Show THE WORLDS F MULE eighteen months ago ago C in november 1 1892 the people of the united state by a plurality of over one million votes or ordered deret the McKinley bill repealed the rob rubbery ber y by the trusts stopped it is now may 1894 and the chances are no greater today of that mandate being obeyed than they ere erea a year before it was issued this is not a Covern government ment by the people or fur for tile the people men aten may prato prate about liberty and freedom as the aillem members of the virginia legislature 0 prated d of peace but acie was no peace and there is no liberty this is ia not a government of free men in 1888 the government of the united states passed finally and completely into the control of the plutocrats of the trusts rusts of the 1 multi iho ho since have absorbed tho the wealth and made paupers haupers of persons they are willing of course to give a small show to tile satellites arid and i dependents who have 1 I ave absorbed an and d divided tile wealth of the other 40 1 buethe but the are as thoroughly C und under t r the heel of plutocracy as the russian of autocracy rome was avas always a republic in name ame the roman wa was s always a free freeman man in in name the senate and people of rome borne were always the rulers of the rom roman in Etil empire pire in name but what did the caesars caesara or the augusti C care for the senate and people of rome iloine used them the decrees of the dictators were issued in their r name but the roman republic had no more existence under the military chieftains chief tans than the ameri american an republic has today under the rule of tile the 1071 1 I 1 plutocrats who ire eire multimillion multi million aires and the worth over il 1000 each each day each hour shows that there is no help that it is as idle to talk about tile the ballot box as it is to look to heaven for a miracle iracle there is only one thing that could save this republic and that is another revolution with another lexington Lex inston ond and another yorktown but bit there is not manhood enough D left in the american people to even make a third class insurrection and they will keep keel on oil hoping and praying and voting the one being quite as useless as tho the other until their c enemies shall have bound them hand and foot and deprived them oven even of the privilege of bearing arms arins or the chance of pu pulling 0 a trigger 00 it is useless to kick a against it ainest tile the pricks there is no pessimism in facing the facts the people of this country have become absolutely demoralized and dishonest they have no longer even the morality that once obtained among pirates in their island rendezvous there is no class of men in the community who are not perfectly willing to steal to justify theft and to pay pay that stealing I 1 is right whether that stealing is is under the tariff or under political jobs job or under tile the pension laws I 1 there is ia no difference in principle there re is no difference in e effect between the anthracite coal pool which robs the people of 30 1000 a year under cover of an ail aci of congress and the grand army of robb robbers ers who loot the treasury of IGO a year who have looted the treasury already of oner over and who propose t to continue the looting until they shall have received more than the value of all the property in the loyal states in the tariff thief and the pension thief are each cadi on tile same footing P and nd so blind are iome bowe men otherwise honest that they cannot cannon see any harm harin or any wrongdoing in ill the organized r conspiracy entered entered into by men t to seize the government at washington by tile throat and compel it to pay them every year in black blackmail mall there iu is not one man mail toddy today to day whose name Is on oil tho the pension roll who can call show any cause why lie he should have received 1 of it between tariffs and lemions venal voters are bou bought at each election aud the influx influence ce of this wholesale corruption oil has thoroughly illy permeated tile the mass until today to day there is not one I 1 voter in the hundred who poes goes to the polls to vote except for what there is in it for his pocket of what use is itchen to multiply instances to pile pelion on oil ossa egsa 0 of f the theft of this tariff trust and that tariff trust of the swindle in this protection lie arid and that protection lie what do the people care what difference does it make if the palpable theft of protection does not move them what is the use ot arguing ar glinc further when the pennsylvania s avania iron iron inas master ter is authorized to tax and does docs tax the people on every ton of pig iron made ostensibly for the benefit of his workmen arid and under his pledge to give it to them in addition to foreign e ig n wages and then pockets for himself giving ivin thern them only aag total wages wages 0 the theft is plain clear and direct there is no use of enteria en terin into a 1 long argument as to whether the t no grower of potatoes on oil the canada lorder border I 1 might light or might not be b benefited by a 1 cl duty u t Y of 10 per bushel on canada p potatoes 0 t a except as a a an offset to the iron masters theft the on only plea that can be put forward for tile the farmer and in favor of the protection for the potatoes is to justify the theft of the iron master if the farmer can make orif or if lie thinks he can call make something out of a protection on potatoes lie will vote it in favor of the theft of the iron from top to bottom everybody is hunting to find apparent advantage in in protection for some class of people to induce them to vote forthe for the theft of the trust whether sugar pig iron steel wool or suit T E W V |