Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 July 1892 — HOW WELL THEY AGREE. [ARTICLE]

HOW WELL THEY AGREE.

The Democratic Platform is most certainly lecogtazed so an officiaf declaration of Democratic doctrine on the Tariff question. And no less certainly is Mr. Edward Atkinson acknowledged to be a learnbd expopent of that same doctrine on that question. And yet this is the way in which th Yt learned exposition and that learned exponent ngree: •? '*; ..

Democratic Platform. We denounce the'McKinley Tariff law, enacted by the fifty-first Congress, b's the culminating atrocity of class legislation, and we promise its repeal as one of the benificent results that will follow the action of the people in intrusting power to the Democratic party. * Since the McKinley Tariff went into operation there have been ten reductions of the of laboring men to one increase- We deny that there has been any increase of prosperity to the country since that Tariff went into operation.

Mr. Atkinson in May;Forum. There never has been- a period in the history of this or any other country when the general rate of wages was as high as it » nop, or the price of goods relatively to the wages as low as they are to-day, nor a period when the workman, in the strict sense of the word; has so fully secured to his own use and enjoyment such a. steadily'and progressively increasing proportion of a constantly increasing product.