Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 September 1897 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 5 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Strike of miners spreading.Prosperity with a big “P.” There will be no surplus to the credit of the Dingley idiocy. — Mark Hanna's speecnes are lit erary curiosities There is but one Hanna and the McKinley administration is hie profit. McK nley prosperity is making work—for the deputy sheriffs and the men who evict starving families. Senator Hanna has taken the stump, and admirers of English as it should be spoken are taking to the woods. heat, corn, oats—everything we consume has gone up, but the wages it takes to b y have not been ineieased. The revenue for August, under thoDingley bill, was the [smalles for any month during the past twenty-fiv.- years.

1 ■ <»> ' ■ Near the close ot the beneficent reign o Harrison the SecondHomestead. In the beginning of the reign of William the Pliant— Latimer. Twenty-one dead and over forty wounded is a big record in the maintenance of protection in all that It implies, and government by injunction, for one day. Dollar wheat! shouts the senior Republican organ. Dollar wheat! echoes the junior Republican organ. At the same time their market reports quote wheat at 85 to 90.

The result of the operation of the McKinley bill at ‘Homestead’, in 1892, is being reproduced by the operation of the Dingley bill in 18&7. See proceedings at Hhule* ton.

Speaking of the coincidence of dollar wheat and a republican administration it is somewhat (remarkable that the bloodiest labor struggle we ever bad before this Hazleton murder followed close on the heels of the McKinley tariff law.

Twent-one of the miners at Ha. zleton were killed, and twice, tha number wounded, in the effort o the government to insure “protection”, in all that it implies, to the coal combines, monopolies and trusts. President McKinley, the first executive of this great nation to s'and with uncovered head by the grave cf Old John Brown, convicts ted and executed for treason and murder, the other day pardoned Ooffin, convicted and serving sen* tence for wrecking a bank at Indianapolis. “Protection” does double duty, but onlv in one direction. First .. “protection” to increase prices of products in the intoiest of the owners thereof. Second-—“pro-by the military of the government against tne efforts of wage-earn-ers to enforce their promised claiu s to increased compensation for their labor.

A republican farmer the other day picked up the junior organ, glanced at its market reports and read: “Wheat 95 to 90. Haven’t any to sell; will have to buy my bread at the increased price. But that is not all. In addition I find that I must pay more for sugar, clothing, and other necessaries. I also find that my income has not increased a farthing.” Reading further along he came to “Hay S 5 per ton.” “Wish I could get it,” he said. “1 have a fine lot of first class hay; received last’year $7 to $8 for ♦he same kind—can not this year get $5.” We remarked that the Dinglev bill increased the tax to keep Canada hay out; competition was shut off. Certainly the promised Prosperity should ba coming his way. “Prosperity the d—l! The duty has n thing tdo with it. Supply and demand cong trols this matter,”