The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1900-02-08

I1duHd says, IL was CdfcleSSucSS VI Tic
crew and not the Spaniards that sunk
the Maine Depew, that parrot Of
money, repeats the statement. Long
puts forth lying interview and works
the stock market. Step by step the Re-
publicans fought against war with
Spain. They did this to protect the
Spanish bondholders. American honor
and American lives were nothing. Span
ish bonds were all in all. 1t was a Dem
ocrat's (Turpie) resolution that declared
the war. Then came the crimes of con-
tracts. Railroads were fraud-fattened.
The Merrimac was bought at three
prices and sunk to hide the crime. The
beef ring and every other ring rioted in
evil profits. AS result, 5000 soldiers
died of camp pest and beef pest, while
only 800 were killed on the field These
are but specimen foul deeds. Alger is
cast out; Eagan is cast out Con full
pay; the startled sheep of the public,
uneasy of fraud smells and odors of war
rottenness, are Gained and driven on to
fresh feecings. We win the war. We
pay three millions to Cuba and no one
knows why! We pay twenty millions
to Spain and no one knows why! The
rings riot on with their contracts. We
are for an open door in the East, what
ever that may be, and prosecute fake
war in the Philippines. We fight year
at cost of 200 millions. The whole
commerce Of the Philippines is II mill
lions. At the years end, Lawton, as il
to mark our progress towards conquest,
is killed within II miles Of Manila, the
city that Dewey took two years before
And the rings wax rolling fat of the
profits of that war which still is. The
American heart swells over Manila and
Santiago. The Mckinley gang take adj
vantage to project billion dollar navy.
That's where the Cramps come in.
And Carnegie with armor plates at $500
a ton, when $40 would be we'll up to
their worth. With Root and Long to
their elbows in the public money and
Mckinley (Hanna) overseeing it all.
such as Griggs and Gage are not idle
Griggs, the trust selection, muzzles the
law, and puts Right in check and irons.
Griggs bucklers the trusts in their out
y nd hn ~, ho ho4
becomes, not the department of justice,
but injustice. Gage negotiates, on his
spiral part, with Standard Oil, the vast
hog trust, by comparison with which all
other trusts are piglings. Gage sells
the Standard Oil bank the custom house
for half price. The bank keeps the
money. The nation keeps the title, so
that the tax gatherer may be cheated.
The nation pays the Standard Oil rent
for the custom house. The whole being
four-angled swindle, which, in one of
its phases at least, makes the crime of
embezzlement. Gage loans the Stand
ard Oil bank 40 millions a year, and
other banks 260 millions more, and all
without interest. The money is worth
six per cent. Who gets the Is millions
Do you suppose the Mckinley ring lets
it fall unnoticed to the ground? 1t
would be insult to Brother Abner' to
say so.
with the multiplication of trusts to
over eight billions of capital in
two years (water) a standing army of
100000 is asked for. The trusts, owning
us, are to control (by connivance of Nc
Kinley) our money and our commerce
in every form. Since they are to pay
less for labor while the laborer pays
more for goods and wares, trouble is
looked for. Therefore the 1000 stand
ing army is craved by the trusts. It
will be good thing. It will quadruple
contracts. And it will act excellently to
hold labor helpless, as in the recent
Occur d'Alene, while Standard Oil or
some other trust robs it of all it has
even it's very hopes. The above isn't
the record of the Mckinley administra-
ton. 1t is but handful of specimens,
Clipped from that great, dark mountain
of public crime, and left with the people
for assay. It will show 10000 ounces
of villainy to the ton. If the people are
a spiritless crew to flatter the hand that
robs them and cringe. before money
turned-pirate, then we'll have four years
more Of Mckinley. If even half spirit
of Americanism survives, public resent
ment will consume Mckinley and Bryan
will be put in his place. 1t is all in the
peoples hands. They are the govern
ment, make the government. II they
are fit for Bryan and freedom, they will
have both. II they are only fit for Nc
Kinleyism and money-slavery, they
will yield to both. Thus do / read the
future. Thus do I finish, as I began,
by urging that government is the ma
tural harvest of 2 public 'sowings=-Aden
will be governed like men, dogs will be
ruled like dogs, and might will be right.
to the last. "-The Verdict. 50