Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1890-05-04

REVOLT.
a 4cpablican Paper D~enounces the
M.Ainiey Tarin Bill.

II tbs Mckinley bill should become
law. there is not a poor d.vil OF 4
citizen from one end of the country
to the other who will not be put into
the pan and placed over the Goals, IN
oaisr that he may contribute bis item
o: fat to the great quantity which is
10 be returned to those who supplied
the clmplign grease of 1883. The
most disiaterestcd and fair-mindci
man. Republican or Democrat, may
30 up aud down the NcHinley list
aud :ind thereon not a single thing
added to or taken from tho present
tariff schedule which has not baen
giisd 70 or taken from it for the
benefit and behoof of representatives
oispeciai interest. Tie entire scheme
ras;s upon no other or better prin-
c!pie than that OF returning their fat
II manufacturers or of helping the
pirty By the basest partisan methods.
Tne New York T,ibunc-which lays
claim TO be the ''leadinS Republican,
newspaper in America" and which
also claims TO be the most consistent
supporter OF its party, and by reason
OF its position rs IN organ, compelled
II MAKE the black appear the white
side, and which seldom tells the whole
trnth wacn to speak freely it would
do harm to its party-cxposes the
whole secret of the Mckinley bill
when it unguardedly confesses that
'.io- industrial and political reasons i,
would be better to keep hides on the
free list"
Whatever the Committee has done
in framing this bill it has done for
political reasons, and to rccoup the
manufacturers out OF WHOM the part,
fried the fat in 1855, and out OF whom
1. intends to fry n great deal more in
1892. To these ends it has Increased
duties which were already high
enough, or excessively high, ana added
others not needed on almost every
necessary OF lie. Even in the matter
OF sugar it was moved by political
reasons. It saved the manufacturers
all it could, and so iugGlod the sched-
ule as to leave them virtually an.
scathed in the matter Of manufactured
sugars. 1t cost the Committee moth
ing to reduce the duties on the raw
sugar, ~ that hurt only tho Demo
Gratis OF Louisiana. The Mckinley
bill as it now stands increases the tax
to the people enormously on cotton
and WOODEN cloths and clothing, on
blankets, carpets, furniture, and upon
every household utcnsil. Duties
have been added upon every kidd OF
cotton and wooden goods, upon ngri-
cultural products and upon fruit, es-
pecialiy oranges, lemons and lines.
a duty is placed on hides, on all
manufacturers Of flax, hemp and jutc,
anl, in fact, upon everything that tho
manufacturers have demanded.
Tho new Tariff bill is ole o. tho
worst and most offensive projects OF
class legislation ever proposed. 1t
shows u disregard Of public interests
which is amazing. 1t imposes enor-
nous indirect taxes upon the country,
nnl it lays IA weight upon the Repub-
lican party which may crush it to
certain defeat when it again appeals
to tho country. 1t is from first to
last n partisan measure, with a re-
turn fat in it for every specially pro-
tected interest that in 1888 was com
PEELED to contribute 10 tho Campaign
Committoe's fund. 1t it is hung
about the neck OF the Republican
party, it may destroy it, Clhila-
delphia Telegraph (Rep).