The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1896-11-18
EDITORIAL NOTES.

couusEy dto WohiuS 6'o"o P0'""
the fact that their mills and shops are
resuming work since the election OF
Mckinley. and they are usiug unusual
and overdrawn arguments to convince
the public that the election of Mchin-
ley was the potent factor that set the
factory wheels in motion and re-opened
the workshops to, the thousands and tens
of thousands of idle and needy working
men. These Prices of the money
power and robber barons of trustdom
are. peradvensure. correct in their evil
dent conviction that majority of the
American people are fools, and there
; fore. trustfnlly receptive Of such chat
and sophis.ry as is now being poured
out to them as farmer pours. swill to
his hogs, but there are few, thank
Heaven, who can aud do see beyond
and behind the cloud of false and de-
ceptive arguments aud perverted con-
clnsions set before the people day after
day with persistence that is damnable,
and they know only too well-almost
as we'll as chose who manufacture the
deceptive arguments-tbas the resump-
ton Of work BY mills. mines aud work
shops Of all kiuds that had been shut
down. ( I'd that the general revival of
business that has followed the election
are no more the results of the election
of Mckinley than of the assassination
Of Abraham Lincoln. Many of these
mills were shut down and the mechanics
and laborers thrown out of employment
sas campaign measure, others had been
shut down for period Of greater or less
duration as result of the industrial de-
preston which has been prevalent for
q year or more, and the idle and often
times hungry workingmen we're in6u-
euced if not coerced into voting for
Mckinley BY the promise of work in
the event Of eleetion and the threat of
iaefni,e idlesess and want should he BE
defeated The delight that filed the
minds and hearts of the human YAM
pires. who feed on the mIsfortunes of
those whom they have in their power,
when they we're assured that Mckinley,
their chosen vessel, had been elected.
was sufi ,ient to actuate them to make
good at once their promises Of work for
sbe idle. They were delighted. Of
course, because they had secured re
newal Of their control of the govern.
mental powers that enable them to op'
press the people of sheoouo'ry and wiring
from them the fruits of their labor aod in
sdastry They knew full we'll that they
could afford 60 reopen mills that were
shut down t. resume work after the
election whether Mckinley, Bryan,
Palmer or Levering was elected, and
they were safe in promisiog to do so.
The owners Of the mines and factories
that had been shut down on account OF
business depression car afard {" resume
work for time at lea.s for the moral
effect it has upon the class Of voters that
they desire to coDs.ol politically as we'll
as indussrially. They can we'll spare
the amount of money that they will
sacrifice while temporarily operating
these mills a, loss. for they can soon
find an excuse or sub,erfuge for shut
tin. down, aud the unearned profits
tha, will gil their pockets through the
operation Of the gold standard that
steadily takes from the producer and
gives to the non-producer. who has 10
terest drawing and boarded dollars. will
Within very brief period reimburse
him four:old,
All this hue and cry about return
of prosperity and restoration of o0oh-
depce is but the development of the
cuoningly conceived scheme that elect
ed Mckinley aud should deceive no
thinking man The money power
Graves an indefinite lease Of rulership.
and even new is laying the foundations
for the campaign in 1900. The great
business revival Immediately following
the election Of Mckinley will be very
powerful argument in 1900, wbec the