The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1891-07-15
M'klNLEY AND OHIO.
4 Campaign That Will Re of Great Ber
eft to National Democracy.

| republicans pun dS DOlu d Lace DIS pCsSl
BILE on their action. The audacity will
which they commended many of thu
outrages which their party has commit
ted against justice and liberty will
make some impression possibly upo1
those who admire that quality ever
when it is displayed in bad cause
Still one can scarcely help suspectint
that their sanguine professions are
more than half insincere, and we may
set it down as certain that whatever
confidence they really feel is basec
upon a want CT harmony which may
exist among the democrats of the
state.
1t was, of course, out of the question
to attempt to sepa rate Mr.. McKiI ley
from the bill that bea his name. We
call him the putative author of the bill
because numerous representatives OF
monopolies, or would-be monopolies,
have boosted that they themselves
drew the clauses of the bill that pro-
posed to tax the American people for
| their benefit. 1t is not easy, therefore,
to determine how large a part of the
bill was actually drafted by Mr.. Nc
Kinley. However, the bill as it passed
the house had his approval, or at least
his assent, and he is entitled to the bad
eminence of being it's father.
We regret to note, however, that Mr..
Mckinley, in his speech to the Lincoln
club, talked good deal bout reciproc-
ity, and did not tell his audience that
the tariff bill, as he drew it, and as it
passed the house, had no reciprocity in
it. We regret that he did not say that
this was no oversight; that the secre-
and means committee months before
the bill passed the house, pleading for
reciprocity in different form from
that in which it afterward got into the
bill, and that his counsel was rejected
and despised. The platform adopted
commends reciprocity, also, but with
out any hint of the GOODNESS which Mr..
Mckinley displayed toward it until the
senate forced it upon him.
The platform commends the McKin-
ley bill as the ablest expression of the
principle of protection. Such an in
dorsement could hardly be withheld
after the nomination of Mr.. Mckinley
to head the ticket, but it is we'll
known that it does not express the
views of many republicans in and out
of Ohio. 1t was reported that part of
the committee on resolutions thought
it safer plan simply to indorse the
general doctrine of protection. This
view was overruled, but it will be OBJ
served that it was deemed best to put
in saving clause looking to such
notifications of the measure "as
changed conditions or experience NAV
require" A little while ago republic
ans were declaring that tariff tinker
ing" was in the nature of misdemean-
or at least, if not of graver crime,
but now they tacitly admit that some
modification even Of the ablest express
sion OF the doctrine of protection is like
ly soon to be needed.
The Ohio republicans are not vet con-
WINGED that the tariff on wool has out
lived it's usefulness as a resource for
fooling the farmer. They menace the
advocates of free wool among the man.
ufacturers by declaring in favor of
protection to the wool industry equal
to that accorded to the most favored
manufacture of wool Now the tariff
on some manufactures of wool exceeds
l75 per cent. If Mr.. Mckinley is in
favor of so much protection to wool,
why did he not put it into his bill?
While the committee on resolutions
were putting this wool clause into
shape, other republicans were reading
in the issue of the Chicago Tribune
which appeared ON the day the Ohio
convention assembled, an article on
"Mr. McKinley's Oppression of the
Eastern Wool-Growers," in which the
decline of Ohio wool is noted and in
which occurs this passage:
Instead of the foreign WOO. producers pay
ing the increased duties, as Mckinley fancied
they would, they are being paid by the wool
raisers OF his own and neighboring states. The
sheep farmers between the Alleghanies and
the Mississippi are getting less for their
feeces than the prices which they grumbled
about last November Thus they are handing
over out OF their own pockets the increased du.
ties which the manufacturer pays on the i'm.
ported mixing woods he must have and thew
will continue to do so until congress legislates
for their benefit"
When the wool-growers of Ohio note
the indisputable decline of wool, and
when good republican authority such
as that above given can be quoted to
show that Mr.. Mckinley is the cause of
it, it is just possible that they will not
be greatly impressed with the sop given
them in the republican platform.
The canvass in Ohio this year must
necessarily be one of education upon
the tariff, and to that extent will be
beneficial to the democratic party at
.arge.-Louisville Courier-Journal.
SHAMELESS CORRUPTION.