Weges were reduced because the manufacture
of iron was not as profiable as tit had been,
many furnaces shutting down to prevent act
ual loss, and tills under the protective guar
antee afforded by the McKiuhT bill- A reign
of terror follows. Hundreds of workmen tire
thrown out of employment. The business ot
bt’Wi' l v'lst cone* ins, employing thousands oi
hands' is demoralized. I’euusylvania spends
if .oral hundred thousand dollars to insure
peace and “this t. sillies to our industrial and
luiumercial prosperity under the protective
System.”
How blessed we are under this system which
so wiselv levies a tax of JI- per cent against
the neople and in favor of the wool hat trust,
eches and bladders catgut and
turtles and other whatnots of domestic ne
... -nv the free right of way through our cus
tom houses? Why should not every honest
t.-ler at the bench or in the shop, the fumaco
m-'la. tory vote the republican protective tick
et when‘the cotton ' illiu K s ? e J-o'
van.-ed 285 per eent by the McivinKy bill,
which at the same time generously puts
lc«‘l*us on the free list/
What man. capitalist
t ' .ou- h a. window glass taxed 13- pi
,-ro.luct of the McKinley bill, or who wears
w.'olen socks taxed 120 per cent by the same
. roeess, would not vote the repubnean ticket
} > lon-' as there is no tax on dragon s blood
t.nd “Divi-Divi,” whatever the last article
is" next to (impossible to educate twelve
m-llien voters to Hie true merits involved m
the issues of a campaign, but they cannot a.-
i vs !><• deceived, even by those as shrewd in
tn"' art as the republicans have been, and they
xrill have something to say in November t«
I lie wav of a substantial verdict against . lr.
