Show J WHO HAS SUFFERED Wcflrd in a viciously partisan paper j 1 when It speaks of Mark Hanna and tho I President tho following There you have the Bill Sykea hero Is tho Oliver Twist You have tho burglar I bur-glar hero Is a crude outline of Unit tool wherewith he would pry open the Nations Na-tions Interests for four years ol further loot and pillage I That shows the means by which it Is hoped to raise the baser passions of the J poor and cause them to vote for Mr Bryan Suppose the writer of that paragraph para-graph were called to the witness stand and requested to testify as to the loot and pillage of the past three years what would he bo able to say The farmers comnrlse 40 ncr cent of the people oC this country Have they been looted and pillaged In 1SOO there were a total of 4GG4G41 farms valued at 13279252649 and the stock on those farms was valued at 2208707573 or a total of 15485020522 Well these farms and the stock upon them have advanced In value 40 per cent during the past three years or G19o20820SSO It Is not the farmers then that have been looted and pillaged Again four years ago today there were 2700000 men idle who are ut work today Supposing their wages average but one dollar each per day and that they work 300 days In the year we see that in the last year they havo earned and received SSIO000000 more than they did In 1896 It cannot then be the laborers la-borers who have been looted and phi lagcd Again mortgaged property was payIng pay-Ing 2 per cent more interest four years ago than the same money can be obtained ob-tained for now It cannot then be the debtors that have been looted and pillaged pil-laged The wages of skilled laborers have advanced during the past three years quite 30 per cent and vastly more artisans ar-tisans are at work than over before To whom then docs this hired literary scoundrel who engages for so much a line to loot and pillage characters char-acters with his pen refer |