St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-02-13
ON HIS SECOND WIND
Bill Mckinley Sounds His
Barbaric Yawp of High
Tariff at Toledo.
Alleged Answer to Cleve-
lands Great Thurman Ban
quet Speech.
A Defeated Champion Of High
Taxes Still Mouths His
Fallacy,
And Weakly Pipes an Attack
on the Name Of Richard
Golden.


league of Republican clubs. The day
was devoted to routine business. The
of1icers-elect for the ensuing year are:
President, w. L. Squires, Toledo, and
four vice presidents; secretary, John j.
Chester, Columbus: treasurer, B. L.
McElroy, Mt. Vernon. The event of
the occasion was the banquet held in
memorial hall tonight. The first toast,
abraham Lincoln" was responded to by
Hon. James NJ. Ashley, who was the
representative in congress from the 10
ledo district from 1859 to 1862 and hon
Ored with the close friendship of the
great emancipation. His response was
largely a recitation of his personal in
tercourse with Lincoln beginning at
Alien, H., IN 1858, during the Douglass
Lincoln debate. The speech was
the longest of the evening, but intense
" interesting from the recital OF per
sonal recollectOnS of Lincoln.
Hon. BeIlamy Storer. of Cincinnati,
responded to The Young Republicans
of Ohio" and then come the toast, IAN
American Tariff for the American Peo
pie" to which Hon. William Mckinley
responded.
Same Old FalIacies.
Mr.. McKinley's response was essen
TALLY reply to Mr.. Cleveland's speech
at the Thurman banquet, at Columbus,
last November. He said:
at is worth something in the discus
sion of economic questions to have an
avowal from our political opponents of
the real meaning and effect of their
economic theories. 1t is always we'll in
political controversy to understand one
another 1t is, therefore. gratifying to
the friends of protection to have that
eminent Democratic leader from the
state of New York on recent occasion
in the capital city of our state, make
open confession of the purposes
which he and his party associates
aim to accomplish by free
trade tariff. Assigned to respond to the
inspiring sentiment, american Citi-
Zenship," he made "CheapnesS" the
theme of his discourse, and counted it
among the highest aspirations of Amer
lean life. His avOwal is only that which
prOtectionists have always claimed to
be the inevitable tendency of his tariff
policy. which eXalts cheap goods from
abroad above good wages at home. The
masses of the people are in no temper
for such suggestion, and will never
consent to the Inauguration of policy
which will
Scale Down Their Wages
and render it harder to obtain the neces-
saries of life. The ''cheap coats" to
which the gentleman is so much at
Iached do not tempt them, for many re-
member that in previous free trade eras
OF our history they were too Door to buy
them at any price. Mr.. Mckinley dis
cuSSed this point at some length and
continued: This cry of 'cheapneSS' is
not new. 1t rung through eight and
nearly fifty years ago. 1t was the voice
and philosophy OF Golden; it was the
false and alluring appeal urged for the
reversal of Great Brltain's industrial
policy from protection to free trade. 1t
was the hypocritical cant against which
the beloved king Numbered his bold de-
nUnciatiOnS. l gratefully commend to
the new leader of the Democracy the
patriotic utteranceS of its old leader,
Thomas Jefferson. quote from one Of
his letters to Jean Babtiste, saying:
1.-THE prohibiting duties we lay on all articles
of foreign manufacture which prudence re-
quires us to establish at home, with the pat
riotic determination of every good citizen to
use no foreign article which can be manu-
featured at home, without regard to differ
ence of price, secures US against relapse
into foreign dependency.
Going for Grover.
jefferson was solicitOus that the peo
pie should buy nothing abroad which
could be had at home. He set the eX-
ample of buying the domestic goods in
stead of the foreign goods even though
they were more costly. The gentleman
who is now so insistant for cheap nee
essaries of life, while in Office and
clothed with authority was unwilling
that sugar, an article of prime ne
cessity to every household, should
come untaXed, the American peO-
pie, when it was known that
$60,OOO,OOO. He God then as the I'M
compromising friend of dear sugar for
the masses. During all of his years the
head of the government he was dishon
oring one of our own great products,
diScrediting silver and enhancing the
price of gold. He no longer concealS
his love for cheap merchandise, even
though it entails the comforts and OPP
portunitieS of the masses. The pro-
tective system by encouraging capital
to engage in productive enterprise had
accorded to labor, skill and genius
higher opportunities and greater re-
wards than could otherwise be secured
defending them against ruinOus for
eign competition while promoting
home competition and giving the
American consumer better products at
lower prices, and the farmer better
market than was ever enjoyed under
the free tariffs of the Democratic party.
Mr. Mckinley went OH to enforce this
by history of the condition Of the En-
PliSh working classes since the
Repeal of the Corn Laws,
contrasting this with the condition Of
American workingmen since the war,
and closed as follows: 1--WE believe the
American policy best adapted to our
citizenship and civilization. and this be-
lief is sustained by the highest Amerl-
can authorities from Washington down,
and by a hundred years of experience.
We know what it has already accom-
plished for Self-g0yerned people. The
world knows of the wonderful progress
we have made. If this policy is to be
reversed it must be done not by clamor
or misrepresentation, not by schoolmen
and theorists. not by falSehood and
hypocrihcal sollcitude for the poor man,
not by exaggerated laudatlon of the
cheap coat, but after the fullest
discussion and investigation by the
sober ana lntelllgent Judgment OF tne
majority cOnStitutionally registered. 1t
will never be so reversed while we re-
main nation of political equals. Time
and experience have indicated the
great system. Time and truth will
vindicate the new law, which was
founded upon it. False witnesses will
be confounded by the unimpeachable
testimony of trade and experience.
Their portence have already been i'm
peached. False prophesy must fall be-
fore good times and Astounding pros
perity. Campaign prices have already
been convicted as campaign lies. New
industries are being founded; others
now established are charging their
capacity. Idle mills are being started.
The only menace to our advancement
and prosperity, to our wage earners and
farming interests. is the party which is
pledged to the repeal of the new law
and the substitution of the British
system in its place. Free and full dis
cussion will avert the danger. Nothing