Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 October 1892 — Mr. McKinley Should Explain. [ARTICLE]

Mr. McKinley Should Explain.

Tho lessoning volume of our agricultural exports requires an explanation from McKinley. The August returns show a diminution in exports of breadstuffs of $7,750,000, as compared with the same month last-year. Mo/fiover, the price of wheat averaged in August of this year only 84 cents a bushel, as against 100 In August, 1891. Now, McKinley hiis assured the farmers of the West that their great sales and high prices of last year wore directly due to the benign methods of taxing money out of tho foreigners' pockets and Into theirs. But his law Is still In force, and the question arises why it does not continue to perform Its beneficent functions. We' hope it will not be answered that better harvests in Europe have slackened the demand, for that would seem to Imply that the McKinley bill do s not, as claimed for it, ovorride all natural laws, and would also call to mind Ihe fact that last year there was an extraordinary demand for our agricultural products. This would have fallen out to the profit of the Wentern farmer In any case.—New York Evening Post.