Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-07-01
TOM MS.
WALL STREET THE POWER BE-
HIND THE THRONE.
COnSistency IL q Jewel but the Two Old
Parties Are not Troubled with That
Kind of Jewels. Some Hot shot Fired
Mt Mckinley.

ut Mckinley.
Peoples Party Paper-California Re-
publicans instruct for Mckinley be-
cause he is for protection and free sill
yer.
The Georgia Republicans instruct for
Mckinley because he is for protection
and Sound money"
Nevada Republicans instruct for him
because he is for protection and free sill
YER.
What the Republicans are doing the
Democrats are also doing. In free sill
yer states, they declare for free silver;
In gold-standard states they declare for
gold.
And what are the people doing?
Acting the fool, as usual, by pinning
their faith to these thoroughly deceit
tul leaders of the two old parties.
Do you suppose for a moment that
McKinley's money and McKinley's pop
ularity are the causes OF his tremend-
GUS success
throne with Mckinley is the colossal
combine of the manufacturers. Nc
Kinley is POOR and is weak. His
strength lies in the principle of which
he has become the representative.
The same class of men who came for
ward and paid his debts for him in 1893,
constitutes his power in this campaign.
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monopoly of the American markets,
and they will do it,
The readers of this paper will remem-
Der that when the Manufacturers asso-
citation of the United States was organ
lied, l called attention to the great po-
litical significance OF the combination.
1t was composed of the richest manu-
facturers of both the old parties, and
one OF the purposes expressed in their
charter was the control of the American
markets.
Mckinley is the candidate of this as
ISOLATION, and his election means un-
limited loot for the monopolists.
Within the last twelve months nails
have been advanced 200 per cent. The
price has risen from IS cents per keg
to $3.50 per keg. In the American mar
ket those who need nails must stand
the extortion, because our precious ta-
rim gives the manufacturer a monopoly
But in foreign markets competition is
met, and our nail makers sell to for
OF at hox
pose upon us.
In Japan, the nails made at Cleve-
land, Ohio can be bought much cheap
er than they can be bought in Cleve-
land. In Cleveland, the monopoly
rules; in Japan competition regulates.
Yet the nail makers are clamoring fol
higher tariffs.
In Boston. the Bolt and Nut Trus
has been organized. Prices have al
ready gone up so per cent.
This monopoly was organized by ]
NJ. Parks, who is one of the officers O
the Tack trust.
There is law against trusts, and sal
aried officers sworn to enforce it, bu
they never chirp.
The only case which Mr.. Olney ha
ever found for the application of tn,
antitrust law was the Chicago strik,
of the working men.
Did it never excite your curiosity t,
know why the Republicans have not at
tempted to modify the Democratic sarif
bill of 1898?
Did 1t never occur to you as a quee
thing that the Republicans should hav
denounced that law in such bite
terms, and yet when they return to pow
er not a single bill was offered to repea
it?
In this very campaign, in which Nc
Kinley stands as the representative o
the protective principle. have you heart
a word about repeating the Democrati
tariff. and re-enacting the McKinle.
bill?
Not a word. And why? Becaus
the Democratic tariff suits the larg
manufacturers better than the McKin
ley bill did.
Again, why?
Because the Democratic tariff give
- free raw materials to the manufactures
where the Mckinley bill did not.
III there Is any principle whatever il
the Wilson bill, it is that of free trad
in raw maaerials.
Thus, the wool growers must compet
with all the world in the production o
wool. The manufacturer, therefore
gets his wool in the free trade marke
and sells his manufactured produc
(made from the wooD in the markets o
protection. He buys wool from tn
farmer at competitive prices, and sell
wooden goods to the farmer at monopo
ly prices.
The Mckinley bill did not allow this
Is 1t any wonder, then, that the grea
manufacturing centers are satisfied
with the Democratic tariff?
Again, take lumber
Under the Democratic tariff oul
southern mills must cut free trade lum
Der with protected machinery, and III,
products manufactured from the lum
Der. sold at competitive prices, are re
turned to the people at monopoly prices
This unfair law dlscriminates leav
lily against South Georgia, yet shos,
great statesmen, H. G. Turner anC