The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1890-10-03
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Tribune, the Omaha Bee, the Atchison
Champion and many other papers
throughout the West which have al
ways been loyal soldiers in the high
tariff army, have, of late, been very
FESTIVE under the leadership of Mr.. Nc
Kiniey and those who think with him.
Senators Plumb. Ingalls,, Paddock. Man
derson. and even Senators Dawes and
Blair, and few of the Representatives
notably Congressman Butterworth. while
insisting that they are protectionists,
have made more or less vigorous pro-
tests against the Mckinley bill These
papers and statesmen profess the ut
most loyalty to their party, and to a Ma
tioiial protective system as we'll. They
have no sympathy with the Democratic
party; and yet McHinleyism does not
please them.
That gentleman has been silent for
SOME time. The leading papers of his
own party have abused him without
stint, and have discussed his measure
in tho most savage terms And III so
doing they have assaulted his political
orthodoxy. 1t is interesting. therefore;
to hear what he has to say for himself.
OF course he claims that he belongs to-
the regular school, ard he quotes the
Chicago platform, of which he is the
repfted author, in support of his claim.
What does that doctfmerit sayf What
fought the last campaign? What had
the ordinary citizen. who understood
plain English, right to expect from
the party which asked him to vote for
Mr.. Harrison?
Tariff revision, to LIE sure, but of
what kind? Many people insist that
they thought that revision meant re-
duction, and some of Thorn go SO far as
to say that had it boon generally sup
posed that 1t meant any thing else Mr..
Harrison would never have reached the
White House Yet the words of this
platform arc quite plain, and Mr.. Me-
Kinley appeals to them in his own de-
tense. The promise was to revise the
tariff in such a way as to check inip0rtd-
:ions.
That is the party's latest utterance
upon the subject of the tariff 1t is
bound by it-that is. if party platforms
ever bind any one. 1t was entrusted
with power that it might f'check inn
portations" Millions OF dollars were
subscribed to its Campaign fund on the
strength of that pledge. Protection for
projections sake was the theme of the
orators and the organs. The revenue
reforihers were denounced as free trad
ers because they proposed to do almost
what the Western ''kickers" are asking
to have done now.
The victory was won with the help OF
the Omaha Bee, the Chicago Tribune,
the St Paul Pioneer-Press and Messrs
Plumb, Butterworth and the rest of
them. Then Mr.. Nc Kinley set abont
the work of translatng the platform
into legislation. The result is the Me-
Kinley bill, which has provoked a howl
ali along the line. "And what" he asks
sis the howl about? Have we not done
what we could to check importation
The Customs Administration bill, which
is now the law of the land, is DENOUNCED
by the FREQ traders because it does just
that thing. The Mckinley Tariff bill,
which the Senate will pass when it gets
ready, will contribut, to the accom-
plishment of the same result. The
party is carrying out its pledges You,
MIR. Plumb, and you, too, Mr.. Blaine,
approved those pledges when they were
made. Shall we stand by Thorn or not?
That is the sole question. 1 say we
shall stand by them. And / say further
that, whatever may have been the case
before 1sss. in that year our party was
committed to the cause of protection as
embodied in the Mckinley bill. The
time for protest has gone by. Tho rec
ord is made up. The party must abide
by it-at least until the next National
convention meets"
Such is Mr.. McKinley's plea And it
must be confessed that it has plausi-
BILE sound. The man who makes it is
undoubtedly honestly and earnestly de-
voted to bad cause, while the mon
who are fighting him usually give the
cause Just as effective support whom
voting time comes, though they know 1t
to be bad cause
Another Kansas paper evidcn Il Y
agrees with Mr.. McKin.ey's view of the
situation. 1t says that those protec-
tionists who are clamoring for lower
duties and an increased free list have no
business to be doing it on party grounds.
Probably sympathizing itself W, th this
clamor it declares that these demands
are the very demands that the tariff re.
formers made in 1888 and are making
now. 1t thinks that the dissatisfied
gentlemen will have to admit that they
have changed their base: that they are
now. occupying the tariff reform posi-
ton and that all their talk in 1883 about
the tariff not being tax, etc, was
purest humbug. 1t certainly looks tina t
way.
The quarrel is pretty one, but Mr.
Mckinley seems to have the best OF it
There is one other thing which tells in
his favor Tho Piumbs and Mander-
sons and the protesting newspapers
have invariably como round all right at
election time SO it is not specially
dangerous to offend them. But it is dam
gerous to offend the protected manu-
soSburcrS Wuo hihdiy aliOW the lat To
be fried out of them" for the purpose of
lubricating the protection machine.
These gentlemen must be taken very
seriousiy- They invested their doodle. {"
Their interests must be cared for. 1t IS
money that talks MIR. Andrew Carne-
gie's little finger is thicker than the
thigh of the lusticst kickcr-
Some Points About the Mckinley IsIlI.
Tho duty fixed by tho Mckinley bill
as reported to the Senate on common
brown earthenwarc. common stone
ware, and crucibles not ornamented or
decorated in any manner" is 25 per cent
This Is the same as it is now. except in
one item where it has been raised from
20 TO 25 per cent
Tho duty on cotton thread-cxcept on
the very cheapest kind-has been ad-
vanced from Is to IS, 20 to 23, and 25 to
2s cents pound The 81 and 50 cent
duties arc unchanged The tax of As
cents a pound is increased to ono of SO
per cent Another very considerable
increase" which is believed to be nee
essary" because of sharp foreign COM
petition" is that on collars and cuffs
composed entirely of cotton The in