During Cleveland's second term of office still another state entered
the Union. This was Utah, the state founded by the Mormons. Polygamy
being forbidden, it was admitted in 1896 as the forty-fifth state.
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Chapter 96 - McKinley - War and Sudden Death
In 1897 William McKinley became President. Like some other Presidents
before him he came of very humble people, and had by his own efforts
raised himself until at length he held the highest office in the
land.
McKinley was a keen protectionist. That is, he believed in putting
a heavy duty on foreign goods coming into the country, not in order
to get revenue or income for the needs of the Government, but in
order to protect the home manufacturer. He wanted to put such a
high duty on foreign goods that the home manufacturer could sell
his goods at a high price, and still undersell the foreigner.
In President Harrison's time McKinley, then a member of Congress,
succeeded in getting the tariff made higher than ever before, and
the Act then passed was known as the McKinley Tariff Act. And just
as President Monroe is known outside America chiefly because of
the Monroe Doctrine, so President McKinley is known because of the
McKinley Tariff Act.
For many years now the United States had been at peace. But the year
after McKinley came into office the country was once more plunged
into war.
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