The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1888-07-26
. TOLEDO MAN AFTER M'K1NLEY.
Some Pointed Pointers Put Pat to tn
Major

Some Pointed Pointers Put Pat to the
Major.
Mr.. Henry T. Niles, a well known
business man of Toledo, writes to the
Bee as follows:
Jonathan Edwards, the great New
England theologian, once got tangled
with the theory of the nOn-existence of
matter, then having a run among spec
ulative writers of the times.
One night, going into the woodshed,
he hit his shin against the sharp edge
of a board, which suddenly brought
him down from his theoretic flights and
made him exclaim, "Confound the
thing! whether matter exists or not,
something has hurt my shin amaz-
ingly."
The charge ringing from one end of
the country to the other that the Re
publican party favors free whisky and
taxed food and clothing has in a like
summary matter, brought Maj. McKin-
ley, the brilliant author of the Chicago
platform, dOwA from his high theoriz-
ing about that wonderful home
ket which is to make us all rich trading
AlGh one another, like the two Yankees,
who locked themselves in a room and
OF rich swapping jackets, or the bean
tuaU got fat sucking its own paws
through the winter.
In an interview in the Cincinnati En-.
quirer of July 3 he says:
"There is no free whisky plank in it,
and the enemies who raise such cry,
know it. The Democrats have hereto
fore called the Republican party the
free whisky party. The Chicago plat
form declares for free alcohol in the
arts. This means, after all, the cheap
ening Of many articles which are al
most the necessities of life. Take the
field of medicine. Nearly every tine.
ture and fluid extract has for its com
ponent basis, alcohol.
Thus used it is in no sense a bever-
age. 1t enters into the manufacture
OF medicinal preparations which can
be found in every household in the
land"
Now, Major, a brilliant theo.
rist like yourself must be allowed to
deny the most stubborn facts when
they conflict with his pet theory, such
as the stubborn, appalling fact that
the rich have been growing richer and
the poor poorer under your war tariff,
while the middle classes are being grad
ually wiped out altogether, but the
most brilliant theorist must not go
back on his own work, at least until he
gets a new theory.
Your platform says: ave favor the
entire repeal of all internal taxes rath-
err than surrender any part of u pro-
tective system"
Now, Major, if this does not mean
free whisky, tobacco and bogus butter
before you give up any of your tariff
taxes on the necessaries of life, pray
what does it mean?
But suppose you are correct.
Then the great Republican party
practically says to the people of the
country, we will not abate the goth part
of one poor scruple from the enormous
war taxes on your food and clothing
and other necessaries of life, but out of
our great love for the labOring man you
shall have your quack medicines as
cheap as dirt.
What a boon!
Hear it, We iron workers! toiling in
the full hot glare of the furnace, for
reduced wages, that your Republican
lord may enjoy his palaces and hunting
parks in the Scotch highlands.
Hear it, We railroad workers, tOiling
night and day, winter and summer, and
in storm and sunshine, that some Re-
publican railroad wrecker may have his
untold millions!
Hear it, all We ~toilers, working hard
and long that some Republican ring or
syndicate, or trust may reap the fruits
of your labor!
Hearit, all, and then vote for Har-
rison and hard cider, for cheap quack
medicines and dear food and clothing,
and for your own degradation and en-.
slayement, if you can.