The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1895-09-26
NEED MKINLEY LEGISLATION.

Reports from England state
that factories which were closed
during the enforcement of the
Mckinley law are open and run
ming at full blast. Bradford, the
center of the woolen trade, null
tiplied its exports to the United
States during July, as compared
with the corresponding month
last year, by five. Huddersheld,
which supplies worsteds and
woolens to merchant tallors, has
increased its exports to America
by over $1,000, 900 during the
last quarter. The cotton and
pottery trades are said also to
have shared in the great revival
of prosperity which has set in
since the. adoption of the sched-
ules of the Gorlnan-Wilson bill
in the United States. Iron and
steel it seems are not similarly
prospered, but then it is known
that, by the influence exerted by
infant southern iron and steel
industries, those products of the
country were protected. Even
German trade is prospered by the
recent tariff legislation, and, al
though they gave up the Anleri-
can hog and meat products read
lily enough, do not seem dis
pleased that Uncle Sam has
ceased to demand barter as the
price of opening his markets.
These facts are significant when
we compare the slow revival of
our own trade, the ha1ting step
of increased wages, and the flock
ing of American buyers to Eng
land and the continent, because
there, with a low tariff, are to be
found the cheapest goods for
American counters. With all
the talk about the deleterious ef-
feet of the immense amount of
silver in the currency, the pres
ent outlook of American trade
should not be forgotten. The
home market loaf has been di-
vided, and while nobody starves,
1nultitudes are obtaining merely
a living wage. The laboring
classes ran in debt last winter
and the winter before, as they
could find persons who would
take their credit and save their
families from want. These peo-
pie are now able to make a liv-
ing, but have not yet freed them
selves from debts honestly con-
tracted with generous creditors.
It is difficult to believe that if
hard times like those of two win
tiers ago should come OH, the
creditor could be as generous
again. The creditors themselves
are not recovered from the hard
times, because they have not got
ten back what they have loaned.
Let the government go on bor-
rowing to sustain its credit and
something worse than high rate
of interest will befall us. I'm
paired government credit can,
with decreasing revenue, only
end in a season of financial dis
aster. Something should be
done to save the income of the
government. We are billion
dollar country and need billions
for our treasury. Let, therefore,
the Mckinley tariff be re-enacted
and have prosperity return
through full treasury. The
only journals which desire that
there be no tariff changes in the
Gorman-W Wilson bill are the free
traders, who hope to hold the
ground already won, and think
that when the wheel of uncertain
fortune shall again turn round
they can push reductions yet
more, for the sake of humanity
at large, and. to the disaster of
the United States in particular.
With all their philanthropy for
men beyond our borders, and
carelessness concerning our own
laborers, let them remember the
inspired saying:-"He that careth
not for his own is worse than an
infdel. Lynn Items.