Martinsburg statesman-democrat. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1906-1921, 1909-05-14

~ WY heft5fe, W.
Senator c. J. Faulkner has been
home several days this week attending
Judge Dayton's court
Mr.. and Mrs. Jehn j. Hetzel left last
Saturday for ten days trip 10 Allan
tic City and New YORK.
Miss Bertha Stuckey is taking va
cation which she is spending in Back
Creek Valley.
Mr.. Harry Miller is suffering from u
very severe sprained wrist as the result
of a fall while walking in the country
Sunday afternoon.
Mr.. II. s. League, Of Gassawsy,
West Va, has been here during the
past week visiting his old friends and
acquaiatances.
DIR. M v. McCune has bought
new autimohils of the high wheel pat
tern which moves very swiftly an d
very gracefully.
The first Sunday excursion to BaIti-
more ami Washington over the B. &
.. for this season was run last Sunday
and was well patroaized.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Wsyer and
Miss Nota Viewer spent last s unday
with their mother, Mrs. Fannie Viewer
at Hedgesville.
The Baltimore daily Sun or the Bal
tImore daily American and the States
man Democrat for the Sum of SO. 90
per year.
Captain w. b. Colston is spending
this week in Baltimore with his daugh.
ter, Mrs. William Trappell. This is the
first sight he has had of his latest
grandson. who is several weeks old.
There will be an entertainmentgiven
at the kidenonr school house by some
local talent on Saturday evening May
Goth, for the benefit of the Pleasant
Plain w.. b. church.
We are informed that Rev John
Trostlo pastor Of Timber Ridge church
Reeh bridge county, has been suffering
from serious wound inflicted by o
nail running into his foot.
Among those who called on US last
Saturday were Messrs e. s. Henshaw
of lnwooo, Harry d. Reid, of William
sport, Md aud William ID. Bender, o.
near Scrabble
There are S0,000,000 people in The
United States and they all wear shoes
but congress and the politicians have
taken small note Of this fact from thu
an increase of % per cent IN Women'i
shoes alone in the ten years between
1880 aud 1900. The raw material for
shoes is hides, and w. Il. Douglas, the
demo rattle governor of Massachusetts
few years ago, is authority for the
statemeat that s30,000,o00 per annum
could be saved the people of this coun-
try by taking the duty off hides, but
the duty stays on.
The fact that man is poor does moi
make him any less desirous of livin 9
in house, yet every stick that goes
into his humble dwelling is taxed I'M
der luna Der tariff. This means, ar
cording to the estimate of the labor
bureau at Washington, that it would
cost Ala per cent more for material
alone TO build house in 1905 than it
would cost in 1903. Nor does the tariff
hold its hand with what we have
enumerated. Practically everything
that is consumed or worn or used le.
lies an oppressive tax on the poor in
order that the government may gain
some revenue, while favored benefi-
Charles amass stupendous fortunes.
The tariff tax is not only unwise; it
unjust, and some day the people
who are bearing that buaden will find
1t out, and that the national govern
ment will reduce It's expenses aud
change its source of revenue until the
cost of living is made to harmonic
more nearly with the income of the
great body of the citizens.
1t was just such letters as the one
we have printed above thst made the
worAingmen of England rise sixty
years ago and break down the BREADTH
monopoly of that 'untry: The work
ingmen of Az. erica also will rise some
day when they understand the true
inwsrdness of the tariff monopoly in
this country. Richmond, Va, Times
Dispatch.