The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1890-07-16
A FORMIDABLE REVOLT.
The Mckinley Blu Denounced by tho
Leading G. O. II. Newspapers.

Leading G. o. p. Newspapers.
A good many Western Republican
newspapers are INDUCING In some very
plain talk about the Mckinley bill.
Their attitude is significant of a de-
cided revolt among Western Republic
ans against that shameless measure of
spoliation.
The Evansville journal, the ahicst
and most courageous Republican news
paper 9. Indiana, says OF the sugar
clause in the bill:
The abolition of duties with granting OF
bountes is wrong in principle. The
country can not afford to commence system
OF counties. If begun, there is no telling where
they will end. If sugar and silk are to be thus
favored, why not dozen other staple products!
r Again:
The Senate will have to be depended on to
save Congress from serious plumbers on this !
revenue question. The Mckinley measure VIII |
have to he materially modified in order to sat
isfy the country. There is a large and growing |
element in the Republican party that is exceed ]
ingly weary OF this ''infant industry" wall and
the building up of millionaire moncpolists at |
ehe expense of the mass OF the people, Ihey
look to the Senate to correct the cxcesses or
the House bill The Senate is the conservative
branch OF the Government. 1t will not only
have to restrain the fanaticism OF the House IN
the line of revenue measures, but expenditures
as we'll. A treasury deficiency must be avoided
at all hazards. .-~~s
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 tariff reform Listening for days
and weeks to the representatives OF special IN
terests who, on the committees invitation, hur-
ricd to Washington to support their tarin boun'
ties and get more II possible, the committee
reached the remarkable conclusion that tne
country at large wanted such changes as would
| advance prices on consumers and enable q lew
persons to pile up great fortunes.
| ThCspeople 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 1t
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 reasol of
high duties. The worIing-men have
gotten it'into theirheads that they have
been swindled out of their share of the
results of high duties, and all the Re
publican and hight tariff papers in the
world can not disabuse them OF that
idea"
The st. Paul Pioneer-Press, the prin-
cipal Republican paper OF Minnesota
and the new 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 for the Mckinley
bill. but that the Senate will probably make no
important amendments to the bill. If this is
"straght," 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 Senate? viii the
Republicans OF the Senate be as recreant TO
their trust rs the Republicans OF the House
have been? And do the Republicans of both
houses actually banker for another Democratic
administration: 1t would almost seem so.
We take the following from the Re-
paper of Nebraska:
How vii. such statesmen as Allison, Aid
rich and Sherman, who, as members or the
finance committee, will have to formulate d
tariff measure for the consideration OF the Sen
ate, treat the Mckinley bill in view OF the fac
Chat it h;,s encountered Il more general and Wig
oreus opposition than almost any other tariff
bill in the history of the country? There is no,
J much for the guidance Of opinion as to wha
Che Senate will co, but there Is enough TO war
can't the exrcctation that it will in many ant
material respects amend the Mckinley bill ant
may substitute for it an entirely new measure
Senator Allison is on record as faVorlng q re
vision of the tariff that will reduce duties gen
orally, and unless he has experienced a radlca
change of mind within the last two months n
will vigorously oppose the proposal to adVanc
duties upon all the neccssarcs, placing tn
highest rate. rule, upon the articles Q
: least cost, thus throwing the heavy end OF tn
tax burden OH the poor. 1t is hardly concelV
able that any of these Senators will give thei
support to a measure that provides for Quite
in some cases of 1S9 and 225 per cent. as the Nj
Kinley bill does on certain articles OF wearin
apparel in general use. Republican Senators
: particularly those representing constitucncie
largely composed of farmers, will hardly al
prove a policy so distinctly retrogressiye a
this. The country will await with eXtrao
binary interest an expression OF the views
8 Republican Senators on this subject
> The Minneapolis Journal, Reput
; lican paper of large circulation and in
. fluence, says:
Iowa is certainly not "hot for high tariff
by any means. Neither is Minnesota, North
South Dakota If d close canvass were mad
/, even OF the Middle States the high tariff col
D tingent would be found weakening. The chanE
9 Is becoming more apparent daily. Not onl
= Senator Allison, but many other Leading
publicans, with clearer vision than Mckenzie
> read the unmistakable signs OF the times al
: are acting accordingly.
The Kansas City Gazette, one OF tn
Q most prominent Republican papers
o Kansas, exclaims:
How in the name of God can Kansas Co
!, gresham go before q prairie constituency VII
. such a tariff this coming fall or Republic;
anywhere for that matter, face the people,
s view of the promise of tariff reform which, II
d meant any thing, meant that duties must
!. taken off instead OF added to?
a So much for the Western Republics
press.
y Many Eastern Republican papers al:
r criticise the Mckinley bill freely. Tn
= old-time mouth-piece Of orthodox X
J. publicanisln, the Boston Advertise
condemns the increased duties on woo
= and declares that 'the people are n
in mood, at this period of surplus re
enue, to be driven into unreasonab]
~ not to say unnatural protection.
= Tho Roston Journal organ of the "a