Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1892-12-08
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soms Sensible opinlons Expressed on ~
EeonomIe Outlook.

soms Sensible opInl0ns Expressed on The
EeonOmIe Outlook.
The Dry Goods Economist, the leading
dry goods journal Of America, and which
therefore represents the interests Of both
manufacturers and dealers in domestic
and foreign goods, does not think that
this country is going to the free trade
bowwows under Democratic and anti
Mckinley administration In its issue
of Nov. IL it comments upon the tire
mendous emphasis" with which the dom
inant party has been cast out by the
silent voters. Il recognizes that an i'm
portant economic change is coming in
which ''it behooves every business man
to seek out if possible the true springs
of this peaceful revolution, the conse-
quence of which to commerce is likely
to be considerable"
This journal says: SIT is safe to as
sumo that this tidal wave was raised by
a combination of infuences-moral, po-
litical and economical. II is probable
that Tuesdays vote comes as q check
evolved in the normal growth OF our
nation upon the progress of centraliza-
tion."
1t then recognizes what most Repub-
lican papers as yet but dimly discern
that McKinleyism has been condemned
in the court of last appeal and must soon
die the death of traitor. We quote
the following from this excellent edi-
torial:
Regarded from the economic side, II
seems to us that the country has utterly
repudiated McKinleyism-not schedule
A, u or C of the Mckinley bill, but Nc
Kinleyism. They have condemned tho
treachery that after the squarest prom
ises of reforming the tariff downward
reformed it upward to unprecedented
rates. They have resented the insult t.
their intelligence of the fallacies ant
misstatements which were offered il
justification Of this treachery. The.
have repudiated the theory that the pros
perity of this country is best built up b.
working as much damage us possible t.
certain other countries, and they hav
spewed out Of their mouth all the preach
ers of the gospel of hatred. They hav
denied the right to speak for them o
any man who claims him to be the bes
American who is the most hated in Eu
rope, aud who has done the most to tax
the bread from the mouths Of laborer
in those countries where lack of oppoI
tunity practically forbids change O
occupation. They have condemned tn
man who quotes as tho highest vindica
ton of our recently inaugurated ecc
nomic system every failure, every strike
every famine in manufacturing Europe
Finally they have contemptuously turne
down the theory that the manufacturin
Industries of the brightest and most en-
ergetic of nations must be kept to etel
nifty in alright hothouse to keep ther
alive.
In short, it seems to us that McKiI
leyism has gone too far in arbitrary fa
voritism, in gross selfshness, in arrc
gance and brazen insolence even for tn
patientest, because the largest an
strongest, of nations, so that the people
rising, have passed upon it the siler
sentence of banishment. The concur
renee of so many manufacturing and ai
ricultural dates in this verdict, even il
Guiding Ohio, which, next to Pennsylvs
mia, has been supposed to be the yer
habitat of the ideas for which the nam
of Mckinley stands, renders it difficul
to give any other meaning to the even
The true policy of the American maj
7 ufacturer is to prepare his business fc
free raw materials and duties on man,
factured goods not exceeding the actu;
difference in labor cost between this an
, competing countries, and then to use a
his efforts and influence to bring abor
tariff revision on these lines.