Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 May 1891 — President vs. Tarift-Maker. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

President vs. Tarift-Maker.

Whan President Harrison was in the Pacific States he made allusion in nearly all his speeches to the Nicaragua canal. He thought it would prove of great advantage those States by facilitating trade with States lying on the Atlantic. If the protective theory is sound, ought not the President, on the other hand, to have offered his sympathies to the people on the Pacific? The completion of the canal will “flood” California and neighboring States with cheap Eastern

goods. Wages are very much lower in the manufacturing States of the East than in the far West. So great is the diffarenee, in fact, that the Pacific people might well call our goods “paupermade. ” Now there is nothing which so paralyzes the protectionist soul as the fear of the “cheap paup3r made goods of Europe.” Nothing, to his mind, threatens such dire ruin to this country, and his patriotism demands a high McKinley wall to shut out these goods, or, at any rate, to make them dear. The building of the Nicaragua canal will make all kinds of Eastern manufactures vastly cheaper on the Pacific slope. Yet, strange to say, tho President waxed eloquent over the canal, and the Pacific audiences applauded warmly. If protection is true, how can the peo : pie of the far West bear to think of cloth, iron manufactures, steel rails, window glass, etc., coming in at the Golden Gate at prices far lower than they have ever known? Will it not “ruin” California? Will it not make the people there “cheap men?” As if all this were not enough, the President even spoke eloquently about extending our foreign trade. Here is one of his sentences: “I believe we have come to a time when we should choose whether we will continue to be nomparticipants in the commerce of the world, or will now vigorously, with the push

and energy which our people have shown in other lines of enterprise, claim our share of the world’s commerce ” Now, this is diametrically opposed to McKinleyism. In his speech a year ago on his tariff bill, McKinley said: “If our trade and commerce are increasing and profitable within our own borders, what advantage can come from passing by confessedly the best market, that we may reach tho poorest by disant seas? In the foreign market the profit is divided between our own citizen and the foreigner, while with the trade and commerce among onpselves the profit is kept in our own family and increases our national wealth, and promotes tho welfare of the individual citizen. ” Let protectionists decide which is right, President or tariff maker.

Harrison’s Unsuspecting Happiness. —Chicaco Times.