The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1891-05-28
MoKINLsY1sn ILLUsTRATEp.

Capt. Alfred Il. Lee, an old soldier
an old time Republican editor, diplo-
mat sno author, is out In the Colum
bus Post with q series of automatic
saws, elaborated from the various soft
sophisms of Mckinley q Co. Capt
Lee will be remembered as late editor
| of the ohio State Journal, as private
secretary of President Hayes, Consul to
Frankfort-oh-the-M Main, and author of
q book on observations In Europe
Below we quote some Of the axioms
referred to. They are excellent read
ing:
The axioms of McKinleyism are fear
fully made, as for instance:
The way to enrich a Nation Is to tax II /;
the more taxation the more wealth.
Free trade Is an abomination, utterly,
but II is one of the finest points of the
Mckinley act that II gives US more free
trade than we ever had before. [See Nc
Kinley's speeches..
The way to increase the profits of labor
is TO increase the cost of living.
The way to raise wages is to reduce their
purchasing value.
The way to diversity industry is to pro-
mote shoddy production.
The way TO insure better prices for what
the people produce Is to make things
cheap by prohibitory tariff.
The way to produce international trade
is to prohibit IL.
The way to punish foreigners for not
trading with us, or for taxing our exports,
is to lay additional burdens on our own
people.
The way to encourage foreigners to buy
our meat, grain and cotton is 20 refuse to
buy anything they may have to sell.
The way to get carrying trader Is to
hire ships at so much mile to carry the
hols a..
taxation, and thereby promotes prosper
ity. 1t also gratities American pride
immensely.
The way to get the Mexican and Central
American trade away from the Germans
is TO do as the Germans DON'T do, by sub
sidizng ships.
The wayito give the wool grower a bet
ter price for his wool is to stifle and de-
stroy the wool-manufacturing interest,
(See present wool quotations) When You
have goose which lays golden eggs, the
quickest way to get the eggs is to kill the
goose,
The Mckinley act creates a home mar.
ket by shutting our own country in. 1t
creates foreign market by shutting other
countries out. 1t Is equally good for sore
eyes, rheumatism or q fiatulent condition
of the bowels. The true market for the
American people is the tail-gate of a farm
wagon. (See Harrison's swing-around
speeches)
A prohibitory tariff makes everything
including labor-cheapert to the consumer.
This is the true glory of McKinleyism.
Cheapness is great evil. "a cheap
coat makes a cheap man." Everything
should be made dearer by taxation,
this will make dear men and women
especially women, and the dearer women
are OF course the better.
All the good that happens to us while a
prohibitory tariff prevails, is due to the
tariff. All the evil-such as labor trouble
and agricultural depression-which hap
pens to us while a prohibitory tariff pre-
walls, is due to something else.
Population has increased in this coun-
try twelve to fourteen millions during the
last decade; all due to the tariff. Farm
ing lands have deprecated twenty-five to
seyenty.hve per cent. during the past de-
cade; all due to free trade.
The only trouble with the Mckinley
tariff is that the people haven't sense
enough to know good thing when they
see it. Yet Harrison and his billion.dol-
lar congress were elected because the
people wanted the Mckinley tariff.
:, The American people are sixty odd mill
lions, mostly fools.
Great is Mckinley. He is simply inn
mense. ALFRED E. LEE.