The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1900-05-23
10 tho Voters at Largo.

TO the Voters at Large.
Editor Register:
The time is fast approaching
when you will be called upon to
cast your votes for the advance
ment and tho interests of your
homes and country in general, and
it is high time that you begin to
educate yourselves by a careful re-
view of the past and ascertain by Il
careful study of the benefits you
have derived during the manage
meut and administration of our
affairs in the hands of tho republi-
cans ard their agents during the
period Of the last four years, wheth-
or or not you have been benefited
to degroe that will warrant your
conscientious support of the repub-
lican candidates that will pc placed
before the people this fall, and
whose support you will be requested
to contribute to and aid in every
practical way. 1t will bo we'll to re-
member that prior to the election
of Mr.. Mckinley four years ago,
from Maine to California and at
every CROSS roads store you were
confronted with placards, open the
mills instead of the minis, vote for
Mckinley, the advance agent of
prosperity. The most important
question to tho luboring man is,
have you shared your equal pro-
portion of this prosperity, as gen
erously as the manufacturing en-
terprises of tho country and your
employer? These are quo .tions
that are essential to the prosperity
of the luboring class of peo-
plo and brings peace and con.
tentment to their homes. Isn't it an
evident fact that commodities of
life are stoadily on the advance and
the prices paid for labor remain as
low AS they can consistently keep
it and when then do enjoy an in.
croase in salary it is at the expense
of committee TO wait upon their
employer, or in other words resort
to tho unpleasant methods OF Il
strike when refused hearing by
their employer. Take into con-
siderntion tho strikes that arc pre-
vniling SO humorous and conspicu
Gus in the many different branches
of our industrial pursuits through
out the country; does the Republi-
can party claim the credit of this
as readily rs it does the prosperity
that brings about these great diff,
ferences between capital and labor?
Is this prosperity substantial and
are the results beneficial to the
wage earners that arc dependent
upon the resources of their labor
for an honest living2 Has the pro
tective tariff that has been fastened
upon the people by the Republi.
can party proven rs beneficial to
the wage Garner as it has to the
wealthier class? If the trusts and
monopolies that have nourished
under the adoption of this tariff
has tendency to benefit the toll.
ing masses, then it is easily ex
planned, but it is yet to develop
where the benefits of the laborer is
to be derived in this source of leg
islution as it has failed as yet to
mnterialize in substantial way to
those that are most in need of pro.
lection.
There is not single occupation,
business or profession to which is
not attached by the republican or
gans the label prosperity" every
individual knows better than the
statistioians whether he is prosper
GUS or not, and it is useless to ex.
poet an aggregation of individuals
to express thanks for prosperity,
when it does not como up to the
label. There has been slight ris Q
in some farm products in the last
year. Now the farmer ought to
know, and there is not one of
them but what will admit, that