Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-08-30
What We Have Won.
Western Democrats have told where

In the tarlH Dill Is a GISappOI ntment.
The great American privilege OF letting
men who do not act on the square know
what We think of them has been eXer
cised against those who spoiled the |
House bill in the Senate.
There is the difference between |
Democrats and Republicans. The Nc
Kinley bill was privately denounced by |
Blaine. Senator Plumb voted against |
it. But the voice of protest was
instantly silenced by the party machine.
and the Western Republicans, who had
been forced b. the trust bought mana
gers to eat their words ard abandon
their interests, have either said moth
ing since or have sworn by all that
was sacred that the Mckinley act was
the best tariff law ever passed or pro-
posed.
Republicans have learned how to
give up the right of free speech for the
sake Of party. Democrats never have
learned and never will learn to surren-
der single manhood right for the
sake of party and politicians.
We have spoken our opinion Of the
senate bills shortcomings. We have
also an opinion to the effect that our
Representatives and senators coilec-
lively have, at the cost Of unstinted
labor aud in the face of unnumbercd
difficulties, passed a bill which is so
much relief that it is a revolution.
The Influences which withheld much
good which elevated civic wisdom
would have bestowed were protection
influences. They constituted the re-
manning strength of long pampered
aggregation of interests which the
Democratic majority in the Senate was
not large enough to dislOdge.
The merits are the Democratic part
and they are many. The Democratic
heroes in both houses deserve the
highest commentator: for every
reduction was battle with desperate
and well-armed partisans of protection
Fifty per cent of Mckinley taxes
have been taken from most OF the ar
ticles of common consumption. Wool
en- manufacture, which has languished
in spite of almost unlimited protection.
will be expanded through access to the
worlds wool markets. We shall have
cheaper and better clothing and blank
ets-and we can at last get pure wool
ems of American manufacture. Steel
and iron will preserve a healthy level
of prices, instead of being the play
thing of alternate scarcity and overpro-
duction, Cotton ties and bagging will
not be monopolized whenever there Is
a good crop of cotton. Tin plate
duties are so per cent less.
In woolens and knit fabrics the re-
duction is from over 100 per cent to an
average of 80 per cent. This is OF
great significance, not only because 1t
will cheaper these absolutely necessary
articles to the consumer, but because it
will stimulate trade with Germany,
Belgium, France and England, where
the demand for our meats, flour and
grain is the largest. The protectionist
may ask how foreign trade can be slim
ulated and home wooden manufacture
enlarged at the same time. The
answer is that consumption Will
increase with great rapidly Among
good wooden clothing, carpets and
blankets is used than the users would
like and would have if they could pay
for more. Enlarge their export mar
kets and they will enlarge the home
market.
Our new tariff will have good effect
on business and production. Southern
ard Western Democratic members
have done their best, and have great
public good to show for their years
labor.
Send to Washington a larger ma
jority. Confer upon the Democratic
party power to change specific to ad
valorem duties, so that the inventions
which cheaper goods everywhere may
go to the benefit of the people. The
only tariff which does not require tink-
ering every session is an advalorem.
revenue tariff, which adjusts itself to
the needs of Government and the con-
ditions of production We want no
specific duties, which put low grades
of goods under the same charges as
high grades, and which keep the same
tax in force for years even if invention
reduces the natural cost of an article
to one-tenth. The next two objects OF
tariff reform are free raw materials
and ad valorem rates. The people
have but one avenue to the reform
the election of Democrats Republic.
Missouri School of Mines.