Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1920-12-23


IT is stated that 1873 fire insurance
companies have withdrawn from bust
ness in Mississippi, because the State
Revenue Agent has brought suit against
them on the charge that they have Gre
ated a combine in restraint OF trade.
No denial is made that the charge is
true. How could there be denial?
THE eminent New York banker,
Otto H. Kahn. wants the government
to take the tax off of excess profits and
raise revenue by putting a sales tax
on manufactured articles. Just when
the necessities Of life are about to be
reduced, along comes Kahn with a
proposition that will justify dealers in
putting UP prices again.
CONGRESS is devoting its atten-
ton to the passing Of certain tariff
measures. Ostensibly they are for tho
benefit of the farmers, but there is
wsll-grounded reason for believing
that the real benefciaries will be the
poor manufacturers. who have only
been making few hundred per cent
during the past five or six years.
THE Ubiquitous gangs of gamblers
and Sharpers who control the race
tracks in Maryland, whereby they
fleece the people out of millions each
year, have offered a sop to that State
by Offering SlOO,O0O of their winnings
for a "stock- breeding association for
the benefit of the farmers" The queer
thing Is that the Maryland folks ara
falling for the proposition.
The inevitable reduction in wages
and falling off in employment has sci
il-though its a mighty bad time OF the
ar for such conditions. Before the
winter is over many a man and woman
WI be sorry that they fail.i to llv
oy some of the big wages they re-
ce~ved during the flush times of the
past few years. NOT one half of the
people have the VISION of the ant
however, in laying UP in summev
against the needs OF die wiarer-mosl
"t us are like the sraSShoposrs.
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II is announces that Captain John
Paul. of Harrisonburg, Republican can
didate for Congress in the seventh
Virginia district, who was defeated
last month by Representative Thos.
". Harrison, of Winchester. will con-
st Mr.. Harrison's election. The
nSy reason is given that some of the
.ers had no paid their pol tax anj
hers I'd not been properly regis
tef>d Captain Paul must be consider.
ao.y lacking in self-rcsrect il he
would want a place in Congress So.
cried by such methods.
The clothing manufacturers ,
New York have rcbc,lcd aga, T.,
unions hat have dominated gng.r r.,
ness so long and so t}rann;cal'y. The,
rocked G"i their 65.OGl employees. and
are now reopen.ng their factories o
ne" "E" 20 per cen. r-.....,.., d..
the union scale, piece-vork where Nos
StDie and the open shop Under the
Pece-woTN sea workers can earn
ftNm 81 to so a week. The unions
are lighting against the new order. bu.
II Noks as if thev must ACCEPT the
manufacturers tern, if they van,
work
IN spite of all threats of legal of.
hicerS, State and federal, and notwitb-
standing pro- estS of consumers and
victims, the coal operators and manin-
ulators continue to charge fully ,u,;c.
as much for Goa! a. it is worth, and
tleir greedy maws are-never satisfied
1t Is a matter OF common knowledge
mat the operators are MAKING tbr
most eXorbitant profits. but no authorj-
~ seems able to curb them or TO de.
liver the people from their ayarice
The government ought 10 seize the
coal mines and operate them for the
dement, OF the public 1t is fund.-.
mentally wrong that such abs ,Lrr.ly
necessary commodities should ( in
thc hands OF private individuals. who
nave so 1hundantly demonstrated tha,
heN a.. nHit to be trustee 10 handle
IT. m
and vet Congress seems onarc'v nm
concern aNou this tremendously i'm
pofian' matter and allows the robbery
to 90 on urr-atraincd.