Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-07-09
WASHINGTON LETTER,

WASHINGTON LETTER,
Washington, D. C. July 6, 1891
Mr.. ingalls, calls himself a statesman
out of a job. If his craftsmanship had
been of larger mold his job might have
lasted longer.
AT the Cabinet meeting on the I'd, it
was decided to extend the a per cent.
bonds at per cent. The meeting was
held for the purpose of clearing up
official business prior to the presidents
departure to-day for Cape May. Sec
retary Blaine was the only absentee.
If Mckinley should happen to be de-
feated in Ohio it would drive the dis
mayed republicans into the Blaine camp.
On the contrary, if Mckinley should
pull through he would be a stumbling
block In the way of both Harrison and
Blaine. Much depends on the cast of
the die this year in the buckeye state.
A great deal of our exported gold has
been sent abroad to pay for excessive
importations of British tinplate at ex-
orbitant prices. 1t will be many day
before this country shall recover from
the assault made upon its industrial and
commercial progress by the party who
prepared tax bill at the instance of
persons who expected to benefit by its
operations at TIM expense of the mass
of the people, and passed it in spite of
popular protest.
Matthew S. Quay must go. The
warfare which the independent repub-
icans of Philadelphia have inaugurated
against Matthew S. Quay, United Stated
senator from Pennsylvania, and chair
man of the republican national commit
tee, will probably be successful. Mr..
Quay is man who does not command
the confidence of intelligent and self
respecting republicans in Pennsylvania
or elsewhere throughout the Union, and
nothing could better demonstrate this
fact than the I4o signatures of promi-
nent Philadelphia republicans which
were attached to the circular attacking
him for his abuse of party power In
Pennsylvania. The demand of the
hour is that Matthew S. Quay must go.
Personally, he is not calculated to secure
the support of the thinking and reput-
able element of the American people.
1t is a favorite theory of tariff mon
gers that the foreign producers, not
the home consumers pay the duties Oh
imports. The wool growers of Aus
tralia, Argentenia and Russia sell their
products In the open markets, to all
corners, at precisely the same prices;
the American manufacturer paying the
same as his English OF German rival
until the tariff strikes him at the Gus
tom house. But, under the peculiar
operation of the Mckinley tariff, the
burden of duties on wool largely falls
upon the sheep growers of Ohio and
western Pennsylvania They do not
pay the duties directly, as in the case
OF the double tinplate tax which lately
went into operation; but they must take
so much less for their products than
the rate of duty on imported woods. In
this way the manufacturers are partially
compensated, at the expense of the =,
Ohio wool growers, for the increased
duties on their imported raw materials.
1t IS but justice to Mr.. Mckinley and to
the Ohio shepherds who stood at his
side while framing the wool schedule to
assume that they calculated upon this
eccentric effect of protective tariff leg
Islation. In this example only one
more proof is afforded of the folly and
danger of tampering with the laws of
trade.