St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-09-27
ANSWERED M'KINLEY.
Editor Mcclure Answers the Soph
iStries of the High Priest
of Protection.
Instances Shown in Which Free
Raw Materials Have Built
Up Industries.

PHILADELPHIA, Sept. pa larger
crowd than that which heard Gov Nc
Klnley at the Academy Of Music last
Friday night was present at the same
place tonight to hear the reply thereto
of Hon. A. c. Mcclure. of . the
Philadelphia Times. Over 5000 peOple
packed the auditorium and over 1000
could not gain admission. William
Myers, a prominent local manu-
facturer, presided. The audience
was enthusiastic and the speaker was
frequently interrupted by applause.
After stating that he would not deal in
partisan platituGes nor special plead
ing. but in plain, uncontrOvertible facts.
he proceeded to arraign the ''socalled
Republican protection as presented in
the Mckinley tariff as robbery and
fraud.
''It has bastardized the honest pro-
lection of our fathers by subsidy and
greed" the speaker said, until it is to-
day simply the fostering maggots of
monopoly. Prolonged applause. These
are strong words, and | fully appreciate
the fact that if fail to justify them in
answering Gov. Mckinley | must justly
forfeit public respect.
The Clay protective tariff of 1912
levied lower rate of protective taxes
than the Mills bill that Mckinley now
his defense of protection of labor
he never claimed the right to
enact anything but revenue tariff with
Incidental protection for brief period,
as he held that continued taxation for
the benefit Of any class was unjustitia-
BILE.
.'Gov. Mckinley knows that a1evenue
tariff does not mean free trade, but will
not state the truth. He knows that we
have had revenue tariffs under
administrations from Washington
down to Lincoln, and no one ever pro-
posed free trade as feature of our ma
tional policy untilNickiniey first gave it
birth i'll the afterWard reciprocity pro-
visions in his 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 il.
The speaker then referred to the
building up of the American shoe in
duStry by the placing Of hides on the
free list in 1913, which industry now
supplies the entire American mar
ket just as our WOODEN Industries
would supply wOolens for American
markets if wool were free. He then re
ferred to Gov. Mckinley's triplets in
new infant induStrieS-wool, linen and
tin plates, and said:
"a tin banner was paraded upon the
state, when the governor made his ad-
dress at prOpltOus moment to enthuse
the multitude. bearing American tin,
Norristown, Pa with the name
of the Ardmore Republican club on
the other side. 1t was magnificent
spectacular display. and Gov. Mckinley
bowed time and time again in response
to the thunders of applause which
drowned his voice. That Identical tin
banner was manufactured by William
n. Edwards. of the Ely Tin Plate com-
pany, near Cardiff. Wales, who came
over here with his Welsh superintend-
ent. Richard Lewis, and bought and re-
paired a mill at Norristown, imported
his own plates from his foreign mills,
imported his own tin from Wales, i'm
ported his own skilled workmen, and
delivered the English plates in English
tin by English workmen, and Mckinley
points to it as grand result of
his tariff in producing American
tin. This is one of the same tin plates
(pointing to tin plate on the platform)
and | have the certificate of the man
who made it,
He closed his address by strongly adj
vOcating raw materials such as would
float the stars and stripes the world
over, and open the markets of the world
to America.