The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-10-21
Wall street yer.u. Labor.

Nearly all of the vote estimates pub
corning expected election results in New
York significantly claim solid Wal
Street for Mckinley, and concede a solid
labor vote for Bryan. This is a story
which, as the French say, tells itself.
Why should not Wall Street be for Nc
kinley? 1t represents the gambling ac-
tivities Of the monster trust magnates
kingly tribute they extort from the pro-
Queer Of raw material and the laborer
on one hand, and the consumer on the
other, use their inside knowledge and
their command over accounts and divi-
dends to rob the public through manipu-
lation Of their own shares. Wall Street
also represents the promotion of all sorts
OF schemes to exploit and loot the colo
mics by means Of concessions such as are
being grabbed in Porto Rico and the Phil
ippines by those who can pay for them
in subscriptions to the Republican cor
ruption fund. Wall Street, in its last
analysis. is owned and operated by the
Rockefellers, Goulds, Morgans, stiilmans,
Dukes, Carnegies. Cramps. and a whole
list Of people who, to the number OF per-
haps a hundred. have cornered and mo-
nopolized the principal productive and
transportation enterprises of the codntry
All Wall Streets interests are centred in
. continuance of the trusts in power, and
in the ability OF a trust Administration to
peddle new opportunities, in our new pos
sessions, for the establishment of monop-
olies in railroading. mining. timber, and
municipal facilities such as tramways.
electrical power, lighting and water sup
ply. Wall Street is, as it has been for
generations, out for plumber. 1t is by no
means that thoroughfare mentioned in the
Bible as 1.-The street which is called
straight"
On the reverse side of the picture we
have the workingmen of New York, who
are concededly solid for Bryan" They
include all workers. thousands of whom
no doubt. are enlisted in the ranks of the
silent voters who, to keep their employ
ment or for other prudential reasons. are
keeping quiet or perhaps are even shout
ing perfunctorily for Trust Mckinley"
They have far more reason TO support the
Democratic ticket than their gilded fellow
citizens of Wall Street have to work and
pay for the other. II Mr. Bryan is elected
business will go on as usual, and lambs
will walk into the stock shambles to be
heeced or butchered exactly as they do
today. But, should the trusts triumph in
the person of Mr.. Mckinley, the laboring
classes and the farmers must suffer Sc
verely. They will be squeezed to pay the
interest upon an ever increasing national
debt, maintained to give money lenders
power to rsurp the currency issuing pre-
fogatiye OF the Government They will be |
taxed to maintain the thieving carpetbae
rule in the colonies. designed to place |
those possessions at the mercy Of q COM
bination Of financial and political plumber |
ers. They will be the victims Of trust |
domination over the country which will |
control the National Executive and Legis-
lature. and soon the Supreme Court; and /
dictate the price Of raw material to the
producer, the price of labor to the in
dustrial worker. and the price OF every
staple commodity to the consumer.
In the train OF the Wall Street jobbers
and thinble -r.ggers follow all the small
by who can be cajolcd or coerced by the
banks, urban and rural. But come of
lhsse may be found to have been among