The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1893-05-12
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1t makes the Minneapolis Times feel
very badly to think that Gov. Nc Kin
ley will remain true to his principles,
even though his party has suffered
temporary defeat. 1t has no admir-
alton for him, or at least it expresses
none, in standing tue to his cOlOrs
though defeat has come Conse-
quently it refers to his meeting with
the Home Market Club at Boston in
somewhat Sneering terms, and says
he probably felt more at home with
this plutocratic clan than he has at
any time since the landslide of 1890
Though the Times may slur the Home
Market Club as plutocratic gather
ing, it is not probable it is any more
plutocratic or aristocratic in it's ten
denotes than is the we'll known free
trade club of New York, known as
the Reform Club. We doubt not but
that the Home Market Club has as
great breadth of patriotism as has
the Reform Club, and we think we
are not going beyond bounds, when
we say that it is undoubtedly actuat-
ed by greater motives of patriotism
than is the Reform Club. The la
ter, we are informed, is made up
largely Of importers, many of them of
foreign birth, who have never taken
the pains to take out their naturaliZa-
tion papers. Their chief desire is to
import as M my goods as possible, for
the larger the quantity, the great
er their gains. There is nothing in
this course that will develop coun-
try, nor increase it's wealth.
An importer has no interest in its
industrial development. In fact the
less industries there are the better he
likes it, for the less interference there
is with his business.
But the slurs and sneers of the free
traders at the consistency of the pro-
tective leaders, will not effectually
down the system which has done so
much to build up our nation to it's
present greatness. America, after
enjoying the great prosperity that
has been its lot for the past third of a
century, is not going to surrender all
its advantages and again become de-
pendent upon the Industries of for
eign nations The engine of nregress
may be reversed for while, but not
permanently. When the policy which
the free traders wish to inauguraue,
is put in, force and importations in
crease, as Senator Roger @. Mills says
they will, by millions, and So lessen
the demand for the product of our
own labor, then reaction will come
and the full benefits of the protection
system will be appreciated.
But the present trouble with the
Times, as well as other free traders, is
the constant reminders they are re-
ceiving of the time that is being
wasted, in doing something to relieve
the people OF the burdens which they
claimed the Mckinley bill imposed
upon them. Gov. Mckinley we'll OBJ
served, that if the tariff law which
bears his name, was robbery during
the last campaign, it is no less rob-
berry now, and yet two months have
passed since the new administration
came into power and not move has
been made to relieve the people, and
from all indications several months
more, and in all probabilities full
year, will elapse before.the free trade
relief will be given. 1t is not to be
greatly wondered at that the COM
ments which are made upon their
hesitation hurts. Business must of
necessity be in a somewhat unsettled
state because of this hesitancy, be-
cause people hardly know what to ex-
pect, but to turn and abuse or sneer
at leading protectionists will hardly
help the free traders out.