The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1890-12-10
JiNGO JlM'S SCHEME.
Dust Thrown In tho Eyes Of His Adorers
by tho Man from Maine.

UltNCO O1W y SSSTi6WI'
Dust Thrown In the Eyes Of His Adorers
by tho Man from Maine.
The quarrels of Republicans over the
for defeat promise to be
not less valuable az public educators
than the preparation, advocacy and de.
tense of the infamous Mckinley bill
were.
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 III
its own interest. This wing may be
termed the crafty section OF Repu bllcan-
ism. 1t knows that a protective tariff
is taxation for robbery, but it is intelli-
gent enough to perceive that it can not
prevail by honest methods. 1t favors
indirection, pretended reforms, cheats.
shams, Safeguards for protection, reci'
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 monopolists 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'
ters have believed all that the
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 it
by playing upon the ignorance and
| prejudice of men. Reformation OF the
tariff by its friends has always me%nt
it's retention and increase, although
there have been few concessions that
served to allay popular discomfort while
the robbery went on. 1t is now pro-
posed by Mr.. Blaine and others to re-
lieve the pressure somewhat by sham
reciprocity with few South American
states merely in tho hope of safeguard
| ing protection, but no one proposes that
4 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 a merry war from this
time forth, with the certainty that II
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 the Mckinley bill, fol
they believe in it, and the chances ap
pear to be that the next Presidential
campaign will be fought out on sub
stantially the same line as that which
was drawn in the recent contest.
The demagogues like Blaine res
their hope upon the chance o
deceiving the people with pre-
tended concessions to the re
form spirit. The dupes like McKinle
base their future upon the belief tina
the Mckinley bill will presently satisf
the people and become popular. AS t.
both of these contentious there is nee
of continued investigation of and ad
l herence to fundamental economic
truths. The Mckinley infamy. if pei
E mitted to stand, will be moro easil
3 borne year hence than it is to-day
$ but as invention, sagacity, hard wor
and new processes serve to beat dow
7 it's expressions the demand from monol
3 oily for another and higher tariff wi
3 increase. Reciprocity, instead of bein
r cure for the Affections of the countr,
l is merely subterfuge and delusiol
i The people can have no real relief I'll
y til the monopoly taxes are repealed, an
+ when they are repealed there will
y no occasion for elaborate reciproci
+ schemes to be controlled by few co
d rupt officials at Washington.
Q The Blaines themselves have preache
i the widest protectionist doctrines tn;
II the world ever heard. Their UNHAPPY
n dupes have carried out these ideas hol
j. estly, only to be beaten by the poop
It and to find that their great mento
Q with as many lives as cat, now cor
d forts them with paltry scheme that
g guaranteed to work in nobody's han'
q but his own. To hail this shallow pr
J. tender as deliverer may become fas
o ionable, but he will hardly satisfy tt
fanatics whom he has raised up, or II
y intelligent men whom his tricks. treac
J. cries and evasions have driven ff.-Ct
y cago Herald.