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Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 63, 15 November 1892, Page 2

Our Americans cousins are losing no time, in idle talk and already, pending the repeal of the McKinley tariff, the Democratic press urge the Senate to pass bills remoying all duties on wool aud other

raw materials embraced in the Bills which the House approved last session. They also urge that Congress be convened in April to consider the question of tariff reform. The last request is not likely to be acceded to as there is nothing to be gained by undue haste, but still in itself it ia an evidence of sincerity of intention to break tbe monopolies established by an oppressive protection tariff. It is interesting to know that the Democrats came into power in 1884 for the first time since 1860, but even then they had not the strength they have since acquired. They were deteated in 1888. Mr Cleveland's proposal to reduce the tariff led to his overthrow, and the election of General Harrison who went in exactly the opposite direction, because the McKinley tariff, passed in 1890, was drawn on absolutely protective principles, with the avowed intention of closing American ports to all foreign competition with local manufactures. The election of Mr Cleveland is a proof that the American people were discontented with this tariff. Mr Cleveland does not pretend to be a freetrader pure and simple, and all that he has as yet proposed is a reduction of the duty on raw materials.