The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1891-09-17
A VETERAN REPUBLICAN,
Soldier on McKinleyism--.Im-
portant Testimony from the
Republican Record.
Gen. Alfred Il. Lee on the Robbers
RoOst, Now Running the G. o. P.
of Ohio.
Some sledge Hammer Blows at Glass
Legislation aud Doodle Statesmen.
,From the Columbus Post.)

DTOUtCLlOD, Will lhClOCuOul lONGluCs
These are the words o. Mr.. Mckinley
himself, and not of hi enemies.
The McKinleyizn state Journal as
sures us that the oily danger" under
the Mex pley l,." lJ "that home COM
petition will b. increased to an un-
wholesome d.. 80"
An editor why will soberly say that
there is danger of too much COM
petition under law, the purpose
and effect of which are to shut out and
destroy competitor must have lost his
wits. Any man, to use the state Jour
nal's elegant phrase, who has risen
above the intellectual condition of the
pig in the sty" knows that the Mckin-
ley tariff protects scores of monOpoligs
from all competition from the outside,
and that by means of this same "pro.
lection" these monopOlies have crush
ed and destroyed all competition from
inside. But they contribute literally
to the Mckinley campaign fund, and
that, of course, condoneG everything.
"History instructs u.s." says the Nc
Kinley organ, "that the American pro.
tective tariff system has not been pro.
ductive of monopolies and trust In
manufacturing business"
But the same paper of March 7, 1889,
instructed us in this vice: at cannot
he successfully denied that high pro-
tective tariff invites to the formation
of trusts"
Here we have square issue between
"history" on one side and the State
Journal on the otheT--or rather between
the State Journal of one date and the
same paper of another date. Until the
organ shall be able to agree with itself
two days together, perhaps it had bet
ter call halt in its animadVersiOns, on
"soreheads'
"No revenue system that this country
has ever had and tried" continues the
organ, "can be held responsible for co.
existing monopOlies and trusts"
Then why did Senator Sherman say:
"Where these combinations grow out of
the revenue laws, as the sugar trust,
which is one of the most dangerous and
wrongful trusts ever organized N thl5
country, tho t3'jiStS cGl cert, H. :, VI
reached bg our re0eaue lars. Senate
speech OF August ID, 1888.
Or why did Sherman say in his speech
of January 4, 1888, that, "when comb
nasions to prevent q reduction Of price
by fair competition exists, agree that
| they mag and ought to be met by re-
duCtjOn of dUtjeSP
Why did he say in speech of Octo
Der 10, 1889, that whenever "tree COM
petition is evaded or avoided by COM
bjnations of individuals, the duty
4 should be reduced and foreign cOmpett-
| ton promptly inoitedF'
In an editorial article entitled Incl
dental Protection" the Ohio State Jour
nal of September Z, says: HE who says
he is 10 favor of incidental protection
by tariff law, consciously or uncon-
sclously deceives himself or somebody
i else"
Then whom did the Ohio State Jour
| nal deceive when, in an editorial with
| exactly the same heading, it said in its
issue of November 26, 1873. "l.he in.
| telligent observer will find in this sys-
tenn precisely the political philosophy
l so ably and eloquently urged by Henry
Clay. Protection for the sake
| of protection is not necessary, because
| enough protection can be gi0en Of an
| incidental character to accomplish
every useful and desirable purpose"
And when did the Republicans Of
| Ohio deceive when they declared III
their platform of 1874 and 1873 in favor
Of "a tariff for reoenote, ootth incidental
| protection"
Such was the orthodox Republican
doctrine, not in Ohio ouly, but every
where else, until Mckinley and the
trusts came along with the reverse idea
of tariff for protection with Incidental
revenue,
1t would seem that under the leader
ship of Nc Kinley the State journal has
now renounced Clay and taken up with
Calhoun. The principles of the Repub'
lican party which stood for over thirty
years are exchanged for the doctrines
of the original nuiliaer and secession
ist. Any Republican who objects to
this apostasy is miserable sorehead,
The State Journal continues: "Ihe
purpose of a revenue system being tc
encourage and protect home industry
and labor, the means OF accomplishing
the purpose should be adequate"
Let the State Journal lJself answer
this. In its issue of June 27, 1868, II
said: "ro talk about tariff for Tro-
lection to home industry is simply ask
ing that nine-tenths of the people Of
the United States shall be taxed to sup
port One-tenth in the exercise OF
monopoly"
Trusts began to organize all over The
country as soon as the Mckinley Cal.
I hOuAl uOSbAihO ALJNNhSA AlAO NllO ANS
publican platform. Scores and score!
of them have been called into existence
| by the Mckinley law, and would dis
solve if the prohibitive duties by which
that law protects them were reduced
We have Senator Sherman's confession
that such duties ought to be reduced
but Mckinley Is opposed to reducing
them, and any Republican who doe
not agree with Mckinley, and go 70
the trusts Is a sorehead.
The Mckinley organ says trusts OK
ist,in "free trade England" as well a
here. There are no trusts in Euglant
such as we have, and cannot be. Eng
land does not protect such combina
tions; we do. In England, when Al
arbitrary attempt is made to rails
prices, competition comes in and re
stores them to their natural level Her
the Mckinley law excludes and de
stroys competition. Here, in Republ
can America, we live under an ecC
nomic despotism, which limits produ(
tion and regulates prices according t
the caprices of its aVarice, whereas un
der the British monarchy such thin
is impossible.
For this economic despotism we NJ
indebted to Mckinley, and anybod
who disagrees with Mckinley is a sore
head. ALFRED Il. LEE