The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1891-08-26
PAW PAW. MICH, AUG. 26, 1891.
Tariff Repeal the Issue.

Tariff Repeal the Issue.
There is no installing the cry that
has come up from democratic sources
within the last three months, in respect
TO the tariff question. The party is
taking the ground that the Mckinley
bill must not be merely revised by its
free-trade enemies, but that it must be
repealed. Tariff repeal, not tariff re-
form, is the issue. The assaults that
have been made upon few of the lead
ing sections of the Mckinley law have
been only skirmsh line firing, and it is
now evident that the entire tariff bill
will be repealed if the democrats come
into power. This will include repeal
of the free sugar clause, of the reciproc-
ity clause, of the tin-plate schedule and
of various other leading items in the
measure which have been demonstrated
of incalculable value TO the country,
besides general tinkering with the
tariff all along the line of democratic
desperation and free-trade folly. 1t is
pretty big job that is thus undertaken.
The tariff tinkering of the five or six
years preceding the passage of the Nc
Kinley bill was disastrous To business
and manufacturing in this country, and
consequently to wage earners and
wages. The Morrison bill and Mills
bill were so obnoxious To the people
that they resulted in the election of the
republican congresses, following their
passage by democratic house, and
finally gave all branches of the govern
ment to the republican party. The I'M
certainty and anxiety that will result
from further tinkering with the tariff
will not only keep business and trade
in a feverish and unhealthy condition,
but will have the same political result
of returning republicans to full in
vestment of the national government
So far as this will he the result, republi-
cans have no occasion to wish for a
change in the democratic program. 1t
is as citizens, however, seeking the
prosperity of the country, and of every
person in it, that they have the right
and the wisdom and the courage to op-
pose the democratic purpose.
The advantages which have already
been secured to this country under the
new tariff and so many and SO far-reach-
ing and all important, that to abandon
them now would be suicidal. The re-
peal of the Mckinley bill would close
up the wooden and worsted factories,
the new velvet and plush factories, the
new hosiery mills, the glassworks, and
the tin-plate works that have been es-
tablished since it went into operation
1t would stop labor upon hundreds OF
factories and mills and enterprises now
in progress and absolutely paralyze
even the contemplation of any new en-
terprise. 1t will stagnate the country
1t would put sugar back to the old
price and give the sugar trust a
monopoly of the commodity. 1t would
raise the prices of the necessaries Of
life to farmers and labOrerS and all ele-
ments of population, and it would place
the country at the mercy of Great
Britain. 1t would spoil our new treaties
for trade with South and Central Ameri-
can countries and with Spain, and it
would be most outrageous and wholly
unwarranted piece of legislation. Yet
the democratic party is. quite capable
of repeating the measure, as its organs
and orators threaten will be done, if
the party comes into power
There is just one sure way to prevent
the consummation of this disrupting
plan, which is to keep the democratic
party out of power.-NeU YORK. Press