The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1889-09-26
MAJOR VIM. N'KTNLHY
Opens the Campaign in Belmont
County, Ohio, With
A SPEECH OF GREAT POWER
, nousIns Meeting In Martins Ferry
protection sentiments Cheered,
Enthusiasm for Gov, For
aker and IIepublIcanIsm,

irgtbs Republican campaign in Belmont
coouty last night and Shecovered hersell
with glory, The opening was very
'p,picious one, Major William Nc
Elnley whom tEOusands of Republic
c,nstbiRk will be General Harrison's
mccessor Us President Of the United
States, was the principal speaker OF the
evening, The meeting was held in
LAFAYETTE Hall, the largest in the city,
and it was crowded, many Republican
and Democratic leaders being present,
II was unquestionably the most en-
thusilstic gathering Of representative
RepubIcans ever held In Martins
Ferry. The meeting could not have
been greater success.
MaioT Mckinley arrived from Sleu'
benyile at $3.50 on tho @, 4 7. road aud
was received at the depot by q large
number Of the leading Republicans Of
the city. Ip was escorted to the resi'
Jepce Of Judge John S. Cochran on
Fourth street, where no was entertained
while in Martins Ferry, large numbers
oi Republicansand asprinkling Of Demo-
Gratis including ladies, calling 10 pay
their respects. Judge COChran's res
idencr WA crowded from O TO 1880,
The Mt. Pleasant band and u drum
corps from Bellaire paraded the streets
before the big meeting, which was called
10 order by Judge John s. Cochran
shortly before s o'clock.
Among the prominent Republicans on
the stage and in the audience were
Judge K. II. Cochran, Of Wheelingi w.
". Hanlan, OF the Barnesville RepuJR-
rW,; Major McCann, Of Mt. Pleasant;
Col. G. l.. Poorman, Of Bellaire; Hon.
Jesse IIOlingsworth, George Robinson,
A. \. McKeyey, Geo. 0. Jepson, W. NJ,
Davies aud T. q. Ayers, Of St. Clairs,
willie and many others from Wheeling,
Bellaire, Bridgeport, st, Clairsville, MI,
Pleasant, Portland and other places,
Major Mckinley was introduced by
Judge John S. Cochran and spoke a lit.
tie over an hour,
Mr.. M'KINLEY's SPEECH.
lie said that ho had come to tell the
people the great story Of the Republican
party, which concerned them, their
property ndtheir incomes. The United
States wis disturbed and embarrassed as
no other nation ever had been by an ex.
CessiyU income. Other nations are 'ex.
ploring new fields Of taxation, but this
nation is trying to relieve taxation and
decrease Its revenues without disturbing
the business Of the country. This has
not been occasioned by protective
tariI, but by the increasing wealth ol
the people and the ever increasing pros
periiy Of tho nation. Every branch and
avenue Of business has increased for the
past fifteen years. Wealth has increased
and the revenues so increased as 10 leave
US with an abundant Treasury.
Mr.. Campbell had said that this Ques.
ton was the great lssue,to be fought oul
in 1892, aud the speaker preiaced
the discussion OF the difference between
arevennU tarilan a protective tariff by
aConCisG definition OF taxation in gen
eral. A revenue tariff Is duty pul
upon foreign products which will pro
duCe the greatest income from the small
est rate Of tax. II seeks out those ar
tiCles not produced in this country, and
levies u low rate thereon. II the inComC
is not sufficient, then tax Is placed
upon competing articles. A protective
tariff is not only revenue means but
looks to tho interests OF the people al
we'll II puts the tax upon competing
articles 80 that We can say to the ioreigu
manufacturers: III you want 10 sell
your goods in the United States ant
compete with our own manufacturers
you must pay for the privilege" A
low tariff for revenue increases the i'm
pOrtations, and to that extent the reve
nues are increased, butby dlsplaCing 80
much capital and labor in this country
Every ton Of iron, every crate Of pottery
and every invoice OF glass ought 10 bt
produced in this country, and the theo
Tyol the Republican purity looks 10 the
needs Of the public treasury and at The
same time to the interests Of our own
people. Last year 500, 900, 900 OF foreign
products were imported, OF which hal
at least should have been produced here
and spent in our own workshops ant
farms. The people do not pay tue pro
tecliyo tariff tax, but they always pay
the revenue tax. Protection does moi
prevent u foreign market, but we say tC
every manufacturers: "Import your raw
material pay the duty when you take
y out Of the Custom.houBe, send back the
finished product, and we will pay yor
Gack 10 per cent OF the raw materla
duty" 1t is not a burden upon thu
American producer, and the American
market Is the best mprket in the world
II the duty were high enough we conlt
produce right here In Ohio all the iron
glass ind pottery that Is imported an
hnal Iy. The Democrats want a iorelgr
market. They like every thing that
foreign, but they can't haveit. The Re
puollcans believe In the United States al
agaihst the world, A comparison Of thy
slate OF affairs existing Id the decade be
tween 80 and 10 and that between n
and 80 1fi lE7l
PROVES TIlE FALLAcY OF THIS.
ASurpluS was never heard Of under
revenue tariff. Now the Republicans
beginning with bankrupt treasury a
the beginning Of the rebellion, ending |
yictOfiously with a debt OF twenty.si,
hundred mIlllon, reduced that 10 q littll
overa thousand million at the present
aud cut down the annual burden
nearly iour hundred million, DESPITE
heoppositIon Of Democracy Protection
lie said, wasa part OF our social, mora
aud political condition, and the Ameri
Sen S people were not yet ready 10 sur
render tothe Democracy, Ifthey wert
ready to have our worktnen paid thl
same wages Of pauper Europe, thei
Wey should vote for Campbell, tho Dem
oTaIic Legislature, aud the Democrats
WlOtln, ihdOfsing the Ubiquitous Mill
Slll' II waS a thousand times better u
Me New England for a market thai
OH England, .t
II you wish 10 bring In foreign lmpol
nLl9n you must pay torlt. Protective
SoI Stltl says lot all that We can not produc
Under protection our taxation wa
TIlniniSbCd one and ons.hGll per cent
NB toe best policy for the America
W9Ple, II has written ita own history
nen Tie war was over our debt BtO0
%EW0OO. We have not only reduce
vac debt, but the taxation. We have nc
Enly paid the debt aud relieved th
outuehS from the shoulders, but III
wuhlty has been enjoying q pfo0peFlt
"eVet witnessed In the world,
L@l year We imported &0,0000C
worth Of Iron and elepl. A7,OO0 O00 1