Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1896-10-22
THE CRIME OF 1892.
It Is Grinding Mem Down to
Poverty and Want.
PEOPLE PROSPEROUS ONCE.
But the Demogogue Got Loose
Then as he Is Now.
TAKEN UP ON A MOUNTAIN.
PEOPLE PROSPEROUS ONCE.
TAKEN UP ON A MOUNTAIN.

When the Mckinley "Protective Tariff"
Was Voted Down in the Fall OF 1892. the
Greatest Crime Of Our Nations History
Was Committed-I Stopped Our Ma
tional Progress and Took the Daily Bread
from Thousands OF American working
mon.
We remember hearing . story Of one
of the rigidly orthodox preachers who
devoted twelve Sundays to q series Of SER
mons on 1.-THE Sins Of the Babylonians.
He was not unlike the people who are now
much exercised about "the crime Of 1873, p"
while they forget entirely the greater
crime Of 1892. II there was o crime COM
mitted in 1873, 1t is twenty-three years
old, and the statute Of limitations bars
proceedings
More than that, 1t Is question not yet
settled whether any crime was committed
In 1878; but II 1t WAS, the extent Of injury
is SO variously estimated that 1t partakes
Of the nature Of injury done by the sins OF
the Babylonians, and ought to be rele-
gated to the Investigators Of prehistoric
remains who are digging in the works OF
the mound builders. The crime Of 1878 is
not hurting anybody now, but the orime
Of 1892 is grinding men down to poverty
and want, and lining our public roads
with a procession of tramps That is
crime worth Investigating and worth the
best efforts of the voters to correct 1t.
The country was prosperous and Its peo-
pie happy in 1899 The people could not
live without work, but they had work at
remunsrative wages, and were prospering.
But the demagogue got loose among them.
He told them they were poor, and that
they would have been rich II the crime OF
1878 had not been committed. He made
the farmers believe that, instead Of being
the most prosperous people In the world,
they were the poorest He took them In
the spirit Into high mountains and showed
them the gems from the mountain, the
pearls from the ocean, the myrrh from the
forest and the gold Of tho mines" and said
they should have all those tumblsd into
their laps II they would elect him to con-
gress and Cleveland to the presidency.
That Internal lie was the inducement
which led the poor dupes Of free trade
the simple little ostriches-to stiok their
heads into tho sand.
When the Mckinley protective tariff
was voted down in the fall Of 1892 the
greatest crime of our nations history was
committed We stopped our national
progress. We took from our own people,
by the millions, their daily bread. We
ceased to employ our own people. to manu-
facture or otherwise produce what we
needed for homo consumption, and we
employed men in England, France, Ger
many and Italy to do that work, and paid
our money to men beyond the seas, in
stead Of giving It to our own neighbors
and countrymen. We thus brought want
and misery to our own people
That crime is what VIC are now dealing
with. That is the whole point there Is In
the political campaign now in progress
We want to undo the crime Of 1892, and
punish the perpetrators Of It. That is
what this election IL about and nothing
else Meadville Tribune. Republican.