The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1896-11-27
u,KIN1ET,s rhnIrr IDEAS.
Ell Perkins Condensea the rresident-Eieet's
Views Arter Talking with Hin.

Views After TaikinE with Hin.
CANTON, o., Nov. 2l.-Hnving an engagements
at Maslllon last night, connected by street Cur
with Canton, l spent a part OF the morning with
the President. elect. When l asked q Cantonese
II the street railroad ran up by McKinley's home
he said:
mo. the street railroad doesn't run anywhere;
II stands right still. But you take that car at
the Court House, go up Main street 6ve blocks
through that BIG triumphal arch, and when You
como to a wooden cottage with all the pickets
stolen out of the fence. and the yard all trodden
down harder than the National Turnpike, that's
the Majors placer
l found the President. elect in n happy mood.
His face was flushed with the health that comes
from temperance, prosperity, and a pure con-
science, and his eyes fairly danced with intelll-
gence and JOY. Every man in Canton is his
friend. and his companions are full OF love and
admiration.
Major McKonly, for that ia what they all
call him, has no secrets. His life and works are
an open book. Ho has one hobby. and that is to
gain fame by making this country prosperous
again. He believes he can do II. 1lo believes in
his theory of II good tariff for revenue as much
us he believes in his religion. He says what
made prosperity for thirty years and paid 81, 600
600. 900 of the national debt will do II again.
Less than that will make a deficit and run us in
debt. He believes our whole financial trouble
has come from reducing the tariff and killing
reciprocity. He believes the two armies now
fighting in Cuba should be eating our -four to-
dry which. by II bad policy, is prohibited from
going there. Ho believes we are getting q hun
drcd million dollars worth of cloth. pottery, silk
carpets and laces from Europe every year that
would have been and were made here by the old
tariff. He believes the Wilson bill has blessed
England and cursed America. He believes the
s20o.0o0.O00 OF bonds sold by Cleveland were
used to pny tho expenses OF tho Government,
md that our gold went out to pny the balance
we owed Europe after buy ing moro stuff than
we sold her. He believes that to get the same
old revenue, through q 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 believes that the whole
silver scare was brought on by Cleveland maxi
ing silver coinage q scapegoat for a deficit
brought on by the Wilson bill. and that with
out Cleveland the silver discussion would never
have come UP. C!eveland's false charge made
the Democrats, Republicans. and Populists of
the silver States mad. Major Mckinley believes
that II Cleveland had had a tariff for revenue
and reciprocity put back, prosperity would have
come and there would have been no silver party
to kill.
You ask in New York how much Mckinley
will change the tariff.
| know Major Mckinley. and I believe I can
p~rophesy Just what he will do.
First-Hc will make the duty on woollen cloths,
velvets. and pushes both specific and ad va
loren. and raise the tariff just high enough 10
have them made in the United States without
lowering orr wages. He will not have our gold
! going TO Bradford to buy these things while our
own mills are idle.
Secondly-We are making three fourths of our
tin and plate glass now. The Wilson bill out
the tariff on tin from 2.eo to Ito in order to
kill the industry. 1t did kill 1t IN the Eastern
States. where coal was used. but Providence
sent free gas to Indiana, and they are now
making gas tin from the block plato up for 81 a
box. that used to cost So in Wales. So tin and
plate glass will probably not be touched. Plate
glass that used TO sell for $40 a square foot, is
now selling for 80 cents-made at home. The
tin tariff may go up from Ito cents per pound to
lhs ceat8 q pound. so that 81 can De made again
with profit with coal.
Thirily-A ten-cent tariff will be put back on
wool. Mckinley believes that It has not been n
good policy to send 500. 900. 900 in gold to Asia
and Australia for wool during the last four
years VIXEN we could have given l o.o0o.0 900
for it 10 Kentucky. Tennessee. Ohio. Pennsyl-
vania. and the silver States. He believes wool,
when shcared and washed. is a manufactured
product.
Fourthly-McKtnley will recommend a tariff
on German and English linen high enough to
bring Belfast linen manufacturers to the United
States, where they car manufacture European
flax. which will come in free. He will capture
this SIS. oOO,O 900 linen industry as he captured
the tin, plate glass. and pottery industries.
Fifthly-Mckinlcy's aim will be to increase the
product Of sugar in Nebraska and California,
flax in Wisconsin,, Minnesota, and Dakota, and
so increase the sheep industry, where wheat used
to grow in the Northwest, that 100. 600. 900
bushels less Of wheat will be raised. wool and
flax will take It's place. and dollar wheat will
come 70 the farmer again.
SixthiY-Mckiuley will urge a tariff on manu-
featured lumber, grain, eggs, and meat against
Canada. lie will make this tariff as high as
their tariff is against us. Cattle. sheep, and
horses WIN have a specific duty against them.
which Canada will pay. Our Custom Houses
along the Canadian border have not paid ex-
rcnses during the last four years. They will be
made TO pay n revenue. Canada has n prohibi-
tory duty Of three cents a pound against Ameri-
can meat now. and Mckinley will see that 1t does
not continue. He will set all our mills 10 run
ming. let the labOring men earn 5000, 0oo, 900
n year, ms they earned in 1891. This will make
money so plenty that there will be no further
CRY about coming more silver. for the $780,
600. 600 in silver now rusting in the Treasury
will get into the hands OF the people.
Scventhly-ln regard to coinage of silver, Nc
kinley will favor IL ms soon as moro silver is
needed. but he will let tho nation buy II at tho
market price. ms we have done for years, and
make every dollar coined as good as gold.
ELI PERKINS.
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