The age-herald., 1898-02-02

opened any mihts It Is likewise trtis that more mills have been closed in the United States under his administration Of about ten months. than were closed during the last two years of Mir. Cleveland's ad- ministrat4on. Wages have been cut in more factories durng ten months of Me- Kiniey's administration than were cut dur ing the four years of Clevesands admin istration. Mir. Mckinley has never origt- mated am Idea that would put another dol- lar into a laborng mans pocket He has followed others in advocating legislation that would enrich the manufacturer and leave the laborer poorer than before. It may be true that in some eases there has been a revival of bushes. Some classes of people are always prosperous. The pawn brokers business has been good under Me- Kinieys administration. There has bden revival of trade within his circle of com merce. The money lenders have not suf- fered They have been able to get g day and a clean shirt every morning They have not gone hungry. Their rates of in- terest have not been rsduced They de- mand the pound of flesh with the usual promptness.
 It is claimed the farmers of the west have paid off more mortgages within the past six months than they were able to pay off in the six years previous. Ihae may be true. President McKinley's admin istration had nothing to do with that. Bountiful crops in the United States and a failure of crops in foreign countries were the real causes, yet MT. Mckinley claims credit for it. Wheat crops in India, Rus sia and the Argentina were failures. The United States had surplus and that sur plus went to other countries where there was shortage. That's what made wheat worth a dollar a bushel.
 If MT. Mckinley was an honest man and his administration had had anything to do with the increased value of farm products, why did he make wheat $1 a bushel and cotton cents pound? Did not several of the cotton states send delegates to St. Louis who supported MT. McKinley's nomi- nation? It is true that he did not secure an electoral vote in any of the cotton states, but if he were an honest man he would have had prosperity reach at. least his loyal friends in the south as well as the north MT. Mckinley did not carry Nebraska. Yet the Nebraska farmer re- ceved a dollar bushel for his wheat. The republican cotton planter in Alabama is lucky to get cents a pound for his cot ton. The less McKinleyism in this country the better for the people. MT. Mckinley may go upon the principle that the Ameri- can people like to be humbugged. If that is true they are receiving perhaps more than they deserve from him. The first ten months of MT. McKinleys administration has been a signal failure. There is no reason for entertaining the belief that the next thirty-eght months will show an im- provement. The further he advances from the day of his inauguration the less confi- dence the people have in him. He is no longer the idol of the people or the rep resentative of honesty. He is creature of the trusts and the enemy of the people. He stands as hired assassin between the money of the trusts and the famine strick- en women and children of the people whose lives are being surrendered in the cause of liberty.