Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1898-10-18

Do yru remember the great wave
of prosperity that was to sweep
over this country when Dayton and
Mckinley should have been elected;
Do vou remember that wheat
was to be 81 so per bushcl? Dc
you remember that every laboring
man in the country was to have em.
ployment at 'living wages?" That
this same laboring man WAS to have
''an honest dollar and a chance to
earn it?" That all the mills were
to be opened, kept open and that the
gold standard was to make us all
prosperous and happy?
OF course you do. Do you re.
member that all the tanneries were
scheduled to begin doing double
work and that you were to receive
ST. 30 per cord for bark, as you did
under Democratic administration
a few years ago. OF course you
remember all this.
Do you know that the prosperity
procession has called only upon
Dayton's postmasters? Do you know
that wheat is worth less than one
half of the promised price, which
is less than the cost of production
and it has been kept up to the pres
ent price only because of the failure
in foreign countries? Do you know
that if the Mckinley bill was re
sponsible for the rise in price a
year ago, as Mr.. Dayton tells you
it was, that it is also responsible
for the fall in price now? Do you
know that the only classes over
loaded with prosperity in this coun-
try to-day are the trusts and Day
ton Office holders2 Don't you know
that all of our great tanning com
papies of the country are into com
bine, or trust, controlling the out
put of leather, running, the most of
them on half or quarter time, trying
to squeeze out independent tanner
les and compelling you to pay q
tribute to Swift and Armour, of the
beef and hide trust, ny reason of
the Is per cent duty upon hides un-
der the Mckinley law? Do you
know that hundreds of union coal
miners, in Illinois. are now out on
strike by reason Of the starvation
wages paid to them and that only
last Wednesday the streets of Pana
ran red with blood. as a result
thereof?
Do you know that the Mayor of
Cincinnati has appealed to the peo
pie of his city to contribute money
FOR the support of the starving peo
pie of that section that are without
employment, and all of this. in the
face of the fact that a war has just
been fought out, which took two
hundred Thousand men out of tue
trades, the workshops, and off the
farms and left their places, some of
them to be filled forever, with other
and unemployed men? That this war
ought and did put much money in
circulation, by reason of large con
tracts for clothing, arms, ammuni
tion, supplies, &c?
Do you, know too, that the people
of this county have paid Congress.
man Dayton $4,000 to look after
their interests in Congress and that
he has been absent attending to his
own private business 50 days out of
every hundred when Congress was
in session? Do you know that the
people would have been better off,
though, had he been absent all of
the time, for he voted for every
measure there introduced, which
looked toward the formation or the
maintenance of trust or a combine
and that be voted to virtually give
to the Pacific Railroad Pirates the
money due the Government from the
Union Pacific Railroad?
DO you know the Republican
party is now in power in every
branch of this Government and is
responsible for the state of affairs
named and for the terrible and
heartless cruelty practiced upon the
soldiers who went to the front IN the
late war?
OF course you know all this and
knowing it what excuse could be
offered for voting for the reelection
of Dayton2-Hampshire Review