The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1900-02-14

would not prove moro dlthcult
proceeding than has Taylor's
usurpation in Kentucky.-Milwau-
kee News.
MIR. ED1roR:-We see in the
Republican press the following:
"The past two years will un-
doubtedly go down into history as
the most prosperous years this
country has ever had. The basis
of all in agriculture, and never be-
fore have the tillers of the coil
been 80 bountifully rewarded"
It should have added by paying
high prices for that which they
buy, and receiving low prices for
that which they sell. The past
two years have been prosperous
for the capitalists and not for the
masses. Again it says:
cat the present time one mort
gage after another is being rapidly
wiped out"
AS to mortgages being wiped
out, that is fact; there have been
mono less than four adjoining
farms to ours wiped out within the
last twelve months by debt. That's
the way the wiping out goes.
1t also speaks in glowing terms
of the price of flour. Let's see,
that is after it gets into the hands
of the Spectator and in the hands
of the trusts, that Mckinley will
not, dare not modest.
There is not an article of trade
or commerce that has not increased
in price from soto 100 per cent.
CLEOPATRA.
The Standard Oil Company has
declared a dividend of 20 per cent
for the quarter, which is at the rate
of 80 per cent. a year on it's CAPT
talization of $1OO,OOO,OOO. The
Rockefellers own 100000 shares
of stock, worth in the mar
ket S186,OOO,OOO. The income for
this during the last nine months
has been $9,5OO,OOO. The Stand
ard Oil Company is lustier than
any one corporation should be-
come. It is neither anarchistic,
socialistic nor iconoclastic to de-
clare this. 1t is earning 80 per
cent. under it's original investment
and franchise; and the people, who
gave it it's franchise and who pro-
tect its property from disturbances
within and foes without the repub-
lie, have right to demand ma
terial reduction in the price of it's
product.
Republican political outrages in
Southern and border States have
finally left the political atmosphere
quite clear there. Addicks in
Delaware, Wellington in Maryland,
Pritchard in North Carolina, and
Taylor in kentucky have gone over
the course and are done. There
will now be no questioning of Gold
or Silver Democrats There will
be nothing except Demoorats,-
Patterson Guardian.
If "Mr." Taylor, of Kentucky, is
the roal Governor, then why don't
he try to discover the would be-as-
sassin of his contestants Perhaps
he has applied to President Nc
Kinley to issue reward for the
arrest of the man who fired upon
Goebel from the building in which
Taylor's henchmen were quartered
with arms in their hands and muir
der in their hearts.
With a carefully selected and
popular ticket, for county officers,
the Democrats can win in Mason
county this coming November.
The people are in rebellion over
the corrupt and careless manner in
which the county's finances have
been managed for the past ten or
fifteen years.
The Hon. Teddy Roosevelt of
Now York applauds the revolution
airy performances of Governor Tay-
lor in Kentucky-but he does it
from safe distance. The spectac-
ular rough rider cannot do his cir
Gus acts in Kentucky with i'm
punity.
"Our next Governor" is the way
the Ritchie Standard heads fine
portrait of r. Fl. Freer.-Morgan-
town Post.
The Standard is owned and edi-
ted by Judge Freer and he is
blowing his own horn"
The British say that they will