The Oskaloosa herald., 1892-08-11
MCKINLEY I'm IOWA
Extracts from his Council Bluffs
speech. Aug, 8:

Extracts from his Council Bluffs
speech, Aug. 3:
The speaker labOred under the great
disadvantage Of speaking most of the
time while standing IN the burning
August sun, but he and his audience
were superior TO these discomforts;t they
listened with rapt and unbroken atten-
tion TO the most magnificent exposition
Of the great Republican doctrine Of pro.
lection that has ever been delivered in
western Iowa. After a brief state
ment Of the currency question, in which
he insisted that the issue dividing the
parties was simply that Of honest and
dishonest money, and that the free and
unlimited coinage of silver meant ths
debasement Of the currency and the
partial reputation OF debts, both pub
lie and private, that an 100 cent dollar
would never associate with an 90 cent
dollar; that the silver producer had 40
more right to require the government
to give MIN dollar for 20 cents worth
of his product than the farmer had to
ask the government TO give him the
price Of a bushel for three pecks OF
grain.
He then launched into discussion
of the tariff question. The most marked
feature was its simplicity in form and
clearness of statement Of the subject
that in the hands of an ordinary speak
or seems so dry, confused and unntel-
ligible became % he proceeded beauti-
fully clear; a G could understand
answered taxa necessary. He
said disagreeaA was, he, himself,
ruoa nnTn0aa6 n hf1r nm
avoidable. Thu f$4OOOOOOO0 q year
requisite to the maintenance of the
government must be raised. Direct
taxation was erroneous and unpopular,
it must be by tariff. The question
was simply on what principle the tariff
duties should be levied, whether on the
British Democratic free trade tariff for
revenue only idea, or on the American
Republican protective principle. The
tariff is a tax. it is true, but the Demo
Gratis seek to make it a tax onAmericans
the Republicans on foreigners, 1t is not
true that the tariff is added to the price
of the consumed article in all cases. II
it Is, an article that cannot be prOduc-
ed in this country, the kind alone that
the Democratic party wishes to levy
duties upon, the price OF which is fixed
abroad, the amount of the tariff Is add
ed, but are articles the price Of which
is fixed in this country, which are pro-
duced here as we'll as abroad the
amount of the tariff is not, and cannot,
in the very nature of things, be added;
if it was upon such articles that the
present tariff system levied the revenue,
it comes out of the foreign manufac-
lures largely, and in addition we have
the inestimable advantage of fostering
on our own industries and employing
American labor at good wages, the best
in the world. Major Mckinley review
ed the history of the country, under
the Democratic free trade rule, 1846 to
1860, showing what depression ar d ruin
was caused by it.
He eread an article of Horace Greeley's
describing the starvation and distitu-
ton in New York in 1856 and referred
to Buchanan's message written at the
time when the United States had to
borrow money to meet its running ex-
penses and to sell its bonds needed the
endorsement of the states, but the most
interesting part of the speech WAS the
reference to the effect of the Mckinley
bill. The author of the bill spoke feel
ingly on this subject. In 1880 We were
beaten because the law was only four
weeks old and could not speak for
itself, now it was seventeen months old
and could and had spoken most
triumphantly and effectively. People
now know what they had to pay for
things and didn't have to take the as
sertions of Democratic stump orators.
Our commerce was larger that it has
ever been. Last years imports i'm
ports were the greatest ever known,
yet the balance of trade was S205, co.,.
600 in our favor,