Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 October 1890 — THE McKINLEY BILL. [ARTICLE]

THE McKINLEY BILL.

What It Is, 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 ths economic difference between the two parties. The Republican bill places a duty on wool, tbe Democratic bill plaoes wool on the free list. The Republican hill places a protective duty on all animals, vegetables, barley, hemp, tobacco, fiax and all products of the soil, upon cotton goods, woolen goods, crockery, glassware, iron, steel, hardware and cutlery. The Democratic bill places vegetables on tho free list, leaves but a revenue duty on all animals, on barley and tobacco; moves toward a revenue duty on cot- <> tons, 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 favors the protection of American agriculture, manufactures and labor, and the other bill opposes this policy. The trusts will be even more bitterly opposed to the Republicans in next month’s election than they were in ’BB. The people love the Republicans for the enemies they make.