Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-10-16

ing the principles and Fidiculing the
aims and ambitions Of those who earn
their living by work, Is again endeav-
/ oring to mislead and misinform.
The Register does not believe that
the candidacy OF Mr.. Debs for the Pres
idency will result in any practical good.
| because Mr.. Debs cannot possibly car
ry a single State Of the Union. The
most it car do will be to impress upon
the workingman and the farmer the
Importance Of their inherent rights.
and of the equal importance OF enforc-
ing their rightful claims upon the great
body Of the people. We also believe
that those rights and claims can best
be secured through the success OF the
Democratic party in the nation, and are
equally firmly convinced that they Will
never come into tangible being through
the p~erpetuation of Republican rule, be-
cause the Republican party is controll-
ed and its policies dictated and car
ried out by elements and influences di-
ametrically opposite to those calculated
to benefit the masses Of the people. But,
believing this, and willing at all times
to advocate the Democratic u as
one standing close to the hearts and in
harmony with the interests OF
the people at large, we are
unwilling to pass over the false
and uncalled for accusations Of the In
telligencer that Mr. Debs-and by i'm
| putation those who stand with him, or
who believe that his ideas and princl-
pies are honest-stands with "the torch
of incendiarism in the n hand, and
the chaos of anarchy in the other"
That is a monstrous indictment to
bring against any When it is
alleged against Mr. Debs it is frightful
in it's %audaoity, and the deliberately
penned sentiments of the Intelligencer
ought to be resented by every wage
Garner in the land, for, in a just and
larger application, it strikes at every
| one who tolls with his hands, and de-
nounces all those who cannot and do
not approve Of a continuance of the
rule of the few for the benefit of the
few, and who are striving for a re-
turn of popular government in the
name Of the majority.
The Intelligencer believes that the
rule of the people would result in "hun-
ger, horror and misery" and tells the
workingman he ought to be content
with his lot, and to thank the Republi-
can party for the prosperity he enjoys.
That is rubbing it in with a vengeance.
The average workingman of this coun-
try is worse off to-day, upon the eve
of a national election, and after three
years and six months of McKinleyism,
than he has been in ten years. His
taxes have been increased, through the
increased cost of government, city,
county, State and national, he pays
more for everything he buys, from flour
to beefsteak, and froma tin cup to a
stove, and his wages have not been
increased, where they have been in
creased at all, to the extent of one-fifth
of these extortions. The net result is
on the bad side of the account. Not
three of the necessaries of life are
! cheaper now than upon the day William
Mckinley entered the White House as
the syndicated President of the Republi-
can party. Not ten articles of every
day use are as cheap, while fifty or
more are from ten to n hundred per
cent. dearer, and. the average advance
has been from thirty to forty per cent.
That comes very far from being pros
perity, and he who Is deceived by the
generalties of such party organs as the
Wheeling Intelligencer is not wise.
And let the workingmen mark the
fact that the distinct tendency through
out the country, in many lines Of indus
try, is towards a decrease of wages, and
let them further mark the prediction
that after the election is over. If the
Republican cause, through any mishap,
should triumph, there will be a slump
in wages all along the line, while the
managers of the party in power and
| those who control its policies and out
line its legislation will simply chuckle
over their success in fooling the voters
once more. and will smile at the pro-
! tests of those who unwittingly became
| their tools through a passing belief in
| promises never intended to be kept.
The esteemed Intelligencer intimates.
under a very small head, that no i'm