Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-08-24
M,KINLEY HAS THE FLOOR.

people had little TO do with it. There
were floats and floats and banners and
banners-but they were all pre-arranged
scenic effects, paid for almost entirely
out of the Mckinley campaign fund,
and by our friends, the tariff
baronS, especially interested in
having the representative Of high
tariff win. The umost striking
Of the displays represented the
making of American tin plate, and
| all sorts Of tin souvenirs and designs
manufactured at Demmler were scat
tered among the people. The Falcon
Iron and Nail Company had float
showing how tin would soon be made in
! Niles. Il. r. MORGAN, the Alliance iron
man, with a company of Welsh singers
from his mill and his own band, arrived
early in the day to assist in booming the
Major. The choir had prepared num-
Der of songs appropriate to the event,
and the happy manner in which these
Welshmen sang put everybody in a good
humor. The burden of their music was
all about MCKINLEY and how he would
down CAMPBELL in November. Even
poets were hired for the occasion. and
big banner 375 feet long bore on it the
following:
Protection is a question OF wages.
We have looked after our own; that is the
sum Of our offending.
TWENTY-FIVE pounds Of sugar for S. McKin-
lev prices don't scare Us.
We make the iron, will get the tin;
Mckinley's bill is bound TO win
The best Of good money Is good enough for
US.
This is rather lacking in metre, but
still very pithy, barring one or two
errors in the statement Of fact-poetical
license, probably. The poet quotes the
fact that twenty-five pounds of sugar
are sold for ST." as a reason why "Mc-
Kinley prices don't scare US" The poet
evidently was not we'll up on the Nc
Kinley bill, which put sugar on the free
list, so instead of Mckinley prices it is
free trade prices that our poetic friend
is not afraid Of.
Coming down to Mr.. McKINLEY's
speech the outsider is struck by the diff
ference between the decorations and the
Majors remarks, in that, while all the
banners and poetry, etc, deal with the
tariff alone, Mr.. MCKINLEY leaves tho
tariff to take care of itself until every
thing olSa iS diSnnsed ~ The maJor
part of his speech deals with the silver
question and everything else that an in
genious mind could possibly think of to
while away the time and dodge the sole
issue of the day-the tariff.
When the Major does reach the tariff
stage of his speech he fights shy OF
every specific Democratic argument and
luxuriates in dazzling generalities. 1t
amused the vast audience when he said
he was not running for Governor in
Europe, and knew full we'll if he was
that he wouldn't stand ghost OF
show. This was brought out by the
gold which the British are said to be
sending to America to knock him out.
While we have not heard of any British
gold floating about, we suppose, II there
is any, it must be, largely, that which
has gone over to England from this
country, by the shipload. since MCkIN-
IEY's law went into effect. And, by
the way, in discussing the silver Ques-
ton Mr.. MCKINLEY failed to mention
this fact.
Speaking of Tariff Reform and what
it has done in the past, Mr.. MCKINLEY
says:
Ii has found our country prosperous and
our treasury well supplied with revenue
and few years under its operation has
| left the treasury bankrupt and the bust
ness of the country in deplorable condi-
| ton.
This is ante-bellum history, according
to Major MCKINLEY. As a companion
picture little modern history will suf-
| fee, which Mr.. MCKINLEY omits from
his panorama. After a generation OF
Republican protection we have bank
rupt treasury, which is so bankrupt
that the present Republican Secretary
of the Treasury has been compelled to
alter the public debt statement TO con-
ceal the true state OF affairs from the
people. And the country'S trade has
been about as bad as IL could be, accord
ing to all market reports, up to within
the past week, when the Superabundant
crops in the United States and the
shortage in Europe began to give tone
and confidence to the market.
Yet with the markets stagnated to ;
degree they scarcely never have been be
fore, strikes, lockouts, reductions il
wages, etc, prevalent, especially il
highly protected industries, all over thu
land, and this after his bill has been il
effect nearly a year, Mr.. MCKINLEl
coolly remarks:
Now, if protection is a burden upon tn
people, we should find some manifestation
Of il somewhere.
1t is not Protection that is burden
on the people; it is the Republican
travesty or Protection, by which a few
millionaire contributors to the McKin
ley campaign fund are made richer a
the expense Of the people, which tn
consumers of America are up in arm
against. Honest Protection is wha