Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1891-10-14
Gov. Camubell's Speech at Bellaire, Ohio.

Gov. Campbel's Speech at Bellaire, Ohio
AS a specimen Of the way that Gov
Campbell, the opponent of Mckinley fol
Governor of Ohio, presents his views of the
operation of the Mckinley Bill, we give
below few extracts from bis speech al
Ballaire, one of the chief lion producing
districts and one of McKinley's stronghold
as follows:
ga year and more has elapsed since
great increase in the tariff were made, in
creases which make living dear to every
man, woman and child in the country.
have watched carefully to see what raises
were made in wages. l have made dill.
gent Investigation because if increase in
the tariff has not brought increased wages
then this socalled protection is deception
and fraud upon the wage earners.
Ill pursue my inquiries here. You are
wage.earners. Do you get more pay now
than you did before the Mckinley bill pass
ed?
You don't answer. If you haven't had
your wages increased, can you tell me what
other occupations there are in which wages
have been increased since the Mckinley bill
became law?
There was long silence.
Finally shrill voice piped:
'Nary q one!"
The crowd burst into cheer.
The boy is right, said the Governor.
That's the only industry in which wages
have been raised-''nary a one."
defy Major Mckinley to name ono. He
spoke to you here from platform of steel
made by you. He diden't tell you of any
ones wages being raised by his bill. And
he woulden't if he should speak here again,
because he coulden't.
If you'll bring me a single wage Garner
from the Atlantic to the Pacific whose
wages have been increased q single dollar
by the operation of the Mckinley bill, I'll
buy brass cage and set him up in the
Statebouse for people to look at as one OF
the most remarkable products of the nine
teenth century. Laughter
Pursuing the discussion with great
warmth, the Governor challenged his pre-
| tectionist opponent thus:
| He tells you he made it so as to raise your
wages and the wages of all working peo-
| pie.
Now, I'll make the Major a proposition
I'll divide the vote with him, and we'll set
tie the election that way. I'll give him
the votes of all the men whoss wages have
been increased by the bill if he'll give me
the votes of the men whose wages haven't
been increased by it. Laughter Or
that basis I'll carry Ohio by $780, 900 ma.
jority. [Cheers.l
| In every industry where the duty was
substantially increased by the Mckinley
bill, wages have been cut down, and III
tell Won it's not going to oct anV Better
Day before yesterday notice was posted in
the Carnegie mills that the present scale
would be abolished and new one made
before January LIST. Does that indicate az
increase of wages? Scales were not made
that way. Why, that Carnegie scale will
be regular toboggan slide for the work
men if Major Mckinley carries this cleo
ton, and the employers find they are rea-
sonably sure of continuance of protection
[Cheers.] Z
I'll bet dollar to nickel that when
Major Mckinley was here he didn't tell you
that the iron and steel workers have lost
more strikes in the past six months than
in the previous three years. l can take
you to dozen places where iron workers
wages have been reduced since the McKin.
ley bill passed.
There's no tariff on the only thing you
have to sell-that's labor. You have to
sell that every day or lose it. You can't
store it up and you must take what they
give you for it or starve. They put high
tariff on the products of labor. which can
be stored mp and marketed at profitable
seasons, but every port is open and free to
this labor of the world coming here to COM
pete With you. [Cheers