Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1891-10-28

% what protection had done for your
town during the past few months !
Jaw the great catmeal-miil with work
men crowding TO tho windows and I
thought OF the increasing tariff on oat-
meal, the increased prices we are ali
paying for IT. the increased prosperity
that must be coming to your town. and
xhe increased wages these workingmen
must DO getting. lDerisive cheers. ]
But 7 was told that the men have
had their wages reduced since the
Mckinley bill passed and the mills
are going TO be shut down az
soon as the election il over. Then
l saw another large factory and won
dered how it was that no smoke came
from it's chimney. Il Was explained that
there was no smoke because there was
NO fire. Ii was glass factory and il had
shut down after the Mckinley bill pass
ed. That bill raised the tariff on glass.
and trust had been formed. Just as in
the case Of oatmeal, and production cut
down. The labor that was going TO be
protected has been banished from that
factory. Do you want any better object
lesson in this practical working OF pro-
tecticn ? What is going on in Rayenna
is going on oil over the country. There
is an advance in the making of trusts
and an advance in the reduction OF
wages, but these are the only industries
that have felt the boon.
You are many OF you farmers.
Within ten years farm values in Ohio
have gone down 5000, 900 on the tax
duplicates, and that's 5000, 900, 900 on
actual value. That's under tariff
averaging AZ per cent McKinley's
tariff averages GO per cent. AS AZ
is to go so is sos, 600, 900 to the amount
you are going to lose in the next ten
years if you don't beat Mckinley this
fall. [Cheers and laughter. Secretary
Foster at Ashland Saturday said that
farms in Ohio had gone down because
OF the vast farming country developed
IN the West, but the election returns
last fall showed that the farmers ont
there have been gong down too. and
that they had looked the matter up and
found out who was responsible.
1.-The only answer Major Mckinley
makes to this is to call us calamity
croakers. So we ere. Laughter We
are going to keep on croaking. I'm
going to croak myself to the farmers in
every county haven't yet visited This
is the fourth time I've croaked to-day,
and have two more croaks TO make be-
fore | quit tonight. Laughter. There II
be O deal more croaking a week from
Tuesday and next morning, 30 folks will
find that there's been calamity"
[Cheers and laughter.l
TALKS FROM A BOX AT KENT.
Leaving Ravsnna folks to continue
their meeting in the evening the Cover
nor took train back to Akron. As the
train ran into Kent cannon was boom
ing again and mighty cheers went up
from the acre Of people packed into the
open space about the station. The train
stopped twenty minutes while the
Governor talked TO the crowd from a
box. Between the constant cheering
and the noise OF passing trims the
speech was rather disconnected and de-
void of oratorical fourishes, but it con-
tanned any amount of solid truth for the
wOrkingmen, who made up the bulk OF
the crowd.
ARoUsINd DEMONSTRATION AT AKRON.
Akron is Republican city Of 10000
population, made up almost entirely of
workingmen in iron. steel, oatmeal, and
other protected industries. 1t has never
known such demonstration rs is in pro-
gress tonight. Special trains have
brought hundreds of people from the
surrounding country There is a parade
mile long and enthusiasm is a mile
high. After the meeting the Governor
will take a train for Columbus, and after
three hours rest there will start down
the Hooking Valley, talking during the
day in six towns to the miners and
workingmen Of that region.