(Cheers and applause . > We denounce lite Me
Kinley tariff law enaeti'd by the fifty-first
congress as the culminating atrocity of class
legislation; we endorse the efforts made by
tile democrats of the present congress to mod
Ify its most oppressive features in the direc
tion of fret- raw materials and cheaper manu
factured goods (hat enter into general corn
sumption; and we promise its repeal as om
of the beneficent results that will follow th<
action of the people in entrusting power to
the democratic party. Since the McKinley
tariff went into operation there have been ten
reductions of wages of laboring men to om
Im tease. We deny that there has
belli any increase of prosperity
to the country since tliat tariff
went into operation and w<- point to the dull
m ss and distress, wage reductions and strikes
in the iron trade, as the best possible evideiiei
that no such prosperity has resulted from tin
M'Kinley act. We call the attention of
thoughtful Americans to the fact that after
thirty years of restrictive taxes against the
importations of foreign wealth, in exchange
for our agricultural surplus, the homes and
farms of the country have become burdened
wit a real estate mortgage debt of over two
thousand live hundred million dollars, in
clusive of all other forms of indebtedness:
that in one of the chief agricultural states of
ihe west there appears a real estate mortgagi
debt, averaging 81C5 per capita of the total
population, and that similar Conditions and
tendencies are shown to exist in other agri
cultural exporting slat -s. We denounce a
pol;. whh a fosters no industry so much as
it do'-s that of the sheriff.
