Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1900-09-12
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need a campaign meeting to convey
it to the American people; they knew
it we'll enough already.
Mr.. Hanna took up the other issue
which he declared to be the para
mount one of the coming election.
This issue he defined as "the full din
ner pail" Mark Hanna and Depew
and Foraker came to the Youngstown
meeting In private car; they dined
at the house of wealthy citizen; they
are all Senators Of the United States,
and they do not themselves have to
carry their meals In dinner pals. Far
from it. So that from experience they
know nothing about this paramount
issue Of "the full dinner pail" What
then, are they saying to the voters Of
Ohio? They are talking to them just
as a farmer might talk to his cattle;
"You are well fed; you have a COM
Portable stable, and in return for 1t
all, you ought 10 do my bidding"
There is, however, this difference in
the two cases: The farmer does pro-
vide food and shelter for his cattle-it
may be he bought them in the first
place. But Mark Hanna has net filled
the laborer's dinned pail,-bc there
much or little In 1t. It's contents are
the output of the workingman's own
toll. and no thanks are due to Mark
Hanna for any part Of them. If the
man addressed was one of Hannas s
employees, the chances are that the
dinner pall was not as well filed as 1t
should have been, or would have been
had he been serving some other mas
ter.
But the claim made Is that because
the dinner pail Of the worker has been
filed through his own exertion, he in
some occult way owes Marx Hanna the
additional duty of voting for his man
for President. 1t is nothing but dam
nable piece Of effrontery for these Sen
ators. these riders In special cars,
and drawers of high salaries, to say
to the voters of Ohio: "Hou have
worked and earned your own dinner,
and now, in addition to being taxed to
pay our salaries, in addition to the
tolls taken from you by the trusts Of
which we are ether agents or attor-
neys, you must pay us again for the
privilege of eating the bread which
You have yourselves earned, by voting
as we tell you to-
This Is the substance of the dinner
pail issue. 1t is this,--nothing more,
nothing less. 1t is the assumption on
the part of the Senators Of an owner
ship Of the laboring man; Of a proprie
tnry interest in their votes. And upon
| what does this idea of ownership rest
Why, upon the fact that the laborel
has had the poor boon of working L
I'LL his own dinner pail. 1t involves
something peculiarly humlliating to b,
thus called upon to surrender free
mans right to vote for the candidat,
of his choice out of gratitude for tn,
privilege of toiling for his own susie
nance. There is no difference between
this dinner pail argument and tn,
claim made years ago by the slav,
drivers OF the south to the allegiance
and services of their human chattels
Their cry too was: 1--WE feed you
therefore we own YOU" If our ances
tors had boon contcnted to put up witt
bad government simply because the,
had enough to eat, we should still h
subjects of the British crown. Their
are things In this world Of oven NOR
Importance than full dinner pal
although TO man of Mark Hanna
apprehenslons a mere animal subsis
tence is all that the voter ought 10 as
for. The citizens think as well as ea
and Que of the things they are thinkin
Of this year is that they have then
selves and not Mark Hanna TO than
for whatever is in their dinner pails,-
be II more or less, that they owe hin
and his fellow Senators nothing for /
aud that least OF all lis he entitled to