The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1900-09-01
Mark Hanna is the apologist, has
brought up the price of the pals dur

Mark Hanna is the apologist, has
brought up the price of the pals dur
ing the past four years. They see in
the separate compartments reserved
for the tea and coffee that the Repub-
llcan sugar trust makes a big profit,
and they see in the meats in the body
of the pals that the meat trusts are
getting Il large share of their earnings
1t is right and proper that the Amer
lean workingmen who toll hard from
morning till night ut laborious occupa-
lions have full dinner pals; but they
owe the contents of them not to the
Mckinley plutocrats, of which Mark
Hanna is the acknowledged cham>
pion, but to their own brain and
Drawn. They know that everything
they produce by their labor has gone
up in price while their pay has not
gone up correspondence. They know
that more trusts have been formed
since March 4, 1897, when Mckinley
was inaugurated, than in all the his
tory of this country from it's organiza-
ton.
The total amount of money repre-
sented in all the trusts is over six
billions of dollars, or three times the
annual commerce of the whole United
States. When it is considered that a
billion of minutes has not elapsed since
the birth of Christ, an idea can be
formed Of the immense capitalization
of these American combines whose de-
sign it is to prey upon the consumers
of their products. These trusts are
the fruits of Republican legislation,
and Mark Hanna, with his dinner pail
as a device, expects the workingmen
to perpetuate them.
The American workingmen love lib
erty for themselves and others, and
they are not going to exchange the
Declaration of Independence for a
mess of pottage. Their forefathers
bled and died that America may be a
free nation. They proclaimed that all
men are born equal; that they have
certain inalienable rights bestowed by
their Creator, of which governments
shall not deprive them, and that
among them are ''life, liberty and the
pursuit of happiness The Mckinley
administration, which Mark Hanna
represents, has seen fit to deprive the
Filipinos of life and liberty, and it is
governing the Porto Ricans as subjects,
thus depriving them of the rights
guaranteed by the American constitu-
ton. And in the face of all this,
Mark Hanna has the supreme effront-
terry of appealing to American toilers
to fasten the yoke of slavery upon
men in other lands.
Mark Hanna reckons without his
host. The workingmen will say to
him. Get thee behind me. Satan"
They will not be hypnotized by his
glittering tin pail in this campaign.
They will not vote for trusts, com,
bines. syndicates and monopolies any
longer, and thus help along imperial
ism and big standing armies for COM
mercial purposes at the expense of
the plain people who pay the bills.
The corporations which are unwill-
ing to pay taxes on their enormous in
comes to prosecute wars of conquest
will not receive the votes of the work.
ingmen this fall. Every dollar expend-
ed by Mckinley in Asiatic exploita-
ton comes out of the sweat and toll
of the working classes to whom Mark
Hanna appeals with his dinner pail.
Why does he not appeal to their heads
and not to their stomachs? Because
the Republican party cannot defend it's
imperialistic policy. When the votes
are counted in November, we shall be
greatly surprised if Mark Hanna's
dinner pail scheme will not have utter
ly failed to convince the workingmen
that it is to their interest to continue
the plutocracy in office for another
term.