Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1896-05-08

umph of the ultra high protective tariff
notions well known to the country as Nc
Kinleyism, which were Overwhelmingly
repudiated by the people in 1899, and
would force the Republican party to make
the fight exclusively on that issue regard
less of the money metal problem and
other questions that vitality concern the
miners, farmers and other laboring men
of the western and southern states.
OF course, all the changes would be in
dnstriously rung on the sophlstical repre-
sentation that the hard times were wholly
due to the modification of the beneti-
cent Mckinley law by wicked Dem
ocratic congress and that only the resto-
ration of that extreme measure would
bring relief and prosperity to the people.
Believing with the immortal Lincoln that
you can fool all the people some of the
time, You can fool some of the people all
the time but you can't fool all the people
all the time" we are persuaded that the
ardent and confident supporters of the
Napoleon of high protection would be
NIGHTLY surprised and grievously disap-
pointed at the result of their campaign.
1t is our candid conviction that large
ma ority of the American people are in
favor of a wisely adjusted tariff for
revenue only, that both the high protec
tionists and the extreme free traders are
in a hopeless minority, that there are
thousands of Republicans particularly
in this agricultural states) who sincerely
believe in tariff for revenue only, and
that, even if no other salient issue were
involved, it would be quite possible to
beat both Mckinley and McKinleyism at
the polls in November.
But other. issues of the gravest moment
to the people are involved in the pending
cam paigu. The great money metal prob
lem is involved and the McKinleyites
simply delude themselves If they indulge
the notion that they can overshadow this
momentous question IN the minds of the
people by blatherskite protective tariff
resolutions and sniveling appeals to
"nourish our infant industries" la Car
negie and the rest ad nauseam.
The people are beginning generally to
realize that the surreptitious demonetiza
ton of over half the nations primary
money has contributed more than all
other causes combined to produce the
hard times, and that the sole neficiares
of this unrighteous legislation, the money
lenders, not satisfied with doubling all
debts, are determined not to pay Il dollar
more toward the support Of the govern
ment than their poorest debtor. The
McKinleyites will find before their
campaign ends that a majority of the
American people believe both in silver
and in the income tax method of raising
revenue.
But suppose Mckinley should be elect
ed president and he should have the sup
port of a Mckinley congress. What
then? Mckinley would begin to appoint
new postmasters in March, but his con-
gress would not meet until the ensuing
December and it would be months after that
before q general Mckinley tariff law could
be framed and enacted into law. Thus
after his election at least eighteen months
would elapse before he could begin to
save any part of the country except the
persons he might appoint to Office, and
in the meantime the business interests of
the nation, which are now about diusted
to the present order of things, would
suffer the inevitable paralysis incident to
threatened radical changes in the tariff
system.
And the importers, amply warned of
what was coming, would avail them
selves of the long interval to lay in i'm
mense stocks of foreign made fabrics
against the time when Mckinley tariff
law was again in force. They would
then be able to undersell American tariff
protected manufacturers and at the same
time make fabulous fortunes out of the
increased prices the same tariff would
enable them to secure for their wares.
No one but the importers would be
benefited for long time and it is need
less to explain that long period of busl-
ness stagnation would be as certain as
night follows day. Doubtless it would
forever end McKinleyism, but the Ameri-
can people ought by this time to be wise
enough to learn in SHINE other school