Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 January 1893 — THE FACTS REMAIN. [ARTICLE]

THE FACTS REMAIN.

Tho campaign being over, Grover Cleveland having been elected upon a free-trade platform, a majority in the House, and probably in the Senate, having been returned pledged to carry out the instructions of the National Democratic Convention, no figures or facts now produced can be sneered out of court by the Democratic press as “fictions of Republican invention, designed to delude voters into support of a tariff that taxes them.” They must be accepted as proof of the good effect of the McKinley bill, or must be proven to be false.

The Democratic platform said: We denounce the McKinley tariff law as the culmination of class legislation. » * » We deny that there has been any increase of prosperity since that tariff went into operation*

Except as to sugar and tin-plate, “that tariff” went/into operation Oct 6,(1890. The Textile World a trade journal of spun and woven manufactures, has just published its annual review. We will quote a few of its figures. “That tariff” called into operation 272 new textile memh factories during'the year 1892, aind gave new employment to neatly 32,000 persons in the name period. The account stands thus; : *