The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-08-03
WASTING Els WIND
Governor Mckinley Holds Forth
at Beatrice, Neb.
THRoNeS OF PEOPLE ASSEMBLE
Large Parade Previous to McKinley's Har-
angue-He IN a-ges Upon the Alleged
BesntHs Of Protection.

BEATRICE, Neb., Aug. Fifteen thou
saud people at Chautsugua grounds this
afternoon listened to 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 wit
messed the immense procession which pre-
ceeded the governors speech. Ali along
the line OF march the buildings were deco
rated and the parade and demonstrations
were the most elaborate ever held in the
state.
The governor said, in beginning, that the
latest national Democratic platform is q
bolder recognition Of free trade than any OF
its predecessors. aad analysed it at length,
quoting the points reported by the COM
mittee and stricken out before the plat
form was finally adopted.
AS to the charge that
PROTECTIVE TARIFF Is UNCONSTITUTIONAL,
the governor said its constitutionallty has
not been seriously questioned in more than
q hundred years. The policy was recog-
nized in the second act ever passed by the
Congress OF the United States-a Congress
participated in by many Of the trainers Of
the constitution. IL the protective policy
was violation OF any constitution, it was
not that Of the United STATES. 1t is mani
fest violation Of the constitution of the con-
federare states. Possibly that is whatthey
mean. Happily, however, we DO not recog-
nize that instrument and never did, and
we are not operating under it.
1--WE cannot have free trade in this coun-
try without having free trade conditions.
these conditions and is bound TO have it at
any cost. The world knows what these
conditions are. The farmers and working
men of England know what they are.
Thousands OF men who work on both sides
Of the ocean and under both systems know
these conditions, and that 10 Introduce
them here will bring widespread discon-
tent ana revoluhonize values.
IT WOULD BE sELF-DEsTRUcuoN.
Cleveland Joined choir of calamity in his
speech OF acceptance. Il fear,n said Ia c
speaker, ''thst he has not consulted the
markets since 1880. He had in mind the
campaign prices then prevailing, and seems
70 have been unadvised of what has oc-
Cured since. He mad not then read the
report OF the Senate Committee appointed
TO investigate the effect of the new tariff
law upon the commerce and produce and
wages of labor.
''Inls report was unanimous ana showed
a decline in the retail price Of pa selected
articles Of comfort and necessity.
The report shows in every part a
constant tendency TO lower the
prices of the necessaries of life
and its comforts. The report also shows
that while the cost Of living has decreased
here it has during the same period il Eng
land increased. AS TO wages, IL appears
that the wages in the special industries Sc
lected, averaged in the United States u
per cent greater than in Great Britain,
which is under Democratic free trade
revenue tariff.
As TO the farmers, to whom Cleveland sc
plaiutively refers, this report says the av-
erage price Of all agricultural products ex.
cept fax seed when put at q proper rela-
tive Importance were 1857 per cent higher
IN September, 1891, than in June 1889 May
] not in the light Of this report and the
facts everywhere observable, remind
Cleveland that in the year 1892 we are con.
fronted by conditions and not theories.
Mckinley quoted from tbs utterances by
Gladstone and Cardinal Manning to show
that free trade England has in many parts
only seemed stationary, but is decreasing
the rural population and said there was
nothing in the condition Of agriculture in
that country to induce our farmers to ex-
change what they have got for what il
offers