Evening journal., 1891-02-13
IN AoIloR OF LINCOLN.
naJ. Ms fzinley Begins His Gubernatorial
Campaign In Ohio.


TOT ED0, O., Feb 13.-The Ohio Repub-
ncan league celebrated Lincoln's birthday
lasi night with a banquet i'm Memorial
n a The speech OF the evening was made
n Mai William Mckinley in response to
tne toast "An American Tariff for the
American People, Il was understood
that last night Mr.. Mckinley fired the first
gun Of his campaign for the Ohio guber-
material chair Mr.. MoKinley's speech WAS
devoted to a reply to the recent speech Of
Grover Cleveland, and he said:
II WIS gratifying TO the friends Of protection
TO have that eminent Democratic leader from
the state OF New York on q recent occasion
make open confession Of the purposes hich ne
and his party associates aim to accomplish by q
ilpe trado-ta Assigned to respond % the
inspiring sentiment "Amoricau citizenship,
he made "choapnces the theme of his discourse
! and counted it among the highest aspirations OF
1 American life. His ayowal IS only that which
/ protectionists have always claimed % be the
inevitable tendency Of his tariff policy. which
exalts cheap goods from abroad above good
wages at home
The tariff reformer gravely asks why we want
manufacturing establishments in the United
States when we can buy our goods In other
/ countries as cheap as we can manufacture them
at home, if not cheaper Why maintain dcfon-
sive tariffs at allg The best answer is written
in our own experience under the last free trade
tariff regime of the Democratic party. when
cheap foreign goods, invited by the low tariff
OF that period, destroyed our manufactures,
checked our mining, suspended our public
works and private enterprises, sent our work
ingmen from work 10 idleness, from remunera-
tive 20 starvation wages or to no wages at all,
surrendered our markets 10 the foreigner, Civ
ing work TO his shops and his men by taking IL
from our shops and our men, and diminished
domestic production and domestic employment,
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other peoples.
This was an error Of "cheapness" ana Of 'pov-
erty,' 70 which the great Democratic leader
and his fraction Of the party want us 70 return
and which they have "consecratedn themselves
TO secure The masses OF the people are in no
temper for such a suggestion It is to maintain
this character Of 'cheapnessn that the Demo
cratic loader raises his voice and offers his serv-
ices once more 10 his cOuntrymen.
There must be something for the American
citizen more than cheap clothes There must
he some higher incentive than cheap coat and a
bare subsistence Thatcountry is the least pros
porous where low prices are secured through
low wages. Cheap foreign goods free or prac-
ueally free, in competition with domestic goods
involve cheap labor at home or dependence upon
foreign manufacturers.
The protective system, by encouraging capi.
tai 10 engage in productive enterprises, has ac-
corded to labor, skill and genius higher op-
p0rtunities and greater rewards than could
otherwise be secured, defending them against
ruinous foreign competition while promoting
home competition and giving the American
consumer better products at lower prices and
the farmer a better market than was ever en-
joyed under the free trade tariffs of the Dem
ocratic party. We find nothing in history Of
our own experience to Justify the reversal OF
our protective system a change IN our pro
tective laws. We have nothing to take back,
nothing to apologize for Thirty years Of pro
lection have brought us from the lowest 20 the
very highest rank Of Industrial progress