The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-08-01

Recommend Him.
The trusts candidate for the presi-
dency, William Mckinley, of Ohio, is.
personally, one of the most adroit and
cunning politicians that this age of pol
ittcians has yet produced, says the
! Kansas City Times He is a dema-
! gogue of the first water, as smooth A
| stump speaker as ever gulled a gaping
crowd with campaign catch cries and
anecdotes. and his character can be es-
! ti1nated best, perhaps, from this one
fact, that he became a bankrupt sew
eral years ago, although engaged in no
occupation save politics, and when Mr..
Mark Hanna and several other million
aide presidents of trusts made up a
purse and paid his debts he accepted
the money as a gift and has been like
potter's clay in their hands ever since.
Mr.. McKinley's record as a public
servant is short, and still more unfor-
tunate in its results than his manage
ment of his private affairs.
As governor of Ohio he held office for
two terms and left an empty treasury
when he went out of Office.
AS congressman from Ohio he be-
came a, candidate for the speakership,
and, being badly beaten by Thomas B.
Reed, congressional etiquette required
that he should be appointed chairman
of the ways and means committee. This
committee prepared a tariff bill, with
the assistance of the manufacturers
and presidents Of grea. monopolies,
who wrote their own figures of protec-
ton, SO called, in the bill, and in spite
of the indignant remonstrance of that
master spirit Of the Republican party,
James G. Blaine, who smashed his hat
upon the committees table and de-
clared that the bill would not create a
new market for nor raise the price of
a pound Of meat on bushel of grain
produced in this country. the commit
tee succeeded in passing the Mckinley
bill through congress.
The results of the Mckinley bill,
stated in brief, from the date of its
passage in 1890 to August IS, 1894, when
it was repealed, were as follows:
First-Under its provisions prohibit
ing competition over 100 trusts were
organized, covering nearly all the
necessaries and comforts of life, includ-
ing food, clothing, lumber, nails, agri-
cultural implements, glass, collins,
coal, iron. steel, cotton, ties, etc.
Second.-Although the Mckinley act
increased the average rate of protec-
ton to the manufacturers about 25
per cent, there was not a single raise
of wages in protected industry after
its passage nor until its repeal.
Third.-From the passage Of the Nc
kinney act in 1890, up to November,
1892, there were over 1,2O0 shut downs,
lockouts and strikes in the industries
protected" by its tariff rates. Among
these was the eliminating atrocity
of McKinleyism," the Homestead
strike, in which thousands of American
wage earners were turned out to starve
and, when they resisted, shot down by
Pinkerton's constabulary.
Fourth.-The Mckinley act caused a
steady falling off in the revenues of the
government, from over 100000, 900 of
surplus left by the Cleveland admins
tration in 1889 to deficit in the last
fiscal year of its operation, from June
go 1898. to June 80, 1894, amounting to
$72, 900 900.
Fifth.-The disinterested and best
posted political economists of the coun-
try, Republican as we'll as Democratic,
declared that the Mckinley act divided
the honors with the Sherman purchas-
ing act of causing the terrific panic of
1898, from the effects of which the
country is even now slowly recovering.
Sixth.-Under the operation of the
Mckinley act the prices of clothing and
nearly all the necessities OF life were
raised so high as to be in many cases
entirely out of the reach of a working
man and his family, and such a thing
as a wholesome, healthful wooden suit
of clothes or wooden dress became a
rarity among persons of ordinary
means
Mr. McKinleys running mate, the
Republican bosses candidate for the
vice-presidency, is Mr.. G. A. Hobart,
ostensibly from New Jersey, but in
reality New York club man and 1dler. !
His political biography is, like most I
Republican vir ues, a negative guam
tity, but he has bari" and he is
the faithful tool and servant of innu-
merable other "barls'' in and around /
New York. His money is expected to
pull the ticket through the tight places
All in all. the Republican party mas
from it standpoint done it's work we'll,
through its head boss, Hanna, and the
ticket for 1896 may be fairly classed as
a typical Republican ticket.
But if there is a 1.-THE of the patriot
ism of our forefathers left in the land
the trusts ticket will be buried out of
sight in November, as the Tines earn
estly hopes and believes it VIII