not to press his appointment by
Spriggs knew whereof they spoke
when they limited at the probability OF
the resolution prepared by the senate
committee on privileges and elections
being ressurrected, should he insist
upon being given a seat. Already in
a measure their prediction has been
verified. While not as yet taken from
the pigeon-hole in which it has been
reposing, the slumbers of the resolu-
tion will be interrupted if a certain
New Hampshire senator has his way.
Mr.. Chandler, as it's chairman evident
" does not propose that the work of
the committee shall have been per-
formed for no other purpose than to
furnish "copy'' for the printer and a
subject for discussion by the press
and public. In making request for
recoommital Of the resolution he APP
parently acted within his right as
but aside from this he also
appears to have exercised the right
Khich belongs to all members Of any
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1900-12-14

No matter what disposition England
may see fit to make of the T%ransvaal,
it is very evident that the former
Boer republic will have to pay at least
a part of the war it caused. A COM
missioner has been appointed by the
crown to visit South Africa for the
purpose of a%scertaining the assets and
taxable capacity Of the Transvaal, as
the government proposes to make it
pay a considerable proportion of the
cost of the war. In view of the met
that the many British subjects at
johannesburg and other points in the
annexed territory were SO eager that
the Beers land should become a part
of their own, they will probably re-
ceive the commissioner with demon
STATIONS of popular joy and bid him
pile it on all he can.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1900-12-14

A Complete
Line of
Perfumes,
Soaps,
Combs and
Brushes
of all kinds.

Several years ago some of the more
advanced and prominent members Of
the medical profession in this and for
eign countries started a discussion of
the subject of contagion in pulmonary
diseases. They held that consumption
is contagious, though not infectious,
and went to the extent of advocating
sequestration by law Of all known on
sumptives OF those affected by kindred
ailments. At the time the discussion
attracted considerable attention and
much was written On the matter, both
in support and against. Gradually the
question passed from public attention
and ceased to be discussed. except, per-
haps, by physicians. Now it's revival
is probable. Several days ago a Jap
anese immigrant arrived at San Fran
cisco who was suffering from tuber-
culosis. The commissioners of immi-
grafton refused to allow him to land
and ordered his return to the port
whence he had sailed, holding that he
was affected with a contagious disease.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1900-12-14

modern ideas and modern methods,
China will have reason in time to
come to be grateful for the trouble
that the Manchurians brought upon
it. 1t will mean it's liberation from
ancient superstitions and the customs
that have caused it to stand still while
the rest Of the world progressed and
remain where it was placed by the
men who thousands of years ago gave
it the civilization it now has.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1900-12-14

The announcement that for the first
time since it's admission the state OF
Montana is cut of debt and on a cash
basis prompts the Omaha Bee to re.
mark that that should persuade it tc
finish the job Of discarding democracy
and embracing republican prosperity.
The Bee is requested to contain itself
in patience and keep its eye in this
direction from 10Y on. It is hard to
overcome old and fixed habits, but the
advance made in the direction of re-
claiming the state last month is such
as to give abundant cause of hope for
the future.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1900-12-14
SOLVING STRIKE QUESTION.

Many of the large manufacturing
concerns of the country have adopted
the cooperative system and by giving
their employees an interest in the bust
ness have solved the strike question,
at least so far as they are concerned.
One of the latest to adopt the system
is the Hecla Iron works, a New York
institution. Its employees number
over 700 and they are to be given half
of the capital stock of the company,
which amounts to 1925, 600. The
Oldest and most trustworthy Of the
employees are the first ones to receive
stock and the promise is made that the
system will be extended in the near
future.
In deciding upon this move the
company is only following the ex-
ample set by others and adopting a
plan that has been found to work ad-
mirably wherever tried. BY giving
employees a direct interest in a bust
ness and placing them in the position
of sharers of the profits made, large
concerns find that they>are exempt
from many of the troubles that arise
from the employment of large bodies
of men. While drawing their wages
as others do, the workers in co .operat.
i've institutions have the added incent-
i've to render faithful and honest SER
vice that comes from the knowledge
that ultimately they will receive as
reward a share of the profits their Ia
Dor helps to create. Thus while em-
ployes they are in a Measure also en-
ployers and selfishness, if nothing else,
prompts them to devote their best en-
ergies and thoughts to the success of
the business or enterprise with which
they are affiliated. The more the sys-
tenn has been, tried the stronger be-
comes the proof of it's success, and the
wonder is that more large employers
of labor do not adopt it.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1900-12-14
WAR TAX.

Only in one respect is there unanim-
-ty of opinion at Washington in
reference to a revision of the war rev.
enue law. All are agreed that"the in
come to the government which is de-
rived under the law should be re-
duced, but there unanimity ceases and
divergence begins. The secretary OF
the treasury and the president hold
that a reduction of $50, 600, 900 is as
much as should be made, and MI.
Gage so recommended to the ways
and means committee. The commit
tee, however, or at least the %republi-
can majority, thought a greater cut
should be made and in it's report sub
mitted a bill reducing the amount
$40, 900, 900 annually. Now comes the
democratic minority and wants a re-
duction of $40, 900, 600. In both re-
ports the effects of outside influences
are discernable, particularly where
the manufacturers of beer are con
cerned, as the majority report econ
mends a cut of SO, 600, 900 in the tax
levied on beer.
The administration, while favoring
a reasonable reduction is opposed to
indiscriminate slashing, as it realizes
the necessity of maintaining some
source of revenue aside from that de-
rived thorugh ordinary and regular
channels. Contingencies are liable to
arise at any moment that may make
the expenditures of large amounts OF
money imperative, especially in view
of the unsettled conditions that obtain
in the orient, where we are still in
terested to the extent of compelling us
to be prepared to military
movements of even greater magnitude
than those which marked our entry
into that part of the world last sum-
mer. Conservatism points toward
maintenance. of a revenue ample to
meet all demands until matters shall
have again assumed a normal attitude
and the regular routine of govern
affairs is again established.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1900-12-14
REPORTED BRITISH DEFEAT.

London, Dec. 13-The Daily Ex-
press publishes a rumor of a serious
disaster to the British army. Accord
ing to this report Beers attacked the
camp Of General Clements III the
Barberton district, capturing the
camp, killing a number of British off,
GERS and taking prisoners all the Brit
ish troops, including four companies
of the Northumberland Fusileers.
The story is not confirmed in any
quarter and is not generally believed.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1900-12-14
MR.. HILLS

It is the prudent, thoughtful ma
who makes preparations for the fu'
ture, rather than trust to fortune tt
supply his wants. Such a man il
David Bennett Hill of New York.
Mr.. Hill has ambitions, laudable am
billions. and wants the fact to be
known, SO that when the time fol
action comes the opposition may moi
plead surprise and lack of preparation.
For that reason he sends M of his
trusted followers into the wilds of
Chicago where he allows himself to be
interviewed and gives confirmation to
what may have been but a suspicion
in the minds of some of those who
keep watch of events. :
MI. Hill above all is a politician
and it is his shrewdness as such that
prompts him to make public his plans
and desires for four years hence. No
doubt he thinks that Cookers power
as a factor in democratic politics of
the Empire state is waning. In the
failure of the boss to make good his
pledges given to the national commit
tee last summer and fall and his ina
bility to deliver the goods he had bar
gained for Hill sees evidence of this.
He is also aware of the dissatisfaction
existing among the better element Of
the party ove1 the reign of the boss
and has been not averse to fomenting
that feeling until it now assumes the
proportions of All open revolt. The
movement which threatens to end in
the unseating Of the King of Tam
many has taken such proportions that
Hill is now openly alligning himself
with it and he proposes to defy the
autocrat and emerge from his enforced
retirement. For this reason he per-
mits the statement (Which amounts
to almost a personal announcement"
to be made that he intends to figure
there or Whereabouts in rather a prom
inent position when it ome to con-
sidering a democratic candidate for
the presidency in 1904.
It should not be thought, however,
that the announcement will cause the
immediate return from Europe of
Richard Croker, for there is still
plenty Of time left to look after the
peanut politician But, all the
same, it may be taken for granted that
the absent boss has by this time been
put in possession of the aspirations
entertained by the man whom he
sought to bury last summer by trying
to force him to accept his party's
nomination for vice-president, and
that his energetic brain is already con-
oocting plans by which he may be
headed off.