The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1900-10-26
Mr.. ROOSEVELT
; THE RATHER.
Something About Hard Times
and the Soup Houses.
TRUSTS AND PROTECTION EVIL.
The Duties Of 1sg3.94 Not Under the
wilson Law--Oficisis sought Aeui.
naido's AID Against
Spain.
(By A. McGregor.)

Governor Roosevelt like other slip
shod rattlers has been telling and dwell
ing on the hard times and soup houses
under the Wilson tariff in 1893 and "a
not knowing or wishing others to know
that these were under that bill Of abom-
nations known as the Mckinley law en-
acted in 1890, which was such disap-
pointment that 1t defeated Harrison In
1892. The Wilson bill passed congress
on August 2S. 1894, not going into opera
tion until sometime later.
These prosperity" frauds lie under
mistakes astonishingly. Grover Cleve-
lands extra session Of congress in 1893
was called to repeal the Sherman silver
coinage law, and Senator Sherman In
his speech advocating the repeal Of his
\ own measure promised better times at
once, but according to Roose-
velt the promised good times did
not come until the advance
agent of prosperity" took hold
and got the Dingley tariff in operation
to bless the people by Increased taxation
r and protection robbery. We realize Its
blessings in the trusts by their closing
Industrial plants all over the land, and
throwing thousands out Of employment;
. by large increase in business failures
and by an advance In price Of trust and
protected articles, and no corresponding
increase in wages. In all these we see
the iniquity Of monopoly by govern
ment favoritism. In 1893, the sixty
clearance house banks in New York
city took a hand In the stringency in
order to help Cleveland and the Repub-
licans to repeal the silver coinage law.
and so made gold standard para
mount. And all this was under McKin-
ley protection. Some people remember
the panic of 1873, and the suffering years
that followed that collapse. 1t began
with the failure OF Jay Cook G. Co.'s
bank, and thereafter came the tramps
and soup houses that continued for
some years-all under protection, too.
This self-styled prosperity party is the
party of falsities and fraud. The Nc
Kinley tariff law was disappointment
from the first, as was seen in the de-
cline Of wool and is now seen under the
Dingley law fraud. The fact Is there
Is no sale for wool and has not been this
season. Yet the Roosevelt rattlers
shout prosperity" under blessed pro-
lection, that fosters trusts.
The increase in business failures
don't disturb those gentlemen any
more than does the wicked and costly
and unnecessary war with the Filipinos
Republican orators and organs approve
and defend the whole Philippine busi-
pess, disgraceful as it is. Continue this
administration and this war and its
wickedness, trusts included, will con-
tinue and rascality schemes and
schemers will continue to prosper and
shout hosannas over prosperity"
The Roosevelt Rough Rider Hanna
rangers are not the characters to bring
safety to the people. for they only
wish to control public affairs for spec
ulation and plunder.
The Repository is slngularly needless
ample:
"The distress from 1893 to 1896 was
under the Wilson law. Mr.. Bryan AMI
his party are for free trade, and by sup
porting them at the polls the people
improve their chances of returning to
the conditions of the free soup kitchen
era. Will they accept the opportunity"
AS the Wilson law only went into eff
feet about the end Of 1894, we can see
that "the distress" was under the Nc
Kinley law that James c. Blaine called
an "infamy." The Wilson bill was much
changed in the senate, and was not
what Wilson wanted and was not free
trade measure.