Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1900-05-10

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HI. SNYDER, Editor and Publisher,
SuEPHERDsTowN. W. Va.
THURSDAY, May 10, 1900.
GENERAL OTIs has sailed for home.
Aguinaldo is still there.
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TaE paper trust is still holding the
fort and Congress is still doing moth
ing at the old stand.
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ADMIRAL DEWEY is touring through
the South this week. The South Is
solid, but not for Dewey.
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THE Charlestown AdcOcate appears
to be getting ready to fall out with
everybody who disagrees with it.
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IT is evident that some Of the trusts
will eventually come to grief, but they
are making the most Of present oppor-
tunities.
A TRUST controls paris green. Be-
tween the potato bugs and the trust
the potato grower will have a hard
time Of it,
IT will be observed that by far the
greater part Of enthusiasm among the
Republicans in West Virginia is con-
fined to present and would-be office
holders
THE national convention of Fusion
Populists is being held at Sioux Falls,
S. D.. this week. We hope they will
nominate their own ticket and not try
to work in with the Democrats.
OUR government is providing for
great number Of new and powerful
and costly war vessels. The probable
itv is that we will need them if Presi-
dent Mckinley has another term.
THE Secretary of the Treasury says
that about 34OO,OOO.OOO of gold that
should be in circulation is mysterious
" missing. Reckon country editors
have it hidden away in cid teapOts.
THE convention to select delegates
to the national Democratic convention
at Kansas City will meet in Charles
town next Wednesday. Bryan dele
gates will undoubtedly be chosen.
IT VIZ take all the time from the
date Of the Republican convention un-
til the election in November to explain
the shortcomings of this administra-
ton, and even then it may not be sue
cessfully done.
SINCE the beginning of the war
against the Beers the English losses
in South Africa have been 16,427, in
killed, wounded, missing and captured.
1t seems to be impossible to get list
of our losses in the Philippines.
THE British are pushing the Beers
back slowly but surely in South Afri-
ca, the former outnumbering the lat
ter by about five to one. If the Beers
had five to one against the British the
war would be over in a very few days.
THE eztortions upon the newspapers
OF the country by the paper trust con-
tinue-an infamous system Of robbery
for which there Is no excuse in law or
morals. Congress could put ali end
to the steal in twenty-four hours by
simply removing the tariff on paper
and woodpulp.
WHAT with the stealing by one
class of officials aud the paying of
double salaries to another from the
revenues Of the island, the poor Gu
bans are justified in their belief that
in exchanging Spain for the United
States they have jumped from the fry
ing pan into the FIRE.
An official of the Standard Oil Com
pany recently made a statement
which somehow got into print-that
his company controlled twenty-six
United States Senators. We regard
this as very modest estimate. We
reckon that on a pinch he could count
on twice that number.