Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-01-24

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in Bryan's favor since 1896. The Re
publicans have made plumbers, have
broken faith and are on the defensive
Imperialism has become an issue; the
trusts have aroused vast hostility
among the people, financial panics are
threatened through Republican mis-
management Mckinley represents the
milionaires and the aristocrats, Bryan
represents the people; therefore his
chances for election in 1900 are bright
and the Mckinley "sure thing" is be-
coming an empty boast.-Chicago Dem
Ccrat.
Alckinleyism as a Luxury.
That the election of William McKin-
ley has proved an expensive expert
ment, amounting TO a luxury nor of
any benefit to Il free people, is demon
strated every day. If the country has
not been plunged into the worst finan-
cial distress it ever experienced is due
to the good luck of famine, increase of
demand for American productions
quality of workmanship and various
other causes not connected with any
thing Mr. Mckinley has ever advocat-
ed or brought to us any more than a
comet is the cause of the measles. In
fact every act of his administration
has been in direct violation of the pub
lif. al n nd fnN Il t,,rr 90
special interests and private concerns
Our burden of taxation is now so
heavy that the public treasury is over
laden with the peoples money, and
there is no way devised to get rid of It
other than to turn il over to the same
spectators that put Mckinley in Of
flee. Here is the official record, and it
is very bad showing for any admin
istration to give the people in justitica-
ton of its retention in power.
The treasury deficit in three years of Nc.
Kinley Is:
1S9i ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. SIS, 054 900
I Is3S 3s,9ds 600
loU1 ............. $3.50 .OOU
The Government revenues by years dur
isS Mckinley's administration. have been:
1919 iS9. Ss4l,I2l, O0o
1873 OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. 517,21600U
no tal .;.:..... ......... 81, 269. 25s, 900
The administration has spent during Its
term these vast sums:
iS9s observation-disclosures. s3b3, ll5,oOU
iSoS '''....'... ............... Az, JUS. 0uU
1913 OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. Cos. 093,Ooo
Total .;..................S 81 ,414, 5s6 900
Deficit for three years ....... 144,97SoOo
In the revenue received are included
$3.50, 100000 from bonds Pacific rail
roads and war revenue, which are
extraordinary revenues. Lacking
these. the deficit would have reached
S5S2, 97S,000, n sum greater than for
any three years during the life of the
nation except the civil war.
The total debt in 1896 was Sl,769,-
94O,323. Now it is S1,991, 1927 1923. Our
annual interest has increased by
$4,409,43S. In 1896 our public debt was
S25 per capita. Now it is 500 per
capita.
There is not much comfort in this
showing, and had 1t been Democratic
administration that brought such a
financial climax upon The country the
Republicans would have riven the
country asunder in their denuncia-
lions. If three years of Republican
misgovernment can effect such stupen-
dous results, its capacity for further
mischief in five more years will be
perceived by generation to come in
the burdens placed upon their necks.
The Ship Bounty Robbery,
Grosvenor. of Ohio. Is now the chair
man of the committee on merchant ma
rine in the House. Thus all things
work for the good of the country--to
Wit, the trusts. Hopkins, of Illinois,
showed signs of opposition to the
Hanna-Payne subsidy scheme, and,
says rhe Kansas City Times: "For this
opposition the boss demanded his head
from the cuckoo Speaker of the House
and the command has boon obeyed."
"rhis marine bounty BILL" continues
the Times. sis as bald holdup of the
tax payers rs was ever perpetrated
since the Republican party became the
champion of class legislation and the
promoter of public robbery. 1t proposes
to put into the pockets of the Standard
Oil Trust, which is running lines of
American-registered tank steamers TO
European and South American ports,
and to n lot of other owners of second
and third class ocean vessels. and to
the Cramps and other members of the
ship-buildins combine, mileage and
tonnage bounty of several million dol
lars year, and aggregating. during the
period the Hanna-Payne bill is made
operative, about O,OOO,OO0-under
pretense of building up an American
merchant marine.
Every farmer, every merchant,
tradesman. mechanic. real estate own
err and professional man and wage
Garner in the land will be forced to nav
this blackmail to the syndicated ship
owners, who have ordered their politi-
cal agents in Washington to consum-
mate this scheme of legalized piracy.
All that is needed to build I'D our
merchant marine to degree of eX-
panSion, commensurate with the ship
ping needs of our exporting merchants
and manufacturers. is to repeal the
archaic and obstructive navigation
laws which the Republicans years ago
placed upon our statute books. there
by playing into the hands of foreign
shipping interests, and permit Ameri-
cans to buy ships wherever they can
buy them cheapest, and sail them I'M
der the American flag. But this ra-
tional and business-like development
will never be promoted SO long as the
party of blunder now in power has
charge of the law-making and execu-
tive functions of the Federal govern
ment.'
Profit on Other Peoples Money.
The President of the First National
Bank Of Indianapolis, on retiring after
fourteen years service, thus congratu-
lates his fellow magnates:
81 congratulate the officers and stock
holders of our enterprise. The bank