Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1890-08-13
LEAVING OUT MKINLEY.

The Republican Conventions of Iowa and
Illinois Silent on the Mckinley Bill, But
Give a General Indorsement to 'PrOteo-
tiOn"-A Reed Needed In Every State to
Back Up the Slowly Dying Cause.
The Iowa Republican convention in
looking about for men and measures
upon which to bestow it's Endorsement
overlooked the Mckinley bill The
convention indorsed the Administration
and then recorded its allegiance to the
general principle of protection" in the
following words:
"We do specially declare our adherence to
the principle of protection to American In
dustry, applied wisely in view of the inter-
est of all conditions OF our people and ad-
ministered in view of the equal Interest OF
all our industries. We agree that discrim-
nations may be wisely made, but never In
behalf of the strong against the weak, and
never against the masses"
But why overlook the Mckinley bill?
Is it such an insignificant measure that
it was forgotten? Or is it not true
rather that McKinley's crazy bill will
not bear Endorsement in Iowa?
1t is beautiful to talk about "the prin
oiple of protection" but when McKin-
ley gives you your own medicine in
such violent doses why do you not ex-
press your opinion about it?
But you do express your opinion about
McKinley's work, do you not? You
say your protection must be applied
wisely" and that it must be ''never in
behalf of the strong against the weak,
and never against the masses" Does
not that mean Mckinley?
The fact is that "the principle of pro-
lection" is growing so unpopular with
Iowa farmers, and they have come to
look upon the whole thing as being so
manifestly ''in behalf of the strong
against the weak" that protectionist
convention must trim it's sails with the
rarest skill in order to avoid being
dashed on the rocks.
The convention calls for a kind of
protection which is never against the
masses" But there it demands an
impossible thing; for that particu
lar kind of protection never was
on sea or land" Never has the
manufacturer of any article been
protected except at the expense
of those who buy and use that
article. There is no other way pos
sible-and this way is always
against the Masses" 1t can never be
otherwise; for when protection ceases
to favor the manufactures as against
the masses" which consume his goods,
at that moment it ceases to be protec-
tion. 1t is no longer worth going to
Washington to plead for.
Let the protectionist orators in Iowa
point out on the stump just what they
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never against the Masses" VIII they
not have to confess that they have sim
ply put into their Platform an empty
form of words to please the ground
! lings?"
But the Iowa convention is not the
only one that gives Mckinley the cold
shoulder The Republicans of Illinois
treat him in the same way. The Re-
! publican convention of that State put
these words into their platform: 1--WE
believe in the long tried and successful
protective policy of the Republican
/ party"
! Here again protection is indorsed-
| but not one word have we about Nc
| Kinley Is his light hid under a bushel?
Does it threaten disaster in Illinois to
mention his name above whisper?
Speaker Reed can hold his Congress.
men together with firm hand, so that
not even a protesting Butterworth will
dare to vote according to his own honest
convictions against the Mckinley bill,
but the Car of the House of Represen-
tatives can not compel the Endorsement
of State conventions. The party evi-
IDENTIFY needs Reed in every State; else
the high-fying Tariff bill is going to be
not damned with faint praise'-but
damned with a silence more eloquent
than any well-phrased resolution could
possibly be.
And that silence is eloquent as we'll
as significant The Mckinley bill has
been discussed throughout the length
and breadth of the land to an extent
that has attended no other bill in Con-
| gress for many years. 1t was furnished
by the party press with many fair words
| about tariff revision not tariff REFORM
and the ing of it was heralded as a
measure that would settle the tariff
question for twenty years.
But already two great States pass il
! over without so much as mentioning it,
as if 1t ~efe an ill-born thing not to be
named under the fsmily roof. This
silence of Iowa and Illinois marks tbs
progress which the low tariff cause haG
made in these old-time Republican
strongholds; and it may be hailed with
the utmost satisfaction by all men who
believe il the simple proposition, that
low taxation is best for the people
That silence means that reyc! qtion iF
public sentiment is near at hand, thai
the idols are fallen down in the templf
of folly.