The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1891-10-29
A YEAR OF MKINLEYISM.
THE NEW TARIFF LAW OF 1890
FULLY INDICATED.


Triumph Of Reciprocity--Treaties with
Germany, Brazil and other Countries.
Time has always been on the side OF
American Protection. It has already
demonstrated the falsity Of the ante
election charges against the new tariff,
even as it proved the opponents Of pro-
lection in the time Of Clay, Webster and
Greeley to be false prophets Of evil. In
answer to the charge that the Mckinley
law would cut down our foreign trade,
the figures Of our exports and imports
for the first year of its existence are
larger than ever before In our history.
Instead of being Chinese wall, 46.9 per
cent. Of our imports for the first nine
months Of the laws existence came in
free Of duty, against 34.9 per cent. for
the corresponding period Of the year be-
fore. This in spite Of the abnormally
large importations of tin plates during
the entire period, and Notwithstanding
that the free sugar clause did not take
effect till April 1. There can be no
doubt that next year the percentage OF
free goods will be much larger. That
the new law would depress prices Of
farm produce is answered by substan-
tial and uniform rise in all the farmer
sells. And the Mckinley prices" hum
bug on which the Free-traders rode to
victory last November has been liter
ally annihilated by the market reports.
Almost everything the farmer buys is
cheaper than before tho law was passed.
"But," your Free-trader will say, 1.-The
Mckinley tariff did not bring the good
prices of farm produce, nor reduce the
prices Of manufactured goods. The form
or was caused by the failure Of crops in
Europe and the latter by the low price Of
raw materials"
1t does not matter what caused these
changes There will be differences Of
opinion on that question. 1t is entirely
distinct from the one now under discus
sion, which is the falsity Of the charges
and predictions made concerning the Nc
Kinley tariff. It may be the spots on the
sun, the influence Of the dog star, the
baccarat scandal, or all of them COM
bined, which caused the existing envia-
BILE condition Of the American farmer.
1t does not affect the validity Of our pres
ent argument.
IF prices Of farm pro'suots are not low
er because Of the present law, and they
are not; if our trade with other nations
Is more rapidly growing than before the
law was passed, and it is; if prices Of
manufactured products are not higher
than they were under the old tariff, aud
they are not, then, in either or all Of these
cases the Free-tradsr prevaricated prodi-
Hously in tho campaign last fall. That is
the point, and the only point we insist
upon hero.
The latest triumph Of the Mckinley
tariff is in the lately concluded arrange
ments for reciprocal trade with Spain
and her possessions and with Germany.
"H reciprocity with ono country IL good,
reciprocity with another country Is also
good" wrote the clover sophist, Roger
@ Mills, In the May Forum. and the
whole army OF Free-traders applauded.
took up and are still repeating the sen
timent. II soon took tho form Of d.
rect assertion that the reciprocity clauss
Of the now measure was applicable to
the countries Of South America only,
and In this form has served the purposes
Of the dishonest ~ we'll ~ The u1thinh-
Ing Pres-trads demagogus. It L. the lie
most recently nailed by tmA
For already the Mckinley tariff act has
secured special fsvoss for American prod
ucts from two Important European coun-
tries. In our last issue can be found q
synopsis Of the treaty with Spain, the
successful negotiation of which u due
entirely and solely to the new tariff act.
It will give Us a virtual monopoly of the
trade Of Cuba and Porto Rico, and. a. in
the case of the other treaties before con-
cluded, farmers will get the most i'm
portant part Of the benefit.
The other country whose doors have
been pried open by the Mckinley law u
Germany. Since 1888 American pork
has been excluded from that country.
The United States minister to Germany,
William Walter Phelps, has succeeded
In having that restriction removed. Our
government has demonstrated and ne
gotiated and tried In every way to ao-
complish this ead for eight years, but all
In vain till the Mckinley law was passed.
Then Germany listened 10 reason. Eight.
ninths Of all the beet sugar imported
into the United States come from Ger
many. The imports foot up nearly o.
0OO, for last year. It comes In free
under the Mckinley tariff. Mr.. Phelps
pointed ont 10 tho German government
that unless 1t removed the restrictions
from American pork, the president, by
the terms Of the new tariff law, could,
after the LIST Of next January, reimpose
q duty on German susar. That waa
what brought Germany to her senses.
With sugar from Brazil and Cuba COM
Ing In free, and . duty on Germany'a
sugar, she readily saw that her sugar
trade with us would be killed. So she
removed the embargo on American pork,
thereby opening market to our farmers
worth 90, ,000, 900 . year.
80 the absurdity Of the charge that Eu-
ropean countries arc excluded from the
application Of the reciprocity provision
has been demonstrated in fact. 50 far
~ the trade in products embraced In
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