Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1891-01-01
NUMBER 40.
Where are the Higher Wages.

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The following from the New Yorl
Commercial Advertiser, an lndepend
ent paper, shows the fight on Tho
Mckinley bill is not over by a lone
shot. Wage earners are just begin.
ming to get proof of the bills one.
sided character. That bill will have
to go:
Following our lead OF two months
ago, the Epeaing Post eudeavors to
find case of working man who
has experienced rise in his wages
since the Mckinley bull went IN
force. The C0n,me,cial started on,
In search for Mckinley pay roll
that is, one which could trace an
advance OF wages to an advance of
the tarlf-some time before election
A standing offer to investigate any
case that could be found brought
forward absolutely no replies except
an anonymous one. This anouv-
nous letter mentioned case already
looked into by the Commercial and
reported upon adversely.
Then when the election was over
and 1T was found that this and otber
appeals to peoples resson had been
SihguiariY elective IN winning votes,
away from the party that had launch
ed the now well-known Mckinley
OIL, from the head of the admins
tratlon downward there was a gener-
al snarl. The call for McKinieyed
pay roll was brought in for its share
of the abuse. The cry had been an
election cry, gotten up to scare the
worklngman, but time would show
that the great Republican party was
right, and that an era of prosperity
was aawning upon the country, if
only people would wait long enough
for the Mckinley bill to work out its
own results.
Meanwhile, the Mckinley bill did
work. 1t put up prices in every di-
rection, and they are still going up.
On February, unless the date Is
further extended, the last of the
bonded goods stoled under the old
law viii have been removed and we
shall get nearer to the actual state
OF things which this bill must event.
ually bring about. The Republican
leaders have put on the thumb
screws to extors the hast penny it
can fer the manufacturers who fost-
cred them, giving them bounties out
of the Golfers of the public treasury.
They have dealt in false reasoning,
scattered broadcast statements which
they knew to he hes. IN order to
ooddie one class Of citizens at the
expense of another. They have
promised the workingman better
wages if only the woEkingman would
upheld them In their course.
This was not new story either.
They had done the same thing be-
fore, and the workingman, after hla
manhood had heen debauched by 8
practical sale of his vote to his en-
ployer, only found after the electlor
of 1888 that promised benefit was s
mere fiction. That promise has one.
more singuiarly failed. BY codi
ell attached to the Mckinley bill i
was stated that the rise in the prices
of goods would bring correspond
ing rise in tue wages Of the work
ingman. The Republican party /
now undergoing it's final burial ant
disintegration. It has left to th
country nothing but debts, to its owl
members nothing but quarrels, an,
to the workingman-the msn VIII
voted to protect the down-trodde
manufacturers the memory Of IN
filled pledges.
We want an authenticated i1stanc
, of workIngman who has had hi
wages raised in consequence of tn
Mckinley bill.