The Madisonian. (Virginia City, Mont.) 1873-1915, 1896-10-10

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erous coal mines and lack fuel in the
winter. Our farmers raise grain and
for food. export cotton and wool.
and lack clothing, sell cattle and are
without meat.
sour marvellous inventions have
been monopolized so that, in spite of
the daily miracles of III machinery,
the hungry still lack food and the
homeless wander through the streets.
Step by step the moncyless mar is los
inc his right to exist. Every recent
change in legislation has been made to
protect property and to disfranchise
men. Armories are erected and school
houses forgotten. Immense grants of
land are bestowed upon railroads, but
the settlers upon those grants are
evicted. Trades union leaders are i'm
prisoned for having contempt for a
contemplate judge, while monopolists
are aided by injunctions and federal
troops.
'.To-day Shakespeare has been re-
vised and Shylock is the hero of the
play. Portals plea for mercy is called
revolutionary and Bassanio is branded
as a repudiator.
''There is hardly a trust or syndicate
that has ~inaugurated this campaign OF
threats and ridicule and object-lessons
that dare open up its own business ca
reer to the public.
"One of the defenders of law and
national honor, the Standard Oil Com
pany, has illegally increased freight
rates, closed rivers and canals, destroy
ed inventions. bought up inspectors
and put its stamp upon explosive Oil.
attacked the property Of competitors
and blown up rival r%efineries. These
trusts are religious at one end and
murderous at the other.
This law-breaking, aggressive
spirit of monopoly has found "a perfect
embodiment in the person Of Mark
Hanna.
'He to-day towers above Mckinley,
the American Bluebeard. who Stays his
workers instead of his wives.
1.-The skeletons of the Seamen's
union, the Miners union. and the great
Street Car Mems union hang bleeding
in his closet.
when Mckinley was governor OF
Ohio. Hanna was his guardian. There.
fore, in criticising Bryan's opponent,
we look not at the servant. but at the
master-not at Mckinley, the most pit
liable fgurehead in public life to-day
but at Hanna. his owner and tyrant.
mo mans character can be describ
ed by his private relations with hi,
family. He may be, like the late czal
of Russia, "a good husband and father,
but so is every tiger and wild beast.
Before granting any man the diplo
ma of morality we ask what the inf1u
ence of his career has been upon hi
fellow men. If he has gone through
life like an elephant goes through
forest, crashing and breaking a path
way for himself alone, or as a devi
' sucking the life blood from every liv
ing thing in reach: how can we en
trust such a man with the responsible
ties and authority OF public office:
"Give Hanna four years Of power an
he will paint the White house black.
"He will utterly destroy every vest
tage of trades unionism, for he vii
have the army, the navy, and tn
treasury at his command. He vii
l discover that it is cheaper to abolisl
manhood than to buy votes; and mex
November may be the last chance tn
%moneyless men eve may have to re
> cord their vote for president. Man
Republican workingmen are though
L lessly going to the ballot box just as a
= OK goes to a barbecue-gaily decorate
Il in honor of its own death.
Mayor Pingree gave US a nations
u motto when he said: Give the peopl
i what they want" I am not one
= those who regard the people as DANCE
y Gus, cOvetous animals that must
chained and muzzled. The experimel
of the referendum in Switzerland h;
Z proved that when the people are lie
entirely free they are naturally co
sentative. French revolutions nevt
9 occur except when some King Lou
X has repressed the people and goade
u them to resistance. 4 am the stat
said the boastful king, and the peop
it replied with the guillotine.