Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-07-09
M.kiNL<Y AND OHIO.

M'kiNLEY AND OHIO.
4 Campaign That VIII he Of Great 8sn-
eft to National Democracy.
Having decided in advance to make
the putative author of the Mckinley
bill and its acknowledged champion
their candidate for governor. the Ohio
republicans put as bold face as posi-
BILE on their action. The audacity with
which they commended many of the
outrages which their party has commit
ted against justice and liberty will
make some impression possibly upon
those who admire that quality even
when it is displayed in a bad cause
Still one can scarcely help suspecting
that their sanguine professions are
more than half insincere, and we may
set it down as certain that whatever
confidence they really feel is based
upon a want of harmony which may
exist among the democrats of the
state.
It was, of course, out of the question
to attempt to separate Mr.. Mckinley
from the bill that bears his name. We
call him the putative author of the bill
because numerous representatives OF
monopolies, or would-be mOnopolles,
have boosted that they themselves
drew the clauses of the bill that pro-
posed to tax the American people for
their benefit 1t is not easy. therefore,
to determine how large a part of the
bill was actually drafted by Mr.. Nc
Kinley. However, the bill as it passed
the house had his approval, or at least
his assent, and he is entitled to the bad
| eminence of being its father.
We regret to note, however, that Mr.
Mckinley, in his speech to the Lincoln
club. talked good deal about reciproc-
| ity, and did not tell his audience that
| the tariff BILL as he drew it. and as it
| passed the house, had no reciprocity in
| it. We regret that he did not say that
this was no oversight; that the secre-
| tary of state had been before the ways
| and means committee months before
the bill passed the house, pleading for
| reciprocity in different form from
that in which it afterward got into the
! bill, and that his counsel was rejected
and despised. The platform adopted
commends reciprocity, also. but with
out any hint of the GOODNESS which Mr..
Mckinley displayed toward it until the
senate forced it upon him.
The platform comm ends the McKin-
ley bill as the ablest expression of the
principle of protection. Such an in
dorsement could hardly be withheld
/ after the nomination of Mr.. Mckinley
to head the ticket, but it is we'll
known that it does not express the
views of many republicans in and out
| of Ohio. 1t was reported that part OF
the committee on resolutions thought
it safer plan simply to indorse the
general doctrine of protection. This
view was overruled, but it will be OBJ
served that it was deemed best to put
in a saving clause looking to such
notifications of the measure ''as
changed conditions or experience may
require" A little while ago republic
ans w ere declaring that tariff tinker
ing was in the nature of a misdemean-
or at least, if not of a graver crime
but now they tacitly admit that some
modification even of the ablest expires
sion of the doctrine of protection is like
~ soon to be needed.
The Ohio republicans are not yet con
WINGED that the tariff on wool has out
lived its usefulness as a resource fol
fooling the farmer. They menace the
advocates of free wool among the man
ufacturers by declaring in favor o
protection to the wool industry equa
to that accorded to the most favored
manufacture of wool. Now the tariff
on some man ufactures of wool exceeds
IT'S per cent. If Mr.. Mckinley is il
favor of so much protection to wool
why did he not put it into his bill?
While the committee on resolution
were putting this wool clause int,
shape, other republicans were reading
in the issue of the Chicago Tribun,
which appeared on the day the Obi,
convention assembled, an article Oh
''Mr. McKinley's Oppression of thu
Eastern WoOl-Growers," in which tn
decline of Ohio wool is noted and il
which occurs this passage:
"Instead of the foreign wool producers pay
Ing the increased duties, as Mckinley fancie
they would. they are being paid by the WOO
raisers of his own and neighboring states. TIL
sheep farmers between the Alleghanies an
the Mississippi are getting less for thei
heeceS than the prices which they grumble
| about last November. Thus they are handin
over out OF their own pockets the increased d,
ties which the manufacturer pays on the in
ported mixing woods he must have and the
will continue to do 80 until congress legislate
for their benefit"
When the wool-growers of Ohio not
the indisputable decline of wool, an
when good republican authority sue
as that above given can be quoted t
show that Mr.. Mckinley is the cause @
it, it is just possible that they will nc
be greatly impressed with the sop give
them in the republican platform.
The canvass in Ohio this year mus
necessarily be one of education upo
the tariff, and to that extent will
beneficial to the democratic party q
large.-Louisville Courier-Journal.
SHAMELESS CORRUPTION.
When Harrison Bought Wsnamaker