The times., 1897-06-13
"After Us the Deluge."

| lie ca joled and coerced into allowing their
oppressors to foreclose, sell out, loot the
nation, and safely get away with the
| plundeT.
The ielugc did come after the French
despot had gone 90 his grave. History
| viii he false to all its philosophy, logic
| and lessons if the deluge does not come
| to the oppressors OF this land and people
before they are much older in iniquity.
! What picture is here presented for the
| generationsi In ali the great centers OF
| population a few men, rolling in millions
and served by an army of laekeys, ride
| in gorgeous eqUpages, steam around in
| princeiy yachts, maintain town and coun-
| try palaces, marry their daughters to
| European princes and dukes, wear purple
blazing diamonds. These be the people
who furnished the money 20 elect the man
/ OF 1est;nyl These be the people who told
the suffering masses OF the country that
a vote for Mckinley was a vote for honest
money and the chance to earn it! THE
advance agent of prosperity was elected"
policy. domestic and foreign; compel his
Administration to force through tariff
measure for their own further enrichment,
at the cost OF added burdens to the poor;
demand that they shall be given final
and absolute domination OF the national
finances through the destruction of the
greenhacks; and hold the government of
a once free people in firm alliance with
Spain in its fiendish war upon women and
children in Cuba, for the benefit OF the
Spanish bondhoIders and the Sugar Trust.
That 10 the prosperous side of Mckinley
prosperity"
Compared with these children of for
slaves: the men who have created fol
tbem the wealth they are able To lavish
IN a life of extravagant luxury unknown
outside the circles OF royalty since tie
decadent days of the Roman patricians,
when those besotted oppTessors drank and
gambled away the strength, glory and
manhood OF the Roman empine We see
these slaves with their families, de-
priyed of the common necessities of life,
struggling against starvation, at tine
when they should be enjoying the rich
fruits of the prosperity that they Were
promised should follow Immediately upon
the election Of William Mckinley
From all parts of the Union the cry
OF distress goes up more piteously, more
bitterly than ever it did before. In the
State which gave US the advance agent
of prosperity" farms have shrunk to half
their value. Loan institutions are hold
ing thousands of overdue mortgages, which
they dare not foreclose. 1t has been es.
timated that Ohio property aggregating
more than fifty million dollars in value
has passed to creditors under the hammer
since the first of January Factories are
running on less than half time, where
they are not closed completely. The peo-
pie are hungry, half naked and desperate
The same is true of the banner Re-
publican state OF Pennsylvania The con
dition of the great mining population is
terrible: so is that Of the operatives in
the manufacturing districts One of the
great plants in Iittsburg, whose presiding
with the invested wealth and income Of
q monarch, has just driven out over three
thousand workingmen by a wage cut that
meant all but starvation The situation
of industrial, mercantile and agricultural
depression and despair in Ohio and Penn
sylvania a condition affecting all classes,
that OF the millionaire gold, trust and
monopoly magnates alone excepted, is the
situation everywhere.
What remedies are presented to US by
the advance agent of prosperity under
the dictaton of Hanna, and of the gold |
and bond syndicates and the trusts and |
monopoics? tariff that can only re-
sulJ III uOuDHiiS tuc EeOall price Ol UedTly |
everything the struggling poor must bay.
and that will bring relief to no one but |
the sharks who have conceived and forced |
1t upon the Administration and the Re
publican party for their own cruel aud in
satiate ends. After that we are to be |
blessed with a financial scheme that, if |
successful, will involve a further sweep |
ing contraction of the currency. These are
all that the elements placed in power by |
tne cowed and deluded farmers and labor |
ing men Of the United States have to |
offer in melioration of conditions that if |
much longer perpetuated can lead to
nothing short of an Indian famine, or a
reign of terror.
And all this time the administration, pre-
sided over by the advance agent of,
prosperity coolIy esd defiantIy sup |