The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1896-09-25
SHUT YSlOk EYES.

SHU UT 1OUR EYES.
They asked the people to shut their
eyes to the fact that the distress from
| which We suffer exists all over Europe
as we'll rs in this country; that it exists
in the countries having high tariff
and in countries having a moderate
tariff and in countries having no tariff
at all and is clearly due to some cause
that has 10 connection with the tariff
They ask lis to shut our eyes to the
fact that we have already very high
tariff and that the decline in prices
began years ago under a still higher
tariff and that it went right OH under
the highest tariff ever known in this
country, called the Mckinley tariff.
They ask us to shut our eyes to the
fact that in 1888 the conditions in our
country were unsatisfactory and that
the remedy that was then proposed
rs a cure was All increase OH the tariff
and that this Immediately followed
the election of Mr.. HARRISON when the
famous Mckinley bill was enacted.
They ask us to shut our eyes to the
fact that under that law wages were
not raised, prices kept steadily
falling and that lInmediatly after its
enactment in 1890 there was a market
reduction III wages in several hundred
of the largest manufacturing establish
ments of this country. They ask us
to shut our eyes to the fact that while
the tariff shielded the manufact urer
in some cases against competition, it
permitted him to fill his factory with
the cheapest kind of pauper labor
brought from the fields of Europe
and thus, instead af raising the wages
OF the American workman, not only
reduced their wages but drove them
out OF employment. They ask us to
Shut our eyes to the fact that it was
in the spring of 1892, while the Nc
kinley law was in force and while MIR.
Harrison was President. that the ia
nous Homestead riotsoccured, being
among the most bloody that ever took
place in this country; that at that
time the conditions of the laborer
we're rapidly getting worse and the
prices of American products were
steadily falling. They ask US to shut
our eyes to the fact that the Mckinley
law for the fiscal year ending June 80.
1894, produced Il deficit to the U. s.
Treasury Of $4,000, 900. They ask
us to shut onr eyes to the fact that
neither the laboring maj of this coun-
try nor of Europe has derived any
substantial benefit from the tariff,
because the employer is always per-
mitted to fill his shop with cheap la
Dor. They ask us to shut our eyes to
the fact that the tariff is no longer a
matter of theory, but a meter of his
tory. 1t has been tried and it has
been found wanting. Consequently
with the adherents of Mckinley 1t is
a question III this campaign of seeing
how often they can fool the people.
Both Mr.. Schurz and Mr.. Cochran
have been avowed enemies of this
tariff. They cannot and they do not
offer it rs Il remedy for any of the ills
of the land. and having no other
remedy to offer, and seeing 10 pro-
spects Of change for the better under
existing policies, they simply tell the
patient that if he only will lie still he
will suffer less than if he attempts to
oestir himself. They have no remedy
to suggest, they strenuously object to
permitting the people to do any thing
towards helping themselves.
That bishop who told at anxious
negro that there were only two ways
open for him, and that on led direct
ly down to hell while the other led
away off to eternal damnation was
evidently the man who furnished the
texts for both these speeches. The
negro scratched his mead and replied
IF dat's SO massa. den dis chile takes
to de woods And if Messrs. SchurZ
and Cochran are correct then the
American people will have to take to
the woods. st. Louis Post Dispatch.
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