Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 February 1891 — McKinley’s Somersault. [ARTICLE]

McKinley’s Somersault.

McKinley is the champion jumper of somersaults. In his Toledo speech he undertook to reply to ex-President Cleveland’s utterances at the Thurman banquet in favor of such a policy of taxation as will cheapen commodities to the consumer. After attempting to show that cheapness is not to be desired, that we must have a tariff to shut optTEuropean cheap goods and prevent European competition, he claimed that in this way home competition would be developed, “giving the American consumer better products at lower prices, and the farmer a better nfarket than was ever enjoyed under the free trade tariff's of the Democratic party." McKinley objects to “free trade tariffs” because they make things too cheap; and

yet he promises by his protective tariff to make things cheaper than ever a free trade tariff does! McKinley's head is muddled.