Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-10-20

dOned. AS pub llclSt long familiar
with the methods of politicians Mr..
MacVeagh regards this as pretense
only. He declares that sit must not be
forgotten that only two years ago such
a measure was warmly advocated by
President Harrison, earnestly sup
ported by the republican party, and
very narrowly escaped becoming
law" Every one knows that this
snake was scotched, not killed, and
that if there shall be complete repub-
lican triumph the very first act of the
party would be to place this infamous
measure upon the statute book.
1t has long been an assertion of tar
iff reformers that excessive protection
has developed industrial interests in
Pennsylvania at the cost of the agri-
culture of that state and without par
ticular advantage to labor engaged in
the industries. Mr.. MacVeagh has had
excellent opportunity for observation.
He asserts that as a result of protec-
ton the farmers, paying more for what
they buy and getting less for what
they sell. grow poorer day by day,
land excellent farms in some of the
most fertile sections of this most high
ly protected state (Pennsylvania) will
hardly bring the cost of the buildings
upon them" The Pennsylvania farmer
doubtless realizes the situation. Per
haps a western farmer may have the
truth brought home to him by this re-
mark of Mr.. MacVeagh, which is as
full of truth as an egg of meat: sit
seems to me like travesty on taxation
to require, as the Mckinley bill does,
the farmer who grows corn in Indiana
to pay a bounty to the farmer who pro-
duces sugarcane in Louisiana, or to re-
quire the farmer who grows wheat in
Pennsylvania to pay a bounty to the
farmer who produces maple sugar in
Vermont. But it is nearer tragedy
than travesty to tax the masses of the
people to enhance the wealth of the
very wealthy owners of our protected
industries" That's what McKinleyism
does. That's what it was meant to do.
To maintain McKinleyism is the pur-
pose of the republican party. which has
become the rnerest tool and agent Of
the highly protected class. It is not
popular party. 1t has no real pur-
pose of serving the people. Those who
are of moderate means and are at
! tached to that party do not realize its
purpose or are willfully Indifferent to
the effect Of its policy upon their own
interests.
Mr.. MacVeagh speaks with just scorn
of pension abuse. Let the claims of
merit be fully and generously recog
! nized, ''but surely there is neither
reason nor justice in legislation which
destroys all distinction between the
discharge of duty and the Sinking of
it, between loyal service and desertion
of the colors, between wounds received
in battle and diseases contracted in the
pursuits of peace"
The essential difference of the two
parties, the only parties that practical
ly are in the canvass, Is we'll stated by
Mr.. MacVeagh: ''As the republican
party is now definitely committed to
the policy of taxing the people for the
purpose of giving bounties to such per-
sons or interests as can secure the
necessary votes in congress, SO the
democratic party is now as definitely
committed to the policy of restricting
taxation to the needs of the govern
ment for public purposes alone. - That's
it in nutshell There is no sugges-
ton of free trade. Mr.. MacVeagh
states simply fact when he ayers
that 1.-The average voter knows that
free trade is impossible in this country
, for the conclusive reason that the vast
revenues now required to meet the ex-
penses of the government viii neces-
sarily afford far higher degree of pro-
lection to our established and pros
porous manufacturers than either
Hamilton or Clay thought desirable in
the infancy of our weak and struggling
industries
It is a sad time for the repub lican
party when through devotion to the
greed of particular interests it gets
away from such old-time republicans
as Judge Gresham and Wayne Mac
Veagh.-Chicago Times.
Mr.. Harrison feels entirely un-
, able to get "a fair election" in New
York without importing a Pennsylvania
! ballot-box suffer to get it--St. Louis
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