Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 October 1892 — McKinley's Unfortunate Foot. [ARTICLE]

McKinley's Unfortunate Foot.

Major McKinley answers to the description ot the man who“never opened his mouth without putting his foot in it.” In his Philadelphia speech the Governor said: “If Congress should happen to be Democratic, then I want Benjamin Harrison President. He believes in sound

money, and will veto any Democrat,lc bill to corrupt and debase the currency of the United States." This is the same Major McKinley who was a year ®r two ago denouncing Grover Cleveland for Jhis 'opposition to the free coinage of sliver and intimating to the silver men how much better the Republican (party had treated them. The President Harrison whom he desires to toe re-elected In order that he may veto any Democratic bill for debasing the currency is the same who signed the Sherman bill for increasing the output of paper representatives of debased sliver dollars. Major McKinley followed tlhe utterance already quoted with this brilliant generalization: “Free trade and debased money go hand in hand. ” Of course, then England, which figures to all the Major's speeches as the frightful example .of a free-trade nation, is also the victim of debased money. Bat it happens, unfortunately for the verity of this dictum, that England is of all nations the most inflexible in hostility to any currency scheme which endangers the highest value of its money. The Major's speeches would be more influential if his contempt of facts were not so obvious. But an advocate of high protection has to ignore facts.