The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-06-05
The Mckinley Bill in Germany.

The Mckinley Bill I'm Germany.
EDITOR REGISTER: When / gave
you the extracts of the letter last week
I neglected also to give you the clip
pings from some of the leading Ger
man newspapers which said letter con-
tanned.
For the benefit OF your readers I will
translate few of the most important
points, so that they may see and read
the true import of the effect on Ger
man manufacture and expectation of
all classes of goods that the famous
Mckinley bill had in that country.
One clipping dated Chemintz, Sax
ony, the great manufacturing center of
wooden and silk goods, plainly states
that since the Mckinley bill took eff
feet, the export of such goods has de-
creased to the amount of SS55, 249 on
WOODEN goods; S315, $50 on cotton hos
iery goods; sos, 101 on silk gloves; on
upholstery and furniture Sill, 427; tex
tile fabrics such as clothing goods,
$3.50, l06; cotton laces, Sl29,09l; music
al instruments, S22S, 5SS; linen goods,
SIG, 1SS; glassware, porcelain, wooden
goods, photographic materials 500, 0SS;
cigars, tobacco and hides, S2IS, 7Oi;
sugar, bristles and books, 100000
The above is but a portion OF the list
which shows the amount the eXporta-
ton of these goods was reduced during
the first quarter of 1891. And all this
is due, they claim, to the Mckinley
bill, and the only hope is the future
success i'll this free American Repub-
lie Of what: Why, the Democratic
party.
How they did rejoice in last falls
election wnen the Democrats gained
such large majority in the - Con-
gress, and should there be n Demo-
cratic victory in 1892 they expect that
our tariff will be so reduced as to give
them unlimited control of our mar
kets. BY the way 1 see that the
Democrats say the Mckinley bill is
the death knelI of the Republican
party. But would not a Democratic
victory in 1872 and the reduction of the
tariff be the death knell of all the in
dustries of this country?
Let us speak of the expectation of
some of our products, for instance, the
American hog. We all know that
it is barred from the most of the
European countries to the detriment
of the producers as well as the would
be consumers over there. One paper
says it has been now eight years since
the sinful exclusion of American
meats (pork, bacon, hams, ETC., while
the plea was that the hog products of
America were diseased and the meat
inspectors in America did not do
their duty. But the Editor says such
talk may all be cast to the four winds,
as the exclusion of the American hog
is only done in the interest of the
Barons or land owners who are the
only ones who produce or raise hogs
in Germany. He says further the
laboring classes may continue TO hun
ger and suffer for the want of some
nutritious food and meats, 80 that
these land owners and Shylocks may
not lose a penny. We will give from
another clipping the kind of food that
is sold TO tine laboring classes in Ger
many in the absence of good whole
some American pork for which the
masses clamor.
The heading of this piece Is "Leath-
er Sausages."
The editor says: 1--WE were always |
under the impression that the hides |
of heifers and steers were manufac-
tured into leather, but here comes
Butcher "Kalhaas" in Hoerde who
takes these hides, cleans off the hair
as good as he can, cooks these hides
and adds the grissle of the beef with
a small quantity of fat aud makes the
whole into sausages which he sells to
the labOring classes at 30 Pfennig per
pound, a delicious diet for laboring
men. Well the Butcher was arrested
and the sausages chemically analyzed
with the result of containing b per
cent hide, some grissle and small
quantity of fat, nothing in itself I'M
but recommended that