The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1896-11-20

teboN N-lidSGtl has Db6ll 50 dDnOTE6u
by the toiling millions since Pharoah
oppressed Gods chosen people--ifin in
all the mighty tide Of time the pre-
meditated in'amies of this human
octopus can be paralleled. To un-
derstand the methods by which he
has mounted; to look behind the
gilded veil of this modern Mokanna
and know what it really is that his
dupeS are following to their destruc-
tion, were to crave the power to
weave sentences with warp of flame
and woof of aspics' fangs to lash the
rascal naked thro' the world.
If Mckinley is elected president
Mark Hanna will be the power be-
hind the throne. Why? Because
he owns Mckinley more completely
than he did the Spring Valley
miners when master of their en-
ployment and holding mortgages on
their homes. He holds McKinley's
notes for $l1S,0O0, representing that
Indebtedness which he assures us
was wiped out "by the spontaneous
offerings of a grateful people" The
grateful people aforesaid consisted
of syndicate of high-taritf bene-
ficiaries, with Mark Hanna at his
head-men not in the habit of help
ing debtors out of hole unless they
can use them in furtherance of their
own ends. These notes are relics of
the McKinley-Walker collapse. 1t
is now known that the former was
partner to the latter and expected to
share his prOfits-that the "sweet
friendships sake Endorsement"
story was an arrant fake perpetrated
by Mark Hanna to strengthen the
credit of his creature with the peo-
pie. The inside history of that fail
ure has never been made public; but
Mark Hanna has the interesting
secret safe-locked in his nice fat
head.
Mckinley was saved for a purpose
was regarded by Hanna and his
associates as a good investment; but
to make sure of his slavery--to pre-
vent him from going on strike
neither his notes nor the carefully
guarded papers pertaining to his
commercial collapse, have been de-
stroyed. They repose in the safety
vaults of Hanna-with the deeds to
those Spring Valley homes--and
there they will remain until Nc
Kinley has purchased his freedom
by serving the purposes of the syn
dictate at the expense of the people.
Gratitude" Mark Hanna and
the coterie with which he consorts-
who were allied with him in the
coal pool and the Spring Valley in
stallment plan-pay $1l8,OO0 for a
dead horse!" Seek gratitude in
the wolf, altruism in the ape, char
ity in the hawk, but none of these
human attributes in the stony heart
and crafty brain of McKinley's mas
ter. When was he ever known to
give up a nickle unless there was
six cents in sight? Go ask the
widows and orphans of those he
slew upon the threshold of their
bard earned honest Go ask the
starving ship-builders who have
tried in vain to sell him his own
musty papers at 10 cents on the dol
lar! Go ask the men and women in
the insane asylums of Ohio and Hi
nnis, whom his double-dealings has
driven mad, then write the answer
in letters of fire across tie armament
that every workman may hail him
as friend and benefactor. Is il
possible that, having deprived the
miners of their squalid huts, fol
which they had paid him more than
an honest price, he would put his
hand so deep in his purse only to
protect McKinley's home? Can tht
leopard change his spots? Has the
lifelong foe of labor become at last
its guide, philosopher and friend?
Will this Grass animal, who is utter
ly incapable of appreciating those
luXuries and refinements which
great wealth affords, and who
grasps for gold only because it gives
him power, forbear to use his pull
should Mckinley be elected pres.
ident? Nitl