Show m I t 0 HANNAS CANDIDATES iMPIOUSLY MASQUERADING AS ASi 0 0 i T l r I i 0 LITTLE GODS l 0 r 0 1 0 I 0 A MAN ON THE E VERGE OF STARVATION STA one square meal is i s an luxury l To a nation on the 0 0 if border of desperation the evanescent hues hu s of a rainbow rambow betoken i 1 C may permanent pe anent prosperity P ros p err ty tys O i s 0 For nigh a quarter of a century prior to 1896 the people of the theUn United ted States had suffered from a t t process According to tables ables the annual annal rewards of their toil to l had shrunk 39 per P er r cent reaching the lowest 0 i prices since the of silver With y th this went every form fonn of or P property prop ro r tY excepting fixed debts every eve r loo j 0 of which for the same reason represented a purchasing power of when compared with 1872 t s This condition had been reached progressively through four Republican and two Democratic administrations regardless 0 Ii 1 of high or low 10 tariffs Discussing Disc this point the e Salt Lake Tribune said u The he time has passed when any tariff can help very t 0 much the United States until the money question is IS established ou on a new basis 0 f tl As a remedy Major McKinley proposed a higher tariff and a restoration of confidence And yet f et for the eighteen months 0 o Ii t succeeding his election lection banks continued to fail business institutions s to close ose their doors manufacturers to toai nail up their win 0 dows and laboring men to walk the streets The average commodity prices for 1897 and an 1898 advanced an insignificant 2 Percent per percent percent cent In order to show that we are not moved by partisan p bias it is a pleasure to again quote from that eminent financial 0 0 o 0 authority and supporter of the gold standard the Salt Lake Tribune dated Sept 5 1898 The prices of the great eat staples leave 0 today no margin of profit to producers cotton is away down so is wheat the manufacturing m industries in all but iron ir m and steel 0 1 are congested and it is because the people have not the means to encourage trade Property has not ceased to decline in 0 0 value And there is much more of the same t At this juncture a moment when McKinley could not not have carried a dozen states state in in the Union when all his is prophecies had Q been unfulfilled the Democratic party presented him with the first cause of later prosperity Knowing fun full well what the eco economic 0 0 1 0 no ic and partisan p i n effect of the e war w r with Spain would W be b the Democrats De ocra ts in in congress assisted by a few Republicans ReP not ot under 1 0 the lash las forced upon the administration a war of humanity opposed by the selfishness of Mammon J U The Democrats did not foresee forese that the chief credit for the great naval victories would attach to Democratic commanders 0 nor is this material for the glories of that war belong to the American people They did not foresee for t ee the blunders of Shafter Shifter O the th rottenness ss of beef f nor the scandals of Alger though these are material and and constitute a reproach to the responsible power t Upon tI heels of this war came the occupation of the Philippines by a transported army of men followed by Yeti yet 0 s i 7 another was war w r The expenditures C of the government in the last three years approximate more than for the three t i years preceding these wars Think of it For every man woman and child about 12 per capita suddenly thrown into the J 4 business of a nation to start the wheels of industry reduce the ranks of idle men broaden broa len the markets and raise the prices 0 i I O Such a sum expended in any three years since 1873 would alone have arrested the steady march toward pauperism and originated originated Hated a cry of prosperity t j t The farm farmers ors had been having a hard time Their industry the only unprotected one bore the accumulated burdens of all 0 1 j 0 Q ills But God has been good to American farmers for four years They have been permitted to sell seIl abroad of pro produce produce 0 duce over the previous ten years average average And this t is was due to excess in quantity wanted and not to higher prices The diminution diminution diminution O t tion in price alone one since 1890 would more than pay the national debt 0 j 0 O Last October was begun the Boer war England bought from us heavy of military equipment beef other foods manu menu manufactures manufactures I 0 mules and horses Contemporaneously both Russia and England had discovered the superiority of all kinds of Amen Ameri American f can railway equipment and filled the factories with orders 0 l l In 1897 there began such a revival of gold g old mining r as had not been witnessed since the days of 49 As compared comp ed with month 1 1896 I Ithe 0 the world production showed an increase of 18 per cent for or 1898 42 per cent for 1899 55 per cent This Thi s addition tollie to the 0 9 worlds stock of primary money gave a tremendous impetus to universal trade but nowhere more than in the United States since 0 l i 0 we were enabled to retain owing to the conditions already explained I 0 There is no rose without a thorn Taking advantage of the grim m necessities of war and the triumphs s of peace capital 0 determined to suck the prosperity orange Exclusively for their own benefit trusts trus raised prices on a hundred commodities i 0 far above the legitimate cost and profit p of production pr duct on By B concentration of f operations ons and an by throwing out of e employment t t thousands tho sa ds of men those who remain have ed what is called 0 0 ve enjoyed enjo IS prosperity that is IS steadier work at t an ax w in wages yag es j t trivial if any s 0 g 0 The railroads have h ve done a tremendous tre 2 S business s nes due u to causes included above boye and ax have advanced ad n d wages g r in i in sC some localities oc liti o 0 G but have asef the amount of individual work Meanwhile the increased cost of living has far more more than wiped o nJ gain gainin gaInt gainin t t in in wages for all classes of workers t ti M 0 As a grand result of all these th gs the people p o le have h ve enjoyed a relative degree de ee of prosperity ty Up 1 to 1900 the t e average avers a com commodity H 0 prices which comprehend the wages of all toil have advanced 10 to points or to where they the stood in in 1890 which was vas was 72 q i per cent of prices in 1872 IBy In other words the starving man at the most has now got back enough to tp make ina e of a 0 i square meal and courteously calls it prosperity But even this is is an o because the average prices have been i 0 fraudulently swollen by a raise raIse consisting b only of profits to the trusts 0 Now j ow the Republican party has given en us but two pieces of constructive legislation t 0 1 0 f First trio the Dingle Dingley g tariff bill passed early m in 1897 which cannot be credited with the prosperity for these reasons sons It superceded super superseded s pe ceded the highest tariffs previously known No material gains gams were shown until months later late when extraneous causes produced pro produced produced new markets The dutiable imports for the first firs t three year under its operation exceeded those of the three prior years 0 0 proving that the home markets needed no greater eater protection The exports ports C of manufactures exceeded any previous equivalent 4 t 0 teIm term showing that business that could compete abroad required requires no protection pr at all Therefore both exports exp and imports impo 0 i t showed conclusively that trade at home and abroad depended conditions not affected by the new tariff The Dingley bill 0 was W credited however by Havemeyer with being the mother of trusts And no no one will vill oppose the Republican claim to toi 0 B paternity i i paternity pat Second n th the bankers currency ncy bill ilI which cut t off the immemorial function on of 5 of r money mony and is s proposing t r 0 to supplant it with rag money furnished upon the credit cr dIt of the people said credit being loaned to the bankers who o conde condescendingly c J 8 s receive 2 per cent for borrowing ft it 0 f Thus us we have McKinley prosperity testing resting upon three artificial props Murderous wars upon three continents contine cannot anno be 0 f maintained to bolster it Famine and crop failures abroad cannot be righteously prayed for nor may y the smiles of the rile fickle 1 J 1 elements clements at home be relied upon Two props knocked from under and the increased gold g old production the 1 third prop uncertain Ii 0 in its continuation and in any event more than neutralized ultimately by the effects of the gold standard bankers bill What will the harvest be but the elusive of under the th 0 O Nothing pot gold bow of promise Prices Pr ces for six months have been beer on the down grade de factories closed working time reduced wages cut strikes consummated strikes threatened business ii s 0 failures increased over the corresponding ding period perio of last year yer 15 IS I pe per cent in number liabilities nearly doubled and in the mid middle e B 1 t 4 I states slates trebled money markets mark ts sensitive trembling at a shipment ship ent of ot g gold old and an unreal inflated condition that brought a panic Q f less than a year ago in In which stocks tocks shrunk sh in In a few days Not a man on earth can point to a single elementary cause of our boom prosperity for which the Republican party patty or l William McKinley is responsible as a result of an any governmental economic policy entered into since 1896 On the contrary they have laid the foundation found tion for a destruction of that lasting prosperity which we might enjoy Blasphemously assuming tob to 0 4 0 t tf b th e authors of benefits conferred by Almighty God they have stolen the livery of the court of heaven to serve the devil in in Q f |