Boone County Recorder . they not?The McKinley bill was a Pennsylvaniabill. It was constructed in accordancewith the known wishes of the Pennsyl-vania mill bosses, who are also the re-publican party bosses The bill was toa great extent directly made by thosePennsylvania mill bosses. It was to beexpected that they would approve andapplaud their own work. But these same Pennsylvania repub-licans, In their extravagant laudationof Mr. Blaine, mention as one of hismost glorious achievements that hehas opened wide to us in other landscommercial gates heretofore out of gratitude to him for


Boone County Recorder . they not?The McKinley bill was a Pennsylvaniabill. It was constructed in accordancewith the known wishes of the Pennsyl-vania mill bosses, who are also the re-publican party bosses The bill was toa great extent directly made by thosePennsylvania mill bosses. It was to beexpected that they would approve andapplaud their own work. But these same Pennsylvania repub-licans, In their extravagant laudationof Mr. Blaine, mention as one of hismost glorious achievements that hehas opened wide to us in other landscommercial gates heretofore out of gratitude to him for thisand some other things stated and notstated they were on the point of nomi-nating him for the presidency in 1892with a tremendous hurrah, when theywere restrained by considerations ofpradenoe. oep it is a strange thing that these Ivania bosses should shower honors on a man for open- ~ in other lands commer- tore barred. It is fur for them to thank rest for barriug ?ther lands here* ., and still is, commercial WMWjW. Therefore we sre to r-rcusne thatthey were not sincere in praising theirhero for opening commercial they really admire in him la hisshrewdness in pretending to open somegates to comparatively worthless com-mercial territory in order the more se-curely to bar the gates to other com-mercial territory ten times as appreciate him as a consummateadept in the art of fooling the crowd,and they have use for his services inthe exercise of that art The man whocan make people think it la better forthem to be relieved of 890,000,040 tax onsngar than to be relieved of 9300,000,000burden imposed by the taxes on wool-ens, crockery, glass, iron and otln-iproducts of pet industries Is just to please the Pennsylvania millbosses. They have use for his services. Heis plausible, adroit and unscrupulous—exactly the kind of man to serve the in-terests of those who regard a party asa machine for securing the spoils of of-fice and government as a contri


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