The Brookhaven leader., 1890-12-04
The PLuMEo KNIGHT.
Dust Thrown In the Eyes of His AdoreTJ
By the Man from Maine.

by the Man from Maine.
The quarrels of Republicans over the
responsibility for defeat promise 20 be
not less valuable as public educators
than the preparation, advocacy and de-
fense of the infamous Mckinley bill
we're.
One wing of the party Is opposed to
the Mckinley bill because it is an open
and defiant expression of the assumed
right Of monopoly to tax the people in
its own interest. This wing may be
termed the crafty section of Republican
ism. 1t knows that protective tariff
is taxation for robbery, but it is intelli-
gent enough to perceive that it caa not
prevail by honest methods. 1t favors
| indirection, pretended reforms, cheats,
shams, Safeguards for protection" rec;-
procity-any thing, every thing, except
| direct and honorable course looking to
the decrease of the popular burdens
The other wing is made up of fanatics
and the dupes Of the moDopolists, men
who truly believe that a tax is bless
| ing, that taxes create wealth, that taxes
promote prosperity and that cheapness
| is calamity. These miserable idola-
agents of the trusts have ever
told them and they can not compro-
mise on any middle course calculated to
deceive the people and to retain the
substance of protection. Mckinley Is
their patron saint, as Blaine, the arch
apostle of monopoly, Is the hope OF the
other element
| Until now the protective tariff de-
fusion has been upheld for the most part
by crafty men like Blaine, who knew
it's nature and who have maintained 1t
by playing upon the ignorance and
prejudice of men. Reformation of the
tariff by its friends has always meant
it's retention and increase, although
there have been few concessions that
served to allay popular discon.ent while
the robbery went on. It is now pro-
posed by Mr.. Blaine and others to re-
lieve the pressure somewhat by a sham
reciprocity with a few South American
states merely in the hope Of safeguard
ing protection, but no one proposes that
any oppressive tax shall be removed or
that the unnatural privileges granted
to any monopoly shall be curtailed.
Between the two Republican wings,
the schemers and their dupes, there
promises to be merry war from this
time forth, with the certainty that IL
the people will note the utterances of
each they will receive more and more
light on the subject of class taxation.
1t is not likely that the dupes will per-
NIT the repeal of tho Mckinley bill, for
they believe in it, and the chances ap-
pear to be that the next Presiden tial
campaign will be fought out on sub
stantially the same line as that which
was drawn in the recent contest
The demagogues like Blaine rest
their hope upon the chance Of
deceiving the people with pre-
tended concessions to the re-
form spirit. The dupes like Mckinley
base their future upon the belief that
the Mckinley bill will presently satisfy
the people and become popular As to
both of these contentious there is need
of continued investigation of and ad-
herence to fundamental economic
truths. The Mckinley infamy, if per-
mitted to stand, will be more easily
borne a year hence than it is to-day,
but as invention, sagacity, hard work
and new processes serve 10 Deat oowh
its expressions the demand from monop-
oily for another and higher tariff will
increase. Reciprocity, instead of being
a cure for the Affections of the country,
is merely a subterfuge and delusion.
The people can have no real relief un-
til the monopoly taxes are repealed, and
when they are repealed there will be
no occasion for elaborate reciprocal
schemes to be controlled by few cor
rupt officials at Washington.
The Blaines themselves have preached
the widest protectionist doctrines that
the world ever heard. Their unhappy
dupes have carried out these ideas hon
estly, only to be beaten by the people
and to find that their great mentor,
with as many lives as a cat, now COM
forts them with paltry scheme that is
guaranteed to work in nobody's hands
but his own. To hail this shallow pre-
tender as deliverer may become fash
ionable. but he will hardly satisfy the
fanatics whom he has raised up, or the
intelligent men whom his tricks, treach-
cries and evasions have driven off.-Chi-
| caoo Harald