The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-10-25
McKinlev Renlies TO crisp.

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Mai. Mckinley has found it necessary TO
take notice of the fact that Judge Crisp is
in Ohio aud is delivering some telling
speeches in behalf of the democratic ticket.
In his speech at Cambridge he said: Mr..
I Crisp, of Georgia. said the other night in
| Cincin att that the new tariff law was the
most un-American la " ever ssed. Strange
language from the gentleman from Georgia.
Think Of southern democrat talking about
the tariff law being un-Anerican. le
thing is certain-it is not g confederate law.
It hasn't touch OF sec ioaeisn in it. 1t is
for the south as well as for the north It is
for the new south, not fashioned
after the plan of the old confederacy. The
confederates put in their constitution when
they unde took to destroy this government
the British decla alton for free trade, which
is VI hat you find in the democratic platform
of OAp to-day. The southe n Bourbons are
.eekiSg again to dictate the industrial policy
of this country. They cannot, they must
not, do it. Their cause.-the cause of cheap
labor. Of slave lsbJr-perished with the
co federacy."
Ju lge Crisp is right. The Mckinley tariff
is un-Americap. 1t is 50 because it fosters
monopolles. 1t tends to divide the people
into two great classes-the extremely rich
and the very poor. II it is continued in
force it will in time make the farmers as
poor as the laborers they employ. They
cannot prosper under system
which does not increase the prices of
their products, but which does increase
the rrices Of about everything they are
compelled TO buy for their far Us or their
households The Mckinley tariff forces
them to pay from 20 per cent. to so per
cent. more for the agricultural implements
and machines which are manufactured in
their own or neighboring states than Is paid
FOR the same articles in the fsr-away repub-
lies Of South America. Mr.. Blaine himself
has said that the Mckinley ia -iff does not
open q market for another bushel Of wheat
OF another pound of pork. a arif is GER
tainly un-American which robs the farmers
Of their prosperity and tends to reduce
them 10 the condition of the toil-burdened
and ignorant psasanny Of Europe.
Maj. Mckinley says that his tariff hasn't a
touch Of sectioAalism In it. Does
the south want it, Does the north
west want it'll Is it not wholly in
the interest Of the great manufacturing
monopolies OF the eastern states! Had it not
been for the protective system could An
drew Carnegie have amassed fortune of
many millions Of dollars in a comparatively
few years? And MIR Carnegie is only one Of
thousands.
Aud how many OF Mr.. Carnegie's work
men are better off financially than they
were dozen years egol Maj. Mckinley
says that his tariff tends to elevate the
American workman-insures him higher
wages and better home. But does iti A
dispatch in the New York Press, an ex-
treme republican publication, stated day
or two ago that Mr.. Carnegie's managers
had just decided to reduce the wages of his
workmen. And yet. according 10 Maj. Nc
Kinley. one of the chief purposes of the Nc
Kinley tariff is to protect the American
laborer.
In the face of facts. Maj. Mckinley is
having hard time to convince the farmers
of Ohio that the tariff which bears his name
| ia helpful to them. He may call southern
statesmen who at JACK it Bourbons, and as
sert that they are trying to make labor
cheap, but by such a course be will convince
no one that Judge Crisp is wrong in calling
the Mckinley ia. if bill un-American.
The people all over the country. by their
votes last fall. said they did not want
that tariff. and it looks as if they would say
the same thing this fall.