The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1905-03-01

The Republicans of tbs town
nominated the following ticket at
their convention held at the Court
house Saturday night:
For Mayor-Wm. Chambers.
For CIerk-W. @. Jordan.
For Assessor L.. Patterson
For MsrshalI-Wm. Knapp.
For Courcil: First Ward-J.
81. Chesebrew and Geo Miller.
Second Ward-W. d. Curry and
Lewis Knapp
Third Ward-G. P. Gardner and
John W. Borgess.
The new tax laws are growing SO
unpopular with the people that
the creators of them are repudiat-
ing them. They are willing to
auction them off in job lots if they
can find buyer, while the people
are asking that they be consigned
to the internal region. The truth
is dawning on the common people
as to which of the two political
parties misrepresented the new tax
laws.-West Virginia Argus.
Following are a few items of
graft in the form of extraoempen
sation for employees ordered paid
by the house of delegates on Sat
urday:
Clerk of house, nine hundred
dollars
Four assistants. two hundred
and forty dollars each.
Three other clerks. one hundred
and eighty dollars each.
Nine other clerks, ninety dollars
each.
Six page boys. fOrty-five dollars
each.
Speaker Grosscup and his score.
tary one hundred and Sky dollars
each.
These sums are all in addition to
the regular compensation fixed by
Notwithstanding Sentinel.
The United States Senate is
composed, principally, of trust
magnates or attorneys and agents
of various combinations, whose
purposes are to corner and control.
some one or more of the staple
products 1t is not the House of
Lords of England but its members
have more power, as the result of
unearned. colossal wealth, than is
welded by the members of the
House of Lords of England. There
is no denying the fact, that those
who control that body, are repre-
sentatives of an aristocracy of
wealth. in this nation. instead of
being representatives of the peo-
pie of the several states from
which they are chosen.
Honesty is, of course, the best
policy; but this is so low motive
that it is hardly worth considering
in the training of our sons They
should be taught honesty not from
motives of policy but from motives
of right. I would be reluctant to
believe what a man at the head of
come large enterprise once said to
me-that two thirds of the young
fellows he employed needed watch.
ing, and that continual safeguards
were necessary to keep most men
from taking what was not theirs.
This view seems to me terribly
pessimistic and unfair, but we
need and cannot too often repeat
that something higher in home
training is wanted than many
homes now have. The fear of
God early instilled in boys mind
will prove strong defense against
the wiles of the devil later on
Margaret E Sangster. in Dispatch
An Illinois man who was about
to be decided against in a young
woman's suit for breach of promise
compromised by marrying the
girl. Economy is sometimes more
potent than sentiment.
All breaches of the laws of
health are physical sins. When
this is generally seen, then. and
not till then, will the physical
education of the young receive the
attention it deserves.
Where are those laws taxing the
big coal companies that were pro-
missed the people last fallP