Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-04-25
piSToRTlNo FACTS.

AeKinley's Efforts to Deceive tho 1oUpda
Regarding tho TnraM.
No recent political speech has ~
tracted more general attention than
that which Gov. Mckinley delivered at
Hartford. In many respects it was q
remarkable utterance and there were
tears In the voice of the little Napoleon
when he insisted that the American
people failed to appreciate the institu-
tions under which they live When an
made 1t was made apparent that his
patriotic solicitude was not for the I'M
situations of the fathers, preserved and
strengthened through intervening gem
erations, but q gnawing fear that the
peculiar principles of government
which he had done SO much to make
operative had waned In popularity and
were remembered like 3 calamitous
event, for the evil wrought The gov
ernor was talking for an ambitious
purpose and conveniently withheld the
Difference due to truth.
Pointing to the circumstance that
In 1894, under the new tariff law, in
terna1 revenue receipts were SIS. 00O, :
600 while the customs receipts were
but S131, 600 600, he drew the conclusion
that more burdens were imposed ON
our people than formerly and less upon
the goods of foreign countries Some
how he neglected to quote from re-
internal and tariff taxes per capita were
lighter in 1894 than under the McKin-
ley law. In 1890 and 1891 the per capita
internal tax was S2.2s; in 1892. g. IS,
and in 1893. g. Al, while in 1894 the bur
den upon the people per capita for in
ternal taxes was but 81. Is. Thus the
democratic law has benefited the peo-
pie even in the species of tax which
the governor cites as a democratic
means of oppression
So far as tariff taxes are concerned
the relief was much greater. The
tariff tax per capita in 1892 under the
Mckinley abuse was $2.66, and in 1898
was 81; yet in 1894, with the results
of democratic reform in operation. il
was $1.9O, showing very appreciable
and gratifying reduction of the ex-
penses which the people must bear.
With these misstatements upon sub
ject regarding which the governor
holds himself an infallible authority,
it is not surprising that in dealing
with other matters of public interest
he should show himself utterly at sea.
He is so defiant of the verities of his
tory as to make the astonishing state
ment that in March, 1893, the Harrison
administration turned over to the
Cleveland administration surplus of
S124, OOO, 600.
This can be regarded as nothing less
than willful Misrepresentation and
expressive of the utmost contempt for
the intelligence of the American peo-
pie. There was not a dollar of availa-
bic cash turned over, apart from the
gold reserve, and even then Secretary
Foster had gixen orders for the prepa-
ration of plates from which to print
bonds to be sold for gold. What the
Harrison administration did leave was
a bankrupt treasury as a result of cor
rupt special and extravagant legisla-
ton to meet which cost the country
one of the most trying periods of de-
preston it has ever encountered. All
that the modest government asks from
the people is chance to reenact the
laws which brought the nation to the
verge of financial ruin.-Detroit Free
Press