Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 April 1891 — THE RECOIL OF McKINLEYISM. [ARTICLE]

THE RECOIL OF McKINLEYISM.

The Republican Indianapolis News says: With reciprocity becoming familiarized by formal announcement and treaties there may come after a time an under* standing that there is a fundamental re* oiprooity in commerce whether formally recognized or not. That trade means buying as well as selling; that no nation can buy unless it can sell, unless somewhere in the clearing-house of the world it can deliver the things it buys and gat for them the things it wants. Protectionist organs have been exulting over the misery wrought upon some of the working people of Bradford, England, by the McKinley tariff in cheeking the imports of their manufactures hero. But, of course, if the industries of Bradford can't find patronage here they must go where they can, and for their patronage patronize in tuna. The Bradford folks, for example, must eat beef and wheat and corn that they do not produce, and they must buy them with the things they do produce. Not being able to buy them here by exchanging for them the things they do produce with our Western farm, ere they turn to Roumania, where they can do that thing, and the result is that Roumania is now selling more Indian com to England than England imports from the United States, This untoward tendency is beginning to manifest itself in the trade in other American products besides com. The McKinley bill is like the ancient fowling-piece that “kicked back" with more force than its discharge at themuzzlo. . Our Westemfarmershave got to pay for this enrichment of our mil-lionaire-manufacturers as usual.