The Logan County banner. [volume] (Logan, W. Va.) 1889-1903, 1891-01-29
Jlnoo JiM.s SCHEME.


Dust Thrown In the Eyes OF His Adorsrs
~ the Man from Maine.
The quarrels Of Republicans over the
responsibility for defeat promise to BE-
not less valnable as public educators
than the preparation, advocacy and de-
Tense Of the infamous Mckinley bill
were.
One wing Of the party Is opposed to
the Mckinley bill because it is an open
and DEFIANT expression of the assumed
right Of monopoly to tax the people in
Its own interest This wing may be
termed the crafty section of Republican,
ism. It knows that protective tariff
Is taxation for robbery. but it is intelli-
gent enough to perceive that it can not
prevail by honest methods It favors
indirection. pretended reforms, cheats,
shams, Safeguards for protection, = reel.
procity-anJ thing, every thing, except
. direct and honorable course looking to
the decrease OF the popular burdens
The other wing is made up of fanatics
and the dupes Of the monopolists, men
who truly believe that a tar is . bless
ing, that taxes create wealth. that taxes
promote prosperity and that cheapness
is calamity. These miserable idola-
tiers have believed all that the
agents of the trusts have ever
told them and they can not compro-
mise on any middle course calculated to
deceive the people and to retain the
substance OF protection. Mckinley is
their patron saint, as Blaine, the arch
apostle of monopoly, is the hope Of the
other element.
Until now the protective tariff de.
usion has been upheld for the most part
by crafty men like Blaine, who knew
its nature and who have maintained. ii
by playing upon the ignorance and
prejudice Of men. Reformation of the
tariff by its friends has always meant
its retention and increase, although
there have been few concessions that
served to allay popular discomfort while
the robbery went on. 1t is now pro.
posed by Mr.. Blaine and others to re-
lieve the pressure somewhat by sham
reciprocity with few South American
states merely in the hope of safeguard
ing protection, but no one proposes that
any oppressive tax shall be removed or
that the unnatural privileges granted
to any monopoly shall be curtailed.
Between the two Republican wings,
the schemers and their dupes, there
promises to be a merry war from this
time forth, with the certainty that il
the people will note the utterances OF
each they will receive more and more
light on the subject Of class taxation.
1t is not likely that the dupes will per-
NIT the repeal Of the Mckinley bill, for
they believe in it, and the chances APP
pear to be that the next Presidential
campaign will be fought out on sub
stantially the same line as that which
was drawn in the recent contest.
The demagogues like Blaine rest
their hope upon, the chance Of
deceiying the people with pre-
tended concessions to the re-
form spirit The dupes like Mckinley
base their future upon the belief that
the Mckinley bill will presently satisfy
the people and become popular. AS to
both of these contentious there is need
of continued investigation of and adj
herence to fundamental economic
truths. The Mckinley infamy, if per-
mitted to stand, will be moro easily
borne, year hence than it is to-day,
but as invention, sagacity, hard work
and new processes serve to beat down
its expressions the demand from monop-
oily for another and a higher tariff will
increase. Reciprocity, instead Of being
a cure for the Affections Of the country,
is merely subterfuge and delusion.
The people can have no real relief un-
til the monopoly taxes are repealed, and
when they are repealed. there will be
no occasion for elaborate reciprocal
schemes to be controlled by q few cor.
rupt officials at Washington.
The Blaines themselves have preached
the widest protectionist doctrines that
the world ever heard. Their unhappy
dupes have carried out these ideas hon.
estly, only to be beaten by the people
and to find that their great mentor,
with as many lives as cat, now com,
forts them with paltry scheme that il
guaranteed to work in nobody's hands
but his own. To hail this shallow pre-
tender as deliyerer may become fash.
ionable, but he will hardly satisfy the
fanatics whom he has raised up, or the
intelligent men whom his tricks, treach-
cries and evasions have driven of. Chi
cago Herald.
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