The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1897-08-05
SECRET GAGE
Addresses to the Business ~
Men of Boston.
Makes Promises Of Prosperity to Jolly the
Bostonese and Opens the Campaign
OF Deception on which Mark
Hanna Hopes to Garry Ohio.

Secretary Gage, late OF Chicago,
banker, bondholder, syndicate mag
pate, yellow pine manipulation, former
Republican, later single tax advocate
and Cleveland free trader at present,
successor to John G. Carlisle, renegade
Democrnt of Kentucky, and gold bug
orator for the Republican party, has
started the prosperity boom that is to
sweep this country like a Kansas cy-
clone in a speech at Boston. This
boom, like the cyclone, is to be all
wind, and Gage is worthy bellows.
Il will be remembered that he recently
made a trip through the west, and
when he returned to Washington an
nounced that he had conversed with
many business men and found numer-
Gus evidences of returning prosperity,
and all the people had to do was to
hold their breath and wait for good
times. 1t appeared afterward that Mr..
Gage had talked principally with
Armour of the beef combine, who had
Just advanced the price of beef cents
per pound. Armour had seen the evil
dence but 1t was Armour prosperity,
and not public prosperity, that Gage
found.
This man OF many views has been
invited to Boston, and like all good
western men makes due obeisance and
acknowledgment of Boston culture.
Listen to the hOgwash of the secretary
of the treasury of the United States:
at Is a distinction in itself to be
In Boston at ALL" at is especially so
to a man from the west" ITO every
American youth, wherever born, II
educated even in the rudest of our
common scrhools, Boston becomes the
shrine of patriotic devotion" (If a
man has money!
After blowing of lot more such
froth Gage gets down to business and
tells the business (?) men Of Boston
all about it. He says:
The two questions before the coun-
try in the last political campaign were
the tariff and the currency"
This will be news to many. Secretary
Gage must have mixed his free trade
campaign Tor Grover Cleveland in 1892
with the peoples fight for their money
in 1896. There was only one issue in
the last campaign and Gage hasn't
found it out.
However the high secretary says the
tariff Is settled. Let us hope so. The
trusts ought to be satisfied for awhile.
With Speaker Reeds good boys in the
house and Hanna in the senate to give
them all they asked if they didn't get
what they wanted in the tariff its their
own fault and the people will be glad
to learn from their head of the treas
ury that they are satisfied and We
can now think about something else.
THE Hanna party having" as he
says, successfully covered this one
important issue, may be safely trusted
TO care equally well for the other"
The other is the money question,
and here is what the secretary of the
treasury, the financier of our govern
ment, says Of that question. The be-
nighted and misled people of Ohio
who think that there is something
wrong with Our finances will please
read and be enlightened. II they
thought they were suffering from hard
times, depressed business conditions
and all the evils Of a contracted cur
rency, they can now learn how far
they have been duped and deceived
for does not this broad Gage finalcier
from Chicago say "On the financial
side there is really no pressing need
for haste" Really none.
There is certainly no immediate
occasion for anxiety" Don't be scared
says Gage, don't be hasty. Every
uhing is all right. The country is
booming. Every man has abundant
work at liberal wages and every belly
is full of good food. The farmers
pockets are bursting with money and
che merchants are all getting rich
The great Hanna party will take care
of all. Think of our happy condition
"Ample reserves in the public treas
ury." Financial centers in full sup,
ply OF loanable funds, with interest In
willingly low"
Crop prospects most primising anC
a good market fayorabiy assured"
New mineral resources coming into
view"
Territorial area sufficient to carry
Its present population many times
multiplied"
"a people advancing in the elements
OF intelligence and character"
With all these says Gage, who dare
indulge in doleful forecasts?"
OF course, he adds, we need not
ignore the fact that there are many
wounds TO be cured, excited. passions
10 be Gained and misunderstanding
to be composed" but that will all be
sttended to and the people can now go
on their respective missions with a
new sense of security-because this
new product OF western civilization,
Gage OF Chicago, has told the sons OF
their fathers in Boston that IT Is So
This is sample of the rot that is to
be ladeled out to theSpeople OF Ohio
this fall at so much per ladle, and they
will be expected to forget their condi-
tions and march up TO the polls In
November and cast a vote of conf
dence in Mark Hanna and ths trusts