The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1894-11-02
The 1eillorrat.
Mckinley Is Mud.

A Pittsburg paper recalls General Grant g
free trade speech In England. Conkling' s
hero looked aud hoped for the United
States to become a great free trade nation
and so told his British friends. O,her Re-
publican worthless can bc placed with
Grant.
In 1883 Senator Plumb said Of the tariff
act, which Mckinley afterward revised up
ward: "The people are watching this
proceeding, and they want no higher taxes,
but lower taxes"
In 1888 the Chicago Tribune said: Thus
with American wool very low in price the
mills are idle and workmen out of employ
ment because the high tariff bars out the
foreign woods needed in mixing. In other
words, the tariff has been burdensome
hardship 10 every American concerned in
the wool Industry as a sheep grower, q
manufacturer or buyer of woolen goods.
Tue Tariff Commission of 1882, nearly
all the members of which were protection
lists, reported that lin mechanical and
manufacturi ng industries, especially those
which have been long established, it would
seem that the improvement in machinery
and processes made within the past 20
years and tle high state of productlveness,
which has become a characteristic of their
establishments, would permit our manu-
facturers to compete with their foreign
rivals under substantial reduction of ex-
ist'ng duties"
Fifty years ago Henry Clay wrote: ''Ir
the origin of the pro e:tive policy 1t wa
never supposed by me, or By others of ii
friends, as far as know their views, thai
! it was to he permanent. We intended y
to be temporary, so as to enable American
manufacturers to set through their infan.
cy."
In 1857 Henry Wilson, elected witt
Grant in 1878. said in debate that tn,
duties of the tariff Of 1S46-called the fire.
trade tarif-ought to be very much re-
duced. IF our manufacturers are to In.
crease, said he, 1--WE must have our raw
materials admitted duty free or at a mer'
nominal rate. We of New England be
lieye that wool, especially the cheap woods
MANILA, hemp, fax. lead, tin, brass, hide
and many other articles used In our manu-
factories can be admitted free or at mgr
nominal duty"
Andrew Carnegie said of the osigina
Wilson bill that it was as good as mana
facturers could In reason expect, and b
advised them to accept it without contest
Il is fair to assume that the bill as pssse'
was great deal better than manufacturer
had a right to expect.
William l. Wilson Is not more advances
han Henry Wilson was before 1860. Hen
ry Cay must be called BY Mckinley fire
trader. Genera, Grant was far more rad
ical in free t-ade utierance before Britisl
hearers than Chairman Wilson The Chi
cago TTibunc as late as lSa2-in the sprinI
repeated its demand for free wool.
1t can be confidently asserted that il
1860 there was not man of recpectabi
ability in any party who espoused the prin
cip,e OF Mckinleyism. II Is quite as Ger
tain that up to 1884 every prominent Re
publican west of ONO advocated lowe
duties and promised his constituents 1,
work for reelection.
No Republican of honest mind, who be
lieyed or believes that Grant. Wilson
Henry Clay, Cherries Sumner. Plumb, Ali
son and MediI had ability AID patriotism
enough TO speak for their eountry's mate
rial interests prior 10 the period of buyin,
schedules With campaign contributions
can today scquiesce in the Mckinley ani
Reed assault on the Democratic tariff
From The standpoint Of Clay, Grant, Sum
ner and Wilson the new law errs in no, re
ducing duties low enough. From tn
standpoint Of the Ta-if Commission o
1882 the new tariff does not allow enougI
for The improvement Of processes and ma
chinery.
Nothing in the history Of Aa-riean poll
ties prior TO 1884 justifies or explains Nc
Kinley. To explain him We must 60 bae
to The Dark bges of Europe OF across 10 tn
icowardly economic igncrsnce IF China
Those Republicans who are the dupes G
his platform are throwing mud on the mem
ories of Grant and Sumner when the
throw mud at William L Wilson. e,then
look again a, what Gran, said in Birming
ham, England, in 1877; Il think we ar
rapidly progressing in the ~ay OF establish
ing manufactures ourselves, and ! believ
we shall become one Of the greatest fre'
trade nations cn the face Of the earth, an
when we both come to be fr:e trAeers
think that probably the balance OF the na
tions bad better stand aside and not copien
with u atsll IN the markets of the word.
Letthem look al those words and app'au
Mckinley without Insulting Grants men
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