The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1896-05-15
TKMLEYS BOOM
CIGAR MANUFACTURERS NAY Try
TO mR0UMVEET 1T.

Both They and Their Employees Have
Been Almost Ruined by High Du-
ties on Leaf Tobacco-A Rod In
Pickle for Che Special Mouth
piece ofthe Manufacturer.
Tho following bold scheme Tor
squafing accounts with Mckinley IA
proposed by tho Tobacco Journal Of
April 4thi
Governor Mckinley, the author, ia
name a. least, Of the ill.famod Nc.
kinley tariff act, seems for tho pres
ont, al least, to DO Ia the lead, In al.
vance Of all other candidates, for the
Presidential Republican nomination.
He IL being advertised al over the
country with more zeal than discre.
tion and truth as "Proaperily's Ad.
vance Agent" and ''Tho Logical Can
didate."
We need not repeat 10 our readers
the reasons why MoKinloy's candidacy
for the Presidency is the most PERM.
cious and vicious for the interests OF
our cigar industry. Mckinley stands
Tor the impoyerishment Of our leaf
trade, both foreign and domestic. aud
the utter Generalization Of our cigar
industry. Up to the time Mckinley
lent the cloak OF his name to the in
famous 81 duty our leaf trade grew
both IN prosperity and extension from
year to year and our cigar industry
rivalled IN progress and prosperity
every other industry in this country.
But since that infamous duty has had
time to be tested practically the leaf
trade has gone to the dogs, hgurative-
" speaking, with the cigar industry
closely in its trail. The domestic leaf.
which that infamous duty was sup
posed to benefit at the rate Of 1000
per cent, has lost almost It's entire
mercantile value, and the Sumatra
leaf, which it was supposed to Danish
from our shores, gets in oil the same
in almost undimished quantities, on
riehing more than ever the Dutch
companies pockets. And the wages
Of cigarmakers have gone down al
most to the level of European pauper
labor. Nobody is making any money,
and everybody is eating up his earn.
ings Of lifetime under that infamous
duty.
Under these oppressive, most dis
tressing circumstances, it is the duty
Of self-preseryation for our cigar in
dustry to circumvent with oil their
might and main MeKinley's nomina-
ton for the Presidency.
And there is a way to do it, a most
practical and effective one. The Ma
tional Association of Cigar Manufae-
turers should defer their annual con-
vention till June, a day or two before
the National Republican Convention
meets at st. Louis. Then it should
meet in st. Louis and strenuous efforts
should be made to have as large a rep
resentation present as possible. Meet
ing at st. Louis at that time, its pro-
ceedings are bound to be noticed, not
only by the local press, but also by
the hundreds of representative news
paper men from all over the country.
And not only by the press, but also by
the delegates Of the Republican Con-
Yention.
And the proceedings of the Cigar
Manufacturers Association are bound
to be noticed if they state in bold facts
and figures the vast Importance OF the
cigar industry for the commercial veal
of the country and the grievances they
have against Mckinley and a McKin-
ley duty on their raw material. They
are bound to make an impression, com
ing as they would from the mouths oil
manufacturers, as whose special pro
tector Mckinley is being played off
It would be both most striking and
explosive commentary on this specia
Mckinley protecSorship to show thC
representatives of the Republican
party in national convention assem-
bled how they and their workmen have
been bled of many, many million dol
lars through the Mckinley duty OF
their raw material, to nobodys, abso
1utely nobody's benefit except the for
eign tobacco plantation companies
And while such an exposure might no
directly influence the Mckinley dele
gates, it is certain to be used agains
Mckinley by the delegates favorinl
other candidates.