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AMERICAN TARIFF LEAGUE.

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 AMERICAN TARIFF LEAGUE. Banquet at New York of Men Who Believe fin ProtectiOn-A Practical Exhibition of Their Views-Every- thing About the Affair Elm blematic of American Industries.
 NEW YORK, April 29.-There was not a vacant seat at the banquet of the Ameri- can Protective Tariff league held in Madi- son Square Garden assembly room to- night The dining room was handsomely decorated with flags and flowers. Every thing about the affair was emblematic of American industries. The dishes, cut lery, table cloths, napkins, wines and cigars and even the tin menu cards were of American manufacture. At the fifteen tables sat 500 guests. It was 7:20 when the orchestra struck up march and the distinguished gathering began to march to the banquet hall. Cornelius N. Bliss presided. At the speakers table on either side of the chairman sat Vice President Morton on the right and Hon. William Mckinley the left Others at this table were Secretary Noble and Senator Hiscock, J. P. Deliver of Iowa, Nelson w. Aldrich, Joseph N. Dolph of Oregon. J. s. Clarkson, J. F. Hanson, J. M. Farquharson and James A. Sheriden. At the other tables were Robert P. Porter, Senator Platt and Herbert L. Bridgeman. The list of toasts was lengthy one as follows:
 ssrho D,o.;lo,.n coo.o4,,,, T,b, WY Noble; "Protection-Our True National Policy" Hon. William Mckinley, jr., of Ohio; "The Maintenance of the Protective System Indispensable to Profitable For eign Commerce." Hon. Nelson w. Ald- rich of Rhode Island; "The Empire State and the Tariff of 1990,'' Hon. Frank His cock of New York; Abundance Versus Cheapness," Hon. J. P. Deliver of Iowa; Protection as It Affects the Property of the People and Development of the Pacific Coast" Hon. Joseph M Dolph; ''Recipro- cal Trade Between the United States and Her Sister American Republics" William Curtis; "The Wage-Esrner's Interest in Protection" George Gunton of New York American Commerce and Shipping" " John A. Farquharson of New York; Free Raw Materials and Foreign Markets, |" Gen George A. Sheridan of New York; "The New South-the Product and Now the Bulwark of Protection" Hon. J. F. Han son of Georgia; ''The Fruits of Protection as Shown by the Eleventh Census" Rob- ert P. Porter of Washington; "Our Mining Resources-Their Development Under Pro- lection, the Basis of Our Industrial Growth" Hon. John P. Jones of Nevada; Agriculture and the Tarif-the Ameri- can Protective System Q Farmers Policy," Hon. J. H. Walker of Massachusetts.
 Letters of regret were received from Hon. William M Evarts, Secretary Tracy, Secretary Foster, Secretary Proctor, Pat rick Ford, M. M. Estee, Eugene Hale. A. L Conger, Benjamin Butterworth and many others.
 It was 9:30 when MT. Bliss began to speak. At the close of his remarks he in troduced Secretary Noble who said: This is an suspicious time for the mem bers of the republican party to assemble and take counsel together. The protec- ton of our industries is uniting our coun- trymen once more. We rejoice tonight with exceeding joy There is, indeed, g president of the United States, and you will all agree with me in saying that he if 6 good president. Let us maintain peace ! with honor, looking not abroad for ap- proval. Let us depend upon the judgment \ of our own people for our own interests. MT. Noble was loudly applauded.
 Mr. Bliss then proposed the health of Vice-President Morton, who briefly | thanked the assemblage, saying that h' | was there as a member of the Protective Tariff league. He was loudly applauded | Major Mckinley was then introduced al the next governor of Ohio. The cheer that broke forth lasted fully five minutes The speaker in brief said:
 l I am hardly able to speak tonight. If
 ever regretted that was protectionist that regret does not exist tonight.
 am glad to belong to Q party advo cated by such men as Webster, Clay Lincoln, Grant, Hayes, Garfield ant
 Harrison. Cheers. No man should fee insecure in the efficiency of great princi
 pie when every precedent has been on tn
 same side. We will have tariff so lon
 as we have government. All of us wi
 agree, whether democrat or republican, ,tha
 tariff is the wisest and best mode of rais
 ing the great bulk of revenue required t
 conduct our government. The question ii
 shall it be levied alone for the purpos
 of revenue or to add to the development C our industries and to give employment t
 our workingmen. The party to which
 belong has declared that the tariff shoul
 be so levied as to give employment | American labor. A tariff levied for rev
 nuo and revenue only is always paid by tf
 consumer. But this ceases to be so u
 very instant we are able to manufactul
 among ourselves. Competition, then, reI
 ulates the prices.
 Major Mckinley referred at length
 the tariff of 1894. He said: 'T am in
 patient to see the tariff bill of the ne:
 congress, with two-thirds majority
 the house of representatives. The ne:
 democratic tariff bill will be a regul
 crazy quilt. Cheers and laughter.] B
 there will be no free wool, no free coal. :"
 MT. Mckinley told of the differe
 features of the Mckinley bill and clos,
 with prophecy of the success of u
 party. All during his speech there W @ loud cheering.
 l All the other speeches were loudly a u plauded.