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Qeuoted to Practical Information, ^ome flews, Pure Politios, and the Deoelopment of VDest Virginia's Resources
3L.XXXm.~NO 44.
CLARKSBURG. W. VA., SEPTEMBER 14. 1834.
WHOLE NO. lTfiO
CONGRESSMAN THOMAS B. REED, of Maine.
?elected to the National Congress last week by a plurality of
8,000 Two years ago his plurality was only 1,600.
Mckinley
i Great Republican Leader
Speaks at Bangor and
Closes the Maine
Campaign.
The Speech.
emocratio leaders and press
sole themselves by declaring
, the new law after all is bet
than the act o* 1S90. Better
whom? getter for what? Bet
jn
^ dutS^ Tist"''Nw betrer
the United States. Not " bet
tor industries. Not better
American labor. Not better
the American farmer.
Where has it given hope?
ere will it set factories to
k? It has improved, con
edly improved, no American
rests, unless it is the sugar
whisky trusts. It will not
t a single new factory at
le. It will not increase the
land for labor at home. What
r hope it brings is to the alien
the stranger. Whatever in
try it quickens lies beyond
seas; it is not located beneath
Hag.
Better than the law of 1S90?
aw under the operation of
eli every man in this country
' employed at good wages.
!r.y factory was running at its
capacity, butconsumers were
ing the necessity of life olieap
han they had ever seen tliem
ore. Does any thoughtful
J believe that the law of 1891
1 ever rostore these happy
ditions here in the United
tes?
hat the new hill means.
Will somebody name the pro
on in the new tariff law which
n improvement on the old?
> asserted in some quarters
it is bettor because the rates
ut.v are less and the average
lit age lower. In whose in
sts are those lower duties?
3tti do they benefit?
enator Mills answered this
I when he said in his recent
!ch: 'What has been the fact
aference to every tariff act in
history of the Government
reduces duties; importations
eased and with increased im
at'?ns came increased rev
e.'
>? we start with the declara
from| iose who framed the
that importations are to be
eased under it. But what
' l'iis mean to the American
? 6* lucroased importation
rtieles we make in the United
means diminishing pro
100 in the United States. It
mean anything else; and
wishing production- in the
States means diminished
?.vment to our American
labor and diminished wages to
those who are employed. You
cannot escape from that conclu
sion.
ITS FREE LIST.
'?Let us examine brielly the
free list of the new law. It has
taken from the dutiable list of
1S90 and put on the free list
articles the value of which, as
imported in 1893, was $41,398,
000.71. Now of what does this
new list consist?
"Nearly one-half of it, to be
.exact, $18,496,553.92, was the
j former's wool. Then #10,198,391.
11 was lumber and $1,512,574.31
agricultural products. Flax and
hemp, the importations of which
last year amounted to $1,720.
231.60 are transferred from the
dutiable list and placed upon the
free list.
?Tour free list, therefore, oon
| sists chiefly and almost exclus
j ively of the products of the farm
I and the forest, which amount in
all to $31,937,750.94. The bal
ance of this much value of the
free list, amounting to *9,460,
249.77. consists chiefly of manu
i factured articles, although nearly
I one-quarter of it $2,261,766. con
sists in paintings, statuary and
other works of art.
ONLY LUXURIES REDUCED.
"No let us see what constitute
their boasted reductions of duties.
On the basis of importations of
last year they have reduced the
tariff on
| "Leaf tobacco and Havana
cigars, $1,334,012.
'?Liquors more than $1,232,950.
J "Kmbroideries, $1,536,890.
| "Silk dress goods, plushes,
| velvets, etc., $2.720,CCS.
| "Ostrich feathers and flowers,
$265,330.
"Kid Gloves, $S75.000.
"(Jhinawaro. $2,232,9s7.
"Painting and statuary, $432.
G57.
?'Pearl buttons, $224,000.
"Plate and cut glass, $2 15,607
??Opium for smoking, $400,073. j
"Jewelry, $76,000.
"How the reduced tariff on
these articles will relieve the peo
ple. what a relief these changes
will bring them. Kvery one is an
article of luxury. Not one has
a place in the necessaries of life.
All are articles which are chiefly
used by the wealthy and opulent.
Yet all were made to give the
Democratic Congress an excuse
for putting a duty upon sugar, a
necessity to every household in
the land, that they might enrich
the Trust already fattened, as
they allege, by its ill gotten
gains.
RECIPROCITY ANNULLFD.
The reciprocity clause of the
law of 1890 has been repealed by
the law of 1.S94. It was intended
to encourage foreign trade,
and in two years of its opera
tion it has accomplished
much for the trade of the United
States and especially for the
benefit of our agricultural inter
ests. Our trade with Cuba under
this reciprocity clause had in
creased from ?11.000.000 to $24.
oOO.OOO annually, and vitn Brazil
from $7,000,000 ' to $16,OOO.oOo.
while with a number of other
countries a large and growing
trade has been secured.
??All this is surrendered to r
taxed sugar, and the morning
press anuounces that some of the
countries with which we have
made reciprocity treaties are in
stituting retaliatory duties
against our Hour, wheat, beef,
pork and other products because
of the needless abrogation of
their treaties.
NO MERCY FOR FARMERS.
They have struck the farmer
right and loft. They have shown
no mercy whatever. The free
list under the law of 1S90 took
i from the dutiable list noncom
peting goods of the value of
S100.232,u00. The new law now
takes from the dutiable list goods
amounting in value to $41,399,
C00. It also takes from the free
list articles which are prime
necessities of life, amounting to
$113,215,000, upon which they
propose to collect a duty of $44.
1000,000. They have increased
the rates over the law of 1S90 on
various articles to the value of
$18,074,400.
"But I am not here to discuss
tariff rates or schedules. The
principle on which they were
made is not subject to amend
ment. The tariff policy of this
country must be protective. That
is what we contend for?that is
what the American people mean
to have.''
UNFAVORABLE OUTLOOK.
??The financial condition of the
country is anything but hopeful
and encouraging. With failing
revenues, but no material dimin
ution in expenditures, we are
rapidly running into debt. For
the first time since 1SS5 we have
had this year a deficiency aggre
gating $70,000,000, and the re
demption fund of $100,000,000,
called the -gold reserve,' to main
tain at par the $346,000,000 of
greenbacks and $163,000,000
Treasury notes has fallen to $o<,
000,000.
??The resources of the Govern
ment have been weakened and
the debt increased. The situa
tion is not promising. The new
sugar duty will not bring much,
if any, money into the Treasury
for several months, because of
the enormous importations of
raw sugar under the free clause
of the law of 1890; and the in
creased revenue, which was to
llow from an advance of the tax
of twenty cents a gallon on
whisky, will not early be real
ized. because the distillers, an
ticipating the increase, have in
the ample time allowed them for
that purpose by President Cleve
land been very busy withdrawing
spirits in great quantities under
the lower tax and will now enjoy
under the new law the great priv
ilege of eight years in which
hereafter to take product from
bond.
??It is to be observed, too, that
the expenditures of the Govern
ment have exceeded the income
of the Government practically
every hour since the advent of
the present Democratic adminis
tration. This has not occurred
before for thirty years and never
occurred at all under a Repub
lican administration, except in
tne exigencies of the great war.
It is a Democratic practice. It is
history repeating itself.
??The law of 1S90 was sufficient
under Republican management
to meet all expenses ot the Gov
ernment, and did meet them for
the first two and a half years of
its operation. During no year of
president Harrison's administra
tion did the receipts fall below
the expenses of the Government,
and when President Harrison
went out of power, while his ad
ministration had paid nff more
than 000.000 of the princi
pal and interest of the Nationsl
debt, without issuing a single
bona for any purpose, he was
able to turn over to the adminis
tration which succeeded him a
surplus of $124,000,00ft, includ
ing the gold reserve."
1'OI'IMSTS.
1 he People's Party delegates
met at the county court room on
last Friday and proceeded to
j organize the Senatorial Conven
| tion tor this district. Mr. Geo.
W Martin was elected chairman
and Mr. Charles Hornor secreta
ry. There were present about
thirty ^persons and probably
twenty . Populists. Speeches
were made by Mr. Martin. C. H.
Davis, Geo. W. Hall, of Peel
Tree.- and others. Mr, Edward
K. Stoat, was nominated by ac
clamation for State Senator. Mr.
Chap Johnson spoke brietly to
the convention after Mr. Stout's
speech of acceptance.
The following platform was
adopted :
Whereas; We the wealth pro
ducers haye been brougnt to al
most abject slavery and real
estate and its products reduced
in value SB} per cent.
Resolved'; That we are opposed
to any thing that looks to gold
monometallism and are in favor of
t the free and ulimited coinage of
hotlj gold and silver at the ratio
? the government issuing' all
money direct to the people.
Jlsnolved ; That the time has
now arrived, when the common
people should unite on financial
issues of the day which we be
lieve overshadow all other issues
and that we further believe that
the two old parties aie using the
tariff as a cloak only to divert
the attention of the people from
the supreme issues above men
tioned.
Fairmont.
Miss Mattie Stone is in Clarks
burg this week the guest of her
friend, Mrs. Boswell.
One day last week Mrs. Caro
line Eyster, an aged lady resid
ing in West Fairmont, fell down
a flight of steps at her residence,
and striking on her' face, broke
the bone in her nose, and bruised
herself very considerably. Her
injuries are quite serious, but at
this time she is doing well.
On Monday about noon the
residence of Weeden J. Bryan,
near Bryan station, on the M. R.
railroad caught tire from a de
fective Hue and was entirely con
sumed; as was also the house
hold furniture and abouc SI.000
worth of wool that has been
stored away in the house.
Miss Alice Obley will leave on
Friday for Keyser, where she
has been engaged to teach in the
public schools for the coming
year. Miss Alice is a very popu
lar teacher, of much experience
and we are sure she will become
the favorite in Keyser, as she
has been wherever she has taught
before.? /;, ilex.
Miss Alice, daughter of Thos.
Starn, died at her home at Ca
tawba last Saturday, and was
buried on Sunday at that place;
Rev. Samuel Harris officiating.
Felix Leeper, aged about 55
years, died at his home in Grant
district on last Monday, and was
buried in White Rock graveyard,
on Tuesday. He leaves a wife
and family of grown children.
Mrs. Ed. Mahaney has brought
suit against J. Y. Hamilton, at
Amos, claiming $">,000 damages.
It will be remembered that Mr.
Mahaney, while in state of in
toxication, stumbled and fell,
striking his head against a'stone
corner, from the effects of which
he died a day or so later. The
plaintiff claims that Mr. Hamil-1
ton, who is a saloon keeper at
Amos, sold him drink.
Last Saturday a gas explosion
occurred at the homo of Emory
Watkins, on Walnut avenue. His
little son. Claud, had turned on
the gas a little to got warm, un
kuown to Mrs. W. When she
came in she lighted the gas as
usual, but the result was not ox- i
actly the same. It came up in a i
tlame and knocked her back out
the door and tho stovo pipe and
stove lids followed closoly be
hind her. Sho was not seriously
hurt or burnt.?Free Press,
Following marriago liconscs
have been issued siuco our last
report : Charley Frederick and
Virginia Harden; C. Aretas Par
ish and Zoa B. Morgan; James
B. Tucker and Clara Hall; B.C.
Ashcraft and Mary J. Odell;
Eugenius Eddy and Lucretia
Ammons; Elijah W. Satterffeld
and Catherine E. Smith.?H'eat
Virginian.
West Virginia peoplo ought to
be proud of the record made for
our mountain state at Washing
ton last week by her K. of 1'
boys. They have given her
national reputation in a new
direction. The members of the
Uniform Rank who went to the
great Pythian conclave won three
prizes that were offered for ex
cellence in various accomplish
ments. The second prized offered
for the best drilled division was
won by the Parkersburg.division
aud its Captain, S, B, Baker, was
awarded the *100 tnedal as
s'i 1 it banner.
was awarded to the first regiment
of the Uniform Rank of the state
for presenting the finest appear
ance in the procession and on re
view. This is a great honor and
especially is it so when it is
known that the appearance of
the entire display was one of the
finest ever seen in Washington.
West Virginia was right in it at
Washington, to use a common
expression.
West Union.
About 90 teachers entered the
examination held here this week.
T. J. Kincaid. the marble cut
ter of Pennsboro. died Sunday
of pneumonia fever.
Preston Davis, of Rock Run, is
dangerously ill with lung trouble.
His recovery is doubtful.
The daughter of Milton Mason
died at her home near Blands
ville, last week of lung trouble,
aged 20 years.?herald.
The wife of John J. Ingle has
been taken to the asylum at Wes
ton for treatment for insanity.
It still looks as if our whole
county was to bo tested for oil.
A Pittsburgh company is now
leasing the land around Morgans
ville and will begin a test well
just as soon as sufficient territo
ry has been secured.?Itccoril.
John II. Feather. ex-County
Superintendent and one of Pres
ton county's foremost citizens,
gied at his home at BrucetOn
Mills Monday, of typhoid fever,
aged about o-J years. The Odd
Fellows buried him on Wednes
day.
Forepaush's Ureas Attached.
Si-kinokield, III., Sept. 13.?
To-day. at Gibson City United
States Marshal Brinton seized
Adam Forepaugh's circus on a
writ of attachment issued by
Judge Allen, of the United States
circuit court, sworn out by Geo.
Coupe, late musician of the show
who tiled a suit for $10,000 dam
ages in court here for personal
injuries received at the hands of
the proprietors of the slio\y, who,
he alleges, brutally assaulted him
and set a hound on him at Alama,
Kansas, and disabled him for life.
He claimed the circus would leave
the State to-night.
lturkhnnnon.
Judge Samuel Woods, of Phil
ippi, has beer, holding a special
term of circuit court here for the
past few days.
J. 1$. Lemons, who lives near '
Alton, had Ills house burned one
day lost week, nearly all of the
furniture was destroyed.
Misses Mablo and Edna Mc
Cormick returned from a visit of
several weeks at Webster Springs.
?Delia.
Two persons named Gawthrop
and Koby. who woro confined in
jail awaiting trial, left that place
one evening last week without
bidding thn officers good byo.
They made a koy from a piece of
wood and with it unlocked the
door and woro free. Gawthrop
was caught and returned, being
found at his houso near Nowlon
a day or two after his escape.
Koby has not been secured.?
i Manner.
j Hov. D. C. Wees, of the Meth
odist Protestant church, has been
stationed hero for the ensuing
year to complete tno class organ
ization and make arrangements
for the erection of a handsome
brick church on their lot near
the Catholic church.l? Hutty Bee.
Weston.
Mrs. Leo Troxell is on a visit
to her mother at Clarksburg.
On Monday night Miss Mamie
Koblegard gave a social to in
vited friends in honor of the
Misses Koblegard, of Clarks
burg. There was dancing and
1 rejesbments.
i A?*;xort, KqblegfcEd ,j*
| from Eardpe. Ho says ho hid
I a pleasant trip and enjoyed it
immensely.
Capt. B. B. Dovener and ex
Sheriff Holmes, of Clarksburg,
were distinguished guests in this
city Sunday and Monday.
FredJ Sehorn, colored, acci
dently broke his left arm in two
places Sunday morning. The
accident was causod by a fall at
the corner of Bank Alley and
Main street.
Miss Emma Sehon, of the Hos
pital, is paying a visit at her
home in Clarksburg.
Judge Bennett's horses were
excluded from the races at the
j Clarksburg fair on account of
delay in making application for
their entry.
Local pride has made our
neighbor, the Clarksburg fair, a
success. Lewis county citizens
ought to show a light spirit and
with our advantages in location
we cstn eclipse that enterprising
county by our crowds and ex
hibits. Prom present indications
the coming fair will excel all its
previous efforts.
riilllppl.
Miss Edna Peck is at Bridge
port and Clarksburg visiting rela
tives.
Mr. Notolona Nutter and Miss
Isora Green were married at the
Ice Grove near this place on
Thursday last by Rev. J. H.
Burns, of the M. E. Church
South.?Plaivdealer.
Rev. Doyle, of Clarksburg,
preached to good sized congre
gations at the Presbyterian
church Sunday and Sunday night.
He will hold services at the Pres
byterian church here every first
Sunday.?Republican.
Miss A.llie Morris furnished
music for the teachers' institute.
Mr. and Mrs. David Win
grove, residing near Parkersburg,
with their infant child, drove to
the Baptist church to attend ser
vices, and while attempting to
get out of the buggy the horses
moved suddenly, throwing Mrs.
Wingrove, with the infant in her
arms, out of the rear end. She
alighted on the baby, killing it
instantly and injuring herself
seriously.
The Pennsboro fair closes to
day, Friday,