The herald., 1896-09-06

! THE GREAT
!: QUESTION
BY COL. P. r. SMITH
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 8

The American people must now decide
upon the form of government under
which they must live for many genera
ticns to come. They must decide wheth-
er that government shall be an aristo-
cratic one and administered solely for
the benefit of the rich and powerful, or
whether it shall be democratic in form
and administered in the interest of the
whole people, as was intended by the
noble patriots who founded this great
republic. Whether this government
shall lead in progress, civilization and
humanity, or whether it shall follow
that oppressor of the world. that vam-
pire which feeds upon the misfortunes
Of all nations, that tyrant that expa-
triated and robbed the Irish patriots,
that aristocracy which trampled upon
the American colonies until honor as
serted itself and the blood and bravery
Of patriots made their descendants free
under the flag Of American independ-
ence.
WHAT ARISTOCRACY MEANS IN
AMERICA.
It means a government for the
wealthy, for protected monopolies and
great money lenders. 1t means degen-
crate form of government for the
masses. 1t means serfdom and slavery
for the many, and luxurious wealth and
power for the few. We were told dur
ing the Harrison campaign that all we
needed to make our country prosperous
and the people happy was high tariff:
that wages would advance all along the
line. WE'LL we got the Mckinley bill and
It was in full operation only short time
when general cut in wages of 15 per
lowed a little later by another
cut of 10 per cent. This disas-
trous reduction in wages was led by the
great Republican leader and manufac-
turer. Mr.. Carnegie of Pennsylvania. At
this juncture the laborers objected and
went out. Then the Pinkerton thugs
were called in to shoot them down under
the pretense of maintaining order, and
by their cruel and outrageous course,
they managed to brow-beat and dismay
5000 unarmed and peaceable working
men until the organized army Of Penn
eylvania came to take their places and
virtually starved the strikers into sub
mission. This is one of the ways that
Republicans advance wages of the
workingman. They are now again try
Ing to hoOdwink the workingman with
the same false promises. Mckinley
knows, II he knows anything, that there
- no chance to pass high tariff meas
fure during the next administration. He
Knows that the United States senate, as
1t stands today, will never permit any
such an outrage upon the common peo-
pl0 of this country, and he also knows
that It will be impossible to change the
Complexion of that senate during the
next administration.
The deficit under the Mckinley law
commenced in 1893, and in less than two
years amounted to $74092, 900, whereas
the dehcit under the Wilson bill for the
year 1895 was only SAG, SOC, 900, and this
I year estimated to be only s25, 900 900;
total 81 ,500, 600 for two years, against
47l.0 900 for the same time under the
Mckinley law, and If one of the Judges
OF the supreme court had not changed
hts mind on the constitutionality % the
income tax law, there would have been
~ defcit whatever under the Wilson
Hw. Mckinley and his gold standard
ol1less knowingly and falsely keep reit-
orotiug the same old threadbare story
fhat It was the effects of the Wilson bill
shat cut on the revenue and forced the
}oud Issue, by which the Wall street
DGroolation robbed the government Of
S4Yoe ~. 100000. The only kind Of pro-