Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-07-10
a RePuBLlcAM REVOLT.
Tho Mckinley Bill Denounced by the
Leading G. o. r. NeWspapers.

l Leading G. O. r. Newspapers.
A good many Western Republican
newspapers are indulging in some very
plain talk about the Mckinley bill
Their attitude is significant of de-
;ided revolt among Western Republic
ans against that shameless measure of
spoliat;on.
The Evansville Journal, the ablest
and most courageous Republican news
paper in Indiana, says of the sugar
clause in the bill:
The abolition of duties with granting OF
| bounties is wrong in principle. The
country can not AFFORD to commence system
| OF bounties. begun, there is no telling where
| they will end. II sugar and silk are to be thus
| favored, why not dozen other staple products?
| Again:
| The Senate viii have to be depended on to
save Congress from serious blunders on this
| revenue question. The Mckinley measure will
have to be materially modified In order to sat-
| isfy the country. There is large and growing
| element in the Republican party that is exceed
| ingly weary OF this ''infant industry wall and
| the building up of millionaire monopolists at
the expense of the mass OF the people. They
| look to the Senate to correct the excuses of
/ the House bill. The Senate is the conservative
branch Of the Government. It will not only
| have to restrain the fanaticism of the House in
| the line of revenue measures, but expenditures
| as well. A treasury deficiency must be avoided
| at all hazards.
The Chicago Tribune, the most wide
| 1y-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-
ried to Washington to support their tariff boun-
ties and get more If possible, the committee
reached the remarkable conclusion that the
| country at large wanted such changes would
| advance prices consumers and enable few
persons to pile up great fortunes. =
The people Of the West want, not an increase
of the tarin, 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 it
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 reason of
high duties. The working-men have
gotten it into their heads that they have
been swindled out of their share of the
results of high duties. and all the Re-
publican and high-tariff papers in the
world can not disabuse them of that
idea"
The st. Paul Pioneer-Press, the prin-
eipal Republican paper of Minnesota
and the new Northwest, says:
There seem good grounds for q 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 substitute for the Mckinley
bill but that the Senate will probably make no
important amendments to the bill. II this is
''straight," what will be the state of the feel
fngs 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 it's most
Objectionable features by the Senate? Will the
Republicans Of the Senate be as recreant to
their trust as the Republicans OF the House
have beenr And do the Republicans OF both
houses actually banker for another Democratic
Administrations It would almost seem so.
We take the following from the Re-
publican Omaha Bee, the leading news
paper of Nebraska:
How will such statesmen as Allison, AID
rich and Sherman, who as members of the
finance committee, will have to formulate
tar1n measure for the consideration of the SEN
ate, treat the Mckinley bill in view of the fact
that 1t has encountered more general and Wig
orous opposition than almost any other tariff
bill in the history OF the country There is not
much for the guidance Of opinion to what
the Senate will do, but there is enough to war
rant the expectation that it will in many and
HdIcTldl TcSpcCbS aulcuO Inc mCh1nlcy OIL anu
may substitute for it an entirely new measure.
Senator Allison is record as favoring a re-
vision OF the tariff that will reduce duties gen.
orally, and unless he has experienced radical
change of mind within the last two months he
will vigorously oppose the proposal to advance
duties upon all the necessaries, placing the
highest rate. as a rule, upon the articles Of
least cost. thus throwing the heavy end of the
tax burden on the poor It is hardly conceiv-
able that any of these Senators will give their
support to measure that provides for duties
in some cases of 100 and 225 per cent. as the Nc
Kinley bill does on certain articles OF wearing
apparel in general USE Republican Senator'S
particularly those representing constituencies
largely composed of farmers will hardly ayo-
prove policy distinctly retrogressive as
this. The country will await with extraor-
binary interest an expression OF the views of
Republican Senators on this subject.
The Minneapolis journal, . Repub-
1ican paper of large circulation and in
huence, says:
Iowa is certainly not 'hOt for a high tarif''
by any means. Neither is Minnesota, North or
South Dakota. If a close canvass were made
even OF the Middle States, the high tariff con-
tingent would be found weakening. The change
is becoming more apparent daily. Not only
Senator Allison, but many other leading Re-
publicans, with clearer vision than Mckinley
read the unmistakable signs of the times and
are acting accordingly.
The Kansas City Gazette, one of the
most prominent Republican papers in
Kansas, exclaimS:
How in the name of God can a Kansas Con-
gresham go before prairie constituency with
such a tarin this coming fall, Republican
anywhere, for that matter, face the people. in
view OF the promise of tarin reform which, If 1t
meant any thing, meant that duties must be
taken OF instead OF added to?
So much for the Western Republican
press.
Many Eastern Republican papers also
criticise the Mckinley bill freely. That
old-time mouth-piece of orthodox Re-
publicanism, the Boston Advertiser,
condemns the increased duties on wool,
and declares that 1.-THE people are not
in a mood, at this period of surplus rev.
enue, to be driven into unreasonable,
not to say unnatural protection"
The Boston Journal. organ of the rad
ical Republicans of New England, also
opposes the wool schedule, and the Bos-
ton Transcript criticises the whole Nc
Kinley bill very freely.
The Philadelphia Telegraph, an indie
pent Repu blican paper, and an advocate
of protection, says:
When the Mckinley bill was promulgated
the people for the first time were made to I'M