Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1895-11-28
REPUBLICAN, PROGRAMME.

REPUBLICAN, PROGRAMME.
Forecase Of Their Plan for lncreasing
the Revenue.
A New York newspaper has been
quizzing eminent republicans of Penn
sylyania, Massachusetts,, Ohio and
Iowa concerning what they purpose
doing in the event that their control
of the house and the senate already won
shall be followed by their capture of the
presidency. It asks If in such event
they will reestablish McKinleyism or
by refraining from interference with
the existing tariff make tacit confess
sion of the disingenuousness of their
is to be noted that the states covered by
this symposium are those in which
presidential possibilities" abide.
Generally speaking, the response of
the republicans to whom the query was
put was that there would be no recur-
renee to Mckinleyism. In the main
they applied to the question of tariff
taxation that same skill in martialing
meaningless phrases and statements SO
complicated by qualifying clauses as
to convey no exact idea which repub-
licans have for years successfully en-
ployed to befog the minds of the peo-
pie concerning that party's attitude on
the money question. Yet, saving Nc
Kinley himself and devoted adherent
who manufactures glass down in Pitts
burgh, the general tenor of republican
opinion appears to be that the McKin-
ley bill shall forever stand as the high
tide of protectionism and that what
ever legislation republicans may now
urge will not rise much above the low
water mark. AS for any suggestion
that needed revenue may be raised by
addition to the list of objects of internal
revenue taxation or by the increase in
the tax on beer it is not to be found in
this republican symposium. Nor does
there come any declaration of a purpose
to reduce national expenditures. AS
before, republicans will put their main
reliance upon the foreign trade of the
country to furnish revenue and pro-
tective plumber.
Less from what the republicans now
say than from the past history of their
party may be drawn fair forecast of
their policy when, if ever, they shall
again control all three branches of the
national government. They will not go
before the people with promise or a
threat of reimposing the extortionate
duties which made the Mckinley bill
miracle of special legislation, but will
talk fair and softly of moderate tariff
increase-of tariff just large enough
to furnish revenue, but SO imposed as at
the same time to encourage American
industries and enable the American
laborer to earn better wages. Then, be-
ing installed in power, they would send
out invitations, not to the people who
pay the taxes, but to the few who profit
oy them, to come to Washington and
lend their advice in the formulation of
q new tariff bill. The march OF the mill
ionaires upon Washington-the very
lntithesis of Coxey's commonweal army
would begin. The country would be
once again treated to the spectacle Of
the consolidated pottery makers pleGg
ing their congressman to vote for a ten
per cent. advance On wood pulp in ex-
change for the kindly aid of the wood
pulp mems sodality in securing Is per
cent. advance in the schedule relating
to pottery. 1t is In this way that tariff
bills are made, and it is for this reason
that seldom can one be made without
transcending in some places the just and
proper limit of taxation. Accepting
the. protection principle, moderation
is practically impossible. Democrats
themselves recall with modification
how far in some few sections the tariff
bill enacted by their own party, though
in the main moderate and in all parts
an improvement upon republican tariff
legislation. exceeded in the burden of
taxation imposed legitimate bounds.
It will be the part of republicans in
the coming presidential campaign to
deceive the people with fair promises
of moderate tariff revision. The reci-
procity humbug will be trotted out and
all the piatitudes by which shre,vd and
constituencies politicians throw q veil
of rhetoric about their true purposes
will be employed. If the people permit
themselves to be hoodwinked they will
find very speedily after republican ac
cession to complete power a new tariff
lazy in effect by the side Of which, in all
probability, McKinley's celebrated
measure would seem moderate and just.
Chicago Chronicle.