The San Francisco call., 1896-08-29

But the issue four years ago between the
Republicans and Democrats was the tariff,
and the people voted Mckinley and his tariff
and his party out OF power because they
thought his tariff too high and voted to have
1t reduced. and returned the Democrats to
power i'll order to get it reduced, and 1t was
rather how little? Reader, dear reader, do
you know? Can you find out? If SO, how?
Who will tell you? Has any Republican
speaker told You that the Mckinley tariff was
based on scale of 1856 per cent and the
Wilson German tariff is 41.75, or only 81 per
cent less? AS "the tariff is tax how
ness better for it except that of loaning
money? Has the tariff as a matter of fact,
judging by your own personal experience,
anything tangible TO do with present condi-
t1ons? You were taxed too much under the
Mckinley dill, as you thought, or as majority
thought including good many thousands of
Republicans, enough OF them TO turn the gov
ernment over to the Democrats, and so it was
determined 10 reduce the tariff, and now, after
1t was reduced very little, and as times got
worse great many people who have not yet
learned TO think and investigate for them
selves are inclined to go back to Mckinley
and his tariff hoping that times will at least
be as good as before his bill was repealed. Let
me write down here that they will be disap-
pointed again. and an old time Lin
coin Republican l think l can tell them
why. Let me first appeal to the intel
ligence OF my reader ana ask if he
knows that during the last four months
OF Harrison'S administration even the Nc
Kinley tariff fell short million a month of
paying Government expenses? And why so?
McKinley's letter OF acceptance quotes from
Harrison's last message to Congress 10 show
tha. great industrial developments were made
under his administration, as a broad hint 10
the Anne rican people that he should have been
reelected. He said:
"The new industrial plants established Octo-
Der q, 1890, and up TO October %, 1892, num-
Der 345, and the extension of existing plants
los. The capital invested amounts to $40,-
446, ,070, and the number OF additional em-
ployes 81 ,2S5 During the first six months of the
present calendar Year 135 new factories were
built, OF which forty were cotton-mills, forty
eight knitting-mills, twenty-six woolen-mills,
fifteen silkmlils, four plushmills and two
Enen-mills. OF tie forty-two mills twenty
one have been built in the Southern States"
Now any reader of ordinary Intelligence
knows that the more we manufacture at home
the less we import from Europe, and hence the
less revenue from tariff. 1t is only few years
since we imported shiploads of rails Tor our
railroads, and We import none now. Raising
the tariff will not raise the revenue; 1t will
then become prohibltiye. An income tax and
an Inheritance tax such as they have in Eng
land will raise enough to supplement the fail
ing revenues from imports and will fall alone
on those who are best able TO pay 1t and have
most need of government TO protect their
great properties.
What the country needs to restore prosperity
is more money, and as the first means 10 that
end we must restore silver 10 free coinage.
But says General Harrison in his great speech
in New York yesterday, "that will drive all
the gold out OF the country" and reduce the
money we have by one-half. That is an old
cry long since discredited by the Sherman
law, ana it did not have that effect during the
eighty y-three years in which we had free coin
age, and was not doing it In 1873 when silver
was demonetized, and there had never been
any dump of silver during that period of
nearly a century. But let us admit that all
the gold will go abroad as 1t did during
the war, for gold is q coward and always
deserts the country in time of need; is there
one reader OF The CALL who does not know
that the Government will Immediately issue
patriotic paper money and back 1t by the same
authority and power which defends the flag?
But what will the gold men do with their gold
abroad? Where can they invest 1t to a better
advantage than in the United States? 1t is an
empty threat that gold will leave the country
But ii it goes the country will not suffer as it
does now under the rule of gold. Bryan's sup
porters want moro money and better times
and they know how to secure what they want
JOSEPH AsBURY JOHNSON.
San Francisco, Aug. 2S, 1896.