Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1900-10-30
TWO CENTS
Some Hard Facts.
To the Editor Of the New Dominion.

The only argument produced by re-
publicans is that we had hard times UNI
der Ceveland's administrations and il
BRYAN is elected we must again have
hard times again because we had hard
times under former democratic
administration. There is no sense or
reason in such declaration We had
the hardest times the people OF this
county ever experienced during Grants
second term and continued for three
Years under Hayes administration.
But our republican friends don't want
to remember that. They don't want to
remember that until Grants second
term that such q thing az a tramp was
unknown in this country. That during
the panic from 1873 until 1879 two mill
lions of honest working people were
thrown out Of employment and went
on the tramp hunting work from town
to town. They don't want to remember
that during that time two hundred peo-
pie starved or committed suicide rather
than starve. They talk about cattle
being so low under Cleveland's admin
istration. | ask them to refer to the
prices OF hogs and cattle during the pam
ie OF 1878 to 1879, and they will find
the prices at least 30 per cent lower
| want 10 remind the republicans why
cattle were so low under Cleveland's
administration. II was because the pre-
yious republican administration allowed
Il number of cattle kings to Craze mill
lions of cattle upon the public domain
without paying one cent for the privi-
lege. When Cleveland become presi-
dent he made them move their cattle
OFF OF the government property and rs
they bad no where else to take them
they had TO sell them, and throwing
such a large body upon the market
caused a great decline in the price of
cattle. | have made q very accurate
calculation and | find that the trusts
have raised the price OF such commodi-
ties rs working people have to buy
about 40 per cent in the last two years.
Now II q workman, not getting any more
wages than he did three years ago, and
paying 40 per cent more for what he
buys says times are prosperous now for
him, he either states what is not so or
else he is living off some one else. Why
don't our republicans buy for cash and
pay up their old debts ii they are hav-
| ing such prosperous times? lis it not
prosperous for farmer that raises grain
and sells it at the same price he has for
I
per cent more for what he and his FAM
lily consumes, and then says we are
having prosperous times But we have
lot OF republicans IN this county SO
prejndiced that they won't see that the
trusts are a curse to them. This same
class still believe that the foreigner pays
the duty That silver dollar made by
Mckinley is worth one hundred etc but
ii that same dollar was made by Bryan
it would only be worth so cents. In con-
eluson | believe there are enough re-
pubicans so intelligent, who knows
that the trusts are curse to them, who
are opposed to supporting an army OF
100, 600 men, who are opposed to the
cherished greenback being destroyed
who are opposed to transferring the
making OF our paper money to syndi-
cate of rich men who have the right to
say how much we shall have, and will
vote for their own interests instead OF
voting through prejudice. Well do your
readers know that years ago, New
York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and
Illinois gave Mckinley 1893 900 majority
Do-your readers know that leaving out
those states Bryan had 1893 900 major
ity in the balance OF the States? Do you
know that at present the republican
leaders only claim those four states by
100000 majority admitting that McKin-
ley will loose in those four states $685.
600 votes. Now ii Mckinley looses in
the other states that be carried four
years ago in the same proportion and
why not, is not the influence at work in
the other States then Bryan will have
over one million majority Of popular
votes and will have at least 30 majority
in the electoral college.
RED HoT