West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1908-03-26
BY WAY Of REMEMBRANCE
Present Panic Recalls Conditions
PfeTailins In 1898.
DlkGL8Y TARIFF STILL DlEGLgS
Tens OF Thousands OF Hungry Men and
Women Being Fed bv CHARITY.
who Is TO Blamei

During the panic OF ISos and
1898, which was brought on by the
high tariff and Republican misman.
agement, just as the present hard
times were brought on, the Republic
can papers never tired of charging
the condition that then prevailed to
the Democratic administration. This
was not true, because the panic be.
gan nearly year before the inausu.
ration of Cleveland. and prior to
the Homestead riots of ISoa. The
cause OF these riots was the effort nj
Homestead to reduce the wages of
labor despite the high Mckinley
tariff. But all this was a good while
ago. and 1t matters little about It
now further than to give point to
the fact that no one disputes the
country is at present in the grip OF
terrific Republican panic. No one
now hears anything about the "full
dinner pail" 1t is even troubling
many thousands of men to procure
full soup bowl"
The Connelsville Courier, the
hidebouDd organ of blind Republi-
can partisanship, says thirteen home
less citizens applied to the police
station IN that borough Tuesday
night for food and shelter.
And. lol the DIngley tariff still
dlnglesl Tens Of thousands Of hun
cry men, women and children are
being ted by charity in the city of
PIttsbuIg. Thousands of coke ovens
IN Fayette county are nameless! Ey.
cry town and hamlet is filed with
trampsl
Republican papers call the telling
OF these truths calamity bowling. 1t
may be, but who brought on the
calamity Not the Democratic party.
1t is a Republican calamity, all
wool and yard wide, and if we
choose to howl about it, or laugh
about 1t, or sneer, or simply snicker,
we are within our legal aud profess
sIonal political rights, and we would
SIMPLY be dong unto the other tel.
low as he did unto us; but God
knows the conditions are too Sc.
fious to he considered in any other
than a serious manner.
Let 1t not be forgotten that this is
a Republican calamity. Ii is none
the less a calamity that it came upon
the country despite years Of false
teaching that the Dingley tariff was
panacea for all the coun,ry's Ills;
a continuous blessing which would
never b. interrupted; that under it
sucn thing as a panic was impos.
siOlej that there would always be a
"fulI dinner pail;" that soup houses
were only known duung Democratic
administrations. Oh, now this was
dinged into our ears year after yearl
But, behold now spread abroad over
our whole land is the evidence Of
Republican deception and Republi
can depraviiy; for we have idle men
and women, idle furnaces, idle mills,
idle coke ovens, idleness every.
where. and the Dingley tariff still
dinglIngl
We have cited the above because
1t is essential to bring the people
clearly TO see and distinctly to under.
stand that a robber tariff, estab
listed TO enrich the few, is not
guarantee against hard times, the
subsidized Republican press to the
contrary notwithstanding. Facts are
stubborn things, and truth some
times cuts like a two edged sword; !;
the Republicans may deny the one
and fee from the other, but as Ger.
tain as the sun shines Nemesis is on
their track and in the gathering
darkness of their fight they can see
the fsteful hand of an indignant and
outraged people writing in their path
the words: "Mene, meme, tekel, up
harsinl'-Genius Of Liberty, Union.
town, Pa.