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Wtst Tips taut. This number begins our fourth voir. When it become known that we proposed to publish a public pa per as distinguished from a private paper; when it became known, that' we would fight for the people, and could not be hired to tight against them; when it became known, that ; we would print what others found it profitable to suppress; when it became known that we could not be bribed or bulldozed to advocate anything which was contrary to the public welfare, a determined effort w:i9 inaugurated, all along the line, to break us down and to create a prejudice against us. ^e doubt whether any enterprise was ever more relentlessly lied about and vil- j ified. Those in charge of these col umns marked out the road they thought best for the body of the people, and that road has beeu fol lowed regardless of the clamor ema nating from knaves and echoed by, fools. We believed that West ^ ir gihia needed such a paper as this, and time has vindicated that belief. The more intelligent men in every ; part of the State have come to un derstand that this Journal is what it professes to be;—a paper whose opinions are not for sale. The past three years stand as a witness that we will not suppress facts, or with hold opinions, in order to inane | money, or to escape the hostility of the rich and powerful. We have never failed to print, (so far as space permitted), whatever was cal culated to give the public a charac ter of information heretofore kept from them. Looking back over the past three years, we can truly 9ay, that nothing in these columns has ever been prompted by a personal, or by a selfiish motive. The coming year will be full of interest. At no time in all the his tory of this country was it so im portant that the rank and file should comprehend political issues. The tariff-protected millionaires will ex hanst every effort to retain control of Congress; the railroad managers will strain every nerve to exelude from public office the men who will pass laws to prevent railroad dis crimination, and the tax-dodge?9 will clamor against every man of capacity who insists that the prop erty which now escapes shall be taxed. Experience proves that these powerful private interests, which are so hostile to the welfare of the masses, will intimidate our office-seeking politicians, and will muzzle a large part ot the press. But they eannot succeed, they can not deceive voters, they cannot mis lead public opinion provided news papers like the Democrat are widely circulated. We appeal to those who value the prosperity of our State to aid in extending the circle of our readers. Give the Democrat 5,000 subscribers,scattered over West Vir ginia, and the men now scheming to plunder her will not dare prosecute their plans. Give us double our present circulation and the still hunt policy will not be attempted. Of course we do not expect any en couragement from fools or knaves, but we do expect the assistance ot every man who feels the importance .of giving voters sufficient informa tion to enable them to cast an intel- \ ligent ballot. * There is a great difference be tween the man a newspaper makes, and the newspaper a man makes. THE DEBT. It is worth noticing that certain politicians and newspapers who pre tended to be horrified at Mr. Mason's connection with the debt, are now singing a very different tune. The moment he was employed in this matter, Mr. Mason published the fac* and acted openly and without concealment. His employment end ed, and. we have good reason to be- 1 lieve, the work he was to do has been undertaken by men who t>ro fess to have no personal interest at stake. The difference is, between a frank man and a sneak. It is not ■ discreditable to advocate a settle- i ment of the debt, but it is very dis- : creditable to lie about your connect- I ion with it. Sooner or later the truth comes to light. We propose, if God spares us, to publish every fact about this debt j matter, calculated to make our Leg- j islature act intelligently. We are delighted Senator Faulk ner is against the Blair bill voted right, and is endorsed ery man who understands the sub ject, and whose judgment is not per verted bv seif-interest. THE BLAIR BILL. We reprint rtnr editorial of March 12, 1886. QjBES^—What is the Blair bill! Axs.—It is a proposition that Congress shall appropriate 79 mil lion million dollars to be divided^ within the next eight years, between the States and Territories to be ex pended in education. t}.—Where will Congress get this money? A.—By taxing the people. The U. S. tax-collector will take from each person a certain amount of • money and put it into the Treasury aud then Congress will give a part of it back to the same people who pay it;—will give it back in the way of helping to educate their children. ' tj.—Does a U. S. collector meas ure each person's tax according to his ability to spare a part of his in come? If A is worth $100,000 and B is worth only $1,000, does A pay one hundred times more than B? A.—X# (speaking generally) both pay the ‘same. For example, the tariff-tax on sugar amounts to 76 cents a year on every man, woman and child;—Vanderbilt and a sew- f ing-girl both consume the same quantity of sugar and, as regards the sugar tax. both pay the same amount. This illustration holds good as to every commodity of “com mon living" which is protected by the tariff. tj.-lf the sugar tax be 76 cents a head, then as regards this single tax West Virginia pays into the U. S. Treasury $532,000 every year. Our population is 700,000 and 76 cents a head, makes $532,000. A.—Just so. Sumner’s pamphlet, “Protection and Revenue" (which can be obtained by writing to the Democrat) gives the figures. Q.—How much will West Virginia receive under the Blair bill? A.—About $120,000 the first year. Q.—Then the proposition amounts to siraplv this: We are to continue a revenue system which makes sugar cost West Virginians $532,000 more than if the tariff tax was removed; after this $532,000 is taken out of our pockets and sent to Washington, $120,000 will come back to help ed ucate our children. A.—Such is the case exactly, ex cept our illustration is confined to the single matter of a sugar tax; if we went through the whole list, we would find that West Virginians pay out largely over $100 for every one dollar thev will never get back. tj.—I am opposed to the Blair bill. I want our Legislature to levy its own school tax. so that ever}* dollar I pay will remain in this State. I don’t want this money sent out of the State on an idea a portion of it will come back. A.—Every man, who takes the trouble to investigate this subject, is of your opinion, unless his judg ment is warped by a wrong influ ence. Q.—Will the bill pass? A.—Yes; because the privileged few, who alone profit by the “protec tive tariff,” have so saturated the public miud with wrong ideas that our politicians are afraid to antago nize the delusions which now pre vail. The Blair bill is merely a shrewd and captivating scheme to perpetuate the present tariff. ABATE THE TAX WHEREVER THERE IS COMBINATION. It is open secret, the Democrats in Congress are afraid to antago nize the millionaire beneficiaries of the tariff. The politicians say, the masses will be fooled to vote con trary to their own interests. We suggest a road to victor}'. Let the House pass this resolution, and we guarantee it will stampede the pro tectionists. Whereas a tariff for protection gives the protected manufacturers a monopoly of the home market, and whereas they combine to advance the prices of their products and to reduce the wages of labor: Resolv ed: (1) A commission be appoint ed. with power to send for persons and papers, who shall discover and expose all the facts about every combination to advance prices or to reduce wages; (2) That wherever there has been such combination, the tax shall be abater! 20 per cent every year until the tariff ceases to “protect” the combining manufac turers. THE C. 4 0. EXPOSED. When Col. Chew offered a bill in the last Legislature to prevent rail road discrimination, the railroad politicians insisted that the corpo rations wore now doing exactly right and that the law was not need ed. We have before 119 the letter of a coal operator on the C. *fc O., dat ed Dec. 23rd, proving conclusively the necessity for Chew’s bill. We j also read Gov. Wilson> manly and well timed answer to this coal ope rator; and we thank him for it. These letters will be printed pres ently. Our space is so limited, that we cannot print even half of what should be given to the people. It is indeed surprising, the men of in telligence in West Ya. do not give j this paper sufficient support to ena ble us to double its size. HAVE DEMOCRATS THE PLUCK TO DO IT? _ X. Y. Standard. The Democratic party lias of late been so little accustomed to con luct ing campaigns in behalf of any vital principles that a few words of friendly advice from those who be lieve that political parties represent ing no principles are obstructive public nuisances may not be amiss. In the first place, the party may as well dismiss the notion that it can run with the hare and hunt with the hounds. Tariff reduction will sure ly benefit the many, but it is, for the time being, menacing to powerful interests that have long been accus tomed to use governmental powers for their private advantage. These men are going to tight, and they know how to fight. They understand what the Republican party has done for them and they will freely supply it with the munitions of war in or der that it may continue the system that has built up their fortunes while impoverishing the country. The Democratic trimmers need not think that they can fool the protec ted monopolies by any false preten ses. The men at the head of the industries fostered by government at the public cost are about the shrewdest set of men in this coun try, and the Democrats in and out of Congress caunot give them any points in lying or trickery. Neither can they fool the working men by any halt hearted declara tions of their desire to continue the protection of American labor. The workingman who still believes that the tarilf is maintained for his bene fit is going to vote for the Republi can candidate. He may not have much sense, but he would siinpiy be an idiot, if wanting that kind of goods, he should pass by the shop which makes them its sole stock in trade to buy of the opposition shop where protective tariffs are decried. If the Democratic party is going into this campaign declaring that any tax on commodities protects la bor, and that it is in favor of only a little less protection than the Repub lican party offers, then it will richly deserve defeat. If protection is a good thing workingmen cannot have too much of it, and they would be very silly not to vote the Republican ticket. But the Democratic party need need not lose the votes of working men because of the attitude into which it is likely to be forced by the President's message. If it has any pluck or sense at all,itcan win more votes than it will lose on that issue. It cannot proclaim itself for free trade, because it has not yet learned how to raise a federal revenue with out a tariff; but it can and, if it hopes to wiu it, must deny that a tariff protects labor. The pro gramme is a very simple one. The Republican party proclaims that a high tariff protects labor and that that is the reason, and the only reason, why it favors a high tariff. This involves a stupid untruth, and all that the Democrats need do is to show that it is an untruth. There is no real difficulty in showing this to a workingman as well as to any other kind of a man. The ability to comprehend a truth, clearly presen- j ted, does not depend on a man’s vo- I cation, but on his honesty and intel ligence. The workingmen already know that one-half of the Republican dec laration is false—the pretense,name ly, that the protected monopolies who have perpetuated the tariff have done so from a desire to main tain high prices for American labor. The numerous strikes and lockouts in the protected industries have opened their eyes concerning that matter. But many of them still be lieve that but for the system by , which their bosses profit so enor- j mousl}' they themselves would be thrown out of work, and that there would be less money to divide i among them; while now and then they do, for a time, secure an ad vance in wages. So long as they believe this they will vote for the high tariff party, and when they cease to believe it they will desert that party in a body. The Demo cratic party must show them that the tariff hurts instead of helping i the great mass of working people. ' Every time the party does this it j makes a vote, and every time it ad mits that the tariff, “up to a certain point.” really protects labor it loses a vote itself, or makes one doubly , sure to the Republican candidate. i Whatever may be the plan of campaign with which the Democrat ic party enters this fight, ?ts speak ers, when they once begin to face j audiences, will find that they must ! denounce and expose, and not at tempt to defend the protective theo ry. This the party must do or die. The successful politician of the near future will be he who defies newspaper vilification. i Daniel Manning. ex-Seeretary of the Treasury, died at his residence in Albany, N. Y., December 24. He was born in 1831, and his parents were Irish. He commenced life as messenger boy in a newspaper of fice, became a printer, and finally owner of *a powerful political jour nal. Mr. Manning had sagacity and a wonderful faculty for work. He few equals as a manager of politics, but declined office until called into President Cleveland’s cabinet. A GOOD APPOINTMENT. The New York papers announce the appointment of Hon. .1. Fairfax McLaughlin, well-known in this community, and a brother-in-law of lion. D. B. Lucas, to the highly de sirable and lucrative position of Clerk of the Surrogates Court, in the city of New York. The appoint ment was made by Judge Rastus L. Ransom, Surrogate elect of that cit}\ The many friends of Mr. Mc Laughlin will rejoice at the good for tune, which ushered in for him the happy New Year. Mounds ville,W. Va., Dec. 24, ’87. Charlestown Democrat:—Your re cent auuneiation that Mr. Camden, was out of politics is not credited in this community. After keeping the Post Office at this place in the hands of the Republicans for two years dickering for Senator Price’s vote and failing in that, he enters the narrow gyage position of an avenger and by the aid of Senators Kenna and Faulkner makes rfh ap pointment in opposition to the ex pressed wish of three fourths of the Democratic patrons of this P. 0.,— is this statesmanship, or even com mon political sagacity ? Observer. It is stated as a discouraging fact by people who think that the na tional prosperity depends on making railroads pay a high price for steel rails that the prices of those pieces : of metal has “touched $30 per ton i for future delivery.” As in 1885 j manufacturers were producing steel rails at $27 per ton it would seem that they ought to worry along now on even so low a price as $36. But there is much dissatisfaction, and ! the responsibility for rails not being as high as $45 to $50 per ton is di i rectly laid to the present heavy im portations. And yet these importa tions continue in the face of a duty of $17 per ton. The complaint against the present price of steel rail is a queer one. We do not hear that Mr. Carnegie or any other iron king has felt called upon to reduce his personal expenses Can it be that an effort is realty to be made to place a prohibitive duty on iron? And, if so, is the very funny argu ment to be brought forward that the country is interested in making its railroads and machinery cost as much as possible ? A number of things point in this direction.—.V. }' World. OVERTHROW THE DESPOIL ING GIANTS. St. Louis Post-Dispatch. The unorganized masses of con sumers and producers can protect themselves against these “trusts” in but one way, and that is through laws which utterly overthrow and prevent such giant growths. The primary object and justification of government is to protect the weak and prevent a powerful few from wronging the humble many. If we cannot bring the Standard Oil Trust into subjection to the law how will we ever cope with a “Railroad Trust” organized to evade all the laws Congress may pass, and to vi olate with impunity every State law that can be enacted ? Overcoats at Two-Thirds and One-Half Value.—Brand New, Beautiful and Perfect-Fitting Over coats, Cape Coats, Top Coats, Storm Coats, will be sold regardless of cost during the Great Harvest Sale be ginning this week at Oehm's Acme Hall, the Largest Baltimore Cloth ing House, Baltimore street, one door from Charles street. A sale I like this, so greatly in the interest of the buyers, has never before oc curred in this State or anywhere ' else in the world. Has Lost Its Charm. X. Y. World, For twelve years after the war the Republican managers frightened the voters out of making a much needed change in the administra tion. They worked alternately, and sometimes together, the “rebel scare” and the “business scare.” The voters were told that if the Democrats obtained power the “reb el debt” would be paid, the negroes reenslaved aud the “fruits of the war” lost. The bugaboo worked so well that one gleeful spook-manipu lator proclaimed, sixteen years after the close of the war, that “there is one more President in the bloody shirt.” Blind to these lessons, the Republicans have already brought out the “tariff scare” as their buga boo for next year. They think the people are such fools as to suppose the country will be ruined by a re duction of needless war taxes. They have nearly a year in which to find out their mistake, but it will not take them half that time. The day of bugaboos ia past. A Kind of Sale never seen before in Baltimore or the whole world. A Rich Har vest for Buyers. Bear in mind we have no old stock; there fore, you get brand-new and beautiful goods at these un heard-of reductions. IN MEN’S OVERCOATS, during this sale, you ean buy Good, Well Made and Warm Overcoats for $5, which were $8. Superior, Well-Made and Warm Overcoats for $8.50, which were $13.50. Satin-Lined, Well Made and Warm Overcoats for $12, which were $20.00. Luxurious, Well-Made and Warm Overcoats for $15 and $16.50, which were $25.00. Sumptuous, Well Made and Warm Overcoats for $20, which were$30 /Esthetic, Well-Made and Warm Overcoats for $25, which were $40. IN MEN'S SUITS, during this sale, you can buy a Useful Suit for $5, original price $7.50. A Good Suit for $7.50. original price $12. ; A Business Suit for $10, original price $15. | A Dress Suit for $15, original price 1 $22. A Superior Dress Suit for $25, orig ! inal price $35. A Grand Dress Suit for $30, origi nal price $40. I IN BOYS’ SUITS, during this sale, you can buy a Kilt Suit for $1.95 that was $2.50. i A Better Kilt Suit for $3.50, that | was $4.50. A 2 piece Knee-pants Suit for $2.50, that was $3.50. A 3-piece Knee Pants Suit for $5, that was $7.50. A Youth’s Long-Pants Suit for $8. 50, that was $15. _ IN BOYS’ OVERCOATS, during this sale, you can buy a Child’s Overcoat for $2.50 that was $3. ; 75. I A Boy’s Dress Overcoat for $5. that was $7.50. A Boy’s Superfine Overcoat for $14, that w'as $18. IN FURNISHING GOODS DE i PARTMENT, during this sale, you can buy English Neckwear, ourown importation, for 40 cents, that was 75. Embroidered Suspenders, Hand Work, for $1.75 and $2, that were $3.50 and $4. Sleigh Gloves, Fine Fur, for $1 and $1.25, that were $2 and $2.50. ! English Ringwood Wool Gloves (Hand Knitted) for 40 cents that were $1.75. Beautiful Silk Mufflers for 75 certs, that were $1.25. Neglege Flannel Overshirts for $1. that were $1.50. The present week will in augurate the Grandest and Greatest Clothing Sale over seen. OEHM’S ACME HALL, West Baltimore Street, ONE I)OOIt FROM CHARLES. BALTIMORE, MIL Order of Publication. THE STATE OF WEST VIRGINIA, .Jefferson county, to-wit: At Rules held in the Clerk's Office of the Circuit Court of JefTerson county, January, 1888. Jas. W. Engle and Rel»ecca Engle, his wife, plaintiffs, against Geo. M. Beltzlioover, executor Isaac Dust, deceased, Suean Dust, widow of said Isaac Dust, deceased, Susan Dust, Jacob W. Staley and Margaret Staley, his wife, Jos. L Eiclielberger and Mar tin Eichelberger, Mary Catherine Eiclielberger and Nettie May Eichel berger, children of Catherine Eichel berger, deceased, defendants. IN CHANCERY. The object of this suit is tc» enforce a trust against certain real estate of Isaac Dust, deceased, in behalf of the com plainant, Rebecca Angle. It appearing, on affidavit filed in this suit, tnat the defendants, Susan Dust, widow of Isaac Dust, and Susan Dust, are non-residents of the State of West Virginia, they are hereby required to appear within one month after the due uunlieation of this order, and do what is necessaay to protect their interests in this matter'. T. W. LATIMER, Clerk of tho Circuit Court. D. B. Lucas and J. F. Angle, p. q. junti-ot. Bucjjlen’s Arnica Salve. The best Salve in the world for Cuts, Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum, Fe ver Sores, Tetter, Chapped Hands, Cbii blains, Corns, and all Skin Eruptions, and positively cures Piles, or no pay re quired. It is'guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction, or money refunded. Price 25 cents per box. For sale by (ieorge T Light. janl4-87. Manvel Wind Engines •-AJKTD PUMPS, Main Street, Charlestown, West Va. -DEALERS IN' All Kinds of Hardware. Also a Large Stock of GUM AND LEATHER BELTING. 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