Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1905-10-19


LIFE insurance would be mighty
good thing for the policy holders if it
wasn't such mighty good thing for
the officers running the companies.
LET us hope that the movement
against the pollution Of West Virgin
ia streams will not end in talk. Now
is the time for the authorities to show
their nerve.
THE railroad companies are not
seriously bothered by the demand for
government regulation of railroad
rates. They own the Senate. And
yet some of these times the people will
take hand and place their own rep
resentatives in power.
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A BOOM has been started for Col.
Buchanan Schley, of Hagerstown, as
the next Governor of Maryland. The
genial Colonel can count on unani-
nous vote from this side of the river.
HONESTY has not been the policy
OF the big life insurance companies.
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WHAT would the Maryland Repub-
licans do without poor old Senator
German? The only campaign they
can make is to set him up as DOGGY
man with which to brighten the voters.
They seem afraid to discuss the real
issue, the question Of negro dOmina-
ton.
ONE Of our Berkeley county sub
scribers wishes us to translate into
English a remark made editorially in
Latin last week. We don't like to
come right out in print on this sub
ject, but if our friend will call at the
REGISTER Office we'll tell him all
about it.
The pottery manufacturers are
forming another combination, the chief
object of which is to increase prices
once more. It's astonishing how much
the people are willing to stand in the
way Of oppressive prices, especially
when they could SO easily be relieved
by change in the tariff.
In speech in New Jersey the 9TH
er day President Samuel Spencer We
hemently denounced the proposed
railroad rate legislation as CONNER
cial lynch law. Well, lynch law is
sometimes better than no law at all,
and the public demands that some
thing be done with the highway rob-
beIs who are managing the railroads.
SENATOR IsADoR RAYNER is out
with violent attack upon the amend
ment offered in Maryland, by which
the negro vote Is to be eliminated,
Senator Rayner is one of these poll
ticians who is just too good to be on
earth and not quite good enough for
Heaven. Elected to high Office by
the Democrats, he now tries to tear
down the party.
Senator Rayner makes us tired.
THE lid was lifted from the Mutual
Life Insurance Company affairs again
on Tuesday, and some more startling
revelations were made, showing how
the policy holders have been robbed
of their dividends because of the ex.
travagance IF the managers aud their
deliberate misuse Of the company
funds. Richard a. McCurdy, the
president Of the company, was on the
witness stand, and he was so defiant
and insolent that he was hooted at
by the audience.
1t has been shown that President
McCurdy and his family drew from
the company in salaries in 1904 the
enormous sum of $454,453. What
they got out of it by other transac-
tions has not yet been revealed.
THE editor of the REGISTER has
been greatly cOmplimented by having
his poem on West Virginia, read at
the recent session of the State Edi-
torial Association, printed in the Book
Of the Royal Blue for October. This
artistic magazine is issued by the B.
& o. Railroad monthly, and it's able
editor is Mr.. William Elliott Loves,
Of Baltimore, whose good taste has
created publication of the highest
excellence. He has caused the poem
spoken Of to be very beautifully il
Illustrated by typical West Virginia
scenes, from the ripping Shenandoah
to the broad Ohio, and the printers
art has given it setting of which the
author is more than proud.
We salute Mr.. Loves, and assure
him Of our highest appreciation Of his
omphment.