| Show CAUSE or OF HARD TIMES durin during td the last three years of republican rule andin ending last march the mckinley tariff I 1 law liv and the sherman silver law have been and still are in operation during these three years our country was drained of of its gold coin nearly one third tile the gold money of the country about the same amount of gold went abroad in each of these years the mckinley LIc Kinley tariff failed to keep the money at home banks began to call in th their air loans in order to get gold many failed and a money panic bet in then the government of india tie de silver and western mines mine were closed A short crop in this section made matters still worse three causes led to the withdrawal of gold from this country the great failures and panics in other countries especially inaus in aus tr alia the sherman silver law lave whish led many foreign 0 investors to believe they would have to ne ac cep lver instead instead of gold and the mcknley i I 1 tariff which decreased 0 our ur agricultural exports export by in creasing ing the tax on the pay for thein it jt the country boro borc up ill pretty well first year of the operation of tile these se two republican laws it beu b cm to break the second year and broke down the third A bosn a 11 may carry two buckets of water ibrie one ai 1 block without harm the V ill tiro tire him and the third hird may byea apak k him down dow n 0 an my ifft et always comes after fter its cause mr ack of rain last summer w as w IW I 1 caused the failure of the fa I 1 I 1 c 16 i notwithstanding iny ton n argument that 0 it was the a n t a ate d lack of s snow no w next keit t caused tho the failure it ill anticipated law that has caused riehard Ji J ehard hard arl ime timers imeri |
