The Portland daily press., 1891-10-16

anv intercourse with the foreigner, and that
we cnnId not get on. They said they would
not even come TO our great Iair laughter,
that they going Wien 4 was 1e%e strictly
noticed that the great complaint In Enrope
was NOT the Mckinley tarln Dill; 1t was the
McKinley administrative Dill. They could
not lie any longer ABOUT tnelr valuations.
Great applausel Inet y nna nav 70 pay what the
man NAV he an importer and his name need
NOT have anv syllable that sounds foreign to
the American ear. lApplausel. An Ameri-
can. an honest merchant, can be an importer
being confident tnat ne wont @ De undervalued
idea of right and wrong. Applause. That
is what made the foreign ontcry. IL Is true
that the Mckinley bill, wherever 1t raised
the tariff diminished the profits of the for
eign producer. BE was oDiiged to take it
out of his profits in order to meet our mar
ket. and therefore the surplus went into the
United States treasury. But the great means
that he had use ed to import his goods to the
prejudice of our manufacturers, had never
been the payment OF the tariff. but the un-
LIBERALIZATION OF goousi Wnicn enabled him
In business. you know very we'll that, SO far
from the Mckinley bill having shut us off
from foreign intercourse, our exports and
imports for the last eleven months have been
S75,000,000 in excess oI Wnat tney were last
(Applausel
Now, the Dem. craey, having made their
prophetic utterances last year never allude
tc them this. Three Is no declaration today
by Mr.. John Z. Russell, or any other Rus
sell llaughter] that we are not importing
more goods and exporting more goods than
we were before. They said that the for.
egner would not buy our grain. But, 10
and behold, he can hardly patch up gold
enough to send over here to get ii, so great
nEQh 10 do 0lrt.l II.
his wants. [Great abplause.] Our increase
OF exports has been $20, 100000 of our own
manufactured articles, and our increase of
imports has been largely of goods which the
Mckinley bill put upon the free list. Now,
protection principles and the reyisaI of
tariff upon free trade principles is too OBJ
vious for any intelligent man to have anv
doubt upon. unless he wants to have a doubt
before he starts In on investigation. What
we believe In Is the letting in of such goods
free as we cannot manufacture ourselves. As
for the goods which we can manufacture our
selves, let our own people furnish them,
lcheersl, let our own workingmen have the
wages, let our own sh0pkeepers furnish to
the workingmen the necessity OF their lives,
iet tne money circulate among the people, let
the prohts stay at home [great applause] let
US exploit the resources Of the most magnif-
cent country that the sun shines on; and let
us, so far as we are able, keep the riches of
[cheersl.
Bnt, after all, the orator speaks in vain
from the rostrum, the editor talks In vain
from his columns, the workman works in
vain at the caucus and the polls, unless the
people are penetrated with sense of the
wisdom and justice of the cause. Unless
this is so, they all work in vain. 1t is not
from the platform that elections are won.
1t is in the homes, it is In the streets 1t is on
the floor Of such assemblies as this. For our
election day show that you have done yours.
lGreat and prolonged appause.l