Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1892-09-29
MCCLURE GOES FOR M,kINLeY
The Colonel Makes "A Characteristic Speech
to Philadelphia Democrats.


/ to Philadelphia Democrats.
| PHILADELPHIA, Sept. ga larger crowt
than that which heard Governor McKinle,
speak at the Academy of Music last Frida,
night was present at the same place last
night to hear the reply thereto of Hon. A
X. Mcclure, editor of the Philadelphia
Times. Over 5000 people packed the audi
forum and over thousand could not gain
admission. William NJ Ayres, a prominent
local manufacturer, presided. The audience
was enthusiastic and the speaker was fire.
quently interrupted by applause. After
stating that he would not deal in partisan
platitudes nor special pleading, but in plain,
lncontrovertible facts, he said:
The SO called Republican protection to labor,
as presented in the Mckinley tariff, is mingled
robbery and fraud. 1t has bastardized the
honest protection of our fathers by subtle by.
pocrisy and insatiate greed, until it is today
simply the fostering maggots of monopoly.
prolonged applause.l These are strong words.
ana fully appreciate the fact that if l fail to
Justify them in answering Governor Mckinley
must Justly forfeit public respect
The Clay protective tariff of 1912 levied a
lower rate of protective taxes than the Mills
BILL that Mckinley now calls free trade
measure, and in his defense of protection to
labor he never claimed the right to enact any
thing but a revenue tariff, with incidental pro-
lection for a very brief period, as he held
that continued taxation for the benefit of any
class was unjustifiable
Colonel McClure's solution of the failure
of Governor Mckinley to meet him in a
public discussion was:
The Manufacturers club muzzled him en-
tirely against joint debate, and when he came
to give us solo performance he was muzzled
against the utterance of any important state
ment or vital illustration of present tariff taxes
that could invite discussion. President Thomas
Dolan, of the Manufacturers club, planted
down $4,000 to help Quay get an honest cleo
tion in New York in 1888, and he made his feI.
low woolen manufacturers follow his example.
He promptly appeared before Auditor McKin-
ley, when sitting for distribution of the plum.
der, and was awarded the increased taxes on
woolens he demanded. The Mckinley tariff
was made chiefly tumble of contract taxes
upon the people for the benefit of contributors
to political debauchery, and it is not surprising
that the contractors muzzled their champion
when there was danger to their cause.
Reciprocity Is Free Trade.
Governor Mckinley knows that revenue
tariff does not mean free trade, and why not
state the truthf He knows that we have had
revenue tariffs under all administrations from
Washington down to Lincoln, and no one ever
proposed free trade feature OF our ma
tional policy until Mckinley first gave it birth
tariff. Reciprocity is simply plain unadul-
terated free trade, with variations only for
equal trade, neither of which can be protection
as he now teaches it.
The speaker then referred to the building
up of the American shoe industry by the
placing of hides on the free list in 1873,
which industry now supplies the entire
American market, 'just as our woolen in
dustries would supply all woolens for
American markets if wool were free" Con
tlnuing, the speaker said:
In nearly every important product of the
farm on which the Mckinley tariff levies in
creased taxes, ostensbly for protection, the
farmer has no protection whatever as he is
without foreign competition, and has to seek
foreign markets for the surplus of every i'm
portant article that he produces.
represent one of the nonprotected indus
tries of the country, the newspaper press. 1t is
not protected in anything; it is taxed on every
thing. This industry presents the clcarest
solution OF the problem OF cheapening products
by American intelligence, skill and energy. By
cheapening our newspapers we have quadru-
pied the demand for them; we have doubled
the employment of labor, and if we could have
the markets abroad that are open to like in
telligence, skill and energy in our protective
industries, the American newspaper would be
the newspaper of every country of the world
because it Is the cheapest and best
"McKin1ey's Triplets."
The speaker referred to Governor McKin-
ley's triplets in new infant industries
wool, linen and tin plate-and continues:
A tin banner was paraded upon the stage
(when the governor made his address, at a
propitous moment to enthuse the multitude,
bearing the noble inscription american tin,
Norristown, Pa with the name of the Ard
more Republican club on the other side
1t was magnificent spectacular display, and
Governor Mckinley bowed time and again In
response to the thunders of applause which
drowned his voice That identical tin banner
was manufactured by Mr.. William II. Ed
wards, of the Ely Tin Plate company, near
Cardiff, Wales who came over here with his
Welsh superintendent. Mr.. Richard Lewis, and
later bought and repaired mill at Norris
town, imported his own plates from his for
eign mill, imported his own tin from Wales,
imported his own skilled workmen, and dipped
the English plates in English tin by English
workmen, and Mckinley points to it as grand
achievement of his tariff in producing Ameri
can tin. There is one of the same tin plates
(pointing to tin plate on the platform), and
have the certificate of the man who made 1t.
He closed his address by strongly advo.
eating free raw materials, which would float
the Stars and Stripes the world over and
open the markets of the world to America.