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Parent Issue
Day
4
Month
August
Year
1897
Copyright
Public Domain
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[From Di.cie, June, 1897.] The tariff policy of tlie present admintion lias beeu said to conflict with ■Bovement, now afoot, to extendour tinereial relations with the Spanish and Latin-Anierican republics. It bas been pointed out that the practically prohibitive rates couternplated by tbe uew Tariff schedule, upon some of tbe raw producís of tbose countries, would be exceedingly offensive to our neigband would cause tbein to adopt retaliatory measures. Possibly it bas not i red to the people who bold this ïiew tbat some of our neigb boring ' regublies impose prohibitive ïarififs on the materials that we desire to export to those countries. Our manufacturera of flour and textile producta could give interesting information on tb is Tbere should be natural adjustments. Bhe policy of reciprocity sbould be, and nudoubtedly will be, brought into operation. It seems thatthere are quite a number af people that aided in bringing the presatit' administraron into power who now önd tfieaiselves willing to criticise the President because be bas been unable to work miracles and effect a return of prosperity. It is a lamentable fact that a large nuniber of voters are swayed in their political afflliations by carelessly eonceived notions that have no foundation in fact or reason. It is undoubtedly true that many thousands of votes were east for McKinley last fall upon the idea that bis election would meauan itnmediate restoratiou of prosporous conditions. These voters were not actuated by reason, but by silly fancy. They had adopted for their fixed belief the exuberant gushings of some careless campaign orator. The sober, serious men ■ I ll'l III I I ■ III .. b. __ H K _. ! of t li e country understand the sitnatio to-day. These men are offering 110 ent iciam. The present administration wa elected upon a Protective Tartff platform It was believed and honeatl argued that our deficiënt revenues woul be corrected by a law franied upon thi principie, and that labor would be em ployed and industry stimulated unde the policy advocáted by McKinley. Ii rectly after his inauguratiou the Presi deut caused congress to assemble in extra session in order that the principies upon which he liad been elected might be put iuto force. All this has been done in absolute good faith. Every promise and every principie has been and will be maintaiued. As for the men who voted for McKinley upon the idea that a miracle was to be worked by his election, and who now stand carping and sneering, it cannotbe said that thèy are traitors. They are simply shallowpated, and their position to-day isaconfession to the world that, in the momentous acts of their lives, they are guided, not by truth and reason, but by silly fancy and morbid sentiment.

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