FULL DINNER PAIL CANT
COAL STRIKE PROVES "M'KINLEY
PROSPERITY" A SHAMELESS LIE.
The Protest of Hunger Against Greed
Has Startled the llepubllcuii Lenders
l.lves Passed in Pathetic Poverty,
Despair and Degradation.
The strike of 120,000 men in the coal
fields of Pennsylvania hns put an end
to the cant and mendacity of Republi
can leaders about the "full dinner
pail." The protest of hunger against
greed has startled them. They
thought they hnd reduced American
labor and manhood to the condition
where it might whine, but dared not
strike. The people remember the ef
fects of the Homestead troubles in
1892, and they cannot escape the con
viction that results as distasteful may
follow the present movement.
Mark Hanna saw the ominous'cloud
approaching, and being tlie chief rain
maker for the Republican party, he
thought he would hurst it with an
oratorical bomb. Ho tried it at Delphi,
Indiana, the other day. He was too
late.
Any one who says that the condi
tion of the American laborer to-day is
a prosperous one, is an arrant hypo
crite or an ass. Hanna is in the for
mer category. It was under the plea
of public welfare and the rights of
labor that he crushed with brutal hand
and purpose the Seaman's Union along
tlie Great Lakes, and reduced the In
land sailor to a sullen serf. He and
the rest of the trust magnates have
been believing that by starving the
body they could numb the brain. This
Pennsylvania strike against the pol
icy which would reduce the producer
to practical and perpetual pauperism
has shattered their belief that tlie
hungry toiler can be a satisfied slave.
They see, also, for they are reasoning
rascals, that this revolt in Pennsyl
vania is but the expression of what
the people are thinking and feeling
throughout all the country. It is the
knell of Republicanism as interpreted
by Hanna. It proves that "McKlnley
prosperity" is a shameless lie.
All hypocrites are irreverent and
blasphemous. In a speech at Delphi,
Indiana, a few days ago, Ilanna, with
an unction worthy of Uriah Heep,
said:
"If Mr. Bryan—God forbid—should
be elected—l say God forbid in the In
terest of every man who works with
Ills hands, hi the interests of every
little child who goes to school and
comes hack to meet a happy home and
a happy fireside, in the Interest of the
future greatness of our country, God
forbid!"
Could anything to a manly citizen
be more nauseating? There was a
time when every little child in Amer
ica could go to school and return to
a happy home and fireside, hut this
was before tlie days of trusts and coal
barons, who have already reduced
millions in our industrial life to the
European condition of pauperism. 11l
the coal mines of Pennsylvania, chil
dren of tender years, who ought to lie
in school, are delving in deep, black
shafts, where no ray of God's sun
shine ever enters, and wearing out
their hopeless young lives at a maxi
mum wage of seventy-two cents a
day. And blasphemous Mark Ilanna
petitions that God should forbid any
change in these conditions. In tlie
same unhealthy shafts, 100,000 or more
full grown men, their blood thinned
for want of fresh air and sufficient
food, are hopelessly toiling for an aver
age wage of less than $1 a week. In
the eahlus, which they call homes, the
wives and little sisters of these under
ground hungry toilers are passing their
lives In pathetic poverty, despair and
degradation. And it "is in the inter
est of the future greatness of our
country," and for fear that these con
ditions might he changed, that Mark
Hanna asks G.od to forbid the election
of Bryan. Was ever prayer offered
by any shadband of tlie centuries more
heartless, impertinent and blasphe
mous?
Here are a few items, illustrative of
Republican "dinner pail" prosperity,
showing how the coal and other trusts
have increased the living expenses ol'
miners, taking due care, at the same
time, that there should be no increase
In wages:
Flour, per hag, $2.1.1 to $2.71; in
crease of about 27 per cent.
Sugar, per pound, 1 to 7 cents; in
crease of about 40 per cent.
Oil, per gallon, 12 to 15 cents: in
crease of about 25 per cent.
Tobacco, per pound, 2S to 31 cents;
increase of about 30 per cent.
Soiqi meat, per pound, 9 to 14 cenls;
Increase of about 50 per cent.
Veal, per pound, 12 to 10 cents; in
crease of about 33 per cent.
Beefsteak, per pound, 32 to 15 cents;
Increase of about 33 per cent.
Ham, per pound, 11 to 15 cents; in
crease of about 35 per cent.
Crackers, per pound, 5 to 10 cents;
, increase of about 100 per cent.
Condensed milk, three cans for 21
cents; two cans for 25 cents; increase
of about 50 per cent.
Shoes advanced, increase of about
30 per cent.
Rubber boots, per pair, from $2.21
to $3.25; increase of about 44 per cent.
Stove eoal, per ton, $1.50 to $2.50; In
crease of about 02 per cent.
Chestnut coal, per ton, $1 to $1.50;
Increase of about 50 per cent.
Ginghams, per yard, 5 to 8 cents; In
crease of about tiO per cent.
Average increase of about 50 per
cent on tlie sixteen articles In the
above list.
One of the astounding things of our
social life is that in a free country
conditions such as exist among miners
and other toiling classes, too, for that
matter, should he tolerated by the
American people for a single day. Civ
ilization such as this is a trampling
bully, not a benign uplifter. Why
talk of Asiatic degradation, when
purse-proud looters boast tlint (be sub
mergence and pauperization of the
masses for tbe benefit of the classes
is prosperity, and when the mouth
piece and conscience of the Republican
party lifts its brazen, brutal front to
heaven and asks God to forbid any
change?
A million of white men died to free
four million of slaves. A few hun
dreds of plutocrats are holding to-day
4,000,000 of white men ill a slavery
worse than that of the negro chat
tel; for the latter was always sure
of enough to eat, of medical attend
ance when sick, of clothing enough to
hide his nakedness, and of fuel
enough to keep him warm. The negro
had no vote; the industrial slave of
trusts and commercialism has, but if
he exercises it honestly, the threat of
starvation accompanies his ballot. The
reign of terror in France was an open
and noisy one; that of our plutocratic
spoilers and industrial barons is a se
cret and silent one. The ballot box
can always create a revolution in this
land. Will the people use It to relense
from their throats the slimy tentacles
of the trust devil fish?
It takes a shock of some kind to
awake the average man to helpful ac
tion. Most people, in their mental lazi
ness, are disposed to think that "what
ever is, is right." The pitiful condi
tions of industrial slavery exposed in
the mines of Pennsylvania may arouse
them. "A nation cannot exist half
free and half slave," said Lincoln.
Nine-tenths of the American people
will not always submit to be exploited
by one-tenth. These barons of greed
ought to realize that fact before the
day of reckoning dawns. New
thoughts and impulses are abroad and
change will come despite of Hanna's
hosannahs and prayers. There are to
day fewer white men of intelligence
fawning at the feet of wealth and
power than there was yesterday, and
there will lie still fewer to-morrow.
The common people, that is, the best
of American manhood, are beginning
to see that the invasion of the rights of
one is the Invasion and ultimate de
struction of the rights of all. The fac
tory hand cringed and the drummer
shouted and spouted throughout the
laud in 181)0; they are not doing so
to-day. The prosperity they were
promised has come only to magnates.
The money safes of the rich are fuller
than ever greedy anticipation hoped,
while the poeketbooks ami cupboards
of the masses are emptier than ever.
The dinner pail is becoming rare, for
the idle do not need one and the com
paratively few at work have little to
put in it.
As a pertinent addition to the fore
going and timely comment on the
strugle now beginning in the Pennsyl
vania coal regions the following, from
Father Ditccy, the gentle and sympa
thetic, but morally courageous, priest,
of New York, may be quoted;
"It is tlie greatest crime of modern
society which compels children of
eight years of age to work for thirty
cents a day in those dark mines. All
this in order that their taskmasters
may live lives of luxury and refined
"Any man who raises his voice
against these wrongs will be pro
claimed a demagogue. Jesus Christ
in His day was called a demagogue
and an impostor because He was the
friend of sinners and consorted with
tlie common people.
"But the anarchists arc not tlie men
who protest. The real anarchist in
this case are the mine owners, who
constitute the greatest danger to mod
ern society."
Campaign Lies.
What is tlie purpose of the campaign
lie? Is it to amuse the people? It
certainly does not influence voters. As
a general thing it is so easily detected
that no one regards it seriously.
Doubtless campaign committees se
cure the services of those who have
a talent for manufacturing lies re
specting the opposing candidates or
tlie opposing party, and pay tlieui in
accordance witli the success witii
which they discharge the duties re
quired of them. Now and then a cam
paign lie is set afloat that is really
injurious to the opposite party, and
then there is a great effort to coun
teract its effect. I'sually, however,
no attention is paid to campaign lies,
and they are forgotten almost as soon
as they appear In print.
One was published the other day
that attracted some attention for the
reason that tlie Republican campaign
managers doubtless made a special
effort to have it circulated.
The purport of It was that ox-Gov
ernor Stone, of Missouri, had made
a bargain with Mr. Crolter, in which
tlie latter agreed to raise a campaign
fund of $2,000,000, to lie used in car
rying the State of New York for Mr.
Bryan, on condition that Mr. Croker
was to have absolute control of Fed
eral patronage of New York and ex-
Senator Edward Murphy, Jr., was to
be made Secretary of the Navy in tlie
event of the success of the Democrat
ic ticket.
It is not necessary to say that Mr.
Stone and Mr. Croker made no such
bargain. It is doubtful if Mr. Bryan
has discussed the question of patron
age, or Cabinet positions, with any
body. Not long ago he said that if
lie were elected President it would
lie without pledges or promises of any
kind other than those contained in
the Democratic national platform. He
is not tlie sort of man to make prom
ises of plnees and patronage to get
campaign funds or votes.
Kither Tliey or Hniiiiu Lied.
In his speech before tlie McKlnley
Commercial Club, In Chicago, Mr.
Ultima said there are no trusts. What
will the poor fellows do who have been
accusing the Democrats of being mem
bers of trusts? Will they admit they
lied or will they charge Hanua with
having lied?—Dubuque Herald.
TRUSTS AND THE LAW.
HANNA HAS LET THE CAT OUT
OF THE BAC.
Ills Ridiculous Effort to Rxplnin an Un
fortunate Campaign Utterance No
Trusts "in the Meaning of the Law"—
Why Griggs Cannot Find Any.
Mark Hanna has demonstrated an
ability equal to that of Roosevelt in
putting his foot further Into a mess
when attempting to explain an un
fortunate campaign utterance. When
the rough-riding orator tried to ex
plain the meaning of his declaration
that "all Democrats are cowards" he
made a bad matter worse, and now
comes Ilanna with an amendment to
ids Chicago pronunciamento that
"there are no trusts in this country,"
which puts his party in a hole from
which it will not be likely to extract
itself even by the most desperate
clawing.
Hanna "explains" the naive declar
ation that what he said was not "there
are no trusts," but that "there are
no trusts in the meanfhg of the law."
The difference between these two as
sertions is evidently very great to
the astute mind of Mr. Hanna, hut
to the average citizen they mean
about the same thing, except that
the amended statement is much
stronger and more significant than the
one which it seeks to excuse. The
plain English of it is that Hanna has
let the eat out of the bag. True is it,
indeed, that there "are no trusts in
the meaning of the law"—that is of
the law as defined and executed liy
the Republican party.
If any one disputes Hanna he can
call to his support as witness Attor
ney-General Griggs. This function
ary will swear till he is blue iu the
face that there is no such thing as
a trust under his Interpretation of
the law. Despite the fact that his
homo State of New Jersey is the
wholesale incubator of trusts this man
Griggs cannot see one. He knows
that there is an anti-trust law ou the
statute books, n law which the Su
preme Court declares is fully compe
tent to provide a remedy for trust
evils. Griggs knows the law, but he
is trust blind. "Iu the meaning of
the law" to him there are no trusts.
And this is Just where the trouble
is. As long as Griggs is Attorney-
General—and he or some man equally
blind will be Attorney-General as long
as MeKinleyism is maintained at
Washington—there will be no trusts
"in the meaning of the law."
Ilanua's tongue Is befuddling his
brain. He says there are no trusts,
and in the next breath makes the re
markable statement that "what anti
trust laws have been enacted hnve
been enacted by the Republicans."
Why, if there are no trusts? If Han
na is not choked into silence he will
lie tile best Bryan orator oil the
stump, for he Is so steeped in his own
conceit and so porelneiy belligerent
that he tells the truth without know
ing It.
Tlio "Full-Dinner-Fail Argument,"
The American workiugman who be
lieves that the injunction is used to
oppress labor is expected to dismiss
all Ills fears in consideration or three
meals a day. The man who regards
the Constitution 11s a sacred instru
ment, not to be tinkered with by self
ish politicians, is urged to surrender
all Ids convictions for the gross de
lights of a full dinner-pail. The "sen
timentalist" who dreams of equal
rights, tlie brotherhood of man and
free institutions, is to confess that he
is an impostor if thereby he can be
sure that his pantry will bo well
stocked. Heretofore orators have ap
pealed to the reason of their hear
ers, to their convictions of what was
right, but Senator Ilanna bases his
appeal upon the lowest conceivable
considerations. The American voter,
from his point of view, lives only to
eat, not to think.—Baltimore Sun.
One Point of Difference.
One point of difference between the
letters of acceptance of President Mc-
Kinley and Mr. Bryan is worthy of
notice. Mi*. Bryan says:
"If elected I shall appoint an At
torney-General who will, without fear
or favor, enforce existing laws."
He Is discussing the trust question.
Mr. McKinley very wisely says noth
ing about his Attorney-General—the
very clever gentleman who comes
from the trust-breeding State of New
Jersey, and who is eminent princi
pally for his friendliness toward the
great corporations and trusts.
It is a point of difference which it
will be worth while for the people to
remember.
Bryan Counter* on Ilanna.
I lie Charleston Post (Dem.) says;
Colonel Bryan made a good point in
answering Senator Manila's diatribe
against him. He declared that lie
would very gladly meet the Republi
can candidate for President, and if
the National Committee would certify
that Hanna was to be President in
event of Republican success at the
election, Bryan would be happy to
debate with the Ohio Senator. Now it
is up to McKinley to take up the cud
gels in debate or for Hanna to declare
that lie keeps the conscience of the
administration and so is qualified to
meet Bryan."
ltoosevelt Should lt Muzzled.
What do our colored friends think
of Governor Roosevelt's latest charge
of cowardice against the colored troops
that fought at San Juan Hill? Colo
nel Roosevelt will not bring many col
ored votes to the Republican ticket by
such speeches as that, the more espe
cially when ho has no foundation
whatever for his assertion of coward
ice. Before he gets through with his
campaign ho will have lots of explain
ing to do. No wonder Mark Ilanna
wants the rough rider muzzled.
THE Fv.LvI.SG CF THE BOERS.
Mournful Ending of a Brave People That
Strugglo Hard for Existence.
For more than 60 years the existence
of the Boers has been the epic of con
tinuous and immense adventure, in
which nothing has been so amazing as
the last struggle and the final defeat.
There is no such example of a hard
and stubborn people, dimly led by des
tiny, in their flight from civilization, to
revolve in a circle which brought them
back at last face to face with the most
overwhelming environment of all the
ideas and forces of civilization, in the
shape of the British empire.
When the Dutch farmers resolved up
on their exodus from Cape Colony and
plunged with their long teams of lum
bering oxen and creaking wagons into
the wilderness of the north, wandering
over veldt and mountain, through bush
and river, seeking from decade to decade
for some further home and abiding rest
from their pilgrimage, and fighting their
steady path as a handful against hordes
through a thousand miles of savage con
tinent, the Boers commenced a story of
heroism not to be equaled out of Exo
dus. It will never be adequately de
scribed, if not by the pen of some sec
ond De Quincey in pages of such su
preme eloquence and power as those
which immortalized the flight of the
Tartars. The very names of the Trans
vaal towns record the travail of sorrow
and death in which they were founded
—"Weenen," the place of weeping;
"Rustenburg," the place of rest; "Ly
denburg," the place of suffering.—Lon
don Telegraph.
OPPORTUNITIES IN SAMOA.
Uncle Sam's Possession in the Group Par
ticularly Rich in Resources.
Somewhere in that mysterious part of
the South Pacific ocean, where one day
merges into another to keep chronomet
ers straight and to keep mankind from
trouble in marking the flight o.f years,
lie the Samoan islands, three in num
ber, of,which the smallest, Tutuilla, is
the property of the United States. The
recent division of the islands, which are
connected with the United States and
with Australia and New Zealand by reg
ular mail steamers, has assured their
future. Tutuilla, which is as large as
the State of Rhode Island, contains
many acres of the richest soil, and would
make a fruitful dwelling place for 100,-
000 ambitious men. It could be con
verted into vast plantations of coffee,
vanilla, tobacco, cocoanuts and dozens
of other native products, while a thriv
ing town could be made to flourish be
neath the flower-clad trees on the beach.
Apia, in Samoa, is one of the most
prosperous towns in the south seas, and
its future is assured. It was in the hills
north of this place that Rubcrt Louis
Stevenson, after roaming the earth for
a paradise, found one. It was there he
died. —Success.
Great Britain Taxes Brains.
Few people have any idea what a
flourishing institution is that miracle of
dingincss—the British patent office —
and what a valuable source of revenue
it constitutes to the government. Con
ducted with the strictest regard to econ
omy, with almost a total neglect of ev
ery consideration other than that asso
ciated with the collection of fees, it fur
nishes a royal profit of £IOO,OOO yearly,
extracted from its mostly impecunious
clientele (the natural element of the in
ventor is adversity), or at the rate as
nearly as possible of 100 per cent, on its
turnover. —London Express.
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