The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1897-02-26

and Mckinley stripe will pay no attention
whatever TO utforanccs Ike this Of Mr.
Evans. and yet there H. nothing clearer
TO our mind Than the fact that they
contain an element OF danger TO me N
st.Wtlons OF this country that descfNes
serious consideration. Hanna. Mckinney
and Their followers 80 on taking about .
high protective farm. when the VII
simply be- adding fuel TO the IRE 10y ad'pt-
ins one and they obsunateiy close 'n'"
eyes TO the reaI discomfort amongst inc
people and to its causes. Their artp-
mont Is very plain. though they d. rot
make Il before the public. lnN i've III
wealthy. thicky-sctucd communities ana
the only discontinued people they see are
manufacturers. who are unable 10 fleece
thc.r fcilow-cit1eus under the present low
duties. and labosns men who are out Of
employment. because the manufacturers
that lived upon high duties are idle. Jhey
argue that il they can quiet these people
they will have contented East, and
control part OF the country. that they
can only rely upon carrying those parts,
and that IL that way they can bid DELI
anCc 10 the rest Of the country. They are
aa certainly destined TO fail in their game
as that they play IT, They may make pro-
,ectiye duties what they will, but when a
party comes before their people in 1900
with the Scholastic and Anarchical propo-
stions of the Chicago platform accen-
tuated. they will find their voters leaving
them 10y thousands. Those Of the So
cialist turn got their appetites whctted by
the contest Of 1896. and their tastes. in
stead OF lcssening, Will become stronger
and stronger every day. candidate Tor
President upon the Chicago platform Ia
1900 Will carry the very strongho.ds that
Mossrs. llama and Mckinley most relied
upon in 1900, in spite Of all the nigh duties
they may succeed in having imposed.
Iigh duties arc Socialism, and. instead
of contentiug the Socialist by giving him
high duties they only give him part Of
what he thinks is his due. and encourage
him to demand that everything else shah
follow.
Barring free silver. which we antici-
pate will be dropped as a dead issue, un-
limited grccnbacks probably taking its
pace. Governor Evans is right. Tho
platform VIII De am income tax for rich
men. war en- trusts. and opposition TO
Government by injunction. and, with
these three pianks. and Altgeld behind as
the real leader and director of the CAM
paign. Hanna and Mckinley and their
high protective duties viii be buried under
an avalanche. That is the prospect to
which Mcssrs. Hanna ana Mckinley are
inviting the country.
There is social force that can be re-
lied upon TO stem the torrent that IS
gathering. but Hanna and Mckinley and
their followers refuse TO recognize it as
q force. The farmers Of the South and
West are the most conservative citizens
Of the Union. and they are being trampled
in the dust by the national bank law,
which gives monopoly Of banking TO
the rich men Of the commercial centres
and denies 10 the countrymen any and all
media Of exchange. Repeal the tax on the
issue of State banks so that they may
have their local banks TO issue the media
Of exchange that are indispensable to
them. and they VII rise up as one man
ia 1900 to stamp out Altgeld ana all his
brood. Leave them as they are, and they
will be found in 1900 in an unnatural al
lance with Atseld. and then it will be
in order for al good citizens to pray for
their country