The oasis., 1896-09-26
MCKINLEY MExrco.s MASCOT.

MeNicO owes muCu bO Niliidih NN- Kinley. His nigh tariff drove the big smelters over the border, and, under the protection of astable and business like government, they have nightly thriyen and have paid such good diyi- dends that some of them are reported to be DOW playing on velvet" This is eminently satisfactory to Mexico and to the great smelting group. All we ask is for more of this sort or thing.
 Now Mr. Mckinley for whom we entertain the highest respect as a good man. d most amlable and well dOmes- ticated citizen, model husband and sincere friend of monOpolies, raises, in his letter of acceptance, the cry or gold and protection. These two de- mands are excellent. They suit us. to employ an English idiOm, to a T. v With the United States on firm gold basis, American capital will flow in here in an intending stream, yellow, fructifying. PactOlian. And more, the gold premium will make our eX- pOrters rich beyond the dreams of avarice. Our fibre. coffee, tobacco. and vanilla growers will prosper and become builders of palaces in this the residential capital of the republic.
 Protection carried to the Mckinley extreme may not put an ounce more of roast meat in the American work ingman's dinner pail, but it will re- dound to the advantage of Mexico by preventing the American manufact- urer from intruding into our field. With the United States on revenue tariff basis and silver money, we should be in great peril from American in- dnstria competition.
 Now, Major Mckinley wants none of these things: his voice rings out for gold and protection.
 And Mexico, which gratefully re- members her benefactOrs, says heartily ''Amen."- Mexican Herald.
 EDITOR OASIS: The above article is a fair sample of the arguments" used by the free-silyer advocates in support of their hobby, and truthful analysis of the same will show it's tallacy as completely as it will all their other so- called arguments
 The writer has been in business in Sonora for five years, and during that tIme has trayeled oyef most of the state, and has had business relations with all classes of people aborers, farmers. mechanics, merchants and speculators, and his views expressed below will be supported by anyone and everyone who has travelled extensively in Mexico or who is posted upon the subject.
 The Mexican Herald unwittingly furnishes the strongest kind of argu- ment in favor of the Republican party's policy.of protection and sound money. It speaks truly as far as it goes, but 1t DOES NOT GO FAR ENOUGH. It says that the high tariff has proven eminently satisfactory and of great advantage 10 the smelter and mine owners of Mexico; a continuance of the same policy will make their ex- porters "rich beyond the daeam of avarice:n their coffee and tobacco growers will prosper and become builders Of palaces"
 Here we have three classes of people who have prospered in Mexico on ac- count of the free coinage of silver and of the high protective duties" of the United States. What proportion of the population in Mexico do these three classes represents? Not one one-hundreth of the population, and many Of these are foreigners English, Germans, French and Americans who send their great gains out of the country and who have no intention of becoming permanent residents; they are there to make all the money they can by taking advantage of the sitna- tion."
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