Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 October 1890 — Acknowledging the Corn. [ARTICLE]

Acknowledging the Corn.

Tariff reformers have been saying all the time that McKinley’s high-tariff jugglery was simply a game for politics. They did not expect that this would be admitted in any protectionist papcis; but the Washington correspondent of the Now York Tribune has said as much in the columns of that high-tariff organ. When the bill was endangered by the wrangle over the binder twine and sugar duties, and it seemed possible that the bill would be “hung* up” by what he called “political bushwhackers,” he wrotp a letter to his paper to say that the passage of the bill had become “a political necessity.” Of course it was! Else where will the “fat” come from in 1892? The recent squabble around the door of the conference committee’s room at Washington recalls Henry George’s famous remark, that the making of a tariff bill is like throwing a banana into a cage of monkeys.*