The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1897-08-06
the plNoLev REMEDY.
A Republican Dose for DecIining
Industry.

4 Republican Dose for Decitntn9
Industry.
Mr.. McKinley's celebrated republican
.emedy for hard times--the Dipgley tar
III plaster-will soon be ready TO be
spread on the epidermis OF the country.
Mr.. McKinley's front-porch speeches
show that he expects great reAults from
the Dingley tariff plaster, and the medi-
cine men of the senate are now adding
TO it all the ingredients that go with
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
blstering The theory is that of coun-
fertilization. The medicine, when q
patient has case of cramps, a mustard
poultice is applied 10 his abdomen. In
other cases a fly plaster is applied The
effects of counter-irritation 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 CONCENTRATION would
prove eilicacious in trade and business.
That is to say, he meant Of words mean
anything) that a man who has no
money TO buy goods at present low
prices would be benefited 10y being COM
PEELED TO pay higher price for the same
goods.
That is the whole scheme in a nut
shell. Mr.. Mckinley's method of maxi
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 10 buy these necessaries and
Injuries 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 Zoe made pros
porous as the result of higher taxes.
Stripped naked. this proposition par
takes of the nature OF lunatic delusion.
but Mr.. Mckinley took care to array it
in good many small clothes, with ruff
fes, frills and furbelows. lie lifted his
voice grew pathetic as he described the
beauties of higher taxation levied upon
population already brought TO the
verge of pauperism.
But at last the whole business is to
be- put 10 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 Mr.. Nc
Kinley really believes what he says
about high protection. He has made it
his hobby until he is stricken with
fanatical 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 a monopolistic cabal composed OF
the millionaire manufacturers. There
are some of the long-headed men in
the senate, and they do not hesitate 70
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-
lican party have been tied to the tariff
cart, and they dare not make public
disavowal of their fears and desires.
Even Mr.. 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 a message on
the currency question. He has already
committed himself to the retirement of
the greenbacks, and ne desires to CON-
init his party 10 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.
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