The Irish standard., 1896-08-15
THESE WILL. HELP.

Elsewhere will be found list Of veal
thy New Workers who Will help out Nc
Kinley and as the Boston Republic has
fttingly commented upon the fact its re-
marks are herewith reproduced. 1t says:
A committee has been appointed by
the Union League Club of New York to
raise funds for Hanna's campaign. The
aggregate wealth of eighty OF the men,
beers IS 1851, 25O,0O0. Forty-tive of them
possess 52,250 900, an average of con-
stderab,y over s12,ooo,0oo each. Twelve
of them are credited with $424,000,00o,
or over $50, 100000 each. One Of them has
$125, 100000 and another 100000 900.
There certainly ought not to be much
difficulty in raising sufficient money among
these prosperous citizens to meet all the
legitimate expenses of the two head
quarters and to pay for hauling Mr..
Hanna's palatial car between New York
and Chicago with stops at Cleveland and
Canton.
The members of the Union League COM
mittee are classed according to Their occu-
pations. They are reported chiefly as
bankers, brokers', capitalists, manufacturers
and railroad owners. If they were asked
why they intend to subscribe large sums
of money to aid in the election of McKin-
ley, they would reply that they wanted to
protect American labor against the pauper
labor Of Europe and to perpetrate the poll
icy Of sound money as it has existed since
the resumption act of 1879. DID anybody
ever hear of one Of these men increasing
wages because OF an increase of the tariff
upon the merchandise he was interested
in? The Mckinley bill of 1890 gave the
highest protection" ever embodied in an
American revenue measure. Wages fell
in all the chief industries affected, or stood
still. There was no increase. Yet these
men. and men engaged with them in vast
enterprises controlled by trusts and monop-
olistic organizations, subscribed millions
to elect Harrison and Republican con-
gress in 1888, their claim being that they
wanted to protect the workingman and to
keep wages up to the American standard.
did not the coal mine owners and the iron
ore trusts import thousands upon thousands
Of pauper laborers from Europe who were
willing to work for so and Is cents per
day.. Was this protecting American
workmen?
These millionaires profess. to be very
solicitous about the credit Of the nation
ana to secure the election Of president
who can so manage our national tinan-
ices that no further disturbances will occur.
Whom have they selected? Mr.. William
Mckinley OF Ohio. Mr.. Mckinley has
been an advocate of the free and unlimited
coinage Of silver since he went into pub
lie life. In 1878, when Mr.. Bryan was in
college. Mr.. Mckinley was following
BANDS lead In congress and voting for
every imitation measure proposed. Has he
changed? Yes. He now stands on gold
platform, but It required q. pressure from
Wall street lasting for three months to
set him to say that he wanted every Amer
lean dollar to be .'as good as gold"
I Is Mr.. Mckinley great financ;er? What
Is his record? The only Industrial or
financial operation he ever engaged IN was
a failure, He failed with It. He owed
$4,000 when it was wound up. Mark
Hanna and three other gentlemen took up
the discredited notes, and they hold them
today. Would the great f1nanciers who are
adroeating his election to the presidency
engage him to conduct any branch Of their
business requiring ability, sagacity Or ex-
Enetience? Not a bit Of it. Yet they pro-
fess to believe that he iscompetent to man
aEEe the great financial interests Of the
nation. '5.,
b MI. Mckinley Is man Of putty. He Is
TIA creatnre Of a syndicate that owns him,
body and soul. He is dong now what they
tell him He Is saying only what they or
der him 10 say. II he we're e be elected
xuuld still be the tool Of the combine.
% Is thinking The own
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