The Logan County banner. [volume] (Logan, W. Va.) 1889-1903, 1890-09-04
A REPUBLICAN, REVOLT.



Tho Mckinley Bill Denoancsd by thu.
Leading q. o. r. Newspapers.
"A good many Western Republican
newspapers are indulging in some very
plain talk about the Mckinley bill.
Their attitude is significant Of q 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
bcuntics is wrong in principle Tho
country can not afford to commence q system
Of bounties. II begun, there Is no telling where
they will end. If sugar and silk are to be thus
favored, why npt dozen other staple productsf
Again: sE=a.sss-
The Senate will have to be depended on to
save Congress from serious blunders on this
revenue question. The Mckinley measure Will
have 10 be materially modified In order to sat
fsfy the country. There Is q large and growing
element in the Republican party that is exceed
ingly weary Of this sinfant industry wail and
the building up Of millionaire monopolists- at
the expense Of the mass OF the people. They
look to the Senate to correct the excesses Of
the House bill. The Senate Is the conservative
branch Of the Government. It will not only
have to restrain the fanaticism OF the House in
the line Of revenue measures but expenditures
as well. A 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
mittee has almost wholly mistaken the popular
demand for tarin reform. Listening for days
and weeks to the representatives OF special in
terestswho, on the committees invitation, hur
ried to Washington to support their tarin boun-
ties and get more II possible, the committee
reached the remarkable conclusion that the
country at large wanted such changes as would
advance prices on consumers and enable q few
persons to pile up great fortunes
The people of the West want, not an 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 1t 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 disa buse them of that
idea
The St Paul Pioneer-Press, the prin.
cipal Republican paper Of Minnesota
and the-neM Northwest, says:
There seem good grounds for fear that the
Republican enemies of the Republican party
will 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 fpr the Mckinley
bill. but that the Senate will probably make no
important amendments to the bill. II 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 Senates viii 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? II would almost seem so.
We take the following from the Re-
publican Omaha Bee, the leading news
paper OF Nebraska: H.
How win such statesmen as Allison, Aid
rich and Sherman, who, members Of the
finance committee. will have to formulate a
tariff measure for the consideration OF the SEN
sate, treat the Mckinley bill in view OF the fact
that it has encountered a 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 as to what
the Senate will do, but there is enough to war
rant che expectation that 1t will in many and
material respects amend the Mckinley bill and
may substitute for 1t entirely new measure.
Senator Allison Is on record as favorinx q re
vision OF the tariff that will reduce duties gen
orally, and unless he has experienced a radical
change OF mind within the last two months be
will vigorously oppose the proposal to advance
duties upon all the. necessaries, placing the
highest rate. as rule, upon the articles OF
least cost thus throwing the heavy end Of the
tax burden on the poor IT is hardly conceiv-
able that any Of these Senators will give their
support to measure that provides for duties
in some cases of 1870 and 225 per cent. as the Nc
Kinley bill does on certain articles OF wearing
apparel in general use Republican Senators,
particularly those representing constituencies
largely composed OF farmers, will hardly ap
prove policy SO distinctly retrogrcssive as
this. The country will await with extraor
binary interest an expression Of the views Of
Republican Senators on this subject
lican paper of large circulation and in
fiuence, says:
Iowa is certainly not hot for a high tarin'
by any means Neither is Minnesota, North OF
| South Dakota. II close canvass were made
even OF the Middle States the high tarin con
tingent would be found weakening The change
is becoming more apparent daily. Not only
Senator Allison, but many other leading Re
publicans, with clearer vision than Mckinley,
read the unmistakable signs Of the times and
are acting accordingly.
The Kansas City Gazette, one of the
most prominent Republican papers IN
Kansas, exclaims:
How In the name of God can . Kansas Con
gresham go before prairie constituency with
such a tariff this coming fall, or Republican
anywhere, for that matter, face the people, In
view of the promise OF tarif reform which, II IL
meant any thing, meant that duties must be
taken on instead OF added tor
So much for the Western Republican
press.
Many Eastern Republican papers also
criticise the Mckinley bill freely. Tha,
old-time mouth-piece OF orthodox Re
publicanism, the Boston Advertiser
condemns the increased duties on wool
and declares that 1.-THE people are moi
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 Transcripts criticises the whole Nc
Kinley bill very freely.
The Philadelphia Telegraph, an indie
pent Repu bliCan r,aper au5san advocate