Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1891-04-09
New Series, Vol. 81, No Is

| THE TRUTH BECOMING KNOWN.
Cleveland Leader.
Major Mckinley told some plain truths
about the new tariff law at the banquet
rendered him by the Tippecanoe Club
Tuesday evening that the people of the
United States are now prepared to bear
and consider in a more judicial frame of
mind than was possible during the ex-
citement and Misrepresentation of the
late Congressional campaign-truths
that are now being established by the
evidence of the senses, and in a way
that is causing a powerful and wide
spread reaction in favor of the law.
The outcry was raised that it was
high tariff law, the inference being that
it raised the tariff generally. The Re-
publican party is neither a high tariff
nor low tariff party. 1t is protective
tariff party. Its aim is to levy the
1925, 100000 of duties which must be
collected for the support of the govern
ment, whatever party is in power, in
such way as to protect such industries
as need protection from foreign cheap
labor competition, and to the extent
that they require protection, be it little
or much. 1t is not in favor of tariff
protection on anything that does not
need protection, and it is in favor of
free trade in those things we can NOT
profitably or adequately produce.
In his speech at the banquet Major
Mckinley showed that the great meas
ure which bears his name conforms to
the tariff principle we have just ascribed
to the Republican party. He showed
that the law places upon the free list
number of articles, heretofore dutiable,
whose production was not promoted by
the former duties. Almost at the hour
he was speaking that part of the law
which placed sugar on the free list and
wiped out $65,000,000 a year of revenue
tariff taxes went into effect, and reduced
the price of sugar One-third in every
grocery in the United States He show
ed. also, that the tariff on p per cent of
all the articles on the old list had been
reduced, including a wide range of
manufacturers, because it was believed
they did not need so much protection as
heretofore, while the duties on a still
larger proportion were unchanged.
Many articles are made dutiable at an
even lower rate than was prescribed by
the Mills bill. including cotton goods of
various kinds, coTdage and binding
twine, leather, and boots and shoes.
On wool and woolens, on tin plates and
tobacco, on fax and linens, and on
other agricultural and manufacturing
products that seemed to require it, the
tariff was raised. AS matter of fact
the new tariff law imposes a lower
average tariff on all imports than any
previous measure of the kind since the
war. The proofs of this are now clearly
seen. The law is justifying itself every
where. Well might Major Mckinley
say, as he did at the banquet:
1.-The new tariff law has brought no
blight, but has already dispensed bless
ngs to every section. Witness the
South. Its progress and development in
the last three months have exceeded
any previous three months of our history.
The new tariff has not put up prices but
it has put up new plants. 1t has not
imposed new burdens upon the people,
but has widened opportunity in every
avenue of human endeavor 1t has
the American people to
greater effort, and has opened up new
ields for labor heretofore unexplored."
The Mckinley law will be the strong
EST card of the Republican party in 1892.
And so it will be in Ohio this fall with
at the head of the Republican
.icket