Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1895-01-25
THE RIGHT POSITION.
HOW REPUBLICANS STAND ON THE
TARIFF QUESTION.

Every stalwart Protcctionist VIII Agree
with Congressman Boutelle-McKinley-
ism 10 Aldrichisn1, Allisonism, Reedism
and Republicanlsm.
Congressman Boutelle Of Maine has
been aroused by what he regards as seri-
Gus and mischievous misrepresentation
of the leaders Of the Republican party
on the tariff question and expresses his
views on the subject in the following
vigorous fashion:
II have no patience, continued Mr..
Boutelle, with any Republicans who
permit themselves to be made catspaws
by the Democratic and Mugwump news
papers that are laboring to belittle and
break the force of the great protection
victory of 1894 by intimations that the
Republican party has in some way
weakened or refrigerated from its for
mer stand upon the tariff question. It
is an old trick of the Democracy to in
vent phrase or catohword which they
seek to make odious by iteration and
then use it as bugaboo with which to
scare timid and feather Drained Repub-
licana Bleeding Kansas bloody
shirt and force bill are examples,
and just now, after the awful thrashing
administered by the people, they are
desperately shouting against Mckinley
ism and claiming that it shared in
their defeat.
1.-THE transparent trick is to ask some
unsuspicious Republican whether our
party will re-enact the Mckinley law,
and if he answers that future cOndi-
tons may indicate some possible change
Of rate in some item of some schedule
the Democratic paper instantly reports
said Republican as having declared that
'McKinleyism is dead, and that the
party will never think of restoring it.
Of course the obvious purpose is to get
the impression abroad that the Repub-
icans have repented Of or repudiated
the tariff legislation of 1890 as too pro.
nounced in the line Of protection, and
that the result of the recent elections
has caused the Republicans to become
conservative as to the Importance Of pre-
serving our home markets and enconr-
aging our own industries.
1.-THE falsebood Of this pretense is
shown by every fact of the recent cam
paign. Never before in political history
was there contest in which the main
issue was made so overshadowing or its
triumph so pronounced as in the cleo
tions of this year, when the principles
of protection to American industry re-
ceived the most overwhelming indorse-
ment every given by the American peo-
pie, and it was not only victory for
the principle, but concrete triumph
for the system of Republican protection
enacted in 1890 as against the assault
made upon it by the Wilson Brice- Cor
man monstrosity enacted by the Demo
Gratis.
''The attempt to impart a prejudice
against the tariff resolution Of 1890 by
characterizing it as 'McKinleyism' and
representing it as something indefensi'
BILE is a gross insult to the Republican
congress that gave to the country what
was incomparably the wisest, most
thoroughly systematized, most carefully
considered and most beneficial tariff
legislation ever framed. It represented
not simply McKinleyism, but Aldrich'
ism, Allisoaism, Reedism and Repub-
licanism.
"None of the leaders Of the Repub-
lican party was then anxious to assign
to the distinguished chairman Of the
committee Of ways and means all the
responsibility for or all the glory of that
great achievement of legislation in the
most difficult of all fields. It was recog.
nized, with it's splendidly beneficent fea-
lures and it's unavoidable but minor
imperfections, as the work upon which
the Republican party would appeal for
the support of the people, and while
Misrepresentation defeated us at the
elections held before its effects were ap-
parent the voters of the United States
have this year, with unparalleled en-
phasis, denounced the warfare made up
on it and commanded a return to the
principles and systems that gave the
United States in 1892 the highest degree
of prosperity ever attained by any peo-
pie.
1.-THE battle was fought squarely on
the issue between the fruits Of the Re-
publican legislation Of 1890 and the
paralysis and disaster that followed the
Democratic tariff smashing assault upon
that legislation. The result of the bat
tie, from Maine to Iowa, from Connect
tout to the new states and territories of
the far west, has been SO emphatic q
verdict in favor of protection that no
political party will ever dare to put a
free trade plank in it's platform or ask
the people to open the American, market
for the products Of the cheap labor of
foreign lands.
"Instead of retreating, the great army
of protection has advanced it's standards
and lifted them higher than ever be-
fore. The demand for the preservation
of the American market for the products
of our own industry and for such pro-
lection as will guarantee to American
workingmen the greatest practicable
diversification Of employments and the
highest possible wages consistent with