Sharp County record., 1890-08-28

;,s socket than vote for this bill.
", ,;enator Allison with some feelipy,
You are winking at Senator BlacI.
hr,n a. cross the table, and are Just saw.
ing this to please him.
SIr, b laine-I was winking at Sep,.
.o- Blackl ,urn because he was winkin,
at me; bu, l say solemnly that thi,
Mckinley bi. II is an outrage and ought
ta he killed b. the Senate"
There is one touch in this story which
gave it d color OF truth-that part about
Elaine and Blackt urn 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 genuin,e,
But now the whole .'hing has been
substantially confirmed. Villa N E.
Curtis, who attracted cons iderab.le at.
tention last winrer through his COZ rnec.
tion with the Pan-American Cong ess
and who now has a position un Ter
blaine in the Sta te Department. h a.
given out an Authorized explanation"
which has been printed in the Ne,
York Tribune. t
Curtis says: There is no reason WIN
the actual facts about the incidentin.
the Appropriation Committee room,
the other day should not be related.
happened to be a witness and the cir.
cuIpstauces were these:" ~
He then goes on to tell how Blaine
tired to impress the committee with his
idea that we should use the sugar dutv
as a means to secure reciprocity with
orr Southern ueighbors; but Curtis takes
GOOD care not to deny the strong
LANGUAGE which Blaine was repre-, vented
as using.
He even goes so far as to say that
Blaine declared that if he were in ,ae
Senate he would fight the sugar sche&
ule to the best of his ability-fron
which it may be guessed that Blaine,
NAV have used tie vigorous Language
above quoted.
And as for that part Of the report
which refers to the "winking" between
Blaine and Blackburn, it is almostmb
stantiated by Curtis ''Mr. Blackburn
he SAYS, 'indulged in little chaffnga
ocular way" What this chatting wa
and what Blaine's answer was he does
not venture to tell us; and as this 'au.
thorized explanation" does not deny
Biaine's sharp words of condemnatioa
for the Mckinley bill, it may be safely 4
assumed that those words are genuine
But Senator Blackburn himself has
been heard from and he verifeS Ia, Il
published report. He says: 81 never IA
heard a more earnest or emphaticde de-
nunciation of a measure than that Of Ia
Mr.. Blaine on the Mckinley BILL He N
tore it to tatters and warned the Re- II
publican members Of the COMMITTEES st
that if they passed the bill in its pres d.
ent shape the Democrats would sweep 10
the country in 1892. So earnest and
vigorous was Mr.. Blaine that he brought b
his silk hat down on the table with b
crushing force, to considerable damage nfa
to the hat" .
Blaine, then, is in open rebellion RFa
against some parts of the McKinlTpM te'
The question now is which Represents f
the Republican party-Blaine or No
Kinley?
One thing at least is clear. Blaine W
recognizes the fact that our fames
must have a wider market for thei #
products in order to get good prices Z
The Home Market Club, Of Boston, bal h.
for years been trying to drill into ti' \.
heads of the farmers that the America "
market is the only one that we needa ;|
concern ourselves about We
Blaine knows better than that and \.
he knows also that it is the tariffs o VA
foreign nations that keep us out Of tns, |s,l
markets. He knows that the duty q Al 4
11O per cent. levied by Venezuela On'H IS -
flour practically prevents our mllPH e
from selling in that country BalN ISL
wants to make these South AmeiNA orfI
countries let in cur agricultural prodaa a
in return for opening up our marEe' w 4 A
their raw sugar Blaine evidentlySH 6Ia|
sanctity laying about the iOiesl qup
market which Mckinley sneered a'~ oan
refused to believe in. nsiye
At time when there are 50 psl ss;s ~. Z. i ]
threats of tariff retaliation by lO%t 13 q : !.
nations and when some OF these n'"v' nlle|
have already carried out these tlsaS , IQnel
1t is not to be wondered at thatsoSn''' ntu
q man as Blaine should recogn@ t1
value Of a foreign market nss NJ
also that he recognizes the prlpy,y VA " u
that foreign markets can DO opeu'Ih \, en' 'I
us only by opening our marke" v" IA
eign nations. !, Az Aorx
When Blaine has gone SO tar @ ,%SJITT7
how much of his orthodox "pro'vI"s, Ifon{
remains? Has he not put hiln''" ' anvll
side the protection camp? whg
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