The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1892-08-11
M,KlNLeY's ANALYSIS.
He Tries TO Butcher the Tariff Planh in
the Democratic Platform.

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the Democratic Platform.
From the chicago Herald.
Gov. Mckinley, not having anything
to do as governor of Ohio, is out In Ne
braska sounding keynotes of the Re-
pulican campaign. At Beatrice he
made an analysis not of the Democratic
tariff plank but Of the straddle which
the convention wisely rejected. The
straddle, he said, declared that the diff :
ference between the cost of labor here
and abroad fully measures any possible
benefit to labor of tariff protection
"This," said Mr.. Mckinley, twas strick-
en- out, and this difference in favor of
the American workingman is no longer
to be recognized by the Democratic
party in its arraignment of the tariff"
1t was wisely striken out, because 1t
hal faccepted a Mckinley sophism en-
ployed TO deceive men who work for
wages. The great staples of this
country are produced at less labor cost
here than elsewhere. That is the reason
why they are exported so largely.
Labor is better rewarded here because
when properly applied It produces more
here. The most that tariff tax can do
is to divert labor from the employments
In which 1t 10 less productive. SO far
as it is successful 1t diminishes the
total product and results in net loss.
1t prevents those whose labor produces
most from exchanging their surplus
product where they can get the most
for it, 1t reduces the aggregate pro-
ceeds of labor and at the same time
forces those who produce most to hand
over part of their gains to those who
produce less. The Democratic conven-
tion wisely refused to approve of this
false economy and rank injustice.
"Again," said Mr.. Mckinley, "the
sentence but in making reductions in
taxes it is not prt posed to injure any
domestic industry was stricken out,
and in their revised edition they take
no care of any domestic industry"
Why should they The great "native"
industries of the country must neces-
sarily take care of themselves. No
tariff tax can help them. A tariff tax
can help only those industries which
produce no surplus above the home de-
mand, and it can help them only by
compelling other industries to contri-
butte to their support. The Democrats
propose to stop injuring those indus
tries which much care or themselves.
They do not propose to take from any
industry one cent to which it is en-
titled-one cent that the tariff does not
commission it to wrest wrongfully
from other industries.
Again said Mr.. Mckinley: "The
report declares that from the founda-
tion Of this government taxes collected
at the custom houses have been the
chief source of federal revenue; such
they must continue to be- That is
stricken out, which indicates most
strongly that the new leaders of the
Democratic party propose to abandon
their old policy of raising revenue from
customs and rely solely upon direct
taxation" lt was stricken out because
it is not true historically that the
custom houses have always been the
chief source of federal revenue and
because it is not necessary that they
should be. But the Democratic party
does not propose to rely on direct taxa
tion. 1t demands that "such (tariff)
taxes shall be limited to the necessities
of the government when honestly and
economically administered" 1t does
not oppose tariff taxes for revenue, nor
does it say one word about direct taxa
tion. But as between taxation for
revenue, direct or indirect, and taxa |
tion to enrich some industries by rob-
bing others the position of the Demo-
cratic party is not at all doubtful.