The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1908-09-03

OF Manufacturers, the American
Hardware Manuiscturers' Associa.
ton, and the numerous other slmi.
lar associations to which you say
you belong? Did you NOT assure US
tina. Mckinley would insure a full
dinner pail to all who desired to
work? Was not this assurance re
newed when your several bodies in
dorsed Roosevelt aud Fairbanks?
Then what has emptied the dinner
pail Of millions OF men who are will
ing to work? What greater reliance
can be placed on this assurance than
on the Others? II you were false
prophets before, how do We know
you will not be agaip2
"But why the closed factories?
Why the idle mills? Why the unused
freight cars? Why the maintenance
OF high prices 10 the face oil falling
demand? Where is the Astounding,
marvellous, wonderful, unparallel-
cd, widespread prosperity? Hsven's
we got Republican Senate and
House of Representative? Haven't
we had them uninterrnptedly Tor
twelve yeare? Haven's the RApubli'
cans made the laws, State as we'll as
National, and haven't they been
charged with their enforcement!
Then what is the matter? IL the laws
are detective, why haven't they beer
altered? II detective now, we're they
not equally detective eight and foul
years ago, when you assured us, al
is well, and leave we'll enough alone
/ why the depression. we ask
Haven't we had seven years oil Roose
welt, who, according to Republican
orators and assistant Republican
as we'll as Republican newspapers, !
the greatest, wisest and best Presl
, dent the country ever bao? Haven
, we had twelve years OF 'standpat'sm
: with Hanna, Aldrich and Csnno
sitting On the brakes TO prevent I'll
enactment Of legislation not desire
: by the gentlemen who are so col
9 spicuous In their support Of Tafs an
: Sherman--Morgan, Rockefelle
= Carnegie, Hartman, Schiff? Do the'
}. men ever make a mistake when the
s select candidates? Which is mo-
s. likely to be misled, these men VT
K saw that Taft Is all right, that he
/, a conservative, or the Western farr
u or who is told that Taft Is radica
le "Where is the Astounding prospf
u it,? Wealth has certainly increas
8 enormously, or, at least, prices ha
ID been boosted to a point that Dug
II to have satisfied the most avariciot
The fortunes Of the few have becor
he QiQantic-bounded out OF sigf
In Morgan, we are told, has three hu
g dred or 60 millions, Carnegie as nut
while Rockefeller IL credited with
be billiop; a few thousand Others be
Ing from one to hundred millio
each. These seem to have had th
NJ full time and keep going cards
operation, while they are genera
Mt credited with having 10 Octob
ry November Last gathered in nea
everything In q large way in
shape OF banks, trust companies,
n. dustrIal and railroad combinatio
which had so far escaped them.
o fact, the bulk OF the people have b.
set lively pace to pay the incre
Of ing prices for the necesssries OF
.ds these and q few others control.
on "But what has happened to
masses, whom you and other boo
of ers OF Mckinley and Roosevelt ass
nd ed we're TO share In the prospect
ion With a total estimated wealth
we some one hundred and ten bill
me the per capita tables work out
right, there should be enough &c
Ter round, for that's equal to ab
our 81, 900 per family. But who has
Ime How many Of the millions OF toi
} in1 have tenth OF that sum Tree
any clear7 How comes it that the
her Of the people are shy their pro
don tion Of this enormous wealth? b