Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-09-21
PROJECTIONS DYING TnRoEs.
Desperate Methods Of High Tariff Man-
ipuIafOrs.


Desperate Methods Of High Tariff AIan-
ipulators.
with the first appearances of financial
distrust and depression in the country
came the cry of the protected that hard
times were upon US because the great
industrial interests must become m
active until they knew definitely what
democratic congress would do by way
of revising the present tariff laws.
When the president issued his call for
an extra session and concise!y set forth
his reasons for SO doing, tho beneficial
ries of the Mckinley legislation were
still active in proclaiming that relief
was not to be found through financial
legislation of reformatory character,
but must be sought for in an assurance
to the country that the special favors
now granted certain great Interests
would not be withheld The New York
Tribune at first commended the action
of the president and declared that ne
had found the true solution OF tae
problem, but it soon adjusted its tone
to that Of the protected barons and
placed the responsibility for the strin.
gency upon the dread of manufacturers
that tariff legislation was to be revised
Repu blican members in either branch
of congress have taken the same view.
Reed in the house and Sherman in the
senate declared that the repeal OF the
law which bears the latter's name
would not bring the relief sought Tor.
The shrewd political manipulators OF
the entire republican party have striven
to make political capital out of the
stress of the times. Their double pur-
pose was to relieve the party of the
odium attaching to its responsibility
for the Sherman bill. and at the same
time to set public opinion against the
change of the laws under which the
protected have amassed wealth from
the tribute exacted of the masses. They
wish to minify the iniquity of one bad
law of their making and to guard against
the revision of the other.
But the facts are entirely against
them Their hypocrisy and bad faith
are made apparent in what has trans
pired since the converting of congress
The Wilson bill passed the house and
it is certain that like measure will
receive the approval of the senate.
The country knows that the repeal OF
the Sherman law is no longer in doubt
Immediately the signs of restored con-
fdence are apparent all along the line.
Nowhere are these evidences more ap-
parent than among the industrial in
terests said to be depressed because OF
uncertainty as to the tariff legislation
of the present congress In the great
manufacturing centers the mills and
the factories are starting up, labor is
finding employment and capital is re-
stored to the channels of trade.
To make the case still stronger
against the theory that dread of tariff
revision precipitated hard times, the
work preliminary..to that revision. to be
made in response to the declared will OF
the majority of the people, has already
commenced. The ways and means
committee has had it under considera-
ton for several days, and the men who
are clamoring for hearing before it
are of the protected class which were
supposed to have withdrawn their
money from business and closed down
their establishments through fear.
They know that tariff reform is inev-
liable; that the country has demanded
it, yet they have resumed business, re-
alize that the crisis passed with the re-
peal of the Sherman law, and are them
selves supplying the irrefutable evi.
dence that the proposed changes in
the tariff laws did not occasion the
brief period of hard times.-Detroit
Free Press