Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-11-30
m,kinlsrs TARIFF IDEAS.
Eli Perkins Condenses the President. Elects
VIEWS After Talking with Him.

Canton o., Nov. 2i-Having an en-
gagenent at Masillon last night. con-
nected BY >, street re Inc car with Canton
President-elect. When / asked a Can
tcnese If the street railroad ran up by
McKfnley's home he said:
mo. the street railroad doesn't run
anywhere; 1t stands right still But YOU
take that car at the court house. go mn
Maine street five blocks through that big
trlI nda a afen ana , when you come to
stolen out of the fence. and the ward ali
trodden down harder than the national
turnpike ni that tha, : the majors place
mood. His face was flushed with the
health that comes from temperance.
prosperity. and a pure conscience. and
his eyes talrIy danced with intelligence
friend, and his companions are fnu of
love and admiration. -
Major Mckinley. for that is what thew
all call him. has no secrets His life ana
works are an open book. He has one
hobby. and that is to gain fame hx max
Ing Ing this this s, country prosperous again He
theory of a good tariff for revenue as
much as he believes in his religion. III
says what made prosperity for thirty
years and paid S2.000.oo0000 of the national
debt will do it again. Less than that
Will make a deficit and run US III debt.
He believes our whole financial trouble
has come from reducing the tariff and
MILNE lie DtlltteS the tWf
armies now lighting Cuba should be
eating our flour today which. by IA bad
| policy. is prohibited from going there.
he believes We are. getting a hundred
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 $500
900. 900 of bonds sold by Cleveland We're
| used to pay the expenses of the govern
ment and that our gold went out to pay
the balance we owed Europe after buy
ing more stuff than We sold her. He
believes that to get the same old rev
| enue through lower tariff. we will have
buy them from Europe our own mills
stop and our own labor becomes idle
he believes that the whole silver scar,
was brought on by Cleveland making sill
brought on by the Wilson bill. and thai
without Cleveland the silver discussion
would never have come up. Cleveland's
publicans and Populsts of the silver
states mad. Major Mckinley believes
that If Cleveland had had "A tariff fon
revenue and reciprocity put back. pros
have been no silver party to kill
You ask in New York how much Nc
kinney viii 4, change the tariff.
| can prophesy, just what he will do.
First-He will make the duty on wool
en- cloths, velvets and pushes both
sp ,fsr "a, and ad valorem. and raise the
made in the United States without lower
ing. our wages. He will not have our
gold 5,5i 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 VII
50 son ?, PHI cut the tariff on tin from 2.2o
did kill it in the Eastern states. where
coal was used. but Providence sent free
gas to Indiana, and they are now MAX
Il ing gas as tin ,s from the block plate up for
- a bOX. that used to cost Sc in Wales
so tin and plate glass will probably not
be touched. Plate glass that used to sell
TOR $40 a square foot. is now selling for
10 cents-made at home. The tin tariff
may go up from ITO cents per pound
to IL cents a pound. SO that it can be
made !r,li again with profit with coal.
back on wool. Mckinley believes s. that hat
i toI mas as not been a good policy to send
slV9ooo. 600 in gold to Asia and Australia
for wool during the last four years when
Kentucky. Tennessee, Ohio. Pennsylva-
MIA. and the silver states. He believes
wool. when sheared and washed. is a
manufactured product.
Fourthly-McKinley will recommend a
tariff on German and English linen high
enough to bring Belfast linen manufac-
can manufacture European flax. which
Vii vi Lac come IN free. He will capture this
S25.000000 linen industry as he captured
the tin, plate glass. and pottery indus
tries.
Fifthly-McKinley's aim will be to in
crease the product of sugar in Nebraska
and California. flax in Wisconsin. Mime.
sofa. and Dakota. and so increase the
sheep industry where wheat used tc
grow in the Northwest that 100 90
bushels less of wheat will be raised. WOO
and flax will take its place. and dollar
wheat will come to the farmer again
Sixthly-M nley will urge a tariff on
manufactured lumber. grain. eggs and
meat against Canada He will make this
tariff as high as their tariff is against US
Cattle. sheep. and horses will have a
specific duty against them. which Can
ada will pay. Our custom houses along
the Canadian border have not paid ex-
penses during the last four years. They
will be made to paw a revenue. Canada
has a prohbitory duty of three cents a
pound against American meat now and
Mckinley will see that it does not con-
unue. He will set all our mills to run
ming. let the laboring men earn $4,000. 900
0OO a year. as they earned in 1891. This
will make money so plenty that there
will be no further cry about coming more
silver. for the $3.50 900 600 in silver now
rusting in the treasury will get into the
hands of the people.
Seventhly-In regard to coinage of sill
Yer, Mckinley will favor it as soon as
more silver is needed. but he will let the
nation buy it at the market price as We
have done for years. and make every dol
lar coined as good as gold.-E,li Perkins
in n. Y Sun.