The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1892-08-26

asked Whltelaw, his face distorted with
anguish.
But the tariff isn't TO blame for IT,"
howled Harrison dismally.
You will have monkey and parrot
time of il making the laboring men real.
ize the fact. II is condition, not the
DRY, that confronts you"
What do YOU suggest, Col. SnortG"
asked Whitelaw.
In the first place, Mr.. President, the
workingmen and the farmers have not
been benefited by the high tariff Thus
far not one single farmers or working
mems association has endorsed the Nc.
Kinley law. This tells the whole story.
The farmers and the laborers know better
than Mr.. Mckinley what benefits them.
We must recognize the fact that under
the present administration the laboring
men are getting poorer, and when man
is getting poorer every day no amount
Of campaign literature or stump speakers
can persuade him that he is getting
richer"
"Then how are we going TO retain the
votes of the workingmen asked White
law with quivering chin.
"There is only one way 10 do IL. The
New York Tribune must make the work.
ingmen understand that poverty is a
blessing, and the more poverty they have
the happier they will be-"
~ have been trying TO do that with
the printers on the Tribune, but it is up.
hill work." replied Whtelaw gloomily.
"Mr. Reid, you must remind the work.
ingmen in every issue Of your paper that
the Bible says, Blessed are the poor, for
they shall have the gospel of Mckinley
preached unto them That being 10,
the more blessed they are. Hence, If
the Republican party is making the
workingman more blessed, he ought to
bless the Republican party. Teach the
workingman that the mission Of the Re
publican party is TO lead the American
workingman away from the temptations
Of wealth."
Harrison and Whitelaw shook their
heads dismslly.
"You must follow the example of
Elder Stiggins, Of the Mail and Express,
and publish appropriate texts from scrip
ture every day. Remind the working
man of the sad fate of Dives, and how
difficult il is on general principles for a
rich man to squeeze through the eye OF
needle. Hold up Dives as a warning
example to the mill hands ut Homestead, !
whose wages have been cut down by our
friend Carnegie. This is the line ON
which We will have TO fight cut this
Whitelaw Reid continued To express
grave doubts rs to his ability to over.
come the absurd yearning of the work
ingman for wealth.
"Mr. Reid" said consolingly, "you
undertake the power Of the press. II Is
the Archimedean lever that moves the
world, not the New York World, but
the entire universe. You must give up
the whole of your mind to writing edito-
rails in the Tribune describing the beau
ties aud blessings of extreme poverty.
You can do 1t il you try, because before
YOU married fortune and ousted poor
old Horace Greeley out Of the newspaper
which he founded, you were poor your.
self"
WhitelAw squirmed around in his
chair, aud Harrison winkcd at me aud
made frantic gestures for me TO discon.
tinue the conversation, but | kept right
IN.
"You are just the man to graphically
describe with your facile pen the miser.
es aud sufierings Of the man who has
ots Of money. You yourself are har-
rassed and worried 10 death by having
100 much To eat. You are kept awake
At night by Indigestion, aud the dread
hat your printers will eventually ac-
luire enough money u live comfortably.
You are running over with your villas
aud bank stock and fine clothes and
yachts and the like, aud you eau, there
lore, II you try, draw such a picture Of
he peris Of too much that the Home
stead strikers, and all other strikers. will
luit their foolishness and long TO become
he slaves of Carnegie and Frick."