Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 September 1890 — THE M’KINLEY BILL. [ARTICLE]

THE M’KINLEY BILL.

What It Ts, What It Seeks to' Accomplish, How It Will Affect the Revenues. In accordance with its pledge the Republican party has passed what is called the McKinley bill, a comparison of which with the Mills bill reveals at once the economic difference between the two parties. The Republican bill places a duty on wool; the Democratic bill places wool on the free list. The Republican bill places a protective duty on all animals, vegetables, barley, hemp, tobacco, flax and all products of the soil; upon cotton floods, woolen goods, crockery, glassware, iron, steel, hardware and cutlery. The Democratic bill places vegetables on the free list, leaves but a revenue duty on all animals, on barley and tobacco; moves towards a revenue duty on cottons, woolens, crockery, glassware, iron, steel, hardware and cutlery. The Republican bill places sugar on the free list; the Democratic bill places the duty on sugar at 65 per cent. It' will be seen that these measures are most marvelously unlike. It is not accident or chance. It is because one bill lavors the protection of American agriculture, manufactures and labor, and the other bill opposes this policy.