Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-10-08

be a degraded prostitute and scallaWae
without Influence, serving for wages.
don't think any of Cleveland's office
holders would be spared. I doubt il
Hanna has made promise to one o.
these fellows in writing.
Now, as to politics, the wealthy east
ern class, the syndicates and trusts, the
men able to raise and depress values
to create panics as they did in 1898,
would improve the occasion of Mr.. Nc
kinley's election to run up stocks
and create sort of boom in Wal
street. They would rig the market 80
as to make quite lot of money and
create the surface idea of prosperity
The inflated stocks would next be
worked off on John Bull and Innocent
purchasers. Matters would run on this
way perhaps for three or four months.
The subsidized press would have glow.
lpg editorials showing how the defeat
of Bcyan had restored confidence and
revived prosperity. But the prices Of
real estate, especially of farms, the
prices Of farm produce, the wages OF
labor would stand as they stand to-day,
and the vast nun Der of the unemployed
would not he diminished. The de-
mands of the winter for the poor man,
| for bread, fuel and shelter would be as
great as ever. In very brief time the
stock market, however carefully prop
ped up, would sag. Production would
not increase. The railroads would not
carry any more products or even as
much as now and reductions of divi-
deuds and employees would be next in
order. The salaries of the magnates
would not suffer, of course. The pres
ent hard times would become harder
and harder, and by next autumn, or in
deed earlier, the people would feel in-
tensifed suffering with an intense con-
sciousness that if they had turned q
deaf ear to the sophistries and falsehoods
Of their natural enemies they might
have been OH the road to a grand and
assured prosperity.
This administration has contra c:ed
1862 000,0 900 of bonded debt in order to
maintain the so.called gold reserve out
side of the law and by defiance of
law. The Mckinley administra-
tion would follow this example
and issue bonds under circumstances
quite as Infamous and as profitable to
the managers as those put out by Mr..
Cleveland. Pierpont Morgan would
continue 10 be as be is to-day, the i'm.
perial master of our finances, able to
dictate terms to Presidents and Cabi
nets, Wall street and the people.
The financial policy OF the Mckinley
hn
the worse vices of Cleveland, with prob
ably the added hypocrisy of pretend
ed desire for an international confer
ence to restore silver as money metal.
OF course, they know full we'll that this
would be mere farce, and outside of
the gold standard they would have no
policy or aspiration-unless the aug
men!ed distress and suffering of the
people should provoke such a resent
ment aud uprising as would compel
change of front.
Before this time there would come,
however, an effort to increase the
standing army of the United States so
as to deal with popular discomfort,
maintain "gov rnment by Injunction"
as opposed to the jury trial and impale
human suffering upon the point of the
bayonet.
There might or might not be force
bill. Mckinley was the power that
passed the force bill through the House
of Representatives in 1S90-tbe same
nil that the silver republican Senators
defeated. Whether be would press it
again as he did then in Congress would
depend on his sense of interest entire
IL. He is devoid of principle.
Every effort would be bent to fasten
on the country high protective tariff.
Whether this would be successful or
not would depend on the power of the
President to control Congress. If the
Presidential election is to be bought /
do not see why Congress may not be
bought also. There are many men
who would regard national verdict for
the forces of corruption as letting down
all the bars and we should witness prob
ably carnival of legislative robbery.
Expenditures would be made as
large as possible in order to furnish an
excuse for increased tariff taxation.
There would be service pension for
Federal soldiers granted, running up
the present pension appropriation OF
one hundred and forty millions per an
mum to two hundred and forty millions!
Of this vast sum the North would pay
Der shsre-say sixty to eighty millions
of dollars per annum. General Buck
ner is able probably 10 stand this tax,
but what about the Virginia farmer
who now is ground to the earth by
poverty and debt? The parvenues and
rich men of New York and other cities
can stand it, especially as there is no
income tax to reach their wealth, no
reforms, no increase of silver money,
contraction of the currency, steady, an
nusl, pitiless, every year falling prices,
fresh issues OF bonds to bind this and
future generations, the gold standard
fastened on us, British policy, largely
increased taxation, increased poverty
aud suffering for the producing classes.
These and carnival of monopoly, cor
ruption and hypocrisy are what. We have TO
expect from Mckinley if this conspiracy
Of bankers, syndicates, trusts, corruptionists
and tiers can have its way
The people should remember that it would
be yoke for four years with no relief and
no hope except from a resort to resolution.
This people cannot ba expected to stand an
Increase of present suffering. The man who
proposes 10 continue or Increase this suffering
is tho real architect of anarchy, ough he
NAV have the insolence of Depew and Bourke
Cochran. or the wealth of Morgan arc all
their tribe The best hope of peace and order
j. r, ha fouDd in Government based on