West Virginia daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1894-1902, 1900-10-24

ANY one FAMILIAR with the boOmS
of Wichita, Kansas City, Chatta-
nooga, Kimball, Fort Payne, Front
Royal, Riverton, Staunton, Basic
City, Buena Vista, Radford, Roa-
noke, johnson City, Carnegie,
Elzabethtown, New England City,
Piedmont and otherboom town will
remember very we'll how safe and
conservative these investments ap-
peared In 1887 and 1888 They
had real merit to back them. There
was actual cash put into them.
And yet that speculative fever
almost ruined the country.
There Is 10 merit to back the
present booming industrials. In a
large number of them there is no
cash put into them. There Is no
property represented by the stock.
The crash in industrials Is even
more certain and will be more dis
astrous than the crash was In the
real estate business. This is the
prosperity which the Republicans
want continued. 1t 1t continues
two years longer we will not re
icover from the busting of the
bubble during twenty years.
Wages are better than they were in
1893 but they are not as good as
they were in 1885. The coal min
ers' wages while they are higher
than they were during the panic are
not so high as they were before r Z.
panic. -
The Republicans are aru,ed and
are giving out the most extravagant
figures. These fgnfes to those
who are really acquainted with the
SITUATION are So7 absurd as to re-
quire no comments. Finding that
they could not bluff West Virginia
into the Republican column they
prevailed upon Governor Atkinson
to invalidate the election by failing
to give the published notice re-
quired by the law. In this way
they hope to prevent the vote of
the State from being counted.
They are we'll aware of the fact that
the State will go Democratic by a
handsome majority and In order to
prevent this they adopted the
plan of preventing that vote from
being counted in the electoral.
college. Such proceeding ought
TO cause every voter In the state to
record his protest by casting his
vote for the full Democratic ticket.
The real figures of the Republicans
claim TO show that the electoral col
lege will be close. They expect,
by throwing out the vote of West
Virginia, to be able to throw the
election to President Mckinley.
The facts, are. however, that Bryan
will receive a straight majority
without the vote of West Virginia.
The statute will, therefore, be re-
garded as merely directory and the
vote will be counted There Is a
distinction between directory and
a peremptory statute. This dis:
t1nction will save that vote unless
the Republicans are in a position
where, by throwing out this. they
can save the election. In such a
case the Republicans will show a
like disregard for law to what was
shown by the Republicans in the
last legislature and by the present
national administration.
The wool men throughout the
country are very much enraged at
the reciprocity treaty which will be
closed before the opening of the
next Congress under the terms of
which all South American woods
will come In free of duty. The
wool business has come to be COM
pletely under the control of the
American Wool Trust. So much
SO that while the price used to be
made la London 1t is now made by
1.-THE TrusI. Notwithstanding the
In cents duty upon wool, Ii has
fallen of this season to re- cents q
pound. This is not half what Il
was before the tariff was placed
upon 1t. The reciprocity treaty is
alrea6ys formuiated and ready for
Isignsture. II was agreed upon by
Senator Hanna In consideration of
a contributioii from the Wool Trust
to the present campaign. It will
kill the wool Jgrowing industry.
FRANK L. WELLEs.