Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 January 1894 — THESE ARE STRONG WORDS. [ARTICLE]

THESE ARE STRONG WORDS.

The .Democratic New York Sun, one of Mr. Cleveland’s leading exponents during the campaign, is disgusted with the whole business and especially with the Wilson bill Discussing this measure the Sun says: “Under McKinley’s schedules justice, protection if you like, was dispensed with an impartial hand. Jn respect to the industries of foreign countries, the industries of this country were placed on a level with each other. The tariff, even the unconstitutional robber tariff, covered the entire field equally. ——777Leaving out its failure as a constitutional measure for revenue, the test for common fairness shows the Wilson bill to be an outrageous piece of tariff j ugglery, devised for favoriteism and injustice. For instance, right on top labeled with the card of executive approval, is a free list including the great staples of coal, iron and wool. Why is the man engaged in the industry of wool-growing treated differently from the man engaged in the industry of woolweaving? Why is one protected and the other not protected ? The reason is that Mr. Wils >n and President Cleveland have brazenly determined to favor certain interests at the expense of others. The name of McKinley appears once in the platform of the last National democratic convention. If that convention should assemble tomorrow M< Kinley would have to be crossed off in the terrible denunciation where it occurs, and the declaration would be made to read thus: “We denounce the Wilson bill as the culminating atrocity of class legislation.” , Protection for some and not for others is the Wilson-Cleveland principle. It is defended with much mouthing about fairness and justice and honor and antiprotection, but it is humbug to the end. It is the “culminating atrocity of class legislation.”