The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1891-07-16
MCKINLEY RoBBER TARIFF.

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| The New Era Monthly has a mos
searching essay on the Mckinley tariff
written by Prof. NJ. V. b. Bennett. The
article occupies six pages of the
Monthly, and we are unable to present
1t entire. We print some of the more
salient points, with some chunks OF
paragraphs that are good and timely
reading In opening, Prof. Bennett
says:
"Mr. Mckinley, father of highest pro
tectiye tariff bill ever known since the
| world began, is still talking on the tariff
The fearful rebuke which the people OF
the United State gave his tariff bill at the
| November election has not quieted his
talk about "cheapn and "nasty.n Some
men never learn anything until they die,
and then they learn that God is not dead.
John James Ingalls, got his eyes open i'm
time to write his will and make a death
bed repentance, but we must wait until
\ eternity begins to ascertain the effects of
death, on Mckinley. The McKinleys
admonish us that the only hope for the
| American system of Protection is that the
fool killer will come and come quickly,D
Prof. Bennett then quotes an extract
from McKinley's speech, made at the
decayed turtle soup banquet in Toledo,
about cheap goods being undesirable
/ bNNdNDO buDJ ttlO hdObJs WE ullOla
again from Prof. Bennett
"Let me examine these quotations from
| that Toledo speech and weigh them in the
scales Of analysts. But first let me remark.
| of all the cheap and nasty dema.
| gogues that are now cursing American
| politics Mckinley of Ohio is the cheapest
and nastiest, with the exception of Tom
Reed, Wade Hampton, John j. InpaIIs
and George Vest. 1t seems that the only
cheap things that are, not nasty in the
eyes OF Mckinley and his followers are
cheap sugar, cheap whiskey and 'cbear,,
laborers. He also talked about free coin
age OF silver, but took good care not TO
mention the fact that his party demone-
tized silver, and of which Senator ingalls,.
OF hansas,in his dying will and testament,
TO catch the Alliance vote for United
States Senator, said: From the President
down they all seemed hypnotized when
silver was demonetzed.'
Prof. Bennett then takes up the claim
sof Mckinley, that his bill has created
new Industries In the United States
and given hepeople prosperity. What
he says on this topic will strike home
to ell our hearts as being the solid truth
Let us again quote:
"Where is this Astounding prosneritv2 p
Why are you breaking away from a party
that has done all this and Joining the
Alliance and voting the Peoples ticket?
Why did 14,000 of you here in indiana vote
the plow-handIe tickeJ If false prophecy
fell before good times and Astounding
prosperity 1t is not true that we have
good times aud aboundinR prosperity
ltis a lie manufactured out OF whole cloth,
out OF Mckinley protected shoddy cloth al
that. 1t is strange that only the things
that Mckinley wants cheap are good
things, and the cheap things the people
want are nasty things. OF all the things
Wnlcn enter into consumption that Nc
hlnley likes because they are Cheap
are cheap sugar and cheap whisIey.
Cheap clothing to Mckinley is "nasty.ji
Cheap carpets, cheap dishes, cheap furni-
ture, cheap wagons, plows, reapers, bin
uers, threshing machines, cheap homes,
all are nasty to those who advocate
high prices for meat and bread and nigh
tariff for the monopolists. 1T is only a
penny loaf to the poor, but il is millions
of dollars TO the trusts that corner wheat
and meat DE says Cheap coats at
any price are not the chief object of
American civilization.' No, no, the chief
object is a high tariff that Wanamakers
can fry the fat out of the manufacturers
to the amount of 100000 to buy Indiana
and New York. What other object of
American civilization can Mckinley have
in view? IL is TO put S35 ,0O0, ,0OO,O of our
nations wealth into the hands of 81, 600
people, as Mr.. ingalls, says has been done
by the legislation of the last twenty years,
by such men as Mckinley
Prot. Bennett then proceeds to show
from the statistics how the Mckinley
tariff has lowered wages everywhere,
and Increased wages nowhere. We give
below a few of the cases cited, where
the Mckinley tariff has reduced wages
in manufactures that have had largely
increased Protection in the Mckinley
bill. Here are some of the cases. The
Brooks Iron Co., BirdsbOrough, Pa,
closed Feb. 2, and all their men were
thrown out of employment in mid |
winter, because they would not accept |
reduction of about 7 per cent. Ellis
Y Lessing Steel and Iron Company,
Patterson, Pa, closed February Cd;
seven hundred men out of work be- |
cause a reduction of twelve and q half |
per cent in wages was refused by the
men. There Is no degrading American |
manhood in this cut of wages: no, no. |
he can go to work at the reduced wages |
or we will fill his place with a foreign |
pauper. Bethlehem Iron Co., reduction
10 per cent in wages Feb. I'd. HON.
stead Steel Works, Carnegie 81 Co,
highly protected, ten per cent reduction,
Otis Iron 81 Steel Go, of Cleveland, re-
duction of wages 30 per cent,
right under the nose and eyes of
the bowling Cleveland Leader, Silk
mill at Warehouse Point, Conn: wages
of winders and doublers reduced from
Sl,37 to $l.00 per day. Thus while Nc
Kinley increased the duty on cheap
silk, because he hated cheap things, the
effect has been to reduce the wages of
silk workers thirty-seven cents per day.
If the winders aud doublers should
want a silk dress they must pay the in
creased price and work more days
enough to make up the thirty-seven
cents lost to them. Hopedale Fabric
Mills, HOpedale, Mass: wages of
weavers reduced two and half cents
yard, and the Cleveland Leader, Nc
Kinley's organ, shouts the "aim of pro-
is to preserve existing
wages" 1t is the preservation the
spider gives to the fly, or the cat the
Just here Ia where Prof. Bennett
makes some very pertinent and forcible |
observations that have local
'eference to Canton and touch the
question of morality in politics that
)ur very able and learned friend the
Rev. DR.. Muller is called upon to note,
n the interest of American manhood,
We quote from Prof. Bennett:
"When you raise the price of American |
ilk and cut thirty-seven cents q day on |
he American labor that makes it, il is an
nfamy that the American voter has and
IlwayS will rebuke at the ballot-box; and
hat Is why Mckinley was beaten in Ohio
q sDite of all the fat that was fried ont of |