The herald., 1896-11-03

the face of every wage-worker beneath
the flag. Is it true? Senator ingalls, said
at that time in the United States SEN
ate There are ten millions of people in
this country who do not get enough to
| eat to drink and to wear" One-seventh
of our population thus described by a
Republican senator! And now, for those
with short memories or none at all. we
hear the tale of universal prosperity at
| that time being pumped into their open
ears Four times within a period of
thirty days the state militia and United
States troops were called out under
Harrison's reign to put down labor
strikes and to quell with powder and
ball the uprisings of discontented work.
ingmen, who were then getting the
blessings of the highest protective tariff
ever in force under this government.
What stupid dolts those workingmen
must have been not to know the value
of such a great and important thing, but
they did not. and the battle at Home
stead with the Pinkerton hirelings.
which will go down in history as one of
the greatest and most serious labor dis
turbances ever known in the United
States, occurred when the notorious Nc
kinley tariff bill was in full bloom and
vigor. We are now informed that the
restoration of that bill is all that Is
needed to produce results it did not and
could not insure in 1892. We Know let
WHAT Will De SdlU, tudt unrest anu us
content were everywhere rampant
among the people during that year, and
the results that attended the presiden-
tial election in 1892 reveal more clearly
and more accurately the condition of
public opinion and the attitude of work.
ingmen than any gauzy tales of pros
perlty that campaign orators can now
disseminate That election came so
near annhilating the high protection,
gold standard party, whose mission is
ito make the rich secure and the poor
content by strong centralized gsH-
ernment. that Clarkson, the chairman
of the Republican national committee,
and one of the most astute politicians
within the organization, was impelled
to remark that we had no Republican
party west of the Mississippi river. The
political landslide was so great that year
that congress saw Democratic ma
jority of one hundred and fifty in the
house of representatives, and both Har-
rison and Mckinley were buried with
their party under an avalanche of votes,
which expressed one thing with unmis-
taxable certainty-the disapproval of
the American people with the actions
and the policy of the Republican ad-
minstration. 1t is, therefore. evident
that any man who boasts of prosperity
which nearly destroyed his party is so
easily pleased that he would feel an in
centive to laugh at funeral.
In plain view of these facts, which
should not be forgotten so easily by the
average voter and the workingman. we
are asked for the good of the country to
restore that party to power. when it
promises absolutely nothing except the
establishment of the very conditions
that led to it's overwhelming rejection
by the people in 1892. Are the American
people such fools as to initiate the dog IN
returning to its vomit? cannot believe
it, and it does not seem possible that
men of sense and nationality will delib-
erately vote for the principles and pol
icies which proved such failure they
were condemned and discarded by an
immense majority of voters. There were
no good times in 1892 and there will be
none in 1897 if the present gold standard
Is continued and the Mckinley tariff
bill is restored, and that is all the Re
publican party presents or advocates in
this campaign to give the people relief.
1t promises nothing else. and has never
suggested anything but a change in our
present tariff legislation. We have
thoroughly tried all it has to offer, and
most serious money famine for party
that has nothing to present but per
cent increase in tariff schedules is too
simple to exercise the right of franchise
at the polls, and deserves all the misery
and hardship that party has and will
inf1ict upon, him if restored to power
# more hell is wanted, vote for NICK in
ley, the puppet of plutocracy. and the
demand will meet with an unlimited
supply. c. SEVERANCE.