The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1891-10-29
TALKING TO woRkINeMENl
Major McKinlcy's visit to Ashtabuia''


TALKING TO woRklNeMENi
Major McKinlcy's visit to Ashtabuia's
Famous Ore Docks.
[Chicago Inter- ocean,
CLEVELAND, o., Oct. 13.--One of the
best short speeches Mckinley has made
in this campaign was, like others of his
compact speeches, to the laboring men
at Ashtabula this morning. He was up
at 6 o'clock to visit the ore harbor two
miles from that city, on the invitation OF
the Lake Shore railroad officials, who
have developed this harbor, and in the
last year have expended more than
1000, 900 in its improvement, dredging,
and building new docks, to facilitate the
handling of the enormous product of
iron ores brought from the Lake Supe-
rior region, and from Michigan, and
handled at Youngstown and Pittsburg.
The Major and his party were taken to
the harbor, and on tug they went
through all the slips and visited all the
docks where hundreds of men handle
one-third of oil the iron ore in this
country, transferring it from the ships
to the cars, by the latest improved ma
chinery. For an hour and half Nc
Kinley was shown through the harbor
and docks, and as he was about to leave
about 500 workingmen gathered about
the train and asked him to speak to them.
Standing on the platform of the car Nc
Kinley spoke while the train waited. He
said:
ut gives me great pleasure to witness
tho improvements that have taken place
at this harbor in the last ten years. In
deed, it Is q revelation to any one who
has not been here In that time.
II have seen in the last few weeks q
number of Representatives in Congress
who paid you visit some months ago,
and I am sure you will be glad to know
that every one of them
Expressed tho Greatest Wonder
at the vast advancement you have made
in the last few years. To the Southern
gentlemen it was q complete revelation.
They had no idea that you had such .
harbor as this; they had no anticipation
of the vast tonnage you handle here
every day, and the great employment
you give to labor in every department.
| / believe the impression made upon
them will eventually give the harbor
what it ought to have-an increased ap-
preparation.
What we want in this country. to
whatever party we may have belonged
in the past, are good markets, good
money, good wages and steady employ
meY.t' and when we have these we have
the perfection of prosperity. indeed, the
perfection of the highest civilization.
We have in this country today pros
neritv without parallel in the worlds
history. There ia not a man anywhere
who can NOT ret employment. There is
mot anv one Who has crops or merchan-
dise to sell who can not find buyers in
this country.
II believe that the policv which is
/ maintained by the Republican party, by
| the nrotection partv of the country, is
hest calculst,,d To secure the advantages
have named. I believe that under that
svstem we are able to nav better wages
better markets. for our crops and labor
than under sny other system.
"It is said that protection contracts
wealth in the hands of a few. Yet. il
we win reflect, in free-trade England
wealth ia much more concentrated
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"Cardinal Manning said in the Decem.
ber humber of the Nineteenth Century
of London, in speaking of free trade, that
free trade did two thinps-it created in.
responsible wealth. which stagnates. and
the starvation wages of the labor mar.
ket.
"Then he used these very remarkable
words: sHere ia ENGLAND we have al.
ways before us the world Of wealth and
the world of want. The world of wealth
saving in its heart: i sit as queen owe,