Word: mckinleyism
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...people want protection no longer.-(a) Elections of 1890, 1892, Bost. Her. Nov. 9, 10, 11, 12, 1892.-(b) Harrison defeated because of the McKinley Bill, Ibid...
Best general references: Patten's Economic Basis of Protection; Hoyt's Protection vs. Free Trade; Start's Phamphlet, Early American Statesmen on the Tariff; McKinley's Speech, Cong. Rec. (1890) Vol. 21, p. 4248. Aldrich's speech, Cong...
...Hayes, L. S., reopened the question as to the McKinley Bill. He said the bill was conceived, made, and passed by those who had only their own interests in view He cited the changes in price of various articles, due to its influence, and in each case the price of articles of daily use had risen, in many cases doubled, while those that might be considered as mere luxuries had remained unchanged. The clothing manufacturers petitioned for cheaper material. Massachusetts made a hard fight in the leather business but finally won. Never again ought we to hear Peck's report...
...Stearns refuted the arguments of his predecessors. He spoke of the Republican policy of protection, and said that the things previously attributed to the McKinley bill, it did not touch. What it did touch it benefited, as for instance the tin industries. Also it made prosperous the woolen mills in Connecticut where before there had been destitution. We do not call the Bill perfection, but it is certainly the grandest piece of tariff legislation ever enacted in this nation...
...government under which prosperity has existed has never been turned out of office, and next week we do not turn out the Harrison administration. It has been stated that the reciprocity clause in the McKinley bill is a concession to free trade. It gives the president power to reimpose duties on articles, as it is needful by the actions of other nations. Where reciprocity has had time to act, mills flourish, the increase is tremendous, and the cost of living decreases while wages increase...