The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1890-10-24
It Will Materially Reduce the
Farmers Expenses and
Greatly Increase
His Profits;
But 1t VIII Not Raise the Price to
the American Consumer Of One
Single Article That Can
Be Termed a Neces-
sary Expense.
Its Greatest Objects Are to Recover
Lost Markets and to OBJ
tain New Ones.

The Democratic party has made a
desperate effort in these first days Of
the passage of the Mckinley tariff
bill to disredit that measure and
make it unpopular by acting In
collusiOn with Democratic store
keepers to put up prices on all ar
ticles, This has been so universally
done, and so generally done with ar.
ticles not touched ny the tariff bill
at all as well as with those that are
that If shows that it was a precon-
certed plan, laid before the passage
of the bill. In the Western States
especially, the buyer is constantly
irritated by finding an advance on
everything, nearly, that he applies
for. when he is told that the advance
was made necessary by the passage
of the Mckinley bill. In Chicago
this game has been universally prac-
ticed. The Democratic storekeeper
has had an opportunity to serve his
party and his own pocket at the same
time, and he has not been scrupulOus
in the greedy use of such chance.
The Democratic thought must have
been that the bill came 50 nearly in
the teeth of the election that it could
employ this trick and not have it ex-
posed before election day. But the
Republican Congressional Commit.
tee. so quick to guard the interests
of the party, at once detected and
met this device, and has promptly
issued Il little document, which takes
up the Mckinley bill. thoroughly
anaIyzes it. and tells the people the
truth in regard to it, thus refuting
all these Democratic claims that it
makes necessary an increase on the
price of everything. Below we give
this document. Every Republican
into whose hands it comes should
pass it ABOUT to do good with waver-
ing men in the Republican party and
with fair men in the opposition. The
masses of the people in this country
want fair dealing. The mass of the
Democratic Iaty believe in fair
campaigns. There are thousands in
the party who have no sympathy
with any such devise as this and
whose sense of fair play would lead
them bv their votes in November to
put their seal of disapproval on a re.
Ort to such dishonest methods. The
document is short, goes to the point,
covers all the ground completely,
states all the merits and dement's OF
the Mckinley bill, gives every intel
ligent and honest voter the facts, and
leaves it impossible for anyone who
wants to know the IIuth any longer
to be deceived.
KEPT ITS PROMISES.
In the Congressional elections now
pending nothing is more clearly all
issue than the Tariff Bill just passed
by Republican Congress and ap'
proved by Republican President
The necessity of new adjustment
of tariff rates has long been admitted
by both political parties. The ques
ton at issue is purely one of pur'
pose and method.
In the Fiftielh Congress the HOUSE
was Democratic and the Senate Re
publican. Each passed tariff bill
but each bill was so unlike the other
both in the principles that had con
trolled its making and in the result:
it. contemplated us to render at