The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-11-28


in The Sun ne gives the informin results
OF bis talk.
Tne great American humorist, travelsr
ana lecturer, PERKINS or, in private life,
Mr.. MELVILLE ID. LANGDoN, is a man of
lightning like perceptions and reliabil-
ity in their reporting. His pen picture
of the character Of Major MCKINLEY and
mis- incisive statement OF the Major, as
PERKINS says everybody at home will
ever call the President elect, are enter
tanning and valuable. Major MCKINLEY
has one hobby, reuorts PERKINS, and
that Ia, to quote his words:
"To gain fans ty making this country
prosperous again. lie believes he can DO
10. he believes in his theory OF good
tariff for revenue as much as he believes
in his religion. lie says what made pros
perity for thirty years and paid s2,OOO,-
900, 600 OF the national debt will DO 1t
again. Less tnan that Will make de-
ncit and run us IN deot. lie believes
our whols financial trouble has come
from reducing the tariff and killing reci-
now fighting In Cuba should be eating
our Hour today which, by bad policy, Is
prohibited from going there. lie be-
lieves we are getting hundred million
dollars worth of cloth, pottery, siik.
carpets and laces from Europe every year
that would have been and were made
here by the ola tariff. lie believes the
Wilson bill has blessed England and
cursed America. lie believes the $780,
600, 900 Of bonds sold byICLEvELAHD we're
used TO pay the expenses Of the govern
ment, and that our gold went out to pay
| the balance we owed Europe after buying
more stun tnap we sold her. lie be-
lieves that 10 get the same old revenue,
through n 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 bs-
lieves that the whole silver scare was
brought on by CLEVELAND making sill
YER coinage scapegoat for a deficit
brought on by the ilson bill, and that
without CLEVELAND the silver discus
sicn would never have come up.
CLEvELAND's false charge made the
Democrats, Repu blicans and Popuiists of
the silver States mad. Major MCKINLEY
believes that IL CLEVELAND had had
tariff for revenue anu reciprocity put
back, prosperity would have come and
there would have been no silver party to
kill"
What Mr.. LANoDoN quotes as McKIE-
LEY's views on the tariff are not to be
understood as being literally what
MCKINLEY recited to him. They are
rather the impressions caught by thi
clever reporter. But they are hardly the
less likely TO be Trustworthy, from such
a reporter. In substance tho,e views are
back on wool; the duty on WOODEN cloths,
velvets and plushes to be both specific
and ad vslorem, and just high enough to
have them made in the United States
without lowering our wages. No increase
in the tin and plate glass schedules q
tariff on German and English linen high
en- ough to bring Belfast linen manufac-
turers to the United States, where they
can manufacture European fax, which
will como In free; to increase the product
of sugar In Nebraska and California, fax
In Wisconsin, Minnesota and Dakota.
and so increase the sheep industry, where
wheat used TO grow In the North west, that
100, O0o. 900 bushels less Of wheat will be
raised, WOOL and fax will take it's place,
and dollar wheat will come to the farmer
| again. As to a tariff on manufactured
lumber, grain, eggs aud meat against
| Canada, he will make this tariff - high
as their tariff Is against us. Cattle, sheep,
and horses will have q specific duty against
| them, which Canada will pay. Our Gus
tom houses along the Canadian border
have not.psid expenses during the last
four years. They will be made to pay a
| rsveAue. Canada has . prohibitory duty
of three cents a pound against American
meat now, and MCKINLEY will see that
| it does not continue. he will set all our
mill, to running, let the la boring men
earn 81, 900, 600, 600 year as they earned In
1891. This will make money 90 plenty
that there Will be on further cry about
cufuing more silver, for the f5se, eee, ee9e.in
silver now rusting In the Treasury will
get into the hanos of the people. In re-
gard to coinage OF silver, MCKINLEY
viii favor 1t as soon as more silver Is
needed, but ne will let the nation buy 1t
at the market price, as we have done for
years. and make every dollar coined as
good as gold.
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