Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 October 1893 — McKinley and His Bill. [ARTICLE]

McKinley and His Bill.

Governor McKinley has opened his campaign in Ohio and in a way entirely unworthy of a man presuming to the leadership of a great party. At his first meeting the chairman who introduced him put a question in mental arithmetic to the crowd by stating the price of wheat last year and the price noif, and answering the difference. Perhaps it is not fair to hold Governor McKinley responsible for this childish absurdity. He should have disavowed it, and he failed to do. How he succeeded in explaining to his audience why wheat is cheap under the operation of the McKinley tariff, which protects it against foreign competition, the dispatches do not tell us. Perhaps he did not go into that feature of the Cass. Perhaps he thought it easier to rely on the mental arithmetic of the chairman. It is evident that the apostle of protection proposes to make a campaign in which he can talk tariff in his own way without opposition. He will not debate the question. Before the last election it was said that the McKinley law was doing its own talking. It was. And it is yet.—St. Louis Republic.

Shut the Door on Them. If any question may be considered settled in tariff matters it is that raw wool is hereafter to be admitted free into this country. The mossbaoks, however, do not seem to understand this, but are again besirging Washington with their wearisome old nonsense. The next man who enters the Ways and Means Committee to advocate the continuance of the stupid wool tax should be shown the door with an immediateness and enthusiasm sufficient to “make his head swim.”—Dry Goods Economise Coleridge found solace for his troubles in the forgetfulness induced by opium, and when under its influence would sit for hours threading the dreamy mazes of his own mind. The new Simplon tunnel running from Isela, Italy, to Brieg. Switzerland, will be twelve and one-half miles long. Iceland is a contented country; it has only tsro lawyers.