Show CAUSE or OF HARD TIMES i during tile the last three years of republican publican Kc rule ending r last march the he mckinley McKin lcy tariff law and the sherman silver law have been and still arc in operation during these three years our country was drained of of its 11 gold coin nearly one third the gold money of the country countr about the same amount of gold went abroad in each of these years the mckinley tariff failed to keep the money at home banks began C to call in their loans in order to get gold many alan y failed and a money panic set in then the government of india de silver and western mines were closed A short crop ere p in this section made matters still worse three causes led to the withdrawal of gold from this country the great failures and panics in in other countries especially in australia tho sherman silver law which led many foreign investors to believe they would have to accept silver instead of gold and the mckinley acl unicy tariff which decreased our agricultural exports by in creasing 0 the tax on oil the pay for them the country bore up pretty well under the first year 0 ol 01 the he operation of these two republican laws it be began 0 an to break the second year and broke down the third A man may carry two buckets of water one block without harm the I 1 second will tire him and the third may break him down an effect always comes after its cause lack of rain last summer was what caused the failure of the fall crops ia any republican argument that it was the anticipated lack of snow next winter that caused tho the failure it is no anticipated law that has caused the hard bard times |