Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 February 1897 — Getting Ready to Shout. [ARTICLE]

Getting Ready to Shout.

Under the Wilson tariff American manufacturers have increased their exports beyond the figures for tne McKinley law. The Wi) B on tariff has provided more reveaue than the law of LB9O. It bas resulted in a decrease of imports. Confessedly the McKinley law was a failure as a revenue producer or pr-mater of our foreign trade. Admittedly the Wilson law has succeeded where the McKinJey a'.-t oas failed. Now, iB il oossibb that the Republican majority proposes changing the schedules slightly in order that the Republican party can claim credit for the work of the Wilson law, since the present act is not to be ieplaced bj a McKinleyized measure? We* have pointed out that many of the features of the Wilson tariff w 11 be retained while the follies of the McKinley law are to be avoided. Of course there is no occ sion for any tariff changes at all, but it seems that the Republicans are unwilling that anv law of Democratic origin wnich is an improvement on the act of 1890 shall remain operative. The majority party proposes to make alterations which are not needed, and which will not produce a bill similar to the McKinley lunacy. Then, having done this,credit may be claimed by the Republicans for the results of tariff maderation inaugurated by the Democratic, party. Meantime business must suffer while the Republican program of appropriating Democratic tariff ideas progresses to completion.— Lafayette Journal. The Woman’s Relief Corps, requests all families, who have auy old clothing that they can Bpare, to send them to the home of Mrs. Ezra Clark,on Cullen street, chairman of the Relief Committee, and she will see that they are prooerly distributed among the needy ones, as this committee finds several families leally m need of cloihi g to keep tlum warm.