Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 November 1892 — Senator Lawes Rattled. [ARTICLE]

Senator Lawes Rattled.

Tho Question Clubs of Massachusetts have been putting some queries to Senator Dawes in resrard to the McKinley tax on wool, reminding him that he was in favor of free wool in 1860, and asking him if it was true, as reported in the Boston Journal, that he believed that “whenever raw material entering into manufac uring here cannot be produced here in su iicient quantities and at such cost as to make its use in manufacturing h re profitable, it should be admitted free of duty.” The Senator answered that he had been correctly quoted, and that “by that test the clause alluded to (.the one increasing the duty on carpet wools from 25 to 32 per cent.) must, with me, stand or fall. But he does not think the McKinley bill can “bo best judged by piecemeal, any more than a house can be best judged by testing liere'and there a brick in it.” That is to say, tho Senator would be in favor of knocking out the wool brick and many others, in accordance with the demands of his constituents, but thinks the riddled McKinley edifice would still be fair to look upon. At any rate, he is unusually bold and frank for a Kepublican in a Presidential year, though we fear it must be charged to the fact that he is not seeking re-election. It is impossible to conceive of the Hon. Henry C. Lodge at this interesting political juncture admitting, with Mr. Dawes, that the “McKinley law is not perfect.”—New York Evening Post,