Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1891-02-13
Celebrated by the Ohio League Repub.
lIcan club; Mckinley Speaks
OF Tariff.
olnooN DENIES TIE CHARGES
MADE AGAINST HIM.
ny Telegraph to the Ssws.'
IN MEMORIAL HALL
Three Hundred Quests Gather "a
Honor ot Lincoln.

Honor ot Lincoln.
TOLEDO. Feb. I.incoin's birth.
day was chosen for the fourth annual
convention Of the Ohio League lRepub.
llcan CLUB, aud thsscssiOn was held In
this city. tn. event Of the occasion
was n banquet Ia Memorial Hall TO.
night. Three hundred guests were
present. Including mIny men VI Ma.
uonal rcpute. CONGRESSMAN Ashley
responded To the ioast Abraham
IincUln.N
Hon. William Mcklnloy responded
~ the toast, IAN American Nriii for
American People, His address was
essentially a reply to ex.Prrsident
Clcveland's speech ut the Thurman
banquet lat November.
"lt WIS., he said, Qualifying ~ tho
friends Of protection to have that emf.
neat democratic leader make am 0pen
confession OF the purposes which he
and his party associates ain 10 acDmp.
llsh by "a ice trade traffic. Assigned
10 RESPOND to the inspiring sentiment,
American Citizenship he iuni.
chcapncs- the theme Of his discourse.
His Rvowal was only that which the
pfo,nctiouisls have always claimed TO
bc the inuvilablc tendency OF his igrifl
policy, which oxalts cheap goods from
abroad above good wages nj home.
The t,ril refjrm-r gfavely asks why
We want nlnu'aciuring establish.
mont- Ia the United State. when We
eau buy our goods In other countries
a. cheap ~ we eau manufacture them
nj home, N not cheaper! The masses
Of the pcoplcaT Ia no temper for such
ALL
the Inauguration OF u policy that will
scale down their wages nud render II
harder 10 obtain the nrcts.aries o! life.
The "chtap coats" To which tho gen.
,leman IL 80 much attached no not
tempt them. for many remember that
In the previous free trade cras VI our
history they we've too poor 10 buy them
NJ apy price.
IL American manhood 10 be degrade
tina, merchandise may be chsalg Goats
NJ any price or nt any sacrifice, even a.
tue fobi,.ry Of the labofcr. are not the
cliiei objects Of American civilization.
We scorn cheap coats upon any such
terms or conditions. They arv nasty
MT such - price. as.sa---
Tho gentleman who Il now 80 insl-,
tent for cheap nrressaries Of life, while
In office Bnd clothed with authority,
was unwilling that sugar, an article Of
,Irim. Necessity Ia every household,
should come untaxcd ~ the American
people when II was known that II was
an annual burden upon them OF sixty
million dollar. H.stood lhon ~ an un-
compromising frlcnd of dear sugar for
the masses. During his term lac was dis
honoring, discrrditing sllverani cnhan.
cling the value Of gold. lilo cndeayorc,i,
even before hi- inauguration, 10 stop
the cottage OF silver dollar, and after.
wards snd 10 the cui ~ his admins
tfntloD prr-lstently used his power 20
that Oh. H.. would have Increased
the value OF money and decreased the
VALUE OF everything else. Money the
mgstct, everything was its servant
Was there ever more OF glarlng In.
consistency or reckless assumption
The tariff reformer has, IN his Wild
ecstncy over the 10 called victory, been
bstrayed into an ayowai Of his real
design. lie believes poverty IL bless.
Ing. 10 DO promoted aud encouraged,
aud that shfinkagc In tho value OF
everything but money Is u national
benefit. He no longer cOnc,als his
love for Cheap merchandise, even
though II entails the beating down of
the price Of labor and curiall the com.
forts and opportunities OF tho masses,
Those who advocate duties solely for
revenue sec only ms result cheaper
prices, which are but Temporary at best,
and do not see the other .slJ.-lower
wages, cheaper labor, agricultural de.
preston aud general distress,
Mr.. Mckinley went on TO eulogixe
the protective system, aud said " this
policy " 10 be reversed II must be
done, not by clamor or misrcprcs.nta.
tion, not by schoolmen and theorists,
but, after the fullest discussion and In.
vestlgation, by the sober aud in,elli.
gent Judgment Of the majority constltu.
ti0nnlly registered. The only menace
10 our advancement aud prosperity, TO
our wagecarner- aud farming Inter.
esA Is party pledged 10 repeal the
new law and tho substitution OF the
British system In lts place. Ere. and
full discussion will avert the danger.
Nothing else will.