The Butler weekly times., 1894-04-05

built, and against which, in the
ameliorated future, the gates of
ayarice, oppression and fraud shall
not prevail. With such benehcent
and stupendous result now plainly
within the reach of the American |
people and almost ready for their
eager enjoyment, envy not the fate
of the part, nor the man nor the set
of mon who shall constitute them
selves hinderance and an obstruc
tion to it's speedy fulhllment
SUBSTANTIAL MEASURE OF REFORM,
Faults a.d imperfectious can, OF
course, be alleged and pointed out;
concessions are apparent which have
been unwilIinsly made i'll order to
secure it's passage; articles ON the
free list, az they came from the
house, have been made dutiable
under the duress of small majority
here, yet, deeply as l regret the lie
cessity of these changes, do not
hesitate to say the bill, taken as
whole. as it now stands, with its
combination of lower taxes on the
necessaries Of life aud at the same
time increased revenues for the gov
ernment, will be hailed as substan
tlal measure Of reform and release
by the great producing masses OF
the American people.
Manufacturing interests which
100 years ago We're indeed IN their
Infancy, and were nurssd and foster
ed while in their cradle, are now the
colossal taskmastsrs Of the whole
people, commanding tribute from
every days labor beneath the sun,
haughtily striding the corridors of
the capitol and issuing their edicts
in the tones of dlctators for or
against the enactment of pending
measures in the halls of congress.
Those who own and represent these
swollen and arrogant interests do
not hesitate to declare in what terms
a bill vitally affecting 7O,0O0,O00 will
be permitted to become law, aud
in default of what provisions for
financial profits to themselves the,
will insure its defeat. In the hard
working days OF attempted tariff re
form they are met everywhere; and
as rule bear themselves as favor
ties of power generally do
The enactment Of the Mckinley
law in 1890 was a gigantic crime,
not only against every workingman
aud working woman in the United
States, but also against every indi-
vidual manufacturer and against all
manufacturing interests. 1t was
designed by its authors, but such
was it's real and inevitable character
1t declared a policy SO hagitious IL
principle, Sc rotten in morality, and
SO rayenous in its exaetions of the
absolnte wants of life, that its pos
sible duration was only question
of time when the next election by
the people should occur, and yet the
vast manufacturing interests of the
country were tempted and seduce6
, into accepting its delusive bribes
and into An eager adjustment o
themselves to its alluring though
evanescent and short-lived provision
, If the reward of labor bad ever bee,
increased as an incident or conse
r quenee of increased tariff duties o.
l foreign imports, nothing would b
| easier or more gracious to the advo
Gates and benefciaries of protection
than to show that fact The YER
2 reverse, however, is true. 1t ca
r never be forgotten in the enactmen
8 Of the Mckinley law in October
1890, was followed almost immed
g ately by a reduction of the wages {
4 all workers in iron and steel, begir
ming at Homestead, in Pennsylvania
q under Carnegie, resulting in BLOOD
shed and wholesale murder, and e,
n tending to all parts of the countr
: and to almost every branch of mai
i. ufacturing industry. He defende
n the advalorem system as fairer, hol
N ester and more easily undsrstoo
n than specific duties. On the subje'
of ,,,oor ooh od,,fa ho oo,1.