Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-12-04
JlNco JiM.s SCHEME.

JiNGo JiM.S SCHEME.
Dust Thrown in tho Eyes OF HIS Adorers
by the Man from Maine.
The quarrels of Republicans over the
responsibility for defeat promise to be
not less valuable as public educators
than the preparation. advocacy and de-
tense of the infamous Mckinley bill
were.
One wing Of the party is opposed to
the Mckinley bill because it is an open
and defiant expression of the assumed
right of monopoly to tax the people in
its own interest. This wing may be
termed the crafty section of Republican
ism. 1t knows that protective tariff
is taxation for robbery. but it is intelli-
gent enough to perceive that. it can not
prevail by honest methods 1t favors
indirection. pretended reforms, cheats,
shams. ''sateguards for protection" reci-
procity-any thing, every thing, except
direct and honorable course looking to
the decrease of the popular burdens
The other wing is made up of fanatics
and the dupes of the monopolists, men
who truly believe that tax is bless
ing. that taxes create wealth, that taxes
is calamity. These miserable idola-
tiers have believed all that the
agents of the trusts have ever
told them and they can not compro-
mise on any middle course calculated to
deceive the people and to retain the
substance of protection. Mckinley is
their patron saint, as Blaine, the arch
apostle of monopoly, is the hope of the
other element.
Until now the protective tariff de-
uslon has been upheld for the most part
by crafty men like Blaine, who knew
its nature and who have maintained it
by playing upon the ignorance and
prejudice of men. Reformat ton of the
tariff by its friends has always meant
| its retention and increase, although
there have been few concessions that
served to allay popular discomfort while
the robbery went on. 1t is now pro-
posed by Mr.. Blaine and others to re-
| lieve the pressure somewhat by sham
| reciprocity with few South American
states merely in the hope of safeguard
| ing protection, but no one proposes that
| any oppressive tax shall be removed or
that the unnatural privileges granted
| to any monopoly shall be curtailed.
Between the two Republican wings,
the schemers and their dupes, there
promises to be merry war from this
| time forth. with the certainty that il
| the people will note the utterances of
| each they will receive more and more
| light on the subject of class taxation.
It is not likely that the dupes will per
NIT the repeal of the Mckinley bill, fol
| they believe in it, and the chances ap-
pear to be that the next Presidential
campaign will be fought out on sub
| stantially the same line as that which
was drawn in the recent contest
The demagogues like Blaine res
their hope upon the chance OF
deceiving the people with pre-
tended concessions to the re
form spirit. The dupes like Mckinley
base their future upon the belief thai
the Mckinley bill will presently satisfy
the people and become popular. As to
both of these contentious there is need
of continued investigation of and adj
herence to fundamental economic
truths. The Mckinley infamy. if per
mitted to stand, will be more easily
borne year hence than it is to-day
but as invention, sagacity, hard worl
and new processes serve to beat down
its expressions the demand from monop
oily for another and higher tariff viii
increase. Reciprocity. instead of being
a cure for the Affections of the country
is merely subterfuge and delusion
The people can have no real relief un
til the monopoly taxes are repealed, ant
when they are repealed there will b,
no occasion for elaborate reciprocal
schemes to be controlled by few cor
rupt officials at Washington.
The Blaines themselves have preached
the widest protectionist. doctrines tina
the world ever heard. Their unhapp,
dupes have carried out these ideas hon
estly. only to be beaten by the people
and to find that their great mentor
with as many lives as cat. now com
forts them with a paltry scheme that il
guaranteed to work in nobody's hand.
but his own. To hail this shallow pre-
tender as deliVerer may become fash
ionable, but he will hardly satisfy tn,
fanatics whom he has raised up, or tn,
intelligent men whom his tricks, treach
cries and evasions have driven off-Chi
cago Herald.