The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-02-13
REPUBLICAN BANQUET.
MGKinley'S Reply to Recent Speech by
EX-PFtSidGnt Cleveland.

TOLEDO Ohio. Feb 12.-Lincoln's birth
day was chosen for the fourth annual con-
yention of the Ohio League of Republican
Clubs and the session was held in this city.
The event of the occasion was banquet in
Memorial Hall tonight Three hundred
guests were present. including many men of
national repute. Congressman Ashley re-
sponded to the toast abraham Lincoln"
Hon. William Mckinley responded to the
toast An American Tariff for American
People" His address was substantially
reply to eX-PreSident Cleveland'S speech at,
the Thurman banquet last November. IL
was, he said. gratifying to the friends
OF protection to have that emf
nent Democratic leader make an
and his party associates aim to accomplish
by free trade tariff. Assigned to respond
to the inspiring sentiment american Citi-
Zenship," he made ''Cheapness" the theme
OF his discourse. His ayowal is only that
which protectiGnists have always claimed
to be the inevitable tendency of his tariff
policy which exalts cheap goods from abroad
ABOVE good wages at home. The tariff re-
former graYely asks why we want manu-
featuring establishments in the United
States when we can buy our goods in other
countries as cheap as we can manufacture
them at home, II not cheaper. The masses
OIL The people are in no temper for such a
suggestion, and will never consent to the
Inauguration of policy which will scale
down their wages and render il harder to
obtain neceSsaries OF life. Cheap coats" TO
which the gentleman is SO much attached,
DO not tempt them, for many remember that
III previous free trade eras of our history
they were too poor to buy them at any price.
Is American manhood TO be degraded that
merchandise may be cheap? Goats at any
price, at any sacrifae even TO the robbery
OF Labor. are not the chief objects Of Amer
lean civilization. We scorn cheap coats
upon any such terms or conditions. They
are nasty" at such price The gentleman
who is now so persistent for cheap necesSa-
rieS of life, while in Office ana clothed with
authority, was unwilling that sugar, an ar
tcle OF prime necessity to every house,
hold, should come untaXed to the
American people when it was known
that IL was an annual burden upon them
of S60,000,000. He stood then as the
uncompromlsing friend of dear sugar for
the masses. During his term he was dis
honoring, discrediling silver and enhancing
the price of gold. He endeavored even be-
lore his Inauguration to stop the coinage of
silver dollars. and afterward and TO the end
OF his administration he persiStently used
his power to that end. He would have in-
creased the value OF money and diminished
the value OF everything elSe-money the
master, everything else its servant. Was
there ever a more glaring Inconsistency or
reckless assumption the tariff-ref0rmer
has, IN his wild ecstacy over SO-called VIC
tory, been betrayed into the avowal of his
real design. He believed poverty is bless
ing TO be promoted and encouraged and that
the shrinking in value of everything but
money is a national benefit. he no longer
conceals his love for cheap merchandise.
even though it entails the beating down of
the price OF labor and curtailS the comforts
and opportunities OF the masses. Those who
advocate duties solely for revenue see only as
result cheaper prices, which are but TEN =
porary at best, and do not see the other
slde-lower wages, cheaper labor, agricul-
tural depression and general distress. Mr..
Mckinley went on to eulogize the protective
system, and said if this policy is to be re-
versed it must be done not by clamOr and
misrepresentation, not by schoolmen and
theorists. but after the fullest discussion
and investigation by the sober and intelli-
gent judgment of the majority, constitution
ally registered. The only menace to our ad-
vancement and prosperity, 10 our wage
carriers and farming interests, is the party
pledged TO repeal our new law and substi-
tute the British system in its place. Free
and full discussion will avert danger; moth
ing else will.
BANQUET AT DELMoNICo's.