Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1891-10-28
WHAT PROTECTION MEANS.
The Pith of Speech Made by Major
Mckinley in Ohio.

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One of Major McKinley's best and
most compact speeches made so far dur
| ing the Ohio campaign was delivered at
| Ashtabula, on the 18th. There was a
| tremendous crowd present, composed
| mostly of workingmen, and standing on
the platform of a railway car, he said:
What we want in this country, to what
| ever party we may have belonged in the
past, are good markets, good money, good
wages and steady employment, and when
we have those we have the perfection of
| prosperity. indeed the perfection of the
highest civilization. We have in this coun-
try to-day prosperity without a parallel in
| the worlds history. There is not q man
anywhere who cannot get employment
| There is not anyone who has crops or mer-
| chandiSe to sell who cannot find buyers in
! this country
believe that the policy which is main
| tanned by the Republican party, by the pro-
lection party OF the country, is best calcu-
| lated to secure the advantages [ have
named. | believe that under that system
| we are able to pay better wages and give
stea dy employmenta and give better markets
| tor Our crops and labor than under any
| other system.
| 1t is said that protection contracts
| wealth in the hands Of a few. Yet il we
will reflect, in free-trade England wealth is
much more concentrated III the hands of a
few than it Is in protected United States.
| There is no country III the world where
wealth is so generally diffuSed as in the
| United States. There is no country in the
world where so many people own their
homes as in the United States. There IS
| no country in the world where so many
| workingmen have savings in savings instI-
| tutlOns as in the United States.
Cardinal Manning said in the Deem
| Der number of the Nineteenth Century. of
London, in speaking of free trade, that
| free trade did two thingS-t created ire
| SpOnsible wealth, which SUagnateS, and the
starvation wages of the labor market,
Then he used these remarkable words:
''Here in England we have always before
us the world of wealth and the world of
want The world of wealth saying in It's
heart: i sit as queen over all tOilerS and
traders And the world of want not
knowing what may be ON the morrow
Next he said: "There are strikes running
through every industry, and lands have
gone out of cultivation" Then exclaimed
this great Christian teacher: is there a
blight upon our wealth ?''
This picture is not drawn by parti-
san, not by Republican, nor by one seek
ing office or place at the hands of the peO-
pie, but it is the diSpaSSiOnate utterance of
a great Christian teacher and philanthro-
pist who has witnessed the results of free
trade in England. We want no such
picture in the United States, do not care
TO what party we belong. We ought not
to have 1t, and, with ballots in our hands,
approaching the power of the ballot, we
ought to cast them in way to prevent
even slip in the direction of free trade.
Applause.
You cannot have free trade in this
country unless you level the conditions of
American wOrklngmen down TO the con-
ditiOnS of European workingmen.
They say that the manufacturers and
capitalists get the benefit of protection.
You hear that every day from those who
seem to want free trade. If the working
man gets 30 cents day on the other side
of the water, and comes over here and gets
So a day, who gets the S1.5G? Is not that
true? If the pay over there is rs cents
day, and the pay here is 1928 a day; if the
manufacturer is able to give you 1925 be-
cause of the protective tariff, who gets
that S1.50? Not the manufacturer or the
capitalist, but the man who works. Cries
of that's So"
AS | have SAID a good many times, if
we maintain our position as an industrial
country we would have to bring our con-
ditlon down to the condition of labor
abroad, or 90 out of business. We cannot
compete with Europe, with Europe paying
so per cent. less than we pay, and the only
way to do 1t is to put a tariff on things
coming in that compete with ours Suffi-
cient to compensate for the difference be-
tween wages here and in Europe. That is
all that there is in a protective tariff.