The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1891-08-08
McKINLEY's WAYS AND MEANS.
A Few Axioms from the Prohibitory
Tariff Greed.


Tariff Greed.
The axioms of McKinleyism are
fearfully and wonderfully made, as
for instance:
The way to enrich Nation is to
tax it; the more taxation the more
wealth.
The way to impoverish a nation is
to reduce taxation; the less taxes the
more poverty.
The way to increase the profits of
labor is to increase the cost of liv-
ing.
The way to raise wages is to re-
duce their purchasing value.
The way to protect labor is to
make it the serf of monopoly.
The way to diversity industry is to
protect and promote shoddy pro-
duction.
The way to make things cheap, is
to make them dearer by taxation.
The way to insure better prices
for what the people produce is to
make things cheap by prohibitory
tariff.
The way to promote commerce is
to strangle it.
The way to produce international
trade is to prohibit it,
The way to punish foreigners for
not trading with us, or for taxing
our exports, is to lay additional bur
dens on our own people. This is
reciprocity.
The way to encourage foreigners
to buy our meat, grain and cotton is
to refuse to buy anything they may
have to sell.
The way to build up our merchant
marine is to enslave and destroy
commerce
The way to get a carrying trade"
is to hire ships at so much mile to
carry the American flag, This helps
to increase taxation, and thereby
promotes prosperity. 1t also graft
fies American pride-immensely.
The way to get the Mexican and
Central American trade away from
the Germans is to do as the Ger
mans don't do, by substituting
ships.
The way to punish England for
depressing Ireland is to put high
duties on Irish linens, and to tax
Irish Americans within an inch of
their lives.
The way to give the wool-grower
better price for his wool is to
stifle and destroy the wool manu-
featuring interest. (See present
wool quotations. When you have
a goose which lays golden eggs the
quickest way to get the eggs is to
kill the goose.
The Mckinley act creates a home
market by shutting our own country
in. 1t creates a foreign market by
shutting other countries out 1t is
equally good for sore eyes. rheuma-
tism or fatulent 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.
We cannot compete with foreign
producers in the home market. Ergo:
South America is a much better
country to trade in than the United
States.
The manufacturer wants high
tariff because it gives him dear la
Dor. The laboring man wants a
high tariff because by abolishing it
he gets cheap sugar.
A prohibitory tariff makes every
thing-including labor-cheaper to
the consumer. This is the true
glory of McKinlevism.
Cheapness is great evil. ga
cheap coat makes cheap mar"
Everything should be made dear
Ell by taxation. This will make
dear men and women-especially
women, and the dearer women are of
course the better.
A prohibitory tariff increases the
Injuries of life A prohibitory tariff
aims to put luxuries out of our
reach. 1t makes luxuries even of
necessaries.
Free trade is an, abomination, ut
terly, but it is one of the finest points
of the Mckinley act that it gives us
more free trade than we ever had
before. (See McKinley's speeches.
The Mckinley act is free trade
measure. 1t raised the war duties
on nearly eight hundred articles.
The foreign producer, not the
home consumer, pays the duty. For
this reason we took the duty off of
sugar SO as to relieve the poor for
eigner of the trouble of paying fifty
millions of our taxes. At the same
time we save fifty millions to the
consumers of sugar by putting that
much more duty on their tin, white
lead and clothes.
All the good that happens to us
while prohibitory tariff prevails, is
due to the tariff. All the evil4-such
as labor trouble or agricultural de-
pression-which happens to us while
a prohibitory tariff prevails, is due
to something else.
Population has increased in this
country twelve to fourteen millions
during the last decade; all due to the
tariff. Farming lands have depre-
ciated twenty-five per cent during
the last decade; all due to free trade.
The only trouble with the Nc, Kin
ley tariff is that the people have not
sense enough to know good thing
when they see it, Yet Harrison
and his billion dollar Congress were
elected because the people wanted
the Mckinley tariff.
The American people are sixty
odd millions, mostly fools.
Great is Mckinley He is simply
immense.-Ayred e. Lee IN Column
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