| Show I 1 TOLD YOU SO 30 11 I 1 an eastern paper wrote to mr sherman king him what polley policy the re ne pu kublicka blicka party would pursue in regard to means for increasing the revenues to which the tha senator replied at as follows 0 0 august KS ISM dear S clr lr the only way in cli ft ike ro Pub publican licOt n administration can correct ilin ihn ev evils Is 0 tho the past la Is liy increasing the ad revenue by a nw new tart tj law and this ahl I 1 fear la is not vor very tt ti uly yours arv clr JOHN t i NM N it Is said that tho the friends of 0 mckimley tried to suppress that letter in ohio but it got out that la is what the tribune has been telling tho the country since last winter that affairs have passel passed beyond the realm where e the tariff can do any present good when tailing failing prices have drained the country so BO that all tile the money la Is in the hands bands of a few in the great cities who belong to the creditor class when the people have not the money to buy bread brand or manufactured articles what sense 1 Is there in hoping that the present troubles can be cured find and prosperity brought back by any manipulation of the tar if whatever ila t ev e r un under de r normal conditions condl condi tons the Is 14 a a most beneficent instrument to increase the prosperity of a great nation like ours bourst will all its multiplied resources and productions but this country has passed beyond that point now something else must be done first bea beloro ore tile tariff can be at all perfected it has been tried when sir mr mr aldrich and the others finished the mckinley nley tariff schedules and had them crystallized crystalli sed into law it was said that it was all sufficient it was tried two years and while title its 13 operations so tar far as they went were splendid still the people rose up and stamped it in the ground then another tariff schedule wa was i passed in the house which was as unjust in its discrimination as it would havo have been impotent in its workings but when it reached the senate ano or three senators there shook it all to pieces attached over five hun died amendments to it and left it a protective tariff almost as high as the i mckilop McK McKi lloy loy although not so evenly adjusted it has tailed failed in the moro more than three years which mr cleveland ila has been president the tendency den dency n cy h haa as crept up more than and now even senator sherman says that there 14 1 but one way to increase Inci Inc case tease the revenue and that Is by a plan which lie ho tears fears Is impractical it would seem to any one not prejudiced that by this time all of those gentlemen would understand der stand that tilt tile first lips hips to do Is to readjust tho the finances ot of this country and add to the volume it if possible a large amount of oc original primary money lm olley that through such addition prices may be advanced to a point where the producers may receive will alit tle tie demaid for their toll but that is 13 ignored by the attorneys ot of tile tho gold men of 0 the east while senator sherman can call suggest nothing but an in mease in the tariff and while he bo Is id rank frank enough to admit that Is practically impossible to bring relief he still clings to the gold standard and ills behot that in order to keep our credit abro abroad lid where only iva five per pel cent of 0 our commerce Is involved it if necessary the working men ot of this country should give up their shirts in to the election of 0 sir mr bryan the gold men insist upon electing major mckenley but the power behind major mckinley Is forced at last to admit that lg is nothing in the platform or in the country itself which gives any fair promise that under mr administration the country would py pay itin nina expenses when a country cannot pay running expenses x the people cannot the condition of the government Is a reflex c of the con dlton of the men vi who ho supply y the revenue which carries on the tha government and now we ask the most earnest mckinley man what he hopes to acom or to see lee accomplished by way of 0 the tha betterment of the people it if mr BIc mckenley Kinley can lc be elected |
