The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1890-07-18
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Mckinley Bill and Injures His SILK Hat
He says the lsili Means Disaster For the
Party in 1892-The Farmer Must Have .
Larger ForeIgn- Market
The dispatch from Washington to the
New York Herald ia regard to some ut
terances of Blaine on the Mckinley
bill has attracted much attention The
remarks were said to have been made
in the Senate Appropriation Commit
tee Blaine was SO outspokcn against
McKinley's tariff job that many people
were not disposed to believe that the
Herald's report was true. 1t was not
believed that Blaine would make such
sweeping statements in opposition to
measure which his party had rushed
through the House and is now trying to
put through the Senate
The report printed in the New York
paper is in part as follows.
'sThe Dem ocratic member of the COM
mittee, Mr. Blackburn. was delighted
with the tone of Mr. Biaine's view, and
at an opportune moment he is reported
to have said:
81 wish you were not Mr.. Secretary,
and were in this Senate to raise your
voice against this Mckinley bill"
'Mr. Blaine-I wish so too. 1t is the
most dangerous, if not the most infa-
nous, measure that was-eYer concocted
by any party. The men who vote for
this bill will wreck the Republican
party. If were in the Senate, 1 would
rather have my right arm torn out of
its socket than vote for this bill.
Senator Allison with some feeling)
You. are winking at Senator Black
burn across the table, and are just say
ing this to please him.
''Mr. Blaine-I was winking at Sena-
tor Blackburn because he was winking
at me; but 1 say solemnly that this
Mckinley bill is an outrage and ought
| to be killed by the Senate"
There is one touch in this story which
| gave it color of truth-that part about
Blaine and Blackburn winking at each
other, and Blaine's remark when ALI
son called attention to it For this rea-
SON newspaper men were disposed to
think the story genuine.
But now the whole thing has been
substantially confirmed. William E.
Curtis, who attracted considerable at
tention last winter through his connec-
ton with the Pan-American Congress,
and who now has a position under
Blaine in the State Department. has
given out an authorized explanation"
| has OCCA DAAAbCN- Al bhO @NO"
York Tribune.
Curtis says: There is no reason why
the actual facts about the incident in
the Appropriation Committee room
the other day should not be related. !
happened to be a witness and the cir
cumstauces were these
He then goes on to tell how Blaine
tr ed to impress the committee with his
idea that we should use the sugar duty
as means to secure reciprocity with
our Southern neighbors; but Curtis takes
good care not to deny the strong
language which Blaine was represented
as using.
He even goes so far as to say that
Blaine declared that if he were in the
Senate he would fight the sugar sched-
ule to the best of his ability-from
which it may be guessed that Blaine
may have used the vigorous language
above quoted
And as for that part of the report
which refers to the ''winking" between
Blaine and blackburn, it is almost sub
stantiated by Curtis. ''Mr. Blackburn, "
he says, INDUCED in little chatting in
jocular way" What this chatting was
and what Blaine's answer was he does
not venture to tell US; and as this ''au-
thorized explanation does not deny
Blaine's sharp words of condemnation
for the Mckinley bill, it may be safely
assumed that those words are genuine.
But Senator Black burn himself has
been heard from and he verifies the
published report He says: 81 never
heard a more earnest or emphatic de-
nunciation of a measure than that OF
Mr.. Blaine on the Mckinley bill. He
tore it to tatters and warned the Re-
publican members of the committee
that if they passed the bill in its pres
ent shape the Democrats would sweep
the country in 1892. So earnest and
vigorous was Mr. Blaine that he brought
his silk hat down on the table with
crushing force, to considerable damage
to the hsts'' =
. Blaine, then, is in open rebellion
against some parts of the Mckinley bill
The question now is which represents
the Republican party-Blaine or Nc
Kinley?
One thing at least is clear. Blaine
recognizes the fact that our farmers
must have a wider market for theii
products in order to get good prices
The Home Market Club, of Boston, has
! for years been trying to drill into the
, heads of the farmers that the American
market is the only one that we need tc
concern ourselves about
Blaine knows better than that, and
he knows also that it is the tariffs o
} foreign nations that keep us out of theil
markets He knows that the duty o.
ITO per cent levied by Venezuela on ou
-four practically prevents our miller'
from selling in that country. Blaine
} wants to make these South American
countries let in our agricultural products
in return for opening up our market TO
their raw sugar. Blaine evidently seei
: q sanctity laying about the foreign
, market which Mckinley sneered at anC
refused to believe in
At a time when there are so man.
/ threats of tariff retaliation by fore 81
7 nations and when some of these nation
/ have already carried out these threats
5 it is not to bewondered at thatso shrew'
man as Blaine should recognize tn
value of foreign market 1t is wei
also that he recognizes the principl
: that foreign markets can be opened t
us only by opening our markets to fol
eign nations
When Blaine has gone SO far as thai
: how much Of his orthodox protection
l remains? Has he not put himself out
a side the protection camp?
, The sugar Trust.
, The courts in New York have struc
heavy blow at the sugar trust. but th
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