The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1914-11-02
Industries Need HeIp.

The secretary of the national treas
ury 10 calling on various cities in
Guiding some in West Virginia to
make loans to the cotton growers in
the South. Such an act is without
precedent in the history OF this coun-
try.
With as much propriey he could
call on the cities OF the nation to
make loans to the lumber industry
In this state, which industry is par
alyzed under the existing general
business depression caused Dy a
Democratic national administrator
and its destructive policies.
Why should the secretary Of the
treasury, If he is right as to the cot
ton growers, not call on cities gen
orally to make loans to the coal MIN
crs in this section, who have nad a
rather rough time of 1t under the
present Democratic national regime:
They do not have near as much work
as they ought to have and which they
would have II the steel and iron In
dustries Of the country were not So
badly affecteu by the Democratic n.-
tional policies. They need help Why
does the Democratic nationai treas
urer not come TO their rescue? Is the
cotton grower Of the South any bet
ter than the coal miner OF West Vir-
GINA?
Unprecedented retrenchments have
been made by the railroads OF the
country including those In West Vir-
ginia. Railroad employees have been
laid of. Other railroad employees are
not getting the good wages they used
to get. The railroad companies them
selves have been compelled to ask for
an increase OF freight rates. There
are reasons for all this. Railway
workmen are laid off because the
railroads do not have as much BUSH
ness as they had under Republic
can administrations. Railroad mems
wages are cut for a similar reason.
The railroads themselves want the
privilege Of charging more for what
freight they. carry for the reason that
they are not doing enough volume OF
business now to pay the reduced
number Of men in their employ, keep
up their rolling stock as we'll as their
tracks and pay their stockholders a
dividend to say nothing of paying In
terest on what they owe.
The amount OF business the rail-
roads do is barometer OF the incus-
trial and commercial conditions of
the country. When that .>fsiness is
large the country is busy with ;ts
mills, factories and building opera
tions and the merchants are doing a
good business. When the volume OF
railroad business is small the factor
les and mills are not running in full
blast and the mercantile business
shows reduced volume. Big railroad
business means good times. Little
railroad business spells hard times.
All voters who want the coal mines
to run full all the year in and year
out and who do not want the condi-
tons to be such that the cities of the
nation be called upon to make loans
to the coal miners will vote the Re-
publican ticket tomorrow, thus reg
istering their protest against the de-
structiye policies of the Democratic
party which has crippled the coal
mining industry and will thereby
help pave the way for return toi
busy coal mines in this states. Voters
who want the, railroads to do a big
volume of business and railroad en-
ployes to have constant work at good
wages can not conscientiously vote
the Democratic ticket tomorrow. vot-
ers who want to cure the lumber In
dGstry of this state of paralysis can
not conscientiously deal that indus
try even another telling blow and
they are not going to vote tho Demo-
cratic ticket tomorrow and thereby
bring the fatal stroke to that import
ant industry in our state.