Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-08-31
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Desperate Resort OF the Discountenanced
Apostle Of Protection.
If there is one man in this country.
aside from ex-P President Harrison. whose
advice and leadership the people have
declined in unmistakabIe terms, tina,
man is Gov. William Mckinley. It was
his name which designated the policy
that was the one great issue in the last
national contest As chairman of the
ways and means committee, which for
INFLATED the Mckinley bill, and as lead.
er of his party on the floor of the house
in the fight for that bill, he has naturally
been given larger share of responsible
ity for that measure than any other
man.
And yet. notwithstanding the fact
that it was first OF all and chief of all
McKinleyism which was condemned
and repudiated by the country last No
vember in manner which was moth
ing short of revolutionary. Gov. Nc
Kinley continues to tell the country
that the perpetuation of McKin-
leyism is our only salvation. Notwith-
standing the fact that the people
everywhere realize and declare that their
present financial troubles are due to the
operation of the Sherman act; notwith-
standing the fact that the business ele-
ments generally have formally and au-
thoritatively assigned this as the cause
of the arrangement of business, Gov.
Mckinley insists on telling the people
and the business men that they don't
know nything about the matter, and
that only a few professional politicians
and those being politicians who have
been rejected by the country as coun-
sellers and guides-do know anything
about it. 1t is needless to say that,
according to Gov. Mckinley, those IA
vored individuals know all about it,
and it is needless to say. furthermore,
that according to them the only thing
from which the country is suffering is
the fear that the orders, issued by the
country last November, will be obeyed.
In other words, McKinleyism, having
been repudiated by the people, the Nc
Kinleyites persist in urging that the
only hope for the regulators is that
McKinleyism shall be saved by con-
gress in defiance OF the people, who not
only decreed the extripation of McKin-
leyism, but who created congress.
The latest oeliverance by Gov. Nc
Kinley to this effect was made the
other day in response to an inquiry by
the New York Press as to the gov
ernor's diagnosis OF the cause of the
present monetary depression. The
governor writes out his views or what
he chooses to have published as his
views, and in his entire article not
once does he mention the Sherman act,
attributing recent and existing unfa-
vorable conditions solely to apprehen-
sions of the repeal of the Mckinley act
''What we have this year which we did
not have last year," he says, lis the
new management which the people last
November put in charge of the govern
ment-a management pledged by every
party obligation to the abandonment of
a protective tariff, and which obliga-
ton the democratic leaders still insist
they must keep. The business people
ocrats will keep their solemn pledges,
are forced to prepare for the change. 4"
: Then the governor goes on to say
that the only way out is for the demo-
cratic party to prove false to the prin-
ciples on which it was elected and to
preserve that policy which was rejected
when the McKinleyites were rejected.
'It would be the highest act of patriot
ism," declares the governor, IF the
democracy would make public procla-
nation that they will not carry out
their free-trade pledges" This, to say
the least, is an enunciation of political
morality that can hardly be pronounced
inconsistent coming from the apostle of
a policy which, devised for the enrich
ment of a few at the expense of the
things to all men.
1t is not undressing to study the
attitude of the Mckinley republicans
since the election. After the returns
showed the triumph of their opponents,
it WAS their wont to declare that the
democratic tariff policy would send the
country to the dogs, but very few of
them expressed a doubt that the demo-
Gratis would execute their policy, and
very few of them really believed that
the country paid any attention to their
of evil Later, when the
of the free gold in the
treasury began to excite alarm and we
began to experience the disturbance of
which has followed, the re-
publicans almost universally placed
the blame upon the Sherman act and
the adverse balance of trade adverse
in spite of the Mckinley act. which
was to ''check imports"), and it was
not until the last few weeks that all
along the repu olican line the cry sprang
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tariff reform, and that the only cure
for them is the assurance by the DEM
ocracy that McKinleyism shall not be
This is so clearly trick, conceived at
the last moment and played as last
hope, that it is really not worthy of
serious consideration. II any further
proof of its character were needed it
could be found in the action of Gov.
Mckinley himself, who, in his speech
accepting denomination for the Ohio
q few weeks ago, con-
demned President Cleveland for not
calling congress together at once to re-
peal the Sherman act, but who now
changes with the new tactics and
charges all our troubles to apprehen-
sions of a new tariff policy.-Louisville
DEMORALIZEO REPUBLICANS.
Calamity Croakers Trying to Damage
Business for Party Capital.
The Parsons Knitting company, of
Cohoes, will reopen their mills, Nos l.
and 2, employing four hundred and fifty
hands.