The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-08-24
Mckinley Opens the Ohio Campaign
by Making War on the
White Metal.
Not In Favor Of Legislation That
Would Profit the Silver
Producers.
Gov. Boies Opens His Campaign with &
Plain Talk on the Failure OF
Prohibition.

state campaign opened here Saturday with
great demonstration, over 80 600 people
being in town. There was great parade
and industrial display this afternoon, clos
ing with an elaborate address by Major
Mckinley, which was substantially as fol-
lows:
1.-THE campaign formally opened in Ohio
to-day on the part of the republican party"
said Major Mckinley, will be unusually
interesting because of the Importance to the
state and count of the results in Novem-
Der. 1t is fortunate that the issues are
clearly defined so that no misunderstanding
or evasion can arise. The democratic plat
form declares for the free and unlimited
coinage OF all the silver of the world; the
republican platform stands in opposition to
anything short of a complete dollar and
approves the legislation of the last con-
press, which is mighty bulwark for the
protection OF silver. The free coinage de-
manded by the democratic platform means
that all the silver of the world can be
brought to tho mints Of the United States
and coined at the expense of the govern
ment, or that the United States must re-
ceive 4121a grains of silver worth 80 cents
dollar which by the fat of the government
is to circulate among the people as full
dollar. It does not take very wise man
to see that this short dollar will become in
time the exclusive circulating medium OF
the country. Gold will be taken from the
circulation of the country and boarded and
the effect will be that the circulating
medium will be reduced to the ex.
tent of the gold now circulating and
We will be compelled to do the bus
ines of the country with the silver dol
lar exclusively. We have not been able
to secure an international ratio which all
the nations of the world would adopt, and
with free coinage of silver in the United
States would be still further removed from
any international agreement. The nations
which are on silver basis alone are the
poorest nations in the world and are in
constant financial disturbance and none
tary disorder. This has been pointed
out by ex-President Cleveland, and
Gov. Campbell even has declared he had
his doubts about the wisdom of free COIN
age. Under the present conditions the
there is to be any profit in the coinage of
silver it should 60 to the government, az it
has ever since the BlandAllson act. This
new declaration would give the profit to the
silver producers, and no class of people would
suffer 80 much from an eighty y-cent dollar
as the wage Garner and aRrioulturist. I am
in favor of double standard, but not of
free and unlimited coinage until the ma
tions of the world Join US in guaranteeing
to free silver the status which their laws
now accord to gold.''
In speaking Of the tariff the major said
protective tariff such as the democratic
party advocates can benefit and encourage
n hn II ind ua
declared it did not encourage labor. save in
foreipn countries, that it supplies work for
foreign labor and takes it from American
labor. 1t is we'll conceived to benefit every
other nation than this. He said a revenue
tariff would fail to supply the revenue wants
ernment to secure sufficient revenue would
result in direct taxation. Not alone would
this be the result, the speaker declared,
but the industries of the country would be
destroyed and the laborers forced
to farm and become the farmers competi-
tors: The tariff wanted is protective
tariff which keeps the treasury full of
money, builds up the business of the coun-
try and furnishes employment for its labor
at better wages than can be secured any
where else or under any other system. The
speaker declared that, under a protective
tariff, the public debt had been reduced
nearly two-thirds and the state debt had
also been reduced. Mckinley refuted the
statement that the protective tariff had in
creased the mortgages. 1t had nothing
whatever to do with the question. More
than this, the speaker declared, tho pro-
teotive system preserves the home market
for the people at home.
Reciprocity, Major Mckinley said, is a
provision which can in no wav en-
croach on the protective principle, nor
can in any way destroy or undermine the
protective tariff. The speaker declared
the statement that the sugar bounty was
more burdensome than the tax was untrue
The bounty will encourage the production
of sugar here instead of destroying the in
dustry. The major said there had been
much criticism about the duty on tin plate
and fully as much misrepr esentation as
criticism. In closing, Mckinley said:
What will the democratic party do on the
silver question? A vast majority Of the
party are in favor of debased dollar
Will they register their will in vain? We
must wait In the meantime let Ohio record
her verdict against the degradation of
American labor and the debasement of the
American dollar