The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1891-06-25

"The Republicans of Ohio" declares
the Mckinley platform adopted yester.
| day, "reafiirm their adhesion to the
principles which have guided them here.
! tofore."
Reading on, we find that the leading
principle to which they proclaim their
Adhesion" is the doctrine of legalized
robbery embodied in the Mckinley law.
If the platform means that the Re-
publicans of Ohio have always been
guided by the principles embodied in
| that law, then it proclaims a falsehood
both wicked and notorious. No such
principle ever was dreamed of, much
less adopted by the Republicans of
Ohio, or any other State, prior to the
advent of McKinleyism in 1888, Nor
has any such doctrine ever yet been
ratified by the American people; and
let us devoutly hope, for the good of
our country, that it never will be.
The platform goes on to say, 1--WE
favor. economy in the administration
of National and State affairs"
Economy! What would the brave,
earnest and honest men who founded
the Republican party, and whose
statesm manship achieved nearly all
J0dI ID nOuOIdUlo III lOo l'OOiuJ IuluA Vi
such economy as that of the Billion
Congress?
Was there ever such sickening. hy-
poefisy put into political platform, as
this pool-trap declaration for econ
omyP If the work of the last Congress
lis sample of the kind of economy
McKinleyism is to give us, then, good
Lord, deliver us!
Passing on, we find that these so
called Republicans, who declare their
adherence to measure, the pTofessed
purpose and actual effect of which are
TO outlaw and strangle commerce, "es-
pecially commend the policy OF reci-
procity."
Now, what is reciprocity in an eco
nomic sense, unless IL is reciprocal trade
LLatween nations? Can IT have any
other meaning, even in a. demagogue's
dictionary
But where is the reciprocity of
trade in the Mckinley law? Ii any
body can lind it, even with a mag
nifyIng glass, then let him point 1t out.
Reciprocity, like protection, IN the
Mckinney sense, is a stupendous hum
bug. There is not a line Of reciprocity
in the Mckinley law-not q practical
reciprocity provision in it. The rec
iprocity scheme that Mr.. Blaine pro-
posed is not there. The ring of favor
ed monopolies who fixed up the Nc
Kinley bill in the basement of the CAP
ltol did not want it there, and were de
termined not to have 1t there.
Moreover, Mr.. Mckinley, has never
said that he was in favor of reciproc-
ity. In his cheap buncome before the
Lincoln club he declared, with flour
lsh of stage thunder, that no party
would dare repeal the reciprocity in the
Mckinley law. He could easily say
this, for there is no reciprocity in the
law TO repeal.
At last we have in an Ohio Republi-
can platform declaration which Is
supposed to be aimed at trusts and
combines, but there is not force enough
in it to hurt them. 1t is as thin as Nc
Kinley tin, and just about as spurious
On the other hand we have very
hearty Communications of the appoint
ment of the present Secretary of the
Treasury, who is practically the repre-
sentative oe the Standard OIL Company
and the Window-glass Trust, both of
which he may greatly favor by his rul-
ings as chief financial officer of the gov
ernment.
The platform says the State has been
on the verge of bankruptcy under Gov
ernor Campbell. So it was under Gov
ernor Foraker, go it has been for sew
eral years past. The national treasury
is also on the verge of deficit. All of
which has come to pass under the pro-
hibltory tariff policy. If q revenue tar.
if had prevailed all these things would
have been attributed to "free trade"
There is no baby born, industrial or
otherwise, under prohibitory tariff
that Is not attributed to the tariff.
The tin clads discharge full broad
side at the present administration.
They denounce it as extravagant. But
Mr.. Foster comes to the rescue of the
Billion Dollar Congress by saying,
"This is billion dollar country" But
doesn't Ohio belong to this country, and
can there be any harm in her keeping
up with the procession? Certainly, II
extravagant and wasteful expenditure
is good thing in the National govern
ment, it must be good thing also in
State government. The simple truth
Is, that 1t Is the inevitable effect of Nc
Kinleyism to breed extravaganza and
corruption everywhere. Yet in COM
parison with recent performances at
Washington. there is hardly State In
the Union, unless 1t be tariff-ruled
Pennsylvania, which is not model of
economical administration.
Finally the platform condemns, as 1t
should, making political merchandise
of the suffering and calamities Of the
helpless wards of the State" yet no one
Republican Senator was found in the
last Legislature who would record his
vote In favor of the non-partisan gov
ernment of our public benevolent insti-
tutions. On the contrary two promi-
nent Republican Senators made bold to
say thai these institution are "spoils"
which belong to the "victors," aid that
no law should be passed which would
prevent their being used to reward the
party "workers" and "hustlers." If this
is not making political merchandise of
the suffering and calamities of the help
less wards of the State" what is it?
ALFRED 10, LEE.