Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1898-02-25
THE POLITICAL EVILS OF TODAY.
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is yearly increasing in the sum Of
of one thousand eight hundred mil
lion dollars. This sum, if equally
divided, would give to each person
in the nation about $26 as a fund
put by for accumulation, or it would
give to the average family yearly
$I3o. In 1870 the per capita wealth
was $3.50, in 1890 it was 1000.
A nations wealth comes by those
who dig and delve in the mines, in
the factories on the farm. AS a ma
ton our ability to create wealth is
enormous. There is enough for all,
none need complain; Nature is most
lavish with her bounty.
The wages of several hundred
thousand have been reduced 20 per
cent in the last month, and the div
idends of mill owners and manufac-
turers increased. Do not many of
you right in this county remember
the song that went up from McKin-
ley orators? They told you and me
that the next day after the election
if Mckinley was elected that wages
in this county would be 81 per day;
that in every city in this great
country Of ours that wages would
be raised 20 and so per cent; that
there would be work and money
for all. Now how do they explain
why wages have been lowered.
For a while they were claiming 81
wheat; who of you farmers got 81
for your wheat? What is wheat
worth now? Gold organs say that
it is not due to the gold standard
that wages are reduced. Support
ers of the Dingley tariff bill will tell
you that it is not on account of the
passage of this bill. The mill bosses
are unable to pay higher wages and
pay increased dividends to the own
ers. The millions of dollars spent
in the national election for McKin-
ley have to be taken from the wage
earners. This blood money has to
be paid, not by millionaires, but by
by those who dig and delve, by
those who are compelled to stint
and starve their children i'll order
to put up this last election money.
The workmen have to pay for all
those free trains that were run into
the Buckeye state. Canton indeed
will be all historic town in the fu-
ture. If all the sweat that came
from the workingmen in their var
ious vocations in earning the mon
ey that was spent in running ex-
cursions into Canton during the
late national election it would form
a river that would sweep this old
town off of the face of the earth.
Probably ninety per cent of the
men whose wages are being cut
voted for Mckinley, and hence
should be satisfied. All who up
hold the Chicago platform are de-
nounced as populists anarchists. 1t
1t must be great comfort to some
individuals to read about the pro-
ceedings of the millionaires who
have left the democratic party and
have stolen its name, just as certain
imposte,s counterfeit trademark.
The gold democrats nominated a
candidate against BRYAN but not
against Mckinley, which was quite
the me1riest way Of entering a po-
ltical campaign ever heard of. A
distinctively decorative feature of
this counterfeit millionaire gold
democrat party is Mr.. Hanna. He
is always doing something interest
ing, whether it be calling upon
Russell Sage, or making a business
trip, or a tour of the National
hauks-that practice known to
Tammany as giving the glad hand.
He may De dining with George
Gould, Vanderbilt or Andrew Car
uegie; or whirling over the country
in his palace car with other moral
heavy weights. If every palace
car had a vote the Ohio wonder
wonder would sweep the country,
but failing in this Mr.. Hanna makes
sure of the palace car owner, Mr..
Hanna advises the gold democrats
that the country has been been led
to anarchy, and that it behooves all
good men to work for the gold
standard and thereby save the poor
horny-fsted sons of toll from fur
ther reduction of wages, and a fifty