New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1891-06-24
MC.KINLEY ISM ON TOP.

McKinleyism has already been con-
demned, yet the Republican party has
the effronterY to hoist again the black
flag OF monopoly, trusting by all the
smoking arts Of a depraved and rotten
partyisn to circumvent and overcome
the rising tide of public wrath against
4 class legislation and the oppression of
the many for the enrichment of the few
Minneapolis Times.
The ADORE may contain good many
harsh words, but 1t contains very little
sense and decidedly less of truth. AS a
! matter of fact, McKinleyism has not
been condemned; it has not been re-.
pudiated. Last fall, good many thous-
and voters were led astray by such
slush as daily finds its way into the
columns of the Times, and they brought
about what Democratic papers have
ever since endeayored TO picture as a
Knockout for the Mckinley tariff
bill. But it was not a knock
out. The bill was new and .un-
tried then. Its provisions had not been
submitted to the test,to which they were
entitled before Judgment was passed,
and previous to the election there was
room for Democratic falsehoods to cut
a wide swath. Since then, however, the
great bill has been quietly at work.
Eight months have given every line aud
section of it opportunity to correct the
Misrepresentation thst',was placed upon
the entire measure, and to-day it is be-
ing revealed to the people as the wisest
and most beneficent production of
congress, that labored unselfshly in the
interests of all industries and all class.
es, despite the unwarranted attacks of
those who sought simply after partisan
advancement. ~ 81
Instead of raising the price on every
thing,a our Dem ocratic friends predict
ed it would, the bill has had tenden-
cy to force many things down and send
nothing up. Sugar has gone down,
and, what is better, in such manner
that the people know it and rejoice.
Cotton goods. have gone down, in fact
were never so low. Even. tin has de.
creased in price, and the laborer, in.
stead of paying ten cents for Il lineup,
as he was led to believe he would have
to last fall, is still permitted to buy it for
the same price as ever. Nothing of any
moment has advanced in price, and in
face of all this it does not look as if
McKinleyism had been or deserved to
be condemned. On the contrary, the
Review is inclined to think with DEM
ocrat of this city, who was frank enough
to make the admission, that it was a
sorry thing for the Democrats that the
passag of the Mckinley bill was not
postponed until two months before the
presidential election instead of being
passed in time to let the people thini
over it, and profit from its provisions.
There may not be quite SO much rythm
of language in such sentence as that,
as in the high sounding paragraph from
the Times, but there is at least good
deal more of truth. Cheap sugar, cheap
tin, and cheap everything, compared
with what ths prices used to be, do not
jibe with Democratic prophecies and
utterances, and before the time comes
taround for another election, the people
will have found it out. Such charges Of
"hoisting the black flag of MONOPOLY 81
of ''rotten partyism,' of ''class
legislation" and of the oppression o.
the many for the benefit of the few''wil
have by that time been overcome by
"cheap sugar." ''cheap TIM thriving
industries and general prosperity. Free
trade will once more be theory, anc
protection an experienced blessing.