M'kinley Prosperity

The Illinois Steel company has just given a striking object lesson in McKinley prosperity by locking out 4,000 workingmen. The motive assigned is the desire to anticípate a strike. The compauy has been steadily reducing wages, and consequently expectcd the workiugnicn to quit. So it seized timo by the forelock and locked them out. The situation of these men is full of gloom. For several years they have worked on reduced wages. To save money for the future has been impossible. Now with their poor wives and helpless children they aro turned out to beg, steal or star v e. This is McKiuiey prosperity. This is "opening the milis instead of the mints. " This is restoring confldence. This is calming the exciting capitalists' fears so that they may not insist upon denying us the right to live. Skilled workruen are locked out of their shops. They are denied the chance to toil on half pay for a gigantic Corporation that aas rnade millions with the aid of a robber tariff. No wonder the people who see these things are testifying their rage iu the great Democratie gains that have come to rebuke the "advance agent óf prosperity. "-