The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1891-10-31
WHAT PROTECTION MEANS.
he pith of n speech Made by Major
Mckinley in Ohio.

The Pith of n speech Made by Major
Mckinley in Ohio.
One of Major McKinley's best and
most compact speeches made SO far dur
ing the Ohio campaign was delivered at
Ashtabula, on the 18th. There was a
tremendous crowd present, composed
mostly of worklngmen, and standing on
the platform of railway car, he said:
What we want in this country. 10 what
ever party we may have belonged in the
past. are good markets, good money. good
wages and steady employment. and when
we have those we have the perfection of
prosperity. indeed the perfection of the
highest civilization. We have i'll this coun-
try to-day prosperity without parallel IN
the worlds history. There is not a man
anywhere who cannot get employment.
There is not anyone who has crops or mcr-
chandiSc to sell who cannot find buyers IN
this country
| believe that the policy which is MAIN
tanned by the Republican party. by the pro-
lection party of the country, Is best calcu-
lated to secure the advantages | have
named. | believe that under that system
we are able 10 paw better wages and give
steady employment and give better markets
Tor oGr crops and labor than under any
other system.
1t Is said that protection contracts
wealth in the hands of a few. Yet. if we
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much more concentrated III the hands of IA
few than it Is in protected United States.
There is no country IL the world where
wealth is SO generally dlifuScd as in the
United States. There is no country in the
world where so many people own their
homes as in the United States. There is
no country III the world where SO many
wOrkmgmen have savings in savings inStl-
tutlOnS as in the United States.
Cardinal Manning SAID in the Dccem-
ber numt,er of the Nineteenth Century. of
London, in speaking OF free tradc, that
free trade aid two thngS-t created IRE
sponsible wealth, which sIagnates. and the
starvation wages OF the labor market
Then he used these remarkable words:
Here in England we have always before
us the world of wealth and the world of
want. The world of wealth saying in It's
heart: i sit as queen over all tOlcrS and
traders And the world of want not
knowing what may be on the rlorrow.'
Next he said There are strikes running
through every industry, and lands have
gone out of cultivation Inen exclaimed
this great Christian teacher: Is there
blight upon our wealth.
This picture is not drawn by a partI-
san, not by a Republican, nor by one seek
ing Office or place at the hands of the peo-
pie. but il is the diSpaSSiOnate uttcrance of
great Christian teacher and philanthro-
piSt who has witnessed the results of free
tldut Ill EllSidlltl. We "dlit ip SuCH
to what party we belong. We odgnt
to have 1t, and. with ballots in our hands,
appreciating the power of the ballot. we
ought to cast them in a way to prevent
even a slip in the direction OF free trade.
Applause.
You cannot have free trade in this
country unless YOU level the conditions of
American wOrklngmcn down to the con
ditionS of European workingmen.
They say that the manufacturers and
capitalists get the benefit OF protection
IOu hear that every day from those who
seem to want free trade. If the working
man gets 90 cents a day on the other side
of the water. and comes over here and gets
81 a day, who gets the Sl.5o? Is not that
true? If the pay over there is 10 cents a
day. and the pay here is 81. % a day; If the
manufacturer Is able to give you SD be
cause of the protective tarlif. who gets
that so? Not the manufacturer or the
capitalist, but the man who works Cries
of that's So"
As | have sad good many times, II
we maintain our position as an industrial
country we would have to bring our CON
ditlOn down to the condition OF labor
abroad. CT 90 out of business. We cannot
compete with Europe. with Europe paying
80 per cent. less than We pay, and the only
way to do 1t Is TO put tariff on things
coming i'll that compete with ours sum
cient to compensate for the difference be
tween wages here and in Europe That is
all that there is III Il protective tariff.