The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1897-12-09


AFTER the election sentimenta1ity
reigned stronger than ever. The head
of every industry sent broadcast
throughout the land false information
that factories would Immediately start
up. Millions of honest laboring men
would be given employment mt and wages
would be increased. sSentimenitality still
proclaimed Mckinley as the advance
agent of prosperity. The manufacture
ers lied. Prosperity did not come. La
Dor was still unemployed. 1t was done
to fool the people again. Ssntimen-
taltty was still at work
Prosperity did not make Its appear
ance Sentimentality sid it would
come after the Inauguration. 1t was
again postponed until after The meeting
of the extraordinary $ .sson of congress.
Months were consumed in the debate of
the infamous Dingley bill. Prosperity
was promised Immediately upon its pas
s1ge. 1t became a law last July. Ev-
cry article of nscs ssary consumption has
advanced in price. Labor remains
where it was, still poorly paid. Still no
wave of prosperity.
Sentimentality said Mckinley would
free Cuba. He was the friend of the
oppressed. A libsrIty-1oving citizen.
The man who recognized in the Cuban
insurgents a similar position to that oc-
cupied by the revolutionists in this coun-
try when they rebelled against the king
of England. He would free Cuba and
defy Spain. What has he done? Fail
len victim to the power of Spain. The
friend of The sugar trust and the enemy
of those struggling for freedom and in
dependence. The sugar trust opposes
Cuban independence. With a bold dash
of his pen he asks congress to annex
Hawaii. and make it a part of the
United States. The queen of that coun-
try was dethroned by set of scoun-
drels whose homes should be in the PEN
ftentiary. A more disgraceful act upon
the part of any government has never
been recorded than that displayed by
the United States in overthrowing THE
monarch of the Hawaiian government.
Ut was done by fraud and corruption. 1t
was contrary to every rule of civiliza-
ton. The sugar trust demanded the
annexation of Hawaii. The sugar trust
contributed most literally to the sue
cess of McKinleys election. AS when
cortinues their friend even to the pro
posed annexation of am island whose
people are in no way congenial to the
citizenship of the United States. Nc
Kinley stands for nothing that will add
another dollar to the pockets of the
struggling millions. He represents no
idea of government beyond that of the
supremacy of the power of his own
- in, nj thOSp who
believe in pauperizing labor and the es-
tablishing of gigantic trusts-the enemy
of those who toll and who are the best
citizens of the republic.
On the fourth of March last, William
Mckinley took the oath of office as pres
ident of the United States. Elected
upon a platform, the chief plank in
which promised a reform in the none
tary system, Mr. Mckinley called an
extraordinary session of congress to pass
another iniquitous bill of taxation un-
der the guise of tariff. No sooner had
he acquired power, than he threw aside
the ladder upon which he was elevated
and fell back to favor his original
friends, the proprieItors of trusts and
corporations. Sentimertaltty was again
on assembling in extraordinary session,
he said not word bearing upon the
issue which elected him, but demanded
an immediate protection which in pain
English means more riches for the few
and greater poverty for the many. His
one idea, the favoritism of the trusts had
prevailed. Congress bowling to his will,
enacted the infamous Dingley bill under
the pretense of affording revenue sufli-
Client to carry on the expenses of the
government, while in fact, the most con-
| spicuous thing that it has accomplished
! was in providing the nation with a
deficit of over $40, 900 in five months.
| What has been accomplished? What
| great good has been done? What have
| the people gained? In what manner is
| the government bettered? Sentiment
| tality did 1T all. The poor man bears
| the burden and the rich will continue to
| live i'm palaces Such is William Nc
| Kinley's craftsmanship.