New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-09-08
THE vJCTORY or FACTS.

Major McKinley's canvass in Ohio brings out
many interesting facts. lie is brilliant leauer'
q stndent and thinker, and his part IN any as
cnssion must needs be full OF meat. HIS OPP
Moments are in sore trouble about the silver
ouestion. and therefore make the utmost exer-
tions 70 turn the discussion and avert puDhC
attention from that issue, and local editors ana
noliticians wherever Mr. Mckinley is to speak
are carefully loaded with questions about inc
tariff TO be discharged at him. His answers
are instructive, but hardly more SO than tne
questions themselves, which disclose Democratic
dread of the silver issue, an amazing ignorance
If facts and stupid and stOlid reliance upon
Mr. Clevelands pet theory that " the duty Is
ALWAYS added to the price, and paid by uhe
consumer" -
One question put to Mr.. Mckinley was about
the price of a suit of clothes, supposed to nave
cost $50 before the change OF tarlh anu GOV
since. The Republican leader answered oS
proving that suits of mems clothing were au-
yertised in Democratic papers in that very couh-
tv at lower prices than ever before ana thaV
such clothing had never been as cheap at any
previous time in this country. There Is no Sucii
suit Of clothes in the United states as VliiS a.
legged suit which cost $50 once ana coS'S Gov
now. Any Democratic editor or auestloner may
safely be challenged to produce RECORDS OF sdieo
on that subject for retail dealers are perlectlS
aware that ready-made clothing is now sou Ill
every part of the land as cheaply as 1t was one
wear or two years ago, and do not dare by puo-
fishing statements to the contrary to place them
selves on record as cheating their CUSTOMERS,
There is one firm in this city which mas re'"ii
stores in many cities East and West ana IN hoe
one of them has penny been added on account
of the tariff to the prices OF clothing IL Sells
Eridonce of the same sort can be found every
where.
Facts are knocking out the Free-ITaue thoorS
effectually. Another objector In Maryland "aliV-
cd to know whether the cost OF canned irui'S
was not enhanced by the duty on TN pla'eS.
The answer came in a statement from one Oh
tho largest canning establishments that as yet
II maid no advance whatever on the cost OF cans
bnt if it should be obliged to pay an advance
email 10 the entire new duty on ALL tin plates
usad in it's business that would amount to 9I,5oO
YEARLY. while the decrease in cost OF 'cahheu
GOODS through removal of the duty on sugar
bv the same tariff was SO, 900 year In the
same business. Major Mckinley made shrewd
and clear exposition Of the effect OF duties on
consumers in one @ his recent replies. dc
showed that revenue duty on articles not
produced largely in this country was added to
the foreign price and PAID by the consumers
But a protective duty, when it had developed
production here so that the domestic price was
fixed by hoze competition, was paid by the
foreign manufacturers or dealers for the priv
ilege of selling at all in the protected market
Thus it comes to pass that foreign woollens and
cutlery are actually sold in this country to-day
at exactly the prices charged before the adj
vance of duties.
The good work of education will 90 on until
the election with constantly increasing power
Every day the minds of men are being openGC
bv irresistible facts to perceive the falSity OF
| theories upon which Free Traders rely. The
deluge of falsehoods about the higher cost OF
" every article needed from the cradle to the
grave" served its purpose for one election only
and now the millions who find that they have
been cheated by these Democratic untruths arr
preparing to make their answer.