Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1903-11-20
A NEW MESSIAH.

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Mr.. Hanna must be factor in the
next campaign either as candidate.
chairman of the National Republican
or as consultation gener- |
al. - So accustomed bias the Republican
party become to running after your
Uncle Mark, and so accustomed has
your Uncle Mark become to running
the Republican party that so long as
both are above terra firma just so long
must hey not appear in public alone.
But Mr.. Hanna sees trouble ahead,
the Full Dinner Pail' has departed
this life. A pale family, with the head
of it full" if he can procure fifty cents
to buy the whiskey, is what corfronts
Mr.. Hanna just now, and makes him
shake his head and look perplexed.
81 did not do this says Mr.. Hanna.
This is Morgan's work. They went too
fast up there'' lut whether Mr..
Hanna did it or not, it has been done.
The Asphalt trust las been wrecked.
Lake Superior has fallen with crash.
The ship building trust is beneath the
waves of adversely, and the Steel
trust is under the care of the doctors.
Three great railroad systems have laid
off 1000 men. In Montana 10000
miners are idle. Suspension of banks
and trust companies have taken place
in Pittshurg, Allegheny, Baltimore,
and even in New Y ork, and these are
only the big things, the small ones are
not mentioned. but they have been
numerous. Railroad lines east of
Chicago and st. Louis are falling off
in traffic, fact railroad officials are
trying to cover up, the iron and steel
trade is admittedly in bad shape and
is positively threatened with period
of depression. This is but faint pic
ture of what has really taken place and
now actually exists.
What hope is there therefore for i'm.
proved conditions? With that hypOc-
racy which is the browning element in
the monied interests of the country.
the voice of Wall Street is heard as the
voice of one crying in the wilderness,
''behold, there cometh one the latchet
of whose shoes am not worthy to un
loose" Who is this one2 1t is the
dispised farmer. He is to be the savior
of the country.
We are informed that there never
were such crops and such prices. Corn,
cattle, hogs, hay, wheat, everything
has been abundant this year, and such
prices. Oh. such prices. I'VE, Mr..
Farmer" says Wall Street. ''are going
to pay you even more than your stuff
is worth, that prosperity may continue
long in the land.'' The farmer is
cajoled. he is praised, he is patted on
the back, he is sweetened, then he is
touched" Even the southern plant
er, the grower of cotton and tobacco.
is told just now that he amounts to
something. Cotton is higher than al
most ever before in times of peace.
Tobacco, too, is sailing in the clouds.
"Oh! how rich you are getting. You
must have some money in bank, says
Mr.. Wall Street to Mr.. Planter. You
and Mr.. Farmer of the west of course
now will vote the Republican ticket,
you will sustain the gold standard,
since all this prosperity to you was
brought about by the Republican par
| ty. Prosperity must continue, but it
had gotten in the wrong hands, now it
has gotten into the right hands, into
your hands, and the country is safe. y
What can't. What hypocritical tom
foolery. What lying and deception.
1t was the gold standard which was to
do the work, and Wall Street was to
guide the Nation short time ago.
Now she and her Captains of Industry
have been overwhelmingly defeated,
and the farmer is told that he is the
real thing. He is the Cincinnatus.
Will he swallow it Will he follow
Mr.. Hanna in any more of his cam
paigns of honesty, will he stool pigeon
for the Republicans again by voting
for Palmer and Buckner, will he take
the water cure from Mr.. Morgan? The
gold standard and the gold brick have
proven twin brothers, they always
looked alike, now we know their kin
ship. Can Mr.. Hanna make fool of
the farmers again by bringing along
the same old show with the names of
the performers changed? We hope
not, but we fear be will. The farmer
is so open to fiattery. When told he
is the Messiah, he believes it and will
go at once to the task of saving the
country. This is all the political heel
er wants. 1t is time the farmer came
to his senses.