Iron County register., 1894-12-27
ECONOMIC LUNAcY.
What . Republican journal Says Of Mc.
Klnleyism.

What Republican journal Says Of Mo.
KInleyism.
The defeat which prohibitory pro
lection has just sustained in the re.
publican congressional campaign com.
mittee is significant. 1t came on the
question of continuing the committee
headquarters and the maintenance Of
its literary bureau until March Is
next This was the proposition of
Chairman Babcock and the other lead
ers of the moderate wing Of the party
and it was opposed by the high protec-
tionists under the direction of
Boutelle of Maine. The moderates
were successful by q large majority.
For three months more the head
quarters will be kept open, and dur
ing this time literature on the tariff
question will be sent out to republic
ans or others who ask for it and the
campaign of education be continued.
Just what happened in the congress
sional committee would happen in
caucus if the matter were brought be-
fore the entire republican delegation
of both branches. High protection.
the protection which is understood by
VIC SCAA hCAAuACy ASAA, "OuAo VIC
beaten four or five to one on vote of
the whole body of republican members
of congress McKinleyism denotes
high protection-protectio in some
places very close to the prohibitory
point, and in many places much nearer
that point than is necessary for the
producer, fair for the government, or
just to the consumer. The term is con-
crete and specific, and the wayfaring
man, though fool, will know precise
ly what it means.
lNcKinleyism g not republican doctrine
and never was. Undoubtedly if the
republican masses of the country were
permitted to vote on the Mckinley
bill just after it was put into shape
they would have rejected and condemned
it by vote of at least three to one.
A man can be a sound and consistent
protectionist without believing that
the highest duties are always the best
duties. All the protection which the
really representative men of the party
ever wanted was that which would off
set the lower wages paid abroad.
There are, it is true, in the republican
party, as there were in the whig party,
men who think that nothing whatever
should be admitted to the country
which can be made or raised here, no
matter what the price here is, but in
the whig days those men were never
allowed to dictate tariffs. The re-
publicans, too, kept them in the back
ground until recently. They had no
hand in the framing of the Morrill, bill
which passed the house in 1860 and the
senate in February, 1851. The duties
in that act, of course. were subse-
quently increased, but that was during
the war, when an impost was put on
everything that a tax-gatherer could
reach. After the war the duties
started downward, and they kept on
going down until $780, Then the i'm
port exclusionists and abolitionists
got control of the ways and means
committee. framed the Mckinley
tariff, and the party was overwhelming
ly and deservedly beaten in that year
and in 1892 as a consequence. No
tariff will ever again be framed on
the 1890 lines. There is an irrepressi-
BILE conflict between McKinleyism and
republicanism. McKinleyism is
relic of barbarism, a survival of the
dark ages. 1t is political heresy,
economic lunacy, Chinese statesman
ship The republican party will see
to it that the McKinleyism resurrec-
tionists be sent to the rear and kept
there. St Louis Globe-Democrat