Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 April 1891 — To Whitewash MeKinleyism. [ARTICLE]

To Whitewash MeKinleyism.

It is said that the high protectionists of the United States Senate are not exactly pleased with the work ot Labor Commissioner Carroll D. Wright They do not deny his conscientious devotion to the truth, it Is said, but they think that some of his recent investigations have not taken just the best turn for the high tariff cause. It is doubtless the Commissioner’s recent publication of his investigations into the cost of producing iron and steel in the United States and in Europe that has given the protectionist magnates dissatisfaction. At any rate, just before the adjournment of Congress a resolution was passed by the Senate authorizing the Finance Committee to collect evidence as to the effect of the pew tariff law. In view of the violent attacks upon the McKinley law, they desire some figures gotten together by its friends with a view to showing that the effects of the law have been good, and that a high tariff deserves to be perpetuated as the support of our industrial system. In order to secure this evidence the Finance Committee is authorized to sit where and when it pleases, and ft is governed by no restrictions as to hearing both sides and permitting the cross examination of witnesses. The understanding is that there will not be so many hearings as there will be letters sent to the right persons to obtain facts bearing on the effect of the new tariff. Price lists will be sought and statements as to wages paid under the old tariff and the new, and as to the development of old plants and the establishment of new ones. The protectionist majority of this committee is partisan enough to warrant the belief that it will make a report in which MeKin'eyisin will be whitewashed and made to appear as a thing of beauty. But McKinloyism has been emphatically condemned by the people; and it is too late In the day to try to galvanize that eorspc into a semblance of life again.