News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-11-20
The Mckinley Bill and 1892.

Thanks to the delay engineered by
Democratic obstructionists, the Me
Kinley bill did not become a law till
just in time to admit of the greatest
possible effect of free trade eXagger-
ations, misrepresentation and down
right lies. The most short-sighted
view of the case was urged upon the
public Cause and certain effect were
separated. Ultimate benefits were
not considered. Needless and artifi-
cial advances were made in prices, in
addition to the general rise in values,
incident to an era of prosperity and
national expansion that. in any 9th
err circumstances, would have COM
manded from the people an indorse-
ment OF the party in power The
significance of the result, so far as
protective duties are concerned, is no
greater than that of the shrek of
patient under the wholesome knife of
a surgeon, or the protest of a child
against the deep digging of founda-
ton of a house that is to be too high,
or the deep planting of a seed that is
to grow to be mighty tree.
The temporary results of political
demagogism do not reveal the law of
supply and demand, orprevent effects
from following causes. You can in
crease an import duty between two
days, but you can't build the new
factories till it makes room for
months to elapse. The increased
supply cannot appear till the new
production is under way, and the
lower prices cannot come until
the increased supply has begun to
outstrip the steady growth of de-
mand. The most important pro-
cesses are the slowest; the gradual
growths are the most valuable, the
best results are those which are not
attained in day; the most power
-ffsl1 fREeaG. viR.eae4aaessfqaf ana inter-
mediate, but the most delicate and
permanent. The wisest and the most
successful men in the world are those
who look further ahead, and for
whom time is required to vindicate
their work.
There is not q shadow of doubt
that by 1892 the Mckinley bill will
have been indicated by its effects on
the industrial production of the coun-
try. In fact, the vindication has al
ready begun. New industries and in
creased production in old industries,
are daily reported from all parts of
the country. There will be a great
deal more of that sort of thing be-
workers, from this time onward, will
be more and more interested in in
dustries that owe their existence to |
protection, for those industries arc
going to multiply. And when those
industries are asSailed, as they were |
in 1888, and as they will be in 1892
by a Democratic House of Represen-
tatives, and when a solid Republican
Senate meets the issue and cries
- hands Off" we have no fears but
that the intelligent workingman will
know who his friends are, and OH
which side his bread is buttered and
his mutton protected.
The Democrats will of course make
q desperate effort to convince him
that he is taxed" But the bust
hess history of the year 1891 will
give the lie to the Misrepresentation
If 1890. 1t will be the most impor-
ant duty of Republicans to meet
.hese One-sided appeals to impulse
md prejudice and short-sightednes
~ both-sided appeals to facts and
history and reason and new ex-
1erience. We are to have another
era of popular econom-
cs, and the more complete and ex-
laustive it is, the wider the range of
acts included, the more logical and
the methods of discnss-
ng them, the better it will be for
he Republican party and protection.
The Press proposes to take no sec
0ndary part in this fight. We expect
rom now till the nationi is won again
in 1892, to be able to point almost
daily to some of the steadily increas-
-A-fft-44tr-ssf
dustry-making laws, the Mckinley
bill of 1890. We nail protection to
American industries, American pro-
1ucers and American consumers to
The masthead, and there we propose
20 keep it.-[N. Y. Press.