The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1890-07-11
The Mckinley Tariff and Reel.
prorocity.

A despatch from Washington, dated July
Sd. says:
1.-The Secretary of the State received the
following dispatch from Rsmond Williams,
United States Consul General at Havana
to-day: Up to the 30ih CT June American
flour paid $4.699 import duty, from which
amount five per cent was deducted, leaving
the total net duty at STAG but from july
LIST it viii! be S4G95 plus twenty per cent,
making the duty $5.63l on each barrel OF
-four from the United States. Spanish -four
from the LIST OF July enters free of import
duty"
This is Prohibitory tiff on our flour.
From Cuba We purchased last year 1894
$4,000 pounds Of sugar. Mr. Blaine rec
ommends reciprocity with the sugar growing
nations of South America and the West
lndias. Senator Hale introduced the fol-
lowing amendment to the Mckinley Bill !:
"And the President of the United States
is hereby authorized withou, further legis
lation to declare the ports of the United
States free ana open TO all the products of
any nation of the American Henisphere
upon which no export duties are imposed
whenever and so long as such nation shall
admit to its ports free Of all national. pro-
vlncial (state), municipal and olher taxes,
Hour, corn meal and other breadstuffS, pre-
Sc we'd meats, fish vegetables and fruits,
cotton seed oil, rice and other provisions,
including all articles of food lumber, fur
nitbre and all other articles Of wood; agri
cultural i'm lcments and machinery.
mining and mechanical machinery, struc.
tural steel and iron, and other articles of
our manufacture"
This is reciprocal free trade between
American nations and is in theory and
practice the exact opposite of the spirit and
intent Of the Mckinley monopoly bill, the
spirit and intent of which is to shut out all
foreign commerce, freeze out all new man.
utacturing enterprises in this country. and
hand over tie whole farming and laborine
class bound hand and foot to the tax gather.
ing monopolies. Will the people stand this
kind of monopoly legislation? With
Blaine taking the lead against it we predict
they will not. But the trusts and monop-
olies do not care, if they can push those
laws through at this session and the next
short session OF the present Congress, they
consider they haye the Senate secure and
with their milionairs seated in that body
they can prevent the repeal of such laws in
spite OF popular demands. They expect to
be beaten at the next congressional election
and TO find the lower House with a large
majority on the peoples side, but they will
have secured the prize for years and robbipe
The producing classes will go steadily on, if
they can get the Mckinley bill through
this Congress. We predict the battle cry
of the parties in the presidential campaign
of '92 will be reciprocity and mutual free
trade with American nations on the mart of
the republican party aud a revenue tariff by
the democrats. The money and liouor
monopolies with the railroads and other
similar combines will keep in the back
ground, while the new phases ofthe tariff
question ale brought to the front 10 attract
the attention of the masses. There is no
end of changes which can be made of this
PSA's'>"i JoheIt the taflU. 1t has
caught more gudgeons than all the political
traps ever invented. If the reciprocity
policy with South American nations and
Ianada can be successfully inaugnrated il
VIII be of incalculable advantage to our
manufacturing industries, but not vetv
great deal to The consumers. The nations
on the American hemisphere south ofus
haye no manufactured goods TO send into
our markets and Canada not much to COM
pete in price with the goods of our MANN
lecturers, but they have lots of raw
material to send here in exchange for man.
fractured goods This will create an en-
iafgeu market FOR manufactured goods of
our make if they can compete with
European made goods, and they can. Our