The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1894-01-13
HIGH TARIFF HISTORY.

II requires gool deal of gall to en-
bic person at this time to ilatl,
Omc out and make the statement tina
o insure prosperity AMI good times i
his country we must have high pre-
tfctivc tariff. The following from tn
New York World rac.tes soma interest
ng history showing how utterly dem
70 &c and Ridiculous is the Republican
iry that The present busine IS depress'o,
5 due to the thrcat of'.Dcmocratic FIRE
.rade." Anyone unfamiliar with on
story for the past thirty years woul
oppose from the calamity howl that
'atng raised by some of our goo
rienls of opposite political faith thu
MS country had never known har
m, IS under high tariff before; but IN
Would be Il great Stake History
low simply repeating Itself. We quot
rom the World:
IT ever thc experiment Of taxing
alton into prosp ty had a fair tra'
was in the period following the wa
Nnd vet the plnic OF 1873 was the mo
isastroas and the p,r,ol of busin,
pr iss.on for I've wears thereaf,,
us the most severe of any in our HI.
Try. It was oil ;ially estimated tn
sl,lst 900 90 WORKING en were on
cmp,o meat md yet the tar
rs n,lrly as high as the McKinlr
)om n It on III, Republican, wer
full control of tha goylrnm mt,
From lsS! t. 1885,, unl,r two Il,
1bl,cln tariffs, there were llbo
r,!lcs involving 81 3oi estlblishmen
nd l.3:3.20} worlimsn OF thes
ir,lies 9l33 were for increase
ages. Then. as Master WorlSml
ovcrcign well says is the ease now
rot,cte I, IN !nuflcturers showed n
jspos ton to saar, their bonus eX
,pt upon compassion.
The Republicans 'tinkered Tho
,lriH in 1893. In that year there wcr
b 81 bu iiness failures involving Sl72.
~ 900 In 1881 there l0,059 failures
rvolv'ny S?2j3t3oD0. In the mex
',ar there was II widespread bushes
le preston, with l,O)o 900 men ont o.
IN 81 oymcnt,
Sin 1890 the Mckinley bill WAS
MS SEA, ANA there w.re 1868 failure
hat year AMI 1891 the next with
abilities in each year amounting to
e ,ily $500 Oo3, 0OJ The tariff went
- to nearly 30 pr cant. but wages
.ther stool stu or declined.
Cramps AMI trusts were practically
In'snown in this country until AFTER
v, hal suffered from "a monopolists'
riff for number OF years.
The worst labor troubles, the
10 81 est riots, the most destructive
{ lxes, the most brutal lockout ever
.aown in any country have occurred
n the United states under the high
ar;iT's bought, made and paid for by
he contributors Of the Republican
funds.
The financial and Industrial history
f the past 30 years is simply "a succ IS
ion Of sh ,rt spurts of activity, artifi-
tally stimulated, interrupted by col
apscs, pan.csand long periods of d.
PRESTON AMI distress. In not 10 years
mt OF the 30 has labor in the so-callci
,.otcctcl industries been secure in
teady cmploym mt at fair wages.
"Thc pane of last summer started
When the avera e tariff on dutiable
,oods was io.5s per cent. Pretty near
v the high st in our history; and
when it was perfectly well known that
no change could take effsct for nine
or year to come. II was due
chiefly to the unse Stlement of our cur
rency by the Republican silver pur-
chase an | inilat ON act. But the old
trouble o. n IN rke glutted with goods
under the enticement of tariff bounties