Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-08-24
FIRST GUN IN OHIO.
Mckinley Opens the Campaign
for the Republicans.
B0IES BEGINS TIE FIGHT IN IOWA

0~~SS 0ANAA'S AAh \ 40A4 4N ~ W n
A Great Turn Out at Each Point-Both
Leaders Have Something to Say About
the Tarif-Points from Their Speeches
Henri Watterson Objects to Taking
Some Journalistic Medicine, and Baffles
the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. at Saratoga
No Message from Blaine.
LIMA, O., Aug. P4-The Ohio Repub-
lican campaign was opened here Saturday
with meeting at which 1t is estimated
that 10000 persons were present. Major
Mckinley was the speaker and it looked
as though everybody went 70 hear what
he had TO say. The town was gayly deco
| rated, especially the little house in which
the major was born. At the intersection
OF Mill and Furnace streets handsome
| arch was erected constructed entirely of
American tin produced by American
manufacturers and mechanics. Among
the decorations was life-sized tin soldier.
tin cannon, stars and shields, all con-
structed of tin, and handsome portrait
of Mckinley inclosed in frame of Amer
| lean tin. The beautiful arch with its
adornments attracted marked attention,
and was surrounded from early morn
with crowds admiring its construction
! and the striking object lesson it conveyed.
Military and Industrial Parade.
The speaker was escorted to the place of
speaking by parade of military and civil
organizations and an industrial procession
| which Mckinley reviewed from the Bene-
dict residence. Among the banners car
ried was one bearing the motto The Tin
Soldier VIII Defeat the Butler Mascot"
Upon beginning his address Major Nc
! klnley first reviewed the platforms of the
two parties and declared that the Demo-
Gratis were for revenue tariff and the Re-
| publicans for a protective tariff; the Dem
ocrats for free silver and debased dollar
| and the Republicans for an honest dollar
worth the same, of whatever it is COM
| posed. OF the tariff he said: "As a means
| of raising revenue a revenue tariff is not
as certain and reliable as protective tar
| lit. The latter has never failed in time of
peace, no matter how great the expendi-
lures, to supply the revenue required, and
has never failed but three times, and then
| in war to, provide the enormous revenue
required for the public service
Is Protection a Burdene
| people, we should find some manifestation
| Of il somewhere. We have been living
under it for thirty years. Where does the
burden rest? The great mass of the peo-
| pie OF our country were never SO well off
as they are today. They are better off than
! the rest of mankind. There never were so
many men in this country who OWED
their own homes as there are today. There
| never were so many workmen who had &C.
cumulations in the savings banks OF tie
! country as thore are today There never
were so many comforts, refnements, and
educated homes as there are in this coun-
| try today. No nation of the world can
present such picture of progress, pros
perity, and 0lenty. Measured by its USE
fitness in the development of the country.
| the protective tariff is again unfailinz
No nation in the world has reached such a
degree of development as we have attained
in the last thirty years"
Effect of the New Law.
Turning to the effect of the new law, he
said it had been in operation for nj e
| months. Statistics show that during that
| time the total value ofimports of merchan-
| disc was 1886, 206 900. During the corre-
spending pariod of 1890 the total value of
| imports of merchandise was S59S, 10Y, 3O5.
There were therefore imported during the
| nine months of 1891, under the new tariff
law, 81, 436 100 more than in the CORE
spending period of 1890, under the opera
ton of the old law. During the nine
months ended June 80 1891, the foreign
goods admitted free Of duty were valued
at 1926, 1913, u65. During the nine months
ended June 80, 1890, the value of free i'm
ports was S2e3, 9s3. s73-an increase of free
| importations, IN favor of the new law, of
SO, 979, 49," Referring to reciprocity he
said that it.dld not antagonize protection,
as 1t was based upon those imports which
were on the free list.
Something About Mortgages.
Continuing he said: 1T is also said that
protective tariffs have increased the mort
cages of the country. This is an idle and
absurd statement Let me remind you
that mortgages are not always an evil
| dence of poverty. They are much oftener
the best evidences of prosperity l admit
that mortgages given for living expenses,
for grocery bills, for taxes, etc, do give
evidence of the poverty of the mortgageor
but If workman in this city, having accu-
mulated 8, coo. concludes he wants to boy
home, and finding one which will cost
him &, 000 81 600 in cash and gives a mort
gage for the remainder of the purchase
money, that mortgage is not an evidence
of poverty. 1t is the strongest evidence
of the thrift and prosperity of the mort
gageor. Take the farmer having 100 acres
OF land who wants to add 100 more acres
to his farm. He mas sufficient accumula.
latlons to enable him to make the first
payment and purchases the adjoining
land, giving a mortgage for the remaining
payments That does not mean that he is
distressed and in poverty 1t means that
he is getting on-that he has faith in him
self and the future"
THE CAMPAIGN IN IOWA.