Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1896-07-03
TON WATSONISM s.
WALL STREET THE POWER BE-
HIND THE THRONE.
Is a Jewel but the Two Old
Parties Are not Troubled With That
at Mckinley.

Peoples Party Paper.-California Re-
publicans instruct for Mckinley be-
cause he is for protection and free sill
yer.
The Georgia Republicans Instruct for
Mckinley because he is for protection
and Sound money"
Nevada Republicans instruct for him
because he is for protection and free sill
| yer.
What the Republicans are doing the
Democrats are also doing. In free sill
yer states. they declare for free silver;
in gold-standard states they declare for
gold.
And what are the people doing?
Acting the fool, as usual, by pinning
their faith to these thoroughly deceit
full leaders of the two old parties.
Do you suppose for a moment that
McKinley's money and McKinley's pop
ularity are the causes Of his tremend-
GUS success.
Nonsense. The power behind the
throne with Mckinley is the colossal
combine of the manufacturers. Nc
Kinley is POOR and is weak. His
strength lies in the principle Of which
he has become the representative.
The same class of men who came for
ward and paid his debts for him in 1893,
constitutes his power in this campaign.
Their object is to perpetuate their
monopoly of the American markets,
and they will do it.
The readers of this paper will remem-
Der that when the Manufacturers asso-
citation of the United States was organ
lied, called attention to the great po-
ltical significance of the combination.
1t was composed of the richest manu-
facturers of both the old parties, and
one of the purposes expressed in their
charter was the control of the American
markets.
Mckinley is the candidate of this as
ISOLATION, and his election means I'M
limited loot for the monopolists.
Within the last twelve months nails
have been advanced 200 per cent. The
price has risen from IS cents per leg
to $2.55 per keg. In the American mar
ket those who need nails must stand
the extortion, because our precious ia
riff gives the manufacturer a monopoly.
But in foreign markets competition is
met, and our nail makers sell to for
eigners at a lower price than they i'm
pose upon us.
In Japan, the nails made at Cleve-
land, Ohio, can be bought much cheap
er than they can be bought in Cleve-
land. In Cleveland, the monopoly
rules; in Japan competition regulates.
Yet the nail makers are clamoring for
higher tariffs.
In Boston, the Bolt and Nut Trust
has been organized. Prices have al
ready gone up so per cent.
This monopoly was organized by ].
NJ. Parks, who is one of the officers of
the Tack trust.
There is law against trusts, and sal
aried officers sworn to enforce it, but
they never chirp.
The only case which Mr.. Olney has
ever found for the application of the
antitrust law was the Chicago strike
of the working men.
Did it never excite your curiosity to
know why the Republicans have not at
tempted to modify the Democratic tariff
bill of 1893?
Did it never occur to you as a queer
thing that the Republicans should have
denounced that law in such bitter
terms, and yet when they return to pow
er not single bill was offered to repeal
it?
In this very campaign, in which Nc
Kinley stands as the representative of
the protective principle, have you heard
a word about repeating the Democratic
tariff, and re-enacting the Mckinley
bill?
Not a word. And why? Because
the Democratic tariff suits the large
manufacturers better than the McIkin-
ley bill did.
Again, why?
Because the Democratic. tariff gives
free raw materials to the manufacturer
where the Mckinley bill did not.
If there Is any principle whatever in
the Wilson bill, it is that of free trade
in raw materials.
Thus, the wool growers must compete |
with all the world in the production of
wool. The manufacturer, therefore,
gets his wool in the free trade market
and sells his manufactured product
made from the wool in the markets of
He buys wool from, the
'armer at competitive prices, and sells
voolen goods to the farmer at monopo-
y prices.
The Mckinley bill did not allow this.
Is it any wonder, then, that the great
centers are satisfied
With the Democratic tariff?
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