The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1914-10-20
Geo. E. White
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had been in force for fifteen years.
He stated that this. agreement had
been entered into in 1899, five vars
after the passage of the Wilson Cor
man tariff bill and after the country
had recovered from its effects, and
pointed to the coincidence OF the fact
that now, fifteen years after, under
the Underwood bill this satisfactory
wage scale must DIFFERENTIATED.
He brought the facts closer home
and referred tothe lack of work in
the mines of this region and the re-
ILrenchment policy OF one of the larg-
est coal companies in the field. He
told Of the Bowers Pottery plant at
Mannington being shut down for
lack Of orders and stated that it had
only recently been e able to resume
iwork with very small force Of 1nen.
| He told the audience that now the
depression was laying its heavy hand
Upon the homes of Fairmont when
! the Monongah Glass company, en-
4ployfng5 500 people ,had issued orders
I'd Shut down two OF its furnaces ow-
ing to lack Of orders throwing $50
men out of work.
He charged that the tariff reduc-
lions and not the war was response
Bile for these conditions and that the
tariff was the only issue Of the
campaign. He produced figures
'comparing the business failures OF
the first six months of 1912 with the
first six months OF 1914 before the
war commenced and showed that
'business failures had increased dur
ing these two periods from $10S,-
IO12,223 to $1S5, 009,773, or an. in
crease of $76,997, $50 or 71Sa; that
banking failures had increased from
SIS in 1912 to SO in, 1914 before thu
war commenced, the amount O..
failures increasing $1O,7SS,OS7 or
'60%. That railroad earnings de
creased during this period to tht
amount of $S9,513,716. That dur
Fling the first six months OF 1919
There were only 70,731 idle freight
cars as against 220,S75 for the first
,sfx months of 1914, an increase Of
INSOFAR idle cars, or 212%, and tina:
Ethe war was not responsible for this
He said the Democratic party wa:
taking joy ride in the dark will
its companion, the Underwood tar
Iiff bills by tits, side. and that the
business Interests of the country
I were b firing THE chauffeur and buy
ling the sgasolinei while one million
idle men stood by the Highways
watching the machine goS by: Fl,
IgaVe It as his opinion that this ma
chine was headed straight for tn
ditch and that it would land there
on November the 3rd and all thost
Joy riders who were not POLITICAL!
KILLED outright would be SO badl,
|crippled that they would not be ablt
Ito hobble into congress or into thu
white House in 1916.
He said that the Democratic part.
promised to lower the high cost o
living by removing the tariff. H.
stated that they did remove the tar
if, hut that prices have gone up
He used bread, the staff of life, al
article that everybody uses eevr.
day, US an example. He said the!
Ihad taken the tariff off of breac
|amounting to 20% or, cent, PEI
loaf, but that bread, was. still sell
ling for cents. lie, inquired If thu
Democratic contention was correc:
|why it was that bread, with the tar
Iiff of l cent per loaf taken off wa
not now selling for A cents per loa
Instead Of cents. w
He stated that there was just a.
good reasons for retaining Repub
l'lican administration at Charleston
as there was for returning a Repub
J,lican congress to Washington, an'
Ibased this assertion upon the com
parison of the Democratic and Re.
publican records of this state. H
STATED that the Democratic part.
Twas in power in West Virginia fo'
26 years, from 1871 to 1897, am
that during all this time they coult
not point to. a. single act of progress
Isive legislation worthy of note.
He, contrasted this failure witt.
1.-THE Republican record OF the pas
Isixteen years referring to the Daw-
son tax laws, the. creation of the tas.
commissioners Office, tHe BOARD o.
Control, the abolition of the fec
system in the offices of secretary O..
Estate and auditors office, saving thu;
people manyt thousands of dollars
per year. q
/ He told OF the promises fulfille5
In the passage of the Workman't,
ECompensation law by which huns
dreds OF widows, children and disaa
'bled workingmen were being benes
fitted by the payment during the frs,
year the law has been in operation
of over 100000 in relief at a coss
of 1919 to the 'laboring man ant
I9O% to tho corporations.
He stated that under the lass
democratic administration the DEM
liocrats assessed the Public Service
Corporation only S22.137,00O while