The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1890-06-27
opinion.

A Republican Opinion.
The follow ng criticism from the Hon
Samuel NJ. Clark, editor Of the KeokuI
Gate City and n of the leading republi'
cans of Iowa, on the Mckinley tariff bill
is good reading:
We don't know how it is elsewhere, but
just as Keokuk is growing rapidly in
manufactures it is becoming free trade.
Our manufactures are nearly all Repub-
leans and they are becoming more and
more opposed to the tariff. The reason
seems to be two-fold. First, they want
to extend their markets; secondly, they
find themselves hampered by the tariff in
buying their materials. Government is
a matter of what you can do and what
you cannot, of what the people let you do.
Robert Peel kept his eyes open to this as
to the corn laws in Egland and
acted on it; so did Aalmesston and Dis
rael as to extending the suffrage and
Gladstone as to Irish church disestab-
iishment. Practical state men have TODD
1t. In this view it would seem Republic
can lawmakers must stop protection for
the people do not seem to be going that
way. but the other. Mr.. Mckinley does not
seem to have detected this. He is not a
mar of the people. He avoids the crowd.
He seldom talks to any one. He sits
alone i'll his room and hammers out his
own theories by the aid of books. 1t he
had been out among the people he would
have known that neither Republicans
nor Democrats are going to put up with
his bill, which under the p%retense Of re-
forming the tariff increases the general
average of present duties twenty-five per
cent. There is no excuse for this what
ever. The country was neither asking MOI
expecting it nor will tolerate it.
The simple, plain unmistakable fact is
that if public sentiment elsewhere is as
it is here the Republican party cannot
so to the country on the position Mr..
Mckinley has taken without being ground
to powder. Take one point. Mr.. Ander-
son, a leading Republican congressman,
of Kansas, moved this amendment to the
Mckinley bill the other day: provided,
however, that the president of the United
States is hereby authorized to suspend
the rate of duty prescribed for any arti-
Gle named in this act when in his Judge
ment the production, manufacture or
sale OF such article is m%0nopolized or
controlled by any trust or other combina-
tons or agreement bypersons orcorpora-
tiOns III the United States" Now that
amendment gives the view and desire
OF all the people OF the Unto d Ststes of
both parties. The house at first adopted
it by a vote OF eight-seyen for to seventy
six against. But Mr.. Mckinley deter
mined it should not stand and he called
for a division and had the bride on
monopoly and trusts rejected by a vote
OF ninety-one for to 10 against. One
would think that after the American
people had taxed themselves for a gener-
alton Of years to enable American manu-
%facturers to give them plenty of goods at
cheap prices tie people should now be
permitted to reap the benefit of it. But
no. Mr.. Mckinley annouced in the
house that the reason he wanted to hur-
ray the passage of the bill and is taking
effect was that he did not want American
merchants and the American people to
anticipate its passage by purchasing
their this years supplies as cheaply as
they now can. There are no secrets in
politics. The Mckinley bill and all
about it would be and will be before the
people this campaign il it passes.
We cannot think that any Republican
thinks we could elect another Republic
can congress if the party has to endorse.
M~ckinley's positions, There wonii not
be a Republican congressman from Iowa
We are glad that Henderson, Lacy,
Deliver, Reed, Kerr and Sweeny see this
and are going their OWL way As the
Council Bluffs Nonpareil says we have
been mainly silent about the bill so far.
Differing with our party in Iowa as to
prohibition and in the nation AS to the
Mckinley bill we dare not say too much
lest we seem to be distinctiyely helping
the Democratic party and distinctively
hurting our own party and that would
make anything VIZ said futile. 1t has
been so clear to us that Mr.. Mckinley
could not carry protection 25 per cent.
higher and farther without ruin to the
Republican party that we have been wait
ing for just such revolt from the absur-
dity and party suicide of his bill as Iowa
Republican congress are now making.
The time on the Mckinley bill has not
been wasted. 1t will help wise, expert
enced Mr.. Allison in a reduction of the
tariff that is a reduction. For Mr.. Ali
on is a man OF sense and he knows that
unless there Isl practical thorough-going
reduction of the tariff there will be nei-
Their a Republican house, senate nor pres