Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1908-06-30


ters Of the United States are invited to
sit down and partake by the official
dispensers of canned goods and cold
storage who got up the menu at Chi
cago apparently without fear of the
pure food law, or the uplifted hand OF
the Ananias club.
They promise us tariff reform. They
actually promise us tariff reform! Tar
iff reform! Good Lord
THE devil was sick, the devil a monk
would be;
The devil got we'll"
and he said: "Ain't l the slickest?
Tariff reform. the fat fried out of the
manufacturers as thick as butter from
New York to San Francisco, greasing
every door post and smearing each
cross-road between! Tariff reform!
The robber barons putting up the
money and bossing the job! Why, that
was just like currency reform, with
old he-goat, High Finance Aldrich'
Papa-in-law Rockefeller behind, su-
perintending both the senate and the
house! Where, oh, where are Ali Baba
and the forty thieves? Where are Sa-
tan and his Christian Endeavor soci-
ETY.: Falstaff and his Woman's Chris
tan Temperance union; Friar Tuck
and his Sunday school class; Robin
Hood and his bill of rights; in short,
where are Cousin Serene Payne and
his ways and means committee and
Uncle Joe Cannon and his rules COM
mittee? As well set Richard III. to
draft a new decalogue, or Munchau-
sen to indite an apOStrOphe To truth,
as expect these to amend the Dingley
schedules.
Neither shall we have any more
government by injunction, the Taft
judicial opinions to the contrary not
withstanding. Our infant industries
at length rich and prosperous, most
of them. having attained their allotted
three-score- -and-ten, no longer need
protection; but they dearly love the
American laborlng man, and just as
the tariff shall be revised purely in
his interest, that is to insure him
steady work and high wages"-which,
on the faith-cure principle, though
the empty pail stares him and his
starving children in the face, he is
bound to know is only figment of his
fancy-shalI the rules of court proce-
dure be revised to conform to the de-
mand of the Democrats IL years old
now, so that no matter what he says,
or does. he shall never again go to
Jail. Think of the debt the working
man owes not to Mr.. Bryan, who be-
gan it and has fought for it straight
since 1895, but to Mr.. Roosevelt, who
took the word out of Mr.. Bryan's
mouth and has brought the Republi
can party to a deathbed repentance.
All hail the dignity of labor!
The rich shall be made richer still
for the business of the country must
not be disturbed-prosperity is the
keynote of OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
ty and a mess of pottage-the old flag
and an appropriation-but the poor
man shall share the riches of the rich
man-for, is it not written in the
book of Morgan that the steel trust is
the hope of man, and has not Rookie
feller himself proclaimed that he is
but an accountant for his cOuntrymen,
lying awake and walking'the floor and
cutting coupons whilst they sleep? Is
not Carnegie a good Republican? Is
not Hartman a good Republican
Who made the steel trust; the tobacco
trust; the whisky trust; the sugar
trust; the Standard oil trust-the
foundation stones of American liberty
and sperity-eXcept the Republ-
can party; Aldrich leading the senate,
Cannon leading the house, the people
compelled to pay for the dance, mil
lions to the rich, only toll and taxes to
all others.
We have an impression that the ar
gument will be found somewhat
thread bare. Hearing it for the thOus-
andth time, the working man will
think at least two or three times be-
fore he answers-will think of his AZ
years i'm the wilderness with the wild
beasts of utOcracy-tempted Of the
devil and high tariff and high finan-
to offer him words Of cheer, which toe
often he most mistakenly rejected
and, thinking on these things, he will
say to Mr.. Taft's general manager and
telling him of all the Republican par
ty has done and is going to do fol
| him-"Mr. Hitchcock, let me recall
you a passage of scripture out of the
gospel according to Saint Luke" anC
then. turning to the 4th chapter oi
that apostle. he will read as follows
-. And the devil, taking him VI
into an high mountain, shew'd him al
the Kingdoms of the world i'm a mo.
ment of time.
"6. And the devil said unto him
all this power will give thee. and the
glory of them.
-. If thou therefore wilt worship
me. all shall be thine.
"S. And Jesus answered and sait
unto him, get thee behind me, Sa
tam"
so say unto you Mr.. Hitchcock
thus will the American working
man conclude. because you hav,
fooled me these many moons, and
now know not only that you can dc
nothing you say you will do, but yOl
don't even mean To do it, The Repub
lican party can fool me no longer. MI
| Hitchcock | shall vote for Bryan"
We mourn for Taft. He is too gOoC
a man to be sacrificed i'm the Shamble
of spoilS by Spoilsmen. Alone upol
his character. his services and hi
merit, he might have claimed the frs
place i'm the nations gift and had hi
| claim allowed: as heir-at-law. never
as the beneficiary of machine meth
"ds. never.
Theodore Roosevelt is pOpula
man. Even the Democrats low
him for his good intentions and fo
the enemies he has made. They vii
follow him into his retirement wit