Milford chronicle., 1893-12-08
The, Mckinley and Wilson Bills.

The, Mckinley ana Wilson Bills.
The McKinly Bill is not primarily
a measure for tariff, it was enacted
to prevent depreciation upon our in
dustries, sustaining and building
them up, preventing ruinous com
petition. Its object is protection,
inuring in every possible way to the
advantage oflabor, keeping up wages
and excluding from our markets the
pauper-made goods of Europe. Rich
men, whose fortunes are already
made, who live without work are not
benefited by the protective policy,
indeed under free trade they could
spend their fortunes to greater adj
vantage. The price of commodity !
must depend to a great extent upon
the cost of production, upon the
wages of labor involved in the max
ing. With labor abroad poorly paid
foreign made goods can be trans
ported and sold cheaper in our own
markets than home products. The
rich can purchase these and horde
their wealth, while our own factories
must close or put down the price of
labor to compete with foreign work.
1t is the poor man, then, who needs
protection.whc is interested in main
tanning a high rate of wages; the {
abOrer who struggles to provide S
bread for his family, who has higher !
aspirations but no means to carry :
hem out. What matters it to him q
f everything is cheap, if he has no
money with which to buy? Under d
Ow tariff education is not cheapened; :
lOctOrs' clergymens' lawyers fees h
re not a whit lessened; amueements O
re not less expensive; the cost of
ravel is the same as under protec- ?
ion, while all the time the capacity a
D pay is growing less. There may ~
e worldly wisdom, purest selfish o.
ess, in the rich advocating free &C
rade for our country, but sympathy re
n such a policy among the poor is "a
le heighth of folly the result ofstu- g.
dity. G,
The Wilson Bill as brought for ti'
ard by the present administration to
'ntemplates Free Trade, itself 'e
ep in that direction. While re-
icing and even removing the tariff
many foreign goods the dominant ~
rty purposes raising revenue by wa
rect taxation. Permitting and en- o.n O.n
uraging foreign countries to man. bo,
acture for us it closes our own fac pic
ries; grinding down labor it de- sle'
Inds more in taxation as it renders oI'
people less able to pay. For tbar
n governments, of course, COM Pie
nd thjs~pOhcy, their newspapers wor
IgF6ilant, rejoicing over the pros ,ia, IL,
It, so bright to them. 1t is their eve
gation, our ruin they are cores
dfRgly elated and the Democracy
ches be inspiration, rejoicing at
impeding doom. The great an n
ldon pa pers have tickled the for
'sident with soft and cunning to
terry until he actually thinks him men
a statesman doing whatever they s",i, M
uest, to the detriment and ruin the
lis own country. Whatever cpl fath'
may be applied to the President, eour
cannot be called knave, -"". ~
s lacking in shrewdness, wanting ago.
Dem
that the London Times peri'
Pail Mall Gazette commend and ina pia1'
e upon Congress is not the policy that
our country to accept and pur- De
the selfshness of England is WV. %no
orious, she never yet urged upon cons,
ival country a measure but to contr
own advantage. And so it now natui
18th the Wilson Bill if carried into a.a,,. nauo
1t it will close our factories break resen
n our industries, reduce our labor publ
penury; calamity and ruin will ing
Nv in its course. But for En- VS. VS.
d she will sit supreme, gloatlng tratiO
our downfall, spindles going, of col
as running night and day, the = ne Ne,
hammer heard in every square, aid ii
s steaming over filled with goods They
apply a once rival but now de- Repre-
lent Nation. o'ner
ne rich may not suffer so much Tn,
ugh the passage of the Wilson the bi
but our poor must be ground Si. tul 8 $
lower and lower that England OWN,
prosper at their expense. This Hous,
e policy of the Democracy and under
Il be satisfied with no other re. ,1@s .1l :
bate.
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