Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1906-11-29


Our thanksgiving accept.
w. D. Howells.
CONGRESS meets next week. AS
usual, there'l, be more buster than ac-
complishment.
THE President has returned from
his trip to the Panama Canal. He
has not yet announced when the canal
will be finished.
THE Sugar T:ust has been fined
$lS, 900 for accepting rebates from a
railroad. The Sugar Trust, however.
is still several millions ahead of the
game.
SENATOR ELKINs made speech
last week defending the United States
Senate. Dear knows, it needs de-
tenders, though we hardly think that
Senator Elkins is an appropriate
champion.
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1T is said that Tax Commissioner
Dillon will retire from his position
the first of the year. He has been
faithful and efficient officer, and we
hope that Governor Dawson will find
one just as good.
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Our enterprising contemporary, the
Spirit Of Jefferson. issues most in
AMI valuable edition descriptive of the
recent Odd Fellows, convention inter-
esting Charles Town. 1t is a credit to
the town and the office that got it out.
A TAX on the gross output of the
coal mines and the oil and gas wells
ought to be provided for as an addl-
ton to our new tax laws. The cor
porations ought to pay big share of
the State expenses, for they are ao-
sorbiug the State riches.
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We hope to see Democrats and Re-
publicans unite at the next session of
the West Virginia Legislature for two
cent fares and a railroad commission.
But the bills must not be drawn by
railroad attorneys, nor must Ran
Stalnaker be allowed to have finger
i'll the pie.
The Paper Trust has again ad-
vanced prices, with warning that
they will still go higher Evidently
the action of the government bring
ing suit to dissolve the trust is not
doing much good-or harm.
A removal of the tariff on paper or
wood pulp would bring this greedy
corporation to it's knees, however.
IT has been revealed that the big
financial institutions of Wall Street
contributed large sums to defeat
Hearst for Governor of New York.
j. P. Morgan & Co. gave $4,000 to
the Hughes managers, and other
firms in proportion. 1t is suspic-
ious thing that these Wall Street
plunderers were all so afraid of Hearst.
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SENATOR TILLMAN had an exciting
experience in Chicago on Tuesday,
when he made a speech on the negro
question. Some Of the misguided
hoodlums of the Windy City tried to
bluff him, but they utterly failed, and
the fiery South Carolinian said all
that he wanted to say. Senator Till
man is of the sort that is not easily
scared.
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THE West Virginia Legislature will
meet next January, and as there will
not be sufficient Democrats in that
body to accomplish any party legisla-
ton, we suggest that the minority
work solely in the interest of good
government and for the improve.
ments OF our laws. After all, the
best way to gain party advantage is
to honestly labor for the general good.
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The negroes of this country are ag.
itating matters that in the end will
not help them any. The views of
many so-called leaders on the subject
of social equality and the impudent
attempts to prevent men like Senator
Tillman from having the privilege of
free speech is going too far, and
there will be sad awakening for
these misguided colored folks some
day.
IT is not particularly Objectionable
to the editor of the REGISTER that
the Charleston Gazette should make
misstatements concerning US, but it
does pain US to have the leading pa
per of the capital city refer to the i'm
mortal son of the elder Mr.. Weller
as Simon" Shades of Mr.. Pick
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