The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-09-26

lican pestilence. TIE people said: THE
republican party has looted the treas
ury of 1856, 900 900. 1t has fastened upon
the people the unspeakable outrage of a
billion dollar congress. II has not only
looted the treasury. but has aimed a
deadly blow at the credit Of the nation
The infamous Sherman law is steadily
stealing away the gold reserve which
enables the government to maintain the
partly Of its currency. 1t has enacted
a tariff law spreading like Chinese
wall shutting out imports and Destroy
ing the revenues, and now the only thing
left is to hold on to what money we have
on hand every man for himself and
the devil take the hindmost.'"
AS a result, the strong banks held on
to their cash, and the weak banks and
those which had been managed by
scOundrel for years, were wrecked. In
dustries were paralyZsd. Commercial
houses tumbled down, IS if by the tramp
of an earthquake and the land was
filled with idlers and armies of Coxey-
on to Washington, the forlorn and
wretched victims of republican policy in
government, for which policy SO per
cent of those poor unfortunates had
been voting for thirty years.
Republicans Responsible for 1t All.
It has been said. and truthfuliy said
that not a mill has ceased from grind
ing: not factory has stopped its wheels;
not a furnace has banked its fires; not a
Coxey army has set out on its march Of
woe; not a riot has been precipitated;
not a strike has been declared on; not a
mortgage has been fOrec.Osed on a farm;
not a merchant has made an assign
ment; not railroad has gone into the
hand of receiver; not man anywhere
has been thrown out Of employment
of fhara fbfrtkrc hac ba hof
has not been due to republican policy
and republican law, and every one of
them has brought hope to the republican
chieftains.
We witness the appalling and unpatri-
otto sight from day to day and week to
week of the republican press and repub-
lican politicians exu,tlng with joy when
ever the announcement was made that
business man or firm had failed or any
Institution of capital had been forced into
retirement. That tells the story. The
legislation Of the republican party and
the looting of the treasury by the repub-
Hcan party. the billion Doodle congress
of the republican party, were the chief
factors in bringing upon the country the
ca,amities under which 1t groans, and
under these ca,amitles the republican
managers are now chuckling, because
they think they are making it appear
that the democratic party is responsible
for them because it did not sooner wipe
the Mckinney tariff lnlQulty from the
statute books of the nation.
My esteemed friend. Mr. Owen, ven
lures the assertion that the bare fact that
the democratic party was In contro, Of
the government and possessed the power
to enact its principles into law has bean
sufficient 10 reduce the income Of The
wage worker 20 per cent. My friend
seems TO be a student of fiction rather
than Of fact. He makes bod assertions
He forgets that the Mckinley bill pro
vided protection to the iron industries :;
that one of it's pets was Homestead
where Carnegie made his millions. and
that, while being the beneficiary Of pro-
lection himself, ne demanded that the
wages Of his men should be reduced, and,
to carry out his scheme, provided ap-
p.iances, first, to sc3.d his men with hot
wafer to kill them with electricity and
of P.nkertpns The republican plutoccat,
now shown TO be republican thief, was
the pet of the republican party, nd he
carried out the republican policy f rob-
binG his men Of honest wages
and pocketng the boodla, and there is
not a protected republican industry in
the land the proprietor Of which has not
pursued this same cut-throat policy
toward the w1ge-worker when the op-
portunity offered. The only protection
the wage-worker had against the rlpacity
Of the Mckinley protected piut0crats was
the wOrklngmen's organizations, ths
trades unions Of the country. The Nc
Knley infamy protected the coal barons.
but the coal bar0ns, true to the repub-
lean policy. first imported pauper labor
TO exile American labor from the mines
and reduce the wages of the victims Of
their psrddy until Pennsylvania. under
republican protection, became the center
Of dagradatlon, poverty. squalor starva-
ton and beastly debasement, such as
could be found in no other land beneath
the stars.
The Pledge Fulfilled.
The democratic party in power decided
to reform the tariff. to abrogate the Nc
Kinley infamy. and this the democratic
party has done. II has fulfilled its pledge
to the people.
My esteemed competitor, in opening his
mouth to open his campaign, is 50 IN
famed with love for the Mckinley mon
strosity that his perceptions Of truth and
It's opposite are so mixed that he is led
u msstatements which enutle him to
admission 70 the Ananias club.
He says the democratic party has in
creased the duty on undershirts and
drawers of the laborlng men.
BY reference to the democratic tariff
law it is found in schedule *" wooden
goods, that all knit wearing apparel I'M
der the Mckinley nfamy was taxed an
average ad valorem duty of 9409 per
per cent, a reduction of 54.09 per cent.
In making such a statement my COM
petitOr has no fear Of any God before his
eyes, not even a Chinese joss. He does
not seem to care fig whather he ever
gets into the lChristian heayen or remains
out. He wants to be secretary of state,
and If he can get in by the undershirt
route by mlsstating the facts he can fe-
licitate himself by quoting a republican
proverb that ''mendaclty has its victories
as certainly as veracity."
The mountable difficulty in the
way Of republican stumpers is that the
Mckinley bill is dead-dead IS a mummy
and that putrefaction set in 50 quickly
that the monstroslty cannot be embalmed.
The thing has no redaeming features. 1t
aroused universal detestatlon. 1t was a
robber tariff, a buncoing tariff. 1t robbed
the poor and gave the proceeds to the
rich. Ii is dead now. There is no re-
surrec.lon for IT, And the republican
stumpers. including my distin guished
competitor, unwittingly are reciting the
old song. "Hark from the Tombs."
My competitor in mournful numbers re-
cites what the importer said about stocks
and bankruptcy, a species Of Mother
Goose philosophy. He ought to have con-
suited Wanamaker. the great Philadel-
phla importer, who is astonishing the ma
ton by his advertisements. showing ac-
cruing blessings as the result of the death
OF the Mckinley bill.
And. as Mr.. Owen facetiOusy re-
marks. Every citizen whose intelii-
gence is on speaking terms with his
mouth assents to the fact" that the
death of the Mckinley bill and the pas
sage of the democratic tariff law are
unspeakable blessings to the country