Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1890-04-29
REVOLT.
"A Republican Paper DenouuceS the
Mckinley Tariff Bill.

II the Mckinley bill should become
law, there is not Il 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 supplied
the campaign grease of 1888. The
most dsiutercsted and fair-minded
man, Republican or Democrat, may
go up and down the Mckinley list
and find thereon not single thing
added to or taken from the present
tariff schedule which has not been
added to or taken from it for the
benefit and behoof Of representatives
ofspecial interest. The entire scheme
rests upon no other or better prin-
ciple than that of returning their fat
to manufacturers or of helping the
party by the basest partisan methods.
The New York Tribune-which lays
claim to be the 'leading Republican
newspaper in America" and which
also claims to be the most consisGenG
supporter of it's party, and by reason
of it's position as an organ, compelled
to make the black appear the white
side, and which seldom tells the whole
truth when to speak freely it would
do harm to its party-eXposes the
whole secret Of the Mckinley bill
when it unguardedly confesses that
"fOr Industrial and political reasons it
would be better to keep hides on the
free list"
Whatever the Committee has done
in framing this bill it has done for
political reasons, and to recoup the
manufacturers out of whom the party
fried the fat in 1883, and out of whom
it intends to fry great deal moro in
1892. To these ends it has increased
duties which were already high
enough, or excessively high, and added
others not needed on almost every
necessary of life. Even in Che matter
of sugar it was moved by political
reasons. It saved the man facturers
all it could, and so juggled the sched-
ule as to leave them virtually un-
scathed in the matter of man ufacLured
sugars. 1t cost the Committee moth
ing to reduce the duties on the raw
sugar, as that nurt only the Demo
Gratis OF Louisiana. The Mckinley
bill as it now stands increases ii.o TAX
to the people enormously on cotton
and wooden cloths and clothing, on
blankets, carpets, furniture, and upon
every household utensil. Duties
have becn added upon every kind of
cotton and wooden goods, upon agri-
cultural products and upon fruit, es-
pecially oranges, lemons and lines.
A duty is placed on hides, on all
manufacturers Of flax, hemp and jute,
and, in fact, upon everything that The
manufacturers have demanded.
Tho new Tariff bill is ole of the
worst and most offensive projects Of
class legislation ever proposed. 1t
shows disregard Of pubic interests
which is amazing. 1t imposes enor-
nous indirect taxes upon tho country,
and it lays We 3ht upon iho Repub-
lican party which may crush it TO
certain defeat when it again appeals
to the country. 1t is fron first 70
last partisan measure, with a re-
turn fat in it for every specially pc.
tected interest that in 1883 was com-
pUllod TO contribute TO the Campaign
Comml'jco's fund. it it is huug
nbodt THO neck Of the Republican
party, it may destroy it, Phila-
delphia Telegraph Ncp(.