Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1890-07-12

Will be to raise the price Of the poo
mans cigars and to make him smok
fewer Of them. The absurdity of tn
bill In putting straw on the tariff lis
was pointed out whereas the farmers Il
Indiana burn their straw to get rid OF II
And so with corn. In Kansas It /
burned for fuel; but IL goes upon Nc
Kinley's tariff list for higher duty al
the same.
Mr.. Bynum pointed out the necessity
OF promoting manufactures by putting
free raw materials within their reach.
Mr.. breckenridge made very forciba'
speech showing that the present Tariff
bill is the result OF the efforts OF favorei
individuals and interests in making the
legislation OF the country bend to theil
private greed. Such persons as contrib
uted expressly for election expenses
two years ago have bond on the high
protection party which is now being dis
charged in the form OF laws for their
private interests. The various SEIZED
ules OF the Tariff bill are written into II
by interested parties. No Congressman
can understand any considerable part OF
q tariff bill; and so the men who do
understand 1t and who want to get the
full benefit of IL write into 1t about what
they want and the Mckinley majority
indorses it and then the debate is
choked off and the iniquities of the bill
can not be shown up in discussion; 1t is
rushed through in haste as IL the
country were in eager waiting for it. In
opposition to McKinley's policy of ey-
clusion it was asserted that honest trad"
must be promoted; for honest trade
means the brotherhood Of man
The afternoon meeting was a great
success; but he evening meeting Of
workingmen was q still greater one.
There were, in fact, four meet 'ngs in
the evening-the great gathering at the
Xensington Textile Hall, an overflow
meeting in an adjacent hall and two
street meetings outside the Textile
Hall. In all these meetings there were
some 10000 workingmen. There was
also large torchlight procession, in
which transparencies denouncing the
bill were carried.
The large meeting in Textile Hall was
addressed by Congressman Breckenridge,
Bynum and McAdoo, and stirring let
Ter was read from ex-President Cleve- I
and.
The principal address was made by !
Breckinridge, of Ken |
.ucky. He showed how the tariff de-
'troys the equality between man and
nan by helping the rich at the expense
" the poor. He denied that the Gov
had the right to exact any tax
,eyond the requirements OF its actual
reeds under an economical policy of ad-
The Mckinley bill gives to working
nen no chance to better their condition.
The wool question was dwelt on at con-
siderable length and the advantages OF
rec wool clearly pointed out We put
0 cents a pound on wool, and it takes
our pounds of this sort to make one
ound of yarn. In this way 40 cents
4 the cost of this pound of yarn is sim
ly thrown away. 1t is 40 cents
lore than the foreign competitor has
aid, and the increased cost of wool
lakes it necessary to have larger
lpital, and the increase is shifted
nnlly back upon the consumer.
This wool tax is levied, of course, in
lie interest of the grower of sheep; but
has not worked in that way, for the
DOL which cost 60 cents a pound in
100 can now be had for 81 cents. Seven
lshels Of wheat brought $40 in 1860,
1T now it requires fourteen bushels to
It $40, and that $40 will not buy as !
'od suit of clothes now as it did in 6
10, for all cheap clothing is now made .
rgely of shoddy. :
Mr.. Breckenridge continued for an q
'ur to knock holes in the Mckinley a
II, and then Mr.. Bynum was intro b
ced. U
He attacked the 'home market" i
cory and showed that II q ''home C
lrket" were good thing for nation, b
en- 1t must be also for State; and il - -
: State, then for county, and for q n
wnship, and finally for an individual. II
this way the protective system would II
come wheel within a wheel. Our ?
nmerce must be so regulated as to m
nulate production and consumption at in
me; but this can be done, not by ex- al
ding the world, but by taking the =,
v materials the world can send US 81
'aper than we can produce them our. 90
yes, "
n his letter to the meeting ex-Presi. III
1t Cleveland said: ar
know that with the feeling now abroad ba
'ur land, and with the intense existence yo
activity of such clubs as yours the an
m presumptuously made that the people mi
he last election finally passed upon the Co
lect OF tariff adjustment will be emphat. lief
~ denied; and that our worIlngmen and let
ners will continue to agItate this and all de-
IT questions involving their welfare with seC
eased zeal and In the light cf increased re,
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