The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1895-02-09
POLITICAL HEREsY.
What y Republican Journal says OF HI.

whst y Republican Journal says OF HI.
Klnleyisn.
Tho defeat which prohibitory pro-
lection has Just sustained in tho 70.
publican congressional campaign com.
mittee is Significant. 1t came on tho
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
Boutellc of Maine. Tho moderates
wero successful by q large majority.
For three months moro the head
quarters will be kept open. and dur.
question will be sent out to republic
ans or others who ask for it and tho
campaign of education be continued.
Just what happened in the congress
nional committee would happen in
caucus if the matter were brought be-
of both branches. High protection,
tho protection which IL understood by
tho term McKinleyism, would DO
beaten four or Eve to one on a vote OF
the whole body of republican members
OF congress. McKinleyisn denotes
high protection-protectio in some
places very close to tho Prohibitory
point, and in many places much nearer
that point than is necessary for tho
producer. fair for the government, or
just to the consumer. The term is con.
crete and specific, and the wayfarin8
man. though u fool, will know precise
1y what it means.
NcK5nleyiso. IS not republican doctrine
and never was. Undoubtedly If the
repu blican masses of the country Wero
permitted to vote on the Mckinley
bill just after it was put into shape
they would have rejected and condemned
it by a 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 publican
party. as there were in the wing 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 wing days those men were ncser
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 tho
senate in February, 1881. The duties
in that act, of course, were subse.
quenCIy increased, OuL CAaC 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 1890. Then the Inn
port exclusionists and abolitionists
got control of tho 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 aud
republicanism. McKinleyism is q
relic OF bnrbarism, a survival of tho
dark ages. It is political hcresy.
economic lunacy, Chinese statesman
ship. The republican party will soc
to it that tho McKinleyism resurrec-
t;onists be sent to the rear and kept
there. - St. Louis Globc-Democrat