Evening journal., 1896-06-13
Tricks Of the Political Presa.


OF all falsehoods, those that are
seemingly based upon truth are the
most calculated to do Injury, and the Re-
publican newspaper organs have become
adopts In this class Of fabrication. Every
one knows that We had q panic In 1898,
that hard times followed closely after
the Inauguration OF Mr.. Cleveland, but
everyb body does not know that they were
caused by either the Democratic party or
the administration. Yet the Repaid lean
press has been for three years insist
ing that the repeal Of the Mckinley
tIria has been the cause OF all our ma
tional troubles. The Cresco (Iows) Times
recently contained an article, the follow
Ing quotation from which is a fair sam
pie Of the style Of fabrication alluded to
above. VIZ:
I'VE feel that It Ia no longer necessary
TO make an argument for protection, In
the United States That argument ls
being made By the silent water wheel,
the still spindles. tho smokelsss chin
ney's; that story is In svery American
home. craven on every American
mind; the lsborer and mechanic
feel 10. the business man feels
that lost protection killed prosperity, the
farmer knows 1t has lesssnsd his receipts
and the American people are ready TO act
They are eager, anxious to act, and they
are going to act at the polls 10 Novem
ber In q way that will make protection
the settled policy Of this nation for
another genoration-such an object
lesson as these people have had In the
last three years, makes this result
practically certain"
Now, In all fairness, should not tho
wrltsr above quoted, have stated the fact
that the Mckinley tariff WAS in operation
ct the time Of ihl panic, and for.a year
and half after2 That both tho panic
and the hard times were caused by the
over production which had taken place
under that tariff, and the want Of conf
denee In our currency owing to the enor
nous amount OF silver which was being
purchased monthly By the government,
In accordance With the free silver sher-
man Law. passed ia order 60 enable ths
high tariff men 10 secure the passage Of
the Mckinley billi These are facts which
cannot bs denied, The mills were ossd
and the panic occurred long before the
repeal OF the Mckinley law, and with the
passage Of the Democratic tariff they be
gan to reopsn as fast as they could dis
pose Of their over productions.
Most Of the large mills of the country
are nov working on full time, the cotton
and woolen milla, and evsn the tin indus
try, that Mckinley thought needed so
much protection, are doing better thsn
ever before. The largest mills In the
country, the cotton mills OF Fail River
and other parts of New England, are
declaring dividends Of from 10 to "a per
cent, under this terrible free trade tariff
that our Republican friends tell ms SC
much about, aud ID may be we'll TO note
that the man who was really the author
OF the Mckinley bill, but who has never
received eithsr the credit or the dis.
credit he deserves for it-Ssnator Aldrlct
of Rhode Islsnd-is said TO have re
marked publicly after the present Law
was passed. that It was a good enough
protective law for him.
In view OF these facts, Is It not an In.
suit to the American people to constantl,
repeat story so utterly untrue as thl
one alluded tel This has bson done 70
months and years and the agony
worked into 1t according to the inagl
nations Of the different editors VIII
have handled It. They believe. perhaps
that all is fair In po lities but we doubt /
Misrepresentation and falsehood vii
benefit political party any more than 1
will an individual