Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 December 1890 — Giving Away Their Case. [ARTICLE]

Giving Away Their Case.

When a man starts out to defend a falsehood he may succeed pretty well for a while; but in some Interval, when caution is off her guard, he will betray himself, and let in a flood of light upon the dark fabric of falsehood which he has been so ingeniously weaving. For truth, like murder, will out. The New York Tribune, the leading high-tariff organ of the country, is very confident that the McKinley tariff law is a good thing for California. Why? Here is its answer: “For thousands of acres of new orange groves are just beginning to yield crops, and the new tariff means an increase of at least one-quarter in the income of every fruit-grower and farmer on the coast. ” Now, the Tribune has long been engaged in the task of showing the people that the tariff does not Increase prices. Here, however, It fairly and squarely gives the lie to its own teaching by telling us that the tariff will add one-quar-ter to the income of the fruit growers. The protection organ is here as frank as a Mr. Rosengarten who went before McKinley’s committee to ask for a duty on quinine, and confessed that “if the effect of a high tariff is not to increase the price of the domestic article I do not see any use in the tariff. ”