The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1906-05-12
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Champ cIark Is TO make cam
tpa9 ofShisll this year he Demo
scradc plan paign. according e
adrices from Washington, Is 10 be on
! that line which the voice OF CLARK
has proclaimed TO be The line OF Ieasi
resistance. We are TO forget about
silver and the immortal ratio OF 's1een
TO one. We are TO bury that para
mount issue which seems still to at
fright ne soul of Bryan. In the end
we may even cry quits with the White
House An OF these oyershadowins
issues, which have from time to time
arisen to overcome us as summer
cloud, are to be in the deep bosom OF
the ocean buried. When the Demo
cratic party goes back to its first
principle it Is with CONVICTION that
the principle is TO bear interest. and
OF This Mr. Clark appears to have as
sured his colleagues. in the congress
sional campaign committee. without
however, mdorsfng the notes. Ais
souri, is to preside. in the person OF the
member from the Shelby county dis
trict. at one of the places where the
great wrong and iniquity OF the ages
is to be kept on exhibition, and from
whence it viii be distributed to the
country in chunclls.
We lire to have another tariff cam
paign. Sound the loud tinbrel Ger
Egypt's dark sea. Lloyd of Missouri
is to hold down the chair OF the SUBJ
committee at Chicago, but not until
Champ Clark takes the stump in the
Bowling Green district can Missouri
be said TO be in the thickest of the
fray. 1t will be along the banks of the
Missouri river that the enormity OF
our exporting surplus product to a
foreign country, to be sold there at
prices OF the domestic manufacturers.
will have that illumination which
runs not the risk of having its candle
blown out by the vandal breath Of
impairment questioning. Up the
shady dells of Pike county. in those
SchoolhouSeS where the young idea
is only now being taught to shoot,
and Is not yet of deadly aim, the
great lecturer can hope to go unscath-
ed None will rise to ask why a sur
plus manufactured product. made
here, has to be sold abroad. to meet
the competition of domestic makers
at less prices than are obtained here
for the same goods. If such queS-
ton should ever be asked the obvious
answer would be that wages are at
mol,
here that it could not be sold there
otherwise Then. If the young idea
had only yet been taught how TO shoot
straight. it would ask if the coro1lary
of that postulate is not-that the higher
price at which the same goods are
sold here IS not forced by the higher
rate Of wages paid TO American labor.
In Usage county Mr.. Clark may
meet some such troublesome question
as this. If he ever touches the sacred
corncob pipe of Missouri For is it
not in Usage county that Missouri
makes those pipes which go abroad to
proclaim our glory: Is it not there
that the bowl is : fashioned. and the
stem is shaped. which send their cloud
of incense up to foreign skies. even
along the Nile and in the palace Of
kings? Wherefore. then, should carp
ing critics ask that the corncob pipe Of
Missouri should go cheaper to the fell
aheen of Egypt than to the American
citizen in his lair? 1t has driven the
dudheen out Of Cork, and is even now
threatening the chibouk of Constant
nople Could this have been possible
if St Louis had demanded fiat rates
with Constantianople. and refused to
watt homemade incense to heaven be-
cause the pipemakerS Of the Gascon-
ade were getting more money than
those at the Golden Horn2 Missouri
exports corncob pipes and meets the
pauper wages and pauper prices OF the
old world il selling hem there because
the Missouri manufacturers employs
a better grade of talent and pays it
the higher wages which enable him
to hold this market against the Chi
bouk and the dudheen, and to give us
our one and only hope of ultimate sal
walton from the deadly cigarette But
all Of this may be wide Of the mark ID
view of the improbability that Champ
Clark VIII ever discuss the corncob
pipe tariff in Usage county II will
be on the tariff on steel rails that he
will discourse to the dwe11ers along
the old oN-traTl road to Old Linn.-St-
Louis Globe-Democrat