The Forrest City times., 1897-08-06
THE DlNGIEY REMEDY.
A Republican Dose for Declfnfng
 Industry.

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 Industry.
 MT. McKinley's celebrated republican remedy for hard times-the Dingley tar if plaster-will soon be ready to be spread on the epidermis of the country. Mir. McKinley's front-porch speeches show that he expects great results from the Dingley tariff plaster, and the medi- cine men of the senate are now adding to it all the ingredients that go with a republican dose which is intended to take effect promptly.
 The whole process is simple, and 1t is as old as the invention of cupping and blistering. The theory is that of coun- ter-irritation. The medicine, when a patient has case of cramps, mustard poultice is applied to his abdomen. In other cases fly plaster is applied. The effects of standardization are well known in medicine, but what is to be the result when the theory is applied to the condition of the people?
 Mr. Mckinley declared from his front porch that the scheme would work. When he said that a tariff tax would open the mills, increase wages and restore prosperity, he meant that the doctrine of counter-irritato on would prove effio~ cious in trade and business. That is to say, he meant Gf words mean anything) that man who has no money to buy goods at present low prices would be benefited by being com pelled to pay higher price for the same goods.
 That is the whole scheme in nut shell. MT. MeKinley's method of mak- ing the people prosperous is to increase the cost of the necessaries as well as the luxuries of life. As the people are not now able to buy these necessaries and luxuries except in the most pinched and pinching way, it will be interesting to watch the effect of the tariff plaster and thus get an idea of the process by which the public at large is to foe made pros porous as the result of higher taxes.
 Stripped naked, this proposition par takes of the nature of a lunatic delusion, but Mr. Mckinley took care to array it in good many small clothes, with ruff hes, frills and furbelows. He lifted his eyebrows and lowered them, and his voice grew pathetic as he described the beauties of higher taxation levied upon population already brought 10 the verge of pauperism.
 But at last the whole business is to be put to the actual test. There is nothing in the way to confuse the public mind. Business men, manufacturers and their employees, farmers, the whole population in short, will have an admir- able opportunity of beholding the true inwardness of the republican tariff fraud. We have no doubt that Mir. Me kinley really believes what he says about high protection. He has made it his hobby until he is stricken with fa1atical fervor when he discusses the subject publicly.
 But there are other republicans, cold blooded and long-headed, who know that protection is simply private snap for monopolistic cabal composed of the millionaire manufacturers. There are some of the long-headed men in the senate, and they do not hesitate to say in private that the expectations which have been raised in the public mind as to the effect of the new tariff are doomed to disappointment. Some of these men would be glad of an excuse to delay the bill in the senate; but they know that the fortunes of the repub- ican party have been tied to the tariff cart, and they dars not make a public l disavowal of their fears and desires.
 Even MT. Mckinley seems to have a vague idea that the tariff fraud is about to be exposed, and he is credited with a desire to take public attention off the new measure by sending in message on the currency question. He has already committed himself to the retirement of the greenbacks, and he desires to com init his party to that scheme. This pro- gramme is so doubtful in its nature that the republicans in congress, especially in the house, do not care to injure their chances for reelection next year by pro- noting it.
 Meanwhile the tariff delusion will soon be on exhibition.-Atlanta Consti- tuition.