The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1890-05-30
rHE WEST CONDEMNS.

I 4ucIO dAO SNO hcpuDllCdl1 UdtIy OF
gans in Kansas City, one on each side
of the state line. The Kansas CITY
Journal says that the passage of tht
Mckinley bill is a fact ssupon which
the Republicans can congratulate them
selves" The Kansas City, Kansas
Gazette repeats the Chicago Tribune's
calculation of the effect of the bill ii
increasing the cost of necessaries and
says:
SIS all this true? And if true, how
F.! in the name of God can a Kansas Con.
gresham go before a prairie constitu.
ency with such tariff this coming
fall, or Republican anywhere for that
matter face the people, in view of the
promise of tariff reform, which, if ii
meant anything, meant that duties
must be taken off instead of added to?''
There is no doubt whatever about
the truth of the Tribune's calculation.
1t can be verified by anybody who will
put down on piece of paper the esti-
mates of consumption made by experts
in tin plate, woolens, linen and other
lines of business and add the increases
made by the bill.
Does the Journal or the Gazette
represent the opinion of Republican
voters in Kansas and Missouri? Evi-
IDENTIFY the Gazette, for the only largely
circulated daily Republican paper i'll
Missouri has opposed the Mckinley
bill and four out of five of the inhuen-
tial Republican dailies in Kansas are
on the Gazette's platform and nearly
all the weeklies of the better class.
&c Ia -
0fiff reduction sentiment is stronger
i'll the west than in 1888. The decli-
ming profits Of agriculture are better
understood because more keenly felt.
The Mckinley bill, which increases in
stead of reduces prices of necessaries,
has taken the place of vague promises
about reduction of the tariff i'll the
house of its friends. The hand of the
extreme tariffites has been exposed.
Going back to 1888, it is another
commonplace truth that Republicans
in Kansas and Missouri did not con-
duct that campaign on the ground of
finance and taxation. They avoided
those issues. All through the cam
paign they were alarmed about the
effect of the Chicago platforms tariff
plank. The Mills bill, now character
lied by hundred western Republican
newspapers as being to cautious about
reductions-the Topeka Capital and
Kansas Farmer both insisting than an
average of 80 per cent is more than
enough protectiOn-waS dismissed with
a few anathemas upon free trade. No
attempt was made to discuss it before
farmers, wOrkingmen or business men.
Like Botkin in Texas, the Republican
orator, damned jeff. Davis and made
their promises of Identification under
Harrison On the line of pensions for
everybody.
A calm and just review of western
opinion as expressed i'll 1888 and now
Will convince anybody who cares to
know that in praising the Mckinley
bill the Kansas City Journal does not
represent one in twenty of western
voters of any party.
The Senate will be heard from. 1t
happens that the leaders of the Repub-
lican majority i'll the House are eastern
men under the influence of manufac-
turing and money-lending constituent
cies-McKinley, Reed, Lodge, McCo-
mas, Bayne. The Republican senator
ial leaders are from agricultural states
Cullom, Sherman (the state
of Ohio being agricultural, though Nc
Kinley's district is manufacturing,
Farwell, Wilson and Plumb. Work
ing leadership on economic questions
is of course here meant. Allison, Cul
lom, Sherman and Plumb are fully
aroused to the danger of their standing
i'll the Senate as advocates of the Nc
kinley bill. Both the Nebraska and
Minnesota senators are as much alive
to the danger. The Republican sena-
tors from all the Mississippi basin will
modify the Mckinley bill if they can.
The Senate will have bill of its own,
and if compromise can be effected
between the demands of the manufac-
turers out of whom the fat was fried
in 1888 and the urgent wishes of mer-
chants and agricHlturists, Allison and
his western colleagues will make it
before they go home to their constitu-
ents. 1t is not a matter of principle
with them, but expediency. They
know what the people of Iowa, Illinois,
Minnesota, Nebraska and Kansas are
talking about.
a western newspaper with an editor
who had any insight into western opin-
ion would never commit itself to the
Mckinley bin. 1t might invent apollo
gies, but would never praise. AS the
Gazette says, a congressman can not
safely go before prairie constituency
with such tariff. Nor can news
paper which depends upon popular
support. City Times.