The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-08-03
Governor Mckinley Opens the Campaign
in Nebraska.
ADVANTAGES TO THE AGRICULTURISTS.
The apostle Of the New Tariff Delivers an Able
AddreSS-Hgher Prices for Farm
Products.
Special 70 The MORNING CALL

BEATRICE, NeDr., aug. Fifteen tnou-
sand people at Chautauqua grounds this
afternoon listened to q stirring address by
Governor Mckinley OF Ohio. Special trains
this morning brought in throngs Of people
from Kansas, Iowa and Missouri to hear the
great protectionist. Business was almost
suspended and everybody witnessed the i'm
mense procession which preceded the Gov
ernOr's speech. All along the line of march
the build ngs we're decorated and the par
ade and demon strstiou were the most elabor-
ate ever held in the State.
In opening his address Governor McKin-
ley said the latest national Democratic plat
form is bolder recognition of fr ee trade
than any of its predecessors, and he
analyzed it at length, quoting the points re-
ported by the committee and stricken out
before the platform was finally adopted. As
to the charge that the protective tariff is un.
constitutional the Governor said It's c6nsti-
tutionality has not been seriously questioned
In more than 100 years. This policy was
recognized In the second act ever passed by
Congress of the United States. That
Congress was participated in by many
trainers Of the constitution. If The protec-
i've pollcy was violation OF any eonStitu-
tlon 1t was not that OF the United States.
IL IS g manifest violation of the constitution
what they mean. Happily. however, we do
not recognize that instrument, and never
did, and We are not operating under it.
Free Trade Scored.
We cannot have free trade IN this coun-
try without having free trade conditions
The Democratic platform demands it upon
these conditions and is bound to have il at
any cost. The world knows what these
conditions are. The farmers and workmen
OF England know what they are. Thou-
sands Of men who work on both sides of the
ocean and under both systems know these
conditions. 10 Introduce them here will
Drlng widespread discomfort and Teyolu-
tionlZe values. II would be self-destructiye.
Cleveland joined the choir Of calamity in
his speech OF acceptance. L fear" said
the speaker, that he has not consulted the
markets since 1890 lie had in mind the
campaign prices then prevailing and seems
TO have been uDadvised of what has oc-
CURED since. He had not then read the re-
port OF the Senate committee appointed to
Investigate the effect of the new tariff law
upon the consumer and producer and the
wages of labor"
This report was unanimous, and as Nc
hlnley asserted, showed a decline in the
retail price Of 2l4 selected articles Of COM
fort and necessity. The report shows in
every part, he said. constant tendency to
lower TIE prices OF the neeessaries of life
and its comforts. The report also shows that
whIie the cost OF living has decreased here,
u mas, during The same period, IN England
Increased. AS 10 wages, It appears thas the
wages IN the special industries selected
averaged IN the United States II per cent
greater than in Great Britain, which is I'M
der Democratic free-trads revenue tariff.
Higher Prices for Products
As to the farmers to whom Cleveland so
plalntiVely refers, this report says the
average prices of all agricultural products
except haxseed, when put at the proper
relative importance, were 1867 per cent
higher In September, 1891, than in June
1883. May not, in the light Of this report
aud the facts everywhere observable. re-
mind Cleveland that in the year 1892 we are
confronted by conditions and not theory
The truth is, the protective tariff has cneap-
ened every manufactured product-not by
cheApenIng labor, but by its high rewards
securing from labor its highest efficiency
Substantially everything which protection
directly affects has been reduced in price
except labor. Under the new tariff old In
dustres have been stimulated and many
new Industries started, which it is now esti-
mated have given employment TO from
100000 to 230,000 persons, and it is fact
well established by the reports from ali
countries that at this time while depression
and anxiety exist in their industries, there
Is prosperity in the United States alone.
Notwithstanding the cry that under the
protective taTin We cannot sell abroad il We
90 not buy abroad, yet during the last fiscal
more than We bought abroad. This was the
excess Ia cur favor which foreigners paid to
US and which we have at home circulating
among our people. The report of the
Treasury shows that dutiabls merchandise
decreased under ths operation of the pres
ent law from S478. GA. .844 for the fiscal wear
ended June 80, 1891, TO $3.50, 399, 130 for the
year just passed, decrease of S109. .234, 705.
The free list In the same time Increased
S91, 159. 193. More than one half of the value
OF ali our products are absolutely free. The
value OF cur exports OF merchandise during
the last fiscal year was 81, ,030, 33j, ,626 an in
crease of S145, ,S54, SIC over the previous year
wonderful increase Of our foreign trade
under law which was to close ali The for
elgn markets TO Us. Our exports have never
before reached such point in any given
year In all of our history
Mckinley quoted figures 10 show that un-
der the free-trade revenue tariff from 1S47
to 1861 the balance Of trade against US was
more than S43l,0O0,O00. In the 10 years
from 1876 TO 1891, with protection, the BAL
ance OF trade In our favor was 81, ,649, 445, ,246.
Benefit to the Farmers.
Mckinley argued at length in refutation
OF the Democratic assertion that the farmer
would be benefited by revenue tariff, and
said that protection was positive benefit to
the farmers OF this country; that no class
OF citizens were more certainly advautaged
By 1t. What the farmers want Is coHsunl-
ers, and the more consumers and fewer
competitors be has the better II is. he
wants those consumers steady and regular,
and has such in the s., 900, 600 of consumers
In this country, who are the best and most
profitable consumers on the globe. The
Democratic leaders of to-day, said the Gov
ernor, seem to think that there is some
peculiar sanctity about foreign consumer
that does not attach TO domest tic consumer.
/ don't / prefer the domestic consumer
because he is the best. He consumes more
ana has made more money to pay for his
living than any other consumer In the
world" The agriculturists OF this country
do not want more farmers. They want
more people who do not raise their own food
and whom they can supply. Every new
Industry increases the farmers home mar
ket and furnishes him with what he most
wants. profitable customers. 1t is no fault
OF the new tariff law IL the farmers OF the
United States do not supply every agricu-
tuTal want OF our entire population. That
law was framed to give them this market
aDd 10 encourage industries which would
increase the consumers by Increasing fac
tories and the demand for labor therein.
Mckinley quoted from the utterances by
Gladstone and Cardinal Manning to show
that with free trade England has in many
parts not only stationary hut a decreas-
Ing population, and said there was nothing
In the condition Of agriculture in that coun-
fay to induce our farmers to exchange what
they have got for what 1t offers.