The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-05-28
M'KINLEY's NEW DEPARTURE
He is Cutting Loose from His High
 Tariff Moorings.

New York Evening Post.
 At the very moment when Senator Hoar, at the Boston dinner of the Home Market Club, was falling down in the old fashion before the idol of protection, President Mckinley at Memphis was doing violence to that heather divinity almost as if he were a convert to the true faith. ManS have wondered what might be the main purpose of the President in travelling about the country at this time. The minor motives he has are obvious. X skilled popuiaciiero, as uIi- lucky De Lome declared him to be. he delights to mingle with his fellow citizens and to give back in showers that fiattery which he receives from his audiences as mist. to apply to him Gladstone's definition of oratory. When plain Citoyen Loubet develops the arts and graces of a royal progress in his journeys through France We need not be surprised if Mir. Mckinley displays similar talent. But that he has a serious aim beneath all the flowers we are bound to believe; and what it is we think the evidence already shows. He Is bent, it seems to us, on prepar- ing the people, and especially his own party, for great change in the com- mercial and fiscal policy of the United States
 He gave distinct warning of this new departure of his in his inaugural ad- dress last March. He broke off his paean over our prosperity to say. in words which did not at the time at tract the attention they deserve. Our diversified productions, however. are increasing in such unprecedented k1 I.. .taI <1f thA essity of still further enlarging our foreign markets by broader commercial relations" What he meant, and pro- ceeded specifically to refer to, was reciprocal trade arrangements" A whole series of these the Senate had just refused to ratify. The chief ob- jectors were Republican Senator's Aidrich, Lodge, Platt. Depew. They rested their opposition on solid and selfish protectionist grounds. Keep out foreign goods as you would the plague. The foreign market be hang ed But. the President reasserted his program. The reciprocity treaties have been extended and will again come before the Senate. And MT. McKin- ley isl of on campaign of education to secure their acceptance this time. Not maxims. but markets, he said at Memphis, which, being interpreted to fit present circumstances. obviously means Don't stick to your outworn protectionist creed if it prevents you from selling your goods"
 The world market, with not word about the home market, "the great market of the Orlent"-how to secure these was tine burden 0f his story and the problems involved we were to solve "untrammelled by the past. To show how completely he had broken With his own past he proceeded to read with approval resolutions adopted by the legislature of Tennessee in 1S47. They were practically free trade resolutions. dwelling upon the importance of en- larged commercial intercourse with the rest of the world Thus we have the author of the Mckinley tariff, who used to rail at the "delusory" foreign market, going back to the days of the Walker tariff to find true guidance for the present.
 This Is wonderful in our eyes ant we are not going to waste time in dis putting or in glorifying over such a sea change. The President is right now. whatever he may have been 1T the past. He has a sound sense 0 what is demanded by the existing con- 6itions of American industry. The very 1ast tnAl ne iS an OPpoItuiAst oS nature is the strongest proof that he i but sensitive to powerful and unmis
 takable tendencies in the bushes world. when he declares that the build ing up of our foreign trade in manu- factured goods is the strategic duty oi the hour. The thing is so plain tha
 it has convinced MT. Mckinley, ha swung him froA his ancient high tar. if TnooriHgs. He has lived to be ready at the risk of odium on the charge ot inconsistency, to speak and work fc