The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1896-12-05
M'KlNLEY's TARIFF IDEAS.
Eli Perkins COndenses the President.
Elects Views After Talking
With Him.

spent part of the morning with the
President-elect. When asked Can
tonese if the street railroad ran up by
McKinley's home he said:
mo, the street railroad doesn't run
anywhere; it stands right still. But
you take that car at the Court House,
go up Main street Ave blocks through
that big triumphal arch, ana when you
come to a wooden cottage with all the
pickets stolen out of the fence, and the
yard all trodden down harder than the
National Turnpike, that's the Majors
plaeel"
found the President elect in hap
Ply mood. His face was flushed with
the health that comes from temper
ance, prosperity, and pure conscience,
and his eyes fairly danced with intelli-
gence and joy. Every man in Canton
is his friend, and his companions are
full of love and admiration.
Major Mckinley, for that is what
they all call him, has no secrets. His
life and works are an open book. He
has one hobby, and that is to gain fame
by making this country prosperous
again. He believes he can do it. He
believes in his theory of good tariff
for revenue as much as he believes in
his religion. He says what made pros
perity for thirty years and paid 49,
0O0,O00,000 of the national debt will do
it again. Less than that will make
deficit and run us in debt lie believes
our whole financial trouble has come
from reducing the tariff and killing
reciprocity. He believes the two ar
mics now fighting in Cuba should be
eating our flour today which, by bad
policy, is prohibited from going there.
He believes we are getting hundred
million dollars worth of cloth, pottery,
silk carpets and laces from Europe
every year that would have been and
we're made here by the old tariff. He
believes the Wilson bill has blessed
England and cursed America file be
lieves the $780, 600 of bonds sold by
Cleveland were used to pay the ex
penses of the government, and that
our gold went out to pay the balance
we owed Europe after buying more
stuff than we sold her. He believes
that to get the same old revenue,
through a lower tariff, we will have to
buy more goods, and that when we
buy them from Europe our own mills
stop and our own labor becomes idle
He believes that the whole silver scare
was brought on by Cleveland making
silver coinage a scapegoat for a deficit
brought on by the Wilson bill, and that
without Cleveland the silver discussion
would never have come up. Cleve-
lands false charge made the Demo
Gratis, Republicans and Populists of
the silver states mad. Major McKin-
ley believes that if Cleveland had had a
tariff for revenue and reciprocity put
back, prosperity would have come and
there would have been no silver party
to kill.
You ask in New York how much
Mckinley will change the tariff.
1 know Major Mckinley, and 1 be
lieve can prophesy just what he will
do.
First-He will make the duty on
wooden cloths, VelVets, and pushes
both specific and ad valorem, and raise
the tariff just high enough to have
them in the United States without
lowering our wages. He will not have
our gold going to Bradford to buy
these things while our own mills are
idle.
SecondIy-We are making three
fourths of our tin and plate glass now,
The Wilson bill cut the tariff on tin
from 22O to Ito in order to kill the in
dustry. 1t did kill it In the eastern
states, where coal was used, but Provi-
dence sent free gas to Indiana, and
they are now making gas tin from the
block plate up for 81 box, that used
to cost Sc in Wales. So tin and plate
glass will probably not be touched
Plate glass that used to sell for $40 a
square foot, is now selling for 40 cents
made at home. The tin tariff may
go up from ITO cents per pound to III
cents pound, so that it can be made
again with profit with coal.
Thirdly-A ten-cent tariff will be put
back on wool. Mckinley believes that
it has not been a good policy to SEND
SIOOOOO0O0 in gold to Asia and Aus
tralia for wool during the last foul
years when we could have given $ll0,
100000 for it to Kentucky, Tennessee
Ohio, Pennsylvania. and the silvel
states. He believes wool, when shear
ed and washed, is a manufactured pro
duct. ...
Fourthly-McKinley will recommend
a tariff on German and English liner
high enough to bring Belfast liner
manufacturers to the United States
where they can manufacture European