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Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1902-01-25
EINGWOOD THREATENED.
Tunnelton Wants the Preston
County Seat.

Petition has been Drawn up to be Pre-
scented to the County County Looking
to the Change-Barbour's Fight De.
cided By Federal Court In Favor Of
Philippi.
GRAFTON, w. Va, Jan. 25--Dur-
ing the week just passed move has
neen inaugurated by the citizens of
emo and Union districts in Preston
Unity, that bids fair to bring about
bitter fight for the posses sion of
&c county seat Of Preston county,
low located at Kingwood, but which
lis greatly desired by the good peo-
pie of Tunnelton and surrounding
country to have changed to Tunnel
ton. This fight has been brewing
for long time past and was brought
to head by the drawing up of pc
tition to the county court praying
that the location of the county seat
be changed from Kingwood TO Tun.
Melton. Tt is claimed and rightly
perhaps, that Kingwood is so incon-
seniently located, being 10 miles in
the interior, that it is an utter i'm
possibility for any one to get to that
point, transact the smallest amount
of business and return to their
homes or places of business in day
The train over the West Virginia
Northern makes but two trips each
dav, and is an uncertain quantity at
all times. Tunnelton located on the
main stem of the B. d o., is within
easy access of all parts of the coun-
ty, and as the town is growing won
derfullv in population and wealth
and is being looked forward to as
the metropolis of the county, it is
viewed by many as being the proper
location for the county seat.
Terra Alta at one time, years back,
desired to be made the county seat.
but the move was defeated by sin
Gle vote. This was at the zine when
the old court house burned. King
wood won out in the race and Sc
cured the erection of new court
house, but larger and more mod
ern building has been needed fol
years. It is thought by many that
the move on the part of Tunneiton
and the citizens of the districts con
tingent thereto will eventually de
prive Kingwood of the county seat
and will at the same time re!egate
that beautiful but sleepy town to The
column of "has beens." At all events
Kingwood has fight on her hands
that bids fair to be interesting tc
the remainder of the county and
state
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THE Way TO YIN.

Some days ago a former comptroller Of
the currency, Mr.. James H. Eclles, was
quoted at length in the columns of h Z
G 0 b on the subject of Democratic
reorganization. His views were those
of a conservative business man, expert
enced in politics and in national Of
fetal life. He declared to the readers of
T 6 o b his opinion that tariff revis-
ion and reciprocity would be the great is
sues on which the contest must be made
! by his party to be successful in the forth
coming presidential election.
Mr.. Eckles' opinions are being confirm
ed every day. The cry of 'let we'll enough
alone is a powerful one, no doubt. espec-
ially at a time when the business inter
ests of the country are on a safe and
prosperous basis. But the national de-
nland for a lessening of the shameful du.
ties which are maintained is none the
less insistent. The contemptuous refusal
Of the existing administration to consider
any interference with the Dingley tariff,
!
reciprocity, will not De passed over in
silence by the people, unless the Demo-
! cratic party wills it.
We have grave questions of administra-
/ tive government in the new possessions
awaiting public scrutiny. The political
aspects of that situation will adjust them
selves. The recent decision of the SUI
prene court renders it inevitable that,
sooner or later, some rational system Of
civil government, consistent with free
American institutions will be forced on
cur rulers at Washington for adoption
in the new islands. We can well let the
progress of events produce its logical
results in that direction. But in the
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WEATHER FOR TODAY.

Minnesota-Fair Sunday; warmer in
east portion; Monday colder and fair, eX-
cept probably snow in northeast por-
ton; fresh west winds
WiSconSin-Fair, warmer Sunday; at
ly cloudy Monday; probably snow Or IA II
in north portion and colder in west ltor-
ton; fresh to brisk south to west winds.
Iowa-Fair and warmer Sunday; Mon
dap fair, probably colder i'll north anG
west portions; south to west Winds
North Dakota-Fatr Sunday; colder in
west portion; Monday fair, west winds.
South Daketa-Fair Sunday; Monday
fair, colder; south to west winds.
Montana-Fai- and colder Sunday;
Monday fair; west winds.
Upper Michigan-Fair Sunday, warm
er in south portion: increasing cloIdi-
ness Monday; probably snow or rain;
fresh to brisk south winds.
st. Paul - Yesterdays observations,
taken by the United States weather bu-
reau, st. Paul, P. f. Lyons, observer, for
the twenty-four hours ended at o'clock
last night-Barometer corrected for tenn
perature and elevation: Highest temper
ature %; lowest temperature, !; average
temperature. 10; daily range, Is; barome-
ter. 30.S5; humidity, IS; precipitation, 0;
Z p. m, temperature p; p. M, wind,
southwest weather, clear.
Yesterdays TemDpra tTIreS-
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: Uncle SANS
Commercial ProgrecC

While our sales TO foreign countries
Rave grown SO prodigiousIy, the other
side of our financial account during these
last five or six years has shown no pro-
portionate increase. We have bought
from the foreigners an average of only
$6G0006,000 a year, and that total has
Shown little tendency to expand 1t
was this fact, this mighty development
of our sales, while our purchases were,
comparatively, on a declining scale
which piled up in half a dozen years a
favorable trade balance so enormous as
to startle the world. In the last six
years we have sold in merchandise. pro-
duce and manufactures So 900 0C0 0GO more
than we have bought, while in all our
history, from the beginning of the gov
eminent up to six years ago, the foreign
trade balance in our favor had aggregat-
ed net total of only S383, 100000.
The significance of these surprising to-
tails was recognized on both sides of the
Atlantic. An analysis of them brought
out features more important than the
vastness Of the aggregate. Heretofore our
sales had been made up almost wholly
OF food stuffs and raw materials Flu
rope was the workshop. But that has
changed. and we find, year after year.
an astonishing increase in our exports Of
manufactured articles, an increase that
IN the last TWO or three years reached
totals which gave ample basis for the
popular talk of the European industrial
fields. Our exports of manufactured arti-
cles in the decade prior to 1897 averaged
$l63,6O6oG0 annually In 1898 our sales
OF manufactured articles to foreign GUS
toners jumped to $3.50, 900 600, the next
year to $3.50, 0o0.000 the next to s4s4. coo 09a
These figures, showing a steady inva
sion by our manufacturers of foreign in
dustrial fields, have natural corollary.
AS exports of manufactures increased.
our imports of the handiwork OF foreign
shops showed an even more rapid de-
cline. Our manufacturers were not only
invading the foreigners own markets.
meeting him at his threshold with new
competition, but they were taking away
from him his greatest market-the Unit
ed States. We have in the last half dog
en- Years been manufacturing for our
selves a vast amount of goods, such as
we have been accustomed to buy abroad.
-Scribner's Magazine
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ut must have been quite year ago."
said the general delivery clerk at the
pestoffice, that a man came in one day
and inquired for a letter in his name,
and he looked much disappointed when
L could find none to hand out. Since
that day, up to a week ago, he has
been coming twice a week almost all
ways when [ was on duty, and as no
letter for him ever arrived, [ had con-
siderable curiosity regarding his case.
In fact, I built up romance around
him. l took it that he might have sep
arated from his vile in some distant
town, and was hoping to hear from her
and make up the quarrel, and l actual
" came to feel hard towards her De
cause she refused to write. 1t seemed
to me that the man was falling in health,
as he lost hope, and now and lnen
gave him a cheerful word to brace MIN
up. A week ago I saw his name on a
letter and next time he called l gladly
passed it out with the remark:
Here is your long expected letter
at last, and 1 hope it contains good
news
"He stepped away from the WINDOW
to read it. and after few minutes he
came back to say:
:" I didn't get it,
What was it,?
why, I sent to my brOther-in-law in
Pittsburg almost a year ago to borrow
81 to buy some porous plasters, and he
writes me that he can't very well spare
it, and that I'd better use mustard in
stead. Detroit Free Press.
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titles of public gain which are inherent in
the establishment of great railroad carry
ing facilities for sections which are rich
in naught else but natural resource the
result is chargeable to the strife of rail-
road carriers, which has mostly been act
uated by the speculative tendency of
those who have from time to time inau-
gurated railroad wars
No intelligent railroad management can
have aught in mind at any time save
the most economical and most effective
service of the people. THIS is the end
to which all recent movements in rail
road properties have been directed. This
is the end which will be steadily borne
in mind Since it was not found posi-
bic by public authority, chiefly because
of popular misunderstanding Of the prob
lem involved, to pace the restrictions on
railroad competition which sound pubic
and business policy alike dictate. that end
has been sought by those who are charg
ed with railroad adm Illustration in the
Northwest. If no other result should
eventuate than to bring home to the pub
lie understanding the imperative need
which exists of the railroads being con-
Quoted on some other principle than that
of irresponsible and destructive COMPETE
ton, the way will at least have been
thereby made much clearer for the new
era in railroad administration which is
about to dawn on the Northwest.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-01-05

Why does Attorney General Douglas
not proceed? He is not without aid.
Private as well as public attorneys are
on his staff. If press of official or polt-
ical duties kept him from taking ac-
ton before he went to Montana why is
he still inactive? month ago he was,
on his own and his superior officers in
itiative, ready to test the legality OF the
Northern Securities company. Why, with
his new found public and private aides,
does he still hesitate?
The world of carrying commerce goes
on it's way. Great Northern securities
went up several points in the market i'm
mediately the last act of the Helena COM
edy was played. Nothing has happened
since. Nothing will happen unless 1t
happens at the Minnesota state capital.
Why do Gov. Van SAINT and his private
and public legal advisers still halt?
There is no election approaching. The
stocks of the railroads concerned remain
unaffected, except favorably The moral
and financial aid which he and they trav-
eled SO far to secure is forthcoming
T he Clio b e warns the gentlemen
against the consequences of further de-
lay. The chairman of the interstate COM
merce commission las spoken His words
are significant. They may be false and
foolish, as our teaching through Gov
Van SAINTS newspaper organs would in
dictate; but they are significant That Of
fetal discusses consolidation of railroad
rates in the light of the awful fuss which
has been made, and he uses this lam
guage:
Tt is my personal conviction that the
effect of consolidation (of rates) is to
lower rates and to make conditions more
favorable for the shipper. Compulsory
competition is not to the advantage Of
shippers in general. 1t is sure to result
in injustices and inequalities in rates
IKE shipper who is best able to pay high
rates gets low ones. and the little man
pays high rates. l believe the. history
of ten years attempts to enforce compe-
ttiOn between railroads where such a
condition is not natural will prove that
consolidation will result in economy of
carriage and advantage to the shipper
Consolidation and proper supervision rs
the best thing for shippers =
This goes to the heart Of the public
policy which the Helena resolutions rep
resent as so terribly dangerous. Where
doctors disagree, the lay world is expect
ed to have no opinion. Gov Van SAINT
and his legal advisers, public as wen as
private, are trying the public patience
to the limit. They should act The lat
est promise that they will act tomorrow
or next day is entitled to no more con-
sideration than any of the innumerable
like promises already made
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one Obstacle overcome.

Youths Companion.
Willie was a bright boy, of an inventive
turn of mind. AT the age of eight or
ten he was seized with the perpetual
motion idea, and began to make all
sorts of queer machines, despite the adj
vice of his father, who told him Of men
who had devoted their lives to vain
search for perpetual motion.
1T violates the first principles of me-
chanics. my boy said his father. "Ac-
ton and reaction are equal as you will
understand some day. When YOU can
pull yourself up by your bootstraps you
may hope to invent machine that will
start itself and run without stopping
The next day Willie came to his father
in great excitement and told him he had
done it-pulled himself up by his boot
straps.
ITS NO trick at aIl he said as ne led
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guiding and governing influences at work
among the Republican politicians and pro-
rnoters. especially in the Philippines,
there will be much found which will
represent good fighting ground again1t
the general policy of the imperialists
Meanwhile, the enormities of the tariff
remain with us. Mr. Eckles does not
overestimate the intensity of public feel
ing on the subject The American peo-
pie is a conservative one. But prosperity
will not prevent it from insisting that
relief must be had against the enormous
taxes which are piling up a huge surplus
in the national treasury. 1t was treas
ury surplus on which was based Demo-
cratic action in the closing days of Har-
risons administration. 1t was on the
enorm1ties of the Mckinley tariff that the
Democratic fight was fought and won
in 1892, and it was fought to a success,
Notwithstanding the prevailing prosper
ity. It is on the enormities of the Ding
ley CdFltI, nunufeQIOlu more MANIFEST
and more onerous than those of the Nc
Kinley law. that the fight can be fought
and again won in 1904 If President
Cleveland had called his special session
of congress to revise the tariff instead OF
to take UP the financial question. the cur
rents of national politics would surely
have run differently.
Democrats all over the country are
looking to their leaders to give some signs
of life. They continue to look to that
minority in congress to give some bet
ter account of itself than it gave in the
brief period before the holidays. If the
Democratic party is not to go out of bus
mess, it is time that its chief representa-
tives Should offer the masses of their
party some promise of leadership in the
immediate future.
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oUR soUrH AMERIcAN OFFENDING

The London Saturday Review revives
an old political plea. The English gov
eminent and people have shown the
most decisive wish to create such close
ness of national relationship between
that people and this as would virtually
amount to an offensive and defensive al
lance The day when any such posi-
bility presented itself even to the most
sanguine adherent Of Great Britain
among the American people has gone by
The attitude of this nation has been al
most brutalIy unsentimentaI on that
score, and the British public has finally
realized that truth. And now comes fog
ward the Saturday Review and declares
its belief that instead of following po1Iti-
cal will-o'-the-w isps. such as seemed to
lead to an Anglo-American alliance, it is
time for England to look around for a
new national alliance of more substan-
tial character. 1t accordingly proposes
that England shall join hands with Ger
many to place a curb on American adj
vancement in South and Central Amer
iea
There is something tangible here; but
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coon sPRENGrNG ECON ELL

History is filed with extraordinary
instances of mental excitement becoming
epidemic. Large bodies of people have
from time to time succumbed to the
hystericaI Influence and have shown
themselves to be beyond the influence of
reason, and lost to all sense of human
responsibility.
1t is to this disposition that appeals
have been made throughout the contro-
Yersy created over the organization of
the Northern Securities company. In
terested newspaper editors have found
themselves able through the initiative OF
the governor Of this state to appeal to the
unreasoning instinct, and have done their
utmost to arouse public sentiment to the
point of frenzy. The outcome shows them
to have utterly failed However the con-
duct Of Gov. Van SAINT may be regarded
the use to which his official character has
been put shows the sordid purpose and
the malicious intent of those who have
instigatcd him to action.
After the political tom-toms have been
beaten, and the INSCRIPTIONS and living
schemes Of the enemies of Northwestern
development have run their full course
the situation remains exactly where it
was at the outset. The interests Of the
people of this mighty section in the
domain of carrying commerce viii be ad-
vanced as they never have been before.
Their railroad service will be more COM
plete; the operating expenses of their
great transcontinentaI systems will be
reduced to the minimum; the hidden and
urldeveIoped resources OF the section thew
inhabit will be developed to the utmost.
and the increased gain will be theirs. as
it has been designed 10 be.
Ignorance and popular prejudice are at
best dangerous weapons to handle. In
this instance they have been used to no
intelligent and happily. to no injurious
purpose. Even the most rudin1entary
knowledge Of the great problem of the
carriage and distribution of commercial
products teaches that the people Them
selves have had to pay the increased
cost and to bear all the burdens of the
loss and destruction incident to unre-
strictcd railroad competition. If unjust
discrimination survives the efforts of
state and national authority alike. the
explanation is found in cut-throat rail-
road competition. Ii the pee lie have
not realized to the Utmost the possibil-
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It is to be feared that even from the
British standpoint it Is a decidedly risky
policy which the leading editorial journal
of England suggests. No combination
OF European powers can restrain Amerl-
can gravitation to a common center. The
mutual good will Of the several American
nations represents an ideal American poi
ICY But it is a~policy which apparently
Is about as far from realization as the
Anglo-American alliance. 1t is quite
doubtful whether any such policy viii
ever commend itself to the Latin-Ameri-
can peoples.
There is a great deal Of misapprehen-
sion abroad as to the attitude Of this ma
ton toward South American countries
There is no such general national guard
lanship sought to be maintained by US
over the affairs of our Southern neigh
bors as the fears Of the Saturday Re
view seem to suggest, or as European
statesmen seem to regard as existing
This people have as little, and desire TO
have as little, to do with the internal af-
fairs of the Latin-Amerieans as Euro
peans nave. Indeed, the truth is that we
concern ourselves infinitely less in that
regard than do certain European nations
whose people have large financial inter-
ests involved. 1t is only when there IS
any territorial aggression attempted at
their expense, Or that there is any effort
at political transportation by European
powers or potentates that the United
States concerns itself. The contin-
gency o. any European nation concerning
itself along the lines indicated by Presi-
dent Monroe is really too remote for con-
sideration.
England VIII form any alliance that
seems proper to her statesmen with any
foreign power. Indeed it looks as if she
were being forced by the progress OF in
ternational events lately into the arms of
Germany. Were lie dislike of the Ger
man masses for the English not so APP
parent, there might be something in the
suggestion Of such an alliance considered
wholly apart from the South American
aspect of things. But it is stupid, and
politically malevoIent. for the London
Saturday Review, or any other response
bic national journal, to engage itself in
an apparent purpose to arouse the preju-
dice Of one people against another, as
the article which it published yesterday
plainly ais to do
The American nation will continue to
pursue whatever policy it regards as es-
sential to the prosperity Of this people
in South America without the slightest
references to the alliances that may be
thought desirable by foreign nations, and,
for that matter, in spite of them.
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The readiness with which Mayor 1

The readiness with which Mayor Low
sees corruption in the possible refusal
of all the fusion aldermen to go into
the councils of the nondescript crowd in
Gotham who followed his lead is some
sort of proof anyway that ne is a quail
fed member of the party which has a
monopoly of all the private and public
virtue in the land, which party it is
needless to say is the g. o. p.
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the way to the barn, where he showed his
bewildered father pair Of old boots
nailed. soles UP, to a beam overhead.
There? he exclaimed he climbed
onto box, reached up, ran his fingers
through the straps Of the boots and pull
ed himself up. What do you lhink Of
that?"
WIllle's father did not reply in words
Instead. he took a harness strap. ana
then and there Willie gave an imitation
of perpetual motion which required no
elaborate apparatus
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THE ONE CHEAT GIFT.

"And what will you give me for Christ
mas?"-
And I tell her: ''-All dear gifts above,
III give you-let's see
All the kisses of me.
And millions-just millions of Ioye"'
But she 'says-just the best and the
brightest of girls
Eve got that already and shakes her
bright curls.
$50 what will you give me for Christ
uaS?"
And the gifts of the world recall,
And silver and gold
And bright rubies are told.
But love shines the brightest OF all.
And my little one smiles, and she knows
love is best,
And I kiss her and fold her in Love to
my breast!
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What noble devotion his fellow Scandi.
navians showed for that man down in
Foley, Mimi, whose wife in her ante
mortem statement charged with her muir
der, when they hired a lawyer to defend
him. Unhappily for a complete under
standing of the fraterna1 affection thus
shown, the nationality OF re wife re-
mains unknown to the outside world
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SUNDAY, JAN. 5, 1902.

1t is to be hoped that the world will
not hold its ear to the ground in vain
to hear from the great executive of the
state when he proceeds to crate before
the Junior Pioneers. Even if he has
nothing to say on that occasion let him
not fear to speak up, as happened when
he went 1900 miles or so the other day
for an audience.