Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 September 1894 — A Familiar Parrot Cry. [ARTICLE]

A Familiar Parrot Cry.

One would suppose that after all the howling of the Republican organs about sugar tax that they would cease to claim that tariff taxes are paid by the foreigners. But the Manufacturer of Philadelphia still continues to utter this old parrot cry. On August 18, it said “under the McKinley tariff the foreigner has been compelled to pay a tribute which the new act deci’esses or removes." Hence “the proposition that the act will fulfill the promise to relieve the nation from taxation is absolutely without warrant in fact. ” It is only McKinley who can get a curve onto a tariff bill so that the tax will miss the American consumer and hit the foreign pi’oducer. It is, therefore, impossible for Democrats to make a tariff'bill to please Republicans, all of whom believe in the golden rule and shift their taxes onto the poor overtaxed and half-starved foreigners.

“I am not sure that this vei’y failure may be the harbinger and assurance of tho speedier and mox-e complete triumph of commercial freedom than the smooth and. unobstructed passage of the House b’ill would have been. The American people are aroused as hardly anything else could have ai’oused them to the deadly menace that protection begets to the purity and very existence of free.government, ’’—William L. Wilson’s speech at Martinsburg, West Va., Aug. 29. “With all its manifold failures, its final retention of many protective duties, its objectionable sugar schedule, and its excessive duties On cottons and woolens and metals, the new bill carries in it substantial relief to the American people, and must be accepted as a beginning to thorough and progressive tariff reform.”— Will ( iatn L. Wilson’s speech at Martinsburg, West Va., Aug. 29. “When the sugar trust thus challenges the American people to a contest of strength, its days are numbered, its temporary triumph is its speedier and moi’e complete overthrow and with its overthrow will vanish its sister brood of monopolies that are sti’on" through its support. "—William L. Wilson s speech at Martinsburg W Va , Aug. 29. 8