Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-04-08


come west or ONO for presidential
candidate. And, by offering "a sop
favoring ga revision OF the tariff and
an increase of "honest money" Mr.
Harrison was elected with Mr. Morton
of New York, as a basis for plethoric
campaign fund Mr.. Morton succeed
ed in strengthening the spirits of the
party and during the latter part of the
administration got control of its finan-
cial policy. This, he was enabled to
do after the'death of secretary of the
Treasury Window, and Senator Plumb
of Kansas, of whom prominent news
paper man said: "He was embalmed
before he was dead.
ingalls, was frightened out of max
ing his speechln western interests I'M
til it was too lote to save himself or his
party. In the meantime Mckinley of
Ohio, discovered another immense
basis for o campaign fund and the Me
Kinley bill was passed, but it proved
to be too heavy load for Harrison
and the New Yorker-Reid without
money or spiritual influence" to car
ry. SO the Mckinley Law became an
'over-productive boomerang that was
instrumental in defeating the republic
can party-not only in the western
states but also in Illinois, Indiana and
almost in Ohio also. In fact had the
prohibition vote of California, Illinois,
Indiana and Wisconsin been cast for
Mr.. Harrison, Mr.. Cleveland would
have been defeated in the electoral
vote, as he was by the popular vote by
over 80, 900 less than majority. And
it has been the vote of the slums Of
Chicago and Tammany New York, that
has been electing either the president
or the vice-president for the past quar-
ter of a century. But the point wish
to make is this; That the Mckinley
bill was passed for the purpose of
creating basis for campaign fund
and that Ohio and Indiana and posi-
bly, Alabama and Louisiana got the
benefit of both the revival and collapse
of the "a, 900, 900, 900 increase of manu-
featured goods in those states during
the two years of Mckinley tariff inf
alton. And the effect of this was felt
most seriously in the gas district in
Indiana--where they paid certain
classes of manufactures to shut down
in order to open up new ones of diff
ferent class, Notably the glass jar
factories were closed to give the tin
factories chance--or rather the tin
plate factories chance. These were
brought bodily from Europe, employ
ees and all. AS result 800 factories
were closed in Wales and Pa new ones
opened in this country, the priucipaI
one being at Elwood, Indinana, which
was opened on the l3th of Sept 1892
with Mckinley aud Whitcla W Reid an
nounced, in flaming posters as the
speakers. This factory (?) closed in
side of six months throwing 1000 EN-
ployees out leaving them in homeless
and starving condition.
Thus tinware became q drug on th'
markets of the United States becaus,
it had been produced in such vast
quantities that tinware vessels werr
selling as low as two cents a quart anC
peddled from house to house at that
This so-called American t?) industry
alone, manufactured tin-plates valued
| (?) at thirty million dollars in 1892 aut
for three years tinware h as been sell
ing at less than first cost
But these things are only the uatura
result of the unhealthya stimulan'
known as the Mckinley tariff Law
causing an initiation of manufactured
goods one-half while at the same time
the Il gl'; lender currency of the coun
try was contracted one-half, through
idiotie legislation. J.S. JENNINGS.
Wichita, Kans., Sept IS, 1894.
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