The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1891-06-26
MCKINLEY VS.. MCKINLEY.

Major William Mckinley, jr., author OF
the present tariff bill, was nominated by
reclamation for Governor of Ohio at the
late session of the Republican conven-
ton in that state
1t was well known that he would
receive the nomination, consequently it
is well to assume that the speech accept
ing the nomination was carefully pre-
pared and well considered, and in view
of that fact, 1t is a very curious, a very
strange, q very inconsistent document TO
proceed from the lips of a man generally
reputed to be fair in statement and ar
gument.
For instance. he says: The Demo
cratic party prefers to tax the domestic
product rather than the imported.
Their tariff legislation would benefit
every country but our own. We follow
in our tariff policy the teachings Of
Washington, Hamilton. Clay, sWebster,
Lincoln and Garfield. They pursue the
faiacies of Golden, and Bright and Cal
houn and the statesmen of the late
Southern Confederacy. They are
pledged now to impede, if they can, the
prosperity of the country until after the
next presidential election. That is their
mission this year Business disaster and
Teverses are the ladders of their hopes
Prosperity and cOntentment among the
people bring them sure political defeat.
Idle furnaces, dismantled factories, silent
miDes, unemployed workmen, general
distress are sure harbingers Of Demo-
cratic victory. They are discouragiug
industrial activity through their press
and orators everyw here anu every day,
and it breaks their hearts to see any
manifestation of Industrial advancement
in the United States. They sneer at
every attempt to establish new factories
and would gladly frown them down. 1t
is the same sneer and frown which have
been exhibited toward our industrial
enterprises since 1861
That this is not true, that the press
aud orators OF the Democratic party are
every day and everywhere not dsc0ur-
aging industrial activity, and that il does
not break their hearts t. see any mani
festations of industrial advancement in
the United States, We have only to quote
Mr.. Mckinney in reply. la almost the
very next sentence Of this seIf-same
speech Mr.. Mckinley saws: FThere is no
section Of the country, North or South,
which is not seeking by every manner
of inducement To yet manufactures es-
tablished in their midst They are Civ
ing donations. they are offering b0unties:
in some communities they are taxing
themselves and burdeDing their prop
eriv for the sake of securing ministries
which will employ labor and enlarge
heir neighbOrhood markets In the
South. The great country of free trade,
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for ten or twenty years 10 those who will
bring their capita! and invest in produc-
tive enternriaes, and this by authority of
state law"
In the S0ath at leas, every state gov
eminent Is Democratic, and does this
look ike the government of these states,
the press and orators Of this party, are
doing all they can TO discourage indus
trial activity?
If to see any manifestations Of indus.
trial advancement in any part Of the
United States breaks the hearts of Dem
ocrais why are they Offering such extra
ordinary Inducements for the investment
of capital and the establishment of fac
tories in their midst? People do not of
their own accord do things that will
break their own hearts aud make them
shed bitter tears Of anguish.
That the Democratic party is not
opposed to industrial activity" that
''dismantled factories" silent mines"
unemployed workmen" and general
distress is not gladdening 10 their
hearts, we have only to quote Mr.. Nc
kinlev against Mr. Mckinley. These
things are untrue and Mr.. Mckinley
knows it.
No man did more fol England than
did Richard Golden. After 4 long and
hard fought struggle, which has no par
allel, no precedent in the history Of poll
tics or economies, he lived to see his
ideas prevail, and yet they did not bring
with them "dismantled factories"
silent mines," unemployed workmen,"
or'"general distress" Golden lived and
triumphed and his free trade heresies
are still the policy of England, and what
is the result?
We see spectacle which is the mar
vel, if not the admiration, of civiliza-
ton. We see the little British Isles
commanding the commerce Of the world
His WAS the greatest battle ever won by
peaceful methods, and did more for
In gland than war accomplished on any
Of her famous battle-fields; and what it
did for England it will do in a still
larger measure for the United States.