The Red Cloud chief., 1892-11-04
lM'kINLeY TALKS.

0hio's 0svernor Addresses the People Of
Kansas city -His Views ON the Currency
and Other Questioss.
o Mckinley, Of Ohio, spoke tc
thousands at Kansas City on the even.
Ing Of the gath. After expressing bis
qualification at meeting SO many ped
pie OF the west and the duty Of every
American citizen in the approaching
contest, Mr.. Mckinley said:
NO third party will succeed this year, II ever.
Elmer the republican party or the democratic
party viii be clothed with the control Of federal
anairs on November Q next SO all that IL lett
Tor the people to DO IL to determine which party
represents his principles and views and convic.
uons anu judgments OF proper government and
then cast his ballot with that party which meets
MS IDEAL There arc two striking questions in
tnc platforms before the people this year.
First, the question Of the abolition Of the ten
per cent tax on state banks. In congress some
several years ago u b3l was introduced and
passed placing q tax OF ten per cent. on oil state
Dahks OF the country. This tax was not for
revenue, but IL WIS the avowed purpose ~ that
ume That the state banks 60 out, and not for
tnc STATE banks to come In Tho result was
that the state banks did 60 out and greenbncks
came Into circulation 1t Is now declared after
thirty years that the ten per cent tax must 20
and the state banks be rchabilitatcd, and those
uncertain notes Of the banks be again the mo
dium Of currency.
The governor then reviewed the his
tory OF wildcat" currency in former
days, contrasting II with the sound cur
rcncy under the present system, and
continued:
II there Is anything that should stand sacred
and untampcred with It il the currency Of q
country Nothing Is so hard on the poor peo-
pie OF . country rs . debased currency; the
rich man can take care OF himself aud the man
OF position and power Ia but little affected II q
currency dcprcciatcs, but II Is the poor man on
whom the heaviest burden and the heaviest
blow fails. There are but few Of the old men
OF Missouri who have not in their possession
some OF the wildcat currency, nov worthless,
put Tor which ihcY ut one time paid 100 cents on
tnc dollar. When o man sells his wheat and
his labor he should have 100 cents on the dollar
Tor IL 1t Is the poor people OF the country who
are Interested In this money que The
currency OF q country should be as national
rs Its nag, and rs sacred ~ its institutions.
Our currency Is good not only under our own
nag, but under every commercial fiag Of the
world. The trouble with the democratic party,
which proposes TO go back 10 old state bank
money, has always been that they want to 10
They have always been going
They ore not able to see tho light
and sunshine; they can only see the eight and
darkness They not only want to 20 back TO
the ante belium currency but want to go back
TO the British free trade. Now tho British
manufacturers pay their holp pauper wages In
good money. but this democratic party pro-
poses TO go them one better. II declares that
In token Of its friendship towards the iaborlng
man. 1t will cut his wages Town TO the British
free trade scale and then beat them by paying
them In wildcat currency.
The speaker then gave an illustration
OF the difference between q democratic
revenue tariff and a republican pro-
tective tariff, and continues:
This tariff hns been In operation now about
eighteen months, and we know what It will do
by what 1t has done In the last twelve months
In oil the history Of our country we have never
had such foreign mn rs In that time. 1t
has reached the highest water mark. The
Fffty'first congress was called the "billion
dollar congress " 1t was q billion eight hundred
and ninety million dollar congress. We sold
abroad sl,OSO, 100000 worth Of the products of
our farms and factories, etc. Two hundred and
thirty millions In gold was paid ut the end OF
this year by England Oh the difference between
what VIC sold to her ana what we bought Of
her. II Is just like On individual. II he takes In
more than no sells he Is out ut the end OF the
year. but II he sells more he Is prosperous and
ahead Ut tho end OF the yean
They sny reciprocity Is o sham. 1t will be
ouihiS W onJ Niht TcCipTOClty mas opened I'D
for US trade with Brazil, Porto Rico ind other
countries by which our has been in.
creased more than 81, 90. 40 per annum.
But they say the tariff is unconstitutional.
That II usually the last cry Of the democratic
party sent up after every thing else has failed,
the last appeal and the flag OF surrender. Why,
the hrst congress we ever had sat TO devise a
first tariff for the new country, James Madison,
afTcrward president, introduced u bill that pro.
posed u system OF tariff, which was unanimous.
ly passed by that body, and In that bill were
provisions for the protection OF the American
people.
But they say you can't make tin plate. Can't
make tin platef Why, this Yankee people can
make anything they want to make They said
you couldn't make steel rails and silks aud
woolens and carpets and watches and many
other things, but we are now making oil OF
them and many moro under the republican pro-
tectivc tariff, and wc make them Us good ss
they are made anywhere in the world. Our
watches, which they said we could not make,
IRE to-day the best In the world. and are in use
and ticking Hail Columbia all over the world
to-day.
But what In this tin plate they talk so much
aboutr Ninety.seven per cent. OF q is iron and
. per cent Il tin, and yet they say we can't
batho this sheet OF steel In tin. We now have
over thirty factories In this country and / saw
at one OF them, just o few days ago, as fine
steel plate and tin rs Is made any place In q
factory In tho world. saw them take steel
from my state, put II through the process, and
then saw IL come out Us bright rs any ever
made IN Swansea, Wales, and l saw with It
hundreds of happy homes and wives and
mothers and children. The democrats call
this politics II so, its the kind OF politics I
want and that l want to devote my life to.
Free trade levels down; protection levels up
When England will pay their people up to the
same plane AS ours; pay their laDorers AS much
az we pay our laborers. we will meet them and
surpass them, for ours Is as good as theirs. and
the meeting Will be the survival OF the fittest
But we give them notice that Wen never bring
our condition down TO theirs, We will not level
10 them: they must level up 10 us.
Benjamin Harrison has given us one OF
tho best administrations We ever had His
domestic policy has been wise and conservs-
tive. His foreign policy has been vigorous and
American. 1t was his administration which
sent this message TO o foreign country which
made . demand upon us: The United States
has never vet taken orders from o foreign
country and IL does not propose TO begin now"
1t Is u good thing TO know what our enemies
want, and togo and do the other thing. There
Is not q country OF Europe that does not want
Cleveland elected. There is not one which
does not want Harrison defeated. And no won.