The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1896-10-08
Inventions. bought up inspectors and put

its STAMP upon explosive oil, attacked the
property Of competitors and blown up
rival r; q ! cries. These trusts are religious
at one end and murderous at the Other.
"This law breaking, aggressive slirit
of monopoly has found perfect EN-
bodinent In the terson of Mark Hanna.
"He today towers above Mckinley and
above the Republican party the American
Bluebeard, who slays his workers instead
of his wiv.s.
"The skeletons Of the Sesmen's Union,
the Miners Union and the Street Car
Mems Union hang bleeding in his closet !
Hanna Hts owuer and Tyrart
"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 m ,ster
not at Mckinley, the most pitiable
figure head in public life today, but at
HAMA, his owner ard tyrant.
"No mans character can be described
by his private relations with his family.
He may be, like the late Car of Russia
a good husband and father but so Is
every tiger and wild beast.
Before granting any man the diploma
OF morality we ask what the influence Of
his reer has been upon his fellow men.
II he has gone through life as an elephant
goes through forest, crashing and break
| ing pathway for himself alone, or as a
de, H. fish crawls through the sea, grasp
ing and sucking the life-blood from every
living thing In reach, how can we intrust
such a man with the responsibilities ard
authority Of publ off ef
| "Give Hanna four years of power and
he will paint the Wire House | lack
"He will utterly destroy every vestige
OF Trades Uniopism for he will havr the
army, the navy and the treasury at his
command He will discover that IL Is
cheaper tn abolish manhood suffrage than
60 buy votes and next November may
| be the last chance that noneyless men
ever may have to record their vote for
president. Many Republican working
men are thoughtessly going o the ballot
| hox just as an OK goes To a barbecue
gailv decorated in honor of Its own death.
"Mayor Pingree gave us national
motto when ne said: Give the people
wha they want l am not one Of those
who regard the people as dangerous
| a nj hn ho ohain naI
and muzzled. The experiment of the ra-
ferendum In Swit zerland has proved that
when the people are left entirely free,
they are naturally conservative. Ere nch
rev solutions neve- occur 'xcppt when
sume King Louis has repres'ed the people
and Posded them to resistance. Il am
the State, said the boastful king, and the
people replied with the guillotine.
II trust in the common heart Of all
more than In the private scheDing Of any
| financial syndicate. don't excuse the
| ignorance Of the masses, don't celebrate
| their poverty, don't ignore tn jr frail.
ties, but say hat they are far nearer the
truth regarding all social and political
problems than those hoodlum students Of
Ynle whose only argument is an insane
III Re yell
"It Is time to co operate and enjoy the
creation of our hands; otherwise all the
energy, and daring, and inveniivpness of
our fathers has come tn nauRht. ] do
not believe that Columbus discovered
America tor Hanna, or that the mnnopn-
list is the last and highe,t prrduct Of
human evolution"