Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1890-10-17
REPUBLICAN TESTIMONY
That the Mckinley Tariff Is Ruin.
Gus to the Best Interests Of the
Country"
READ AND REFLECT.

READ AND REFLECT.
All voters in the west, whether they
labor on the farm, or in the store, fac
tory or mine, should read the follow
ing opinions of prominent republican
leaders and influential journals upon
Mckinley bill:
Secretary Blaine says:
There is not section or line in the entire
CMcKinley) bill that will open a market for
another bushel of wheat or barrel of pork.
Joseph Medill, editor of The Chicago
Tribune, (rep.) says:
1 understate the truth when 1 say that far
mers of the west and planters of the soath are
charged $500, 100000 year on their goods for
the profit OF protected eastern manufacturers.
more than is necessary on the principle of live
and let live
The st. Paul Pioneer-Pr the lead
ing republican organ of the north
west. excepting The Chicago Tribune,
says in its issue of Oct. Sth:
Inc c8lsIluB congressman campaign laa
features of peculiar interest which distinguish II
from any which has occurred in this country for
nearly fifty years By far the highest tariff ever
enacted has become law in the midst of an act
i've canvass for reelection of those who voted fol-
it or who represent the party responsible for it
Moreover it is the first time since 1872 that the
| people have been called upon to pass judgment
upon the tariff question in the concrete and pal
| pable form of large increase of duties levied
for protective purposes solely, and accompanied
| with a corresponding rise in the prices o.
| hundreds of articles of common consumption
For this is case where for lack Of time, for the
| the development of home competitition, the
duty is at once and in many instances added tc
| the price. THE EFFECTS OF THE TARIFF WILL
THUS BE PALPABLY FELT IN EVERY HOUSEHOLD IN
| The UNITED STATES IN THE FORM OF THE IN
CREASED COST OF THESE ARTICLES, while the cam
paign is progressing, No holder experiment
with the opinions of the country was ever made
than this enactment of the highest tariff eyer
known, followed by an immediate appeal to the
| judgment of the people, not merely upon the
abstract questions of political economy usually
involved in former tariff discussions, but upon
the hard facts brought home to the immediate
experience of every citizen BY A SHARP RISE II
THE PRICE OF MANY THINGS HE CONSUMES, as the
| result Of the legislative application a new anC
extreme form of the protective policy.
"What do the people think of it? What will
they say of it in November" Do they wan
this kind of protecton?"
The Milwaukee Sentinel, the leading
republican newspaper of Wisconsin,
under date of Oct. 9th, contained the
following special dispatch from Wash
ington, ID. c.:
Mr.. Blaine's going to Wisconsin depends not a
little on his relations with Napoleon Mckinley.
During the past few days several letters and
messages have passed back and forth between the
two, and from what can be learned it does not
appear that Mckinley wants Mr.. Blaine to help
him. and Blaine does not seem extremely anx-
iOus to make speeches in the Ohioan's district.
The real difference between them dates it is
said, from the arguments in the ways and means
committee room over reciprocity. Mr.. McKin-
ley still claims that the reciprocity. Mckinley
still claims that the reciprocity features of the
Tariff bill are all fudge; that Blaine originally
urged reciprocity simply TO get free hides for
New England and that the South American
countries do not produce anything that we want
in exchange for the machinery which they
want to buy of us. The fact that Mr.. McKin-
ley in this view of the matter is also credited
with some share OF responsibility for Mr..
Blanes INDIGESTION about speaking in Wisconsin.
The Rockford Register, Rep.) says:
The tariff bill in its final form includes the limo
walton of bounty to be paid sugar growers
from the government treasury. Why cane
should be preferred above corn is not explained.
The farmers of the northwest have a right to
protest against this feature of the bill. Agricul
turists in the northwestern states are not pros
pering to such degree as warrants Congress
in putting a tax on them to be paid out as
gratuity to the sugar planters of Louisiana.
The taxing power should be limited to public
purposes, and the first attempt to divert money
raised by taxation into the poet It's of those
engaged in a particular favored industry should
meet with a vehement popular protest