The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-06-25
M'KINLEYIsM MUST GO.


Colonel A. l.. Conger, of Akron, o.,
an eX-member of the Republican Ma
tional committee, and one of the lead
ing manufacturers of the Middle states,
has been giving his views on the Nc
Kinley bill and McKinleyism, which
so many Republican assemblies have
been endorsing. He says, in part:
1t is well to speak plainly about this
matter Mckinley could not carry a
single state in the Union, upon the
Mckinley law, in 1896, and | believe
that nine-tenths of the business men of
the country will concur with me in
the view that the Mckinley tariff is not
only inconsistent but not in line with
the business sentiment of our people.
We lost the campaign in 1892 on the
Mckinley law and we will lose that of
1876 If that law be the paramount is
sue. 1t is unfortunate for the Repub-
llcan party that Governor McKinley's
friends should have precipitated his
candidacy at this time
We were all for him for Governor
and his friends have misinterpreted the
large majority he received last year.
1 have been educated for high pro-
tectionist. but have been engaged in
of manufacture of the country for
number of years, and during that time
have learned some things by expert
ence which have changed my views up
on the tariff question. There
are scores of wrongs and inconsis-
tencies in the bill, and it is all wrong
for Governor Mckinley and his friends
to undertake to commit the Republican
party to a proposition that will lead to
sure defeat in 1896. 1t is not a crime
for Republicans to differ upon these
propositions, and some one in our state
should speak out for the Republican
party. Personally, 1 stand upon the
tariff question where the Republican
National Convention left it in 1883, for
revision downward
This speaks for itself and is a Re
publican acknowledgement of the argu-
ments put forth by Democrats.
Commenting on Colonel Conger's
plain statement Of facts. the Boston
Post Oem.) says;
This is sound sense. 1t is practical
politics. Foolish as the Democratic
Congress has shown itself in much of
its conduct, it has yet done nothing
which can breathe the breath of life
into McKinleyism. That abominable
uullDUS 10 uSdQ.
The New York World, on this sub
ject, remarks:
If no other issue is found and the
Republicans go to THE country with a
demand THAT they be allowed ito re-
open the tariff agitation and re-enact
the Mckinley bin, they will be beaten
in 1896 as badly as in 1890 and in 1892
Democratic Numbering may produce
a temporary set back, but Mckinley
ism is doomed. Against it are aTTayed
the settled conviction of "a majority Of
the American people, the earnest crav-
ing of business interests for a period of
repose, and all the invisible but poteat
forces that make for the progress of
mankind.
Vain is the hope of the Republicans
if they think the people want more
protection. Their impotence with the
Democrats comes from the fact that
they want immediate release from the
burdens placed upon them by Reed
ard Mckinley. The Democrats have
not executed their commands with the
celebrity which was expected and de-
manded in 49, The trouble is not that
the Democrats have upset things, but
that they have not been diHgent
enough to suit the people i'm reforming
the evil doings of the Republicans
when in power.