There is no question but that the acer-pity of the campaign increases, at least so far as the North Atlantic States of the East, are concerned. The New York Press, with the exception of W. R. Hearst's paper, The Journal, has gone over to McKinley on account of the gold plank in the St. Louis platform, and is exhausting the dictionary of vituperative terms to express its abhorrence of what they are pleased to call a new revolution, It is no wonder thatthe organs of the great money centres, New York, Boston, and Philadelphia, are anxious that the present happy condition of affairs should continue, but the more one studies the situation, the more evident it becomes that a change must take place, and if monopolies were wise they would make concessions in time, while thomasses are in the humour to admit a peaceable solution of very grave politico-social questions..'The greatest abuse that prevails in' this country comes from the transportation companies. The great transcontinental lines have been built with public money, in the shape of land grants and other concessions. The original stock has been "watered," that is, fictitiously increased to an abnormal value, and must be made to bear interest upon the new basis. The consequence is that the producers are mulcted not as much as they can bear, but regardless of their very means of existence. Add to this that the Durden of supporting the government rests almost entirely upon their shoulders; that wealth does not pay anything like adequate taxes, and has the means to evade the law, or to have it declared unconstitutional. A Democratic Congress passed an exceedingly moderate income tax bill. Capital was furious and it was carried to the Supreme Court which maintained its validity by a majority of tone, when one of the members "changed his mind" and the act was declared null and void! And monopoly is actually eventing men, in some instances at least, rom gaining an honest living. In former times the small farmer could fatten a few cattle for the market. Now the meat trade is in the hands of a small clique in Chicago and independent butchers have long ago been driven out. Virtually communism rules, but it is a communism in which the well-being of the masses is absorbed by. the few. It will be well for the United States, and well for popular government as embodied in this Republic, if vital abuses like those really prevalent, can be rectified in a calm wa} instance that McKinley should be elected. bat Suppose for, an From his speeches thus far it is evident that he totally misapprehends the situation and has stultified himself in the belief that his protection fad procured him his nomination, Great Caesar's ghost! Twice have the people at the polls condemned his panderingtotrustsand monopolies: the tariff question is a dead issue in this campaign, and yet he can't open his mouth without obtritding his one-sided bigotry. It is the old hackneyed '*Quos Dens wilt perdere" over again, and the. antediluvian, asses Interest, Know as much about the actual who are running this campaign in his contention as the figure-head whom they have made their standard bearer. What man of sound sense, for instance, would sign his name to such
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