Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-07-03
a REPUBLICAN, REVOLT,
The Mckinley Bill Denounced by the
Leading g. o. T.. Newspapers.

. plain le4lh dDOuG Lilt hChlulty OIL.
Their attitude is significant of a de-
cided revolt among Western Republic
ans against that shameless measure of
| spoliation.
The Evansville Journal, the ablest
and most courageous Republican news
paper in Indiana, says of the sugar
] clause in the bill:
! The abolition of duties with granting of
/ bountics is wrong in principle The
| country can not afford to commence system
/ OF bounties. If begun, there is no telling where
| they VIII end. If sugar and silk are to be thus
| favored why not.a dozen other staple products ?
Again:
The senate will have to be depended on to
/ save Congress from serious plumbers on this
revenue question. The Mckinley measure will
! have TO be materially modified in order to sat
/ lsfy the country. There is a large and growing
( element in the Republican party that is exceed
1ngly weary of this Infant industry wall and
the building up of millionaire monopOlists at
| the expense of the mass of the people. They
/ look to the Senate to correct the excuses of
the House bill. The Senate is the conservative
branch Of the Government. II will not only
have to restrain the fanatics N Of the House in
the line of revenue measures, but expenditures
as well. treasury deficiency must be avoided
at all hazards.
The Chicago Tribune, the most wide
ly-circulated Republican paper in the
/ West, says:
The bill shows that the ways and means com
/ Tnittee has almost wholly mistaken the popular
demand for tariff reform. Listening for days
and weeks to the representatives of special in
terestS who, on the committees invitation, hur
ried to Washington to support their tariff boun-
ties and get more if possible the committee
reached the remarkable conclusion that the
country at large wanted such changes would
advance prices on consumers and enable few
flA
The people of the West want, not increase
of the tariff but reduction of duties all along
the line.
The Tribune also tells Mr. Clarkson
that many artisans who used to vote
with the Republican party have left it
because they have been told by those
whom they trusted that protection does
not protect them, and that the wages
that they get are not their full or fair
share of the profits which the manu-
facturer is enabled to make by reason of
high duties. The working-men have
gotten it into their heads that they have
been swindled out of their share of the
results of high duties, and all the Re-
publican and high-tariff papers in the
world can not disabuse them of that
idea
cipal Republican paper of Minnesota
and the new Northwest. says:
There seem good grounds for a fear that the
Republican enemies of the Republican party
viii have every thing their own way at Wash.
ingtOn. The astounding announcement is made%
that not only Will the Senate finance committee
not bring forth a substitute for the Mckinley
bill, but that the Senate will probably make no
important amendments to the bill If this is
straight what will be the state of the feel
ings of the Republicans of the House who voted
for the bill under the party lash and with the
confidence that it would be shorn of its most
Objectionable features by the Senate? Will the
Republicans of the Senate be as recreant to
their trust as the Republicans of the House
have been? And do the Republicans of both
houses actually banker for another Democratic
administration? 1t would almost seem so.
We take the following from the Re-
publican Omaha Bee, the leading news
paper of Nebraska:
How will such statesmen Allison Aid
rich and Sherman who, as members of the
finance committee. viii have to formulate a
tariff measure for the consideration of the Sen
ate. treat the Mckinley bill in view of the fact
that it has encountered more general and Wig
orous opposition than almost any other tariff
bill in the history OF the country? There is not
much for the guidance of opinion to what
the Senate viii do, but there is enough to
rant the expectation that it will in many and
material respects amend the Mckinley bill and
may substitute for it an entirely new measure.
Senator Allison is record as favOring a re-
vision of the tariff that will reduce duties gen
orally, and unless he has experienced radical
change of mind within the last two months he
will vigorously oppose the proposal to advance
duties upon all the necessares, placing the
highest rate, rule upon the articles of
least cost, thus throwing the heavy end of the
tax burden on the poor. 1t is hardly conceiv
able that any of these Senators will give their
support to a measure that provides for duties
in some cases of 100 and 225 per cent. as the Nc
kinley bill does certain articles of wearing
apparel in general use Republican Senators,
particularly those representing constituencies
largely composed of farmers will hardly ap-
prove a policy distinctly retrogreSsive as
this. The country will await with extraor-
binary interest an expression of the views OF
Republican Senators on this subject.
The Minneapolis Journal, Repub-
lican paper of large circulation and in
fuence, says:
Iowa is certainly not hot for high tariff |
by any means. Neither is Minnesota, North or !
South Dakota. If a close canvass were made |
even of the Middle States. the high tariff con- |
tingent would be found weakening. The change |
is becoming more apparent daily. Not only |
Senator Allison, but many other leading Re |
pubicans, with clearer vision than Mckinley, |
read the unmiStakablc signs of the times and |
are acting accordingly.
most prominent Republican papers in |
Kansas, exclaims:
How in the name of God can a Kansas Con |
gresham go before prairie constituency with |
such tariff this coming fall. or a Republican |
anywhere, for that matter. face the people. in |
view of the promise of tariff reform which. if il |
meant any thing. meant that duties must be |
taken off instead of added to:
So much for the Western Republican |
press. |
Many Eastern Republican papers also |
the Mckinley bill freely. That !
oid-time mouth-piece of orthodox Re |
the Boston Advertiser. |
condemns the increased duties on wool, |
and declares that 1.-THE people are not |
in mood, at this period of surplus rev.
enue, to be driven into unreasonable, |
not to say unnatural protection"
The Boston journal. organ of the rad !
ical Republicans of New England, also |
opposes the wool schedule, and the Bos- |
ton Transcript criticiSeS the whole Nc !
kinley bill very freely.
The Philadelphia Telegraph, an indie |
pent Republican paper, and an advocate |
of protection, says:
When the Mckinley bill was promulgated |
the people for the first time made to I'M |
derstand that the fat fried out of the especially
protected firms, corporations, combines and |
trusts was to be returned, and it was to be got /
by Congress frying il out of them. If this Nc /
kinley bill should become law, there is not |
poor devil of citizen from one end of the |
country to the other who will not be put into |
the pan and placed over the Goals in order that |
he may contribute his item of fat to the great |
quantity which is to be returned to those who |