The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-08-03
GREAT MEETING At BEATRICE.
James G. Blaine to Open the Cam
paign in Maine on the 18th.
Not to Fuse-The Alabama Demo.
cratic Victory Complcte-Clarkson to
Be President Of Republican League.


grounds this afternoon to hear a speech
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 an immense procession, which pre-
ceded the governors speech. All along
the line of march buildings were dec
GRATED. and the parade and demonstra-
tions were the most elaborate ever held in
the state
The governor said in beginning that the
latest national Democratic platform is a
bo!der recognition of free trade than any
of it's predecessors, and analyzed it at
length, quoting the points reported 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 its con-
stitutionality has not been seriously oues-
toned in more than hundred years.
The policy was recognized in the second
act ever passed by the congress of the
United States, a congress participated in
by many trainers Of the constitution. If
the protective policy is in violation of any
constitution it is not that of the United
States. 1t is manifest violation of the
constitution of the Confederate states.
Possibly that is what they mean. Hap
PLY, however, we do not recognize that
instrument, and never did. and we are not
operating under it. The governor con-
tinued:
We cannot have free trade in this country
without having free trade conditions. The
Democratic platform demands it upon these
conditions and is bound to have it at any cost.
The world knows what these conditions are.
The farmers and workingmeu of England know
what they are. Thousands OF men who work
under both systems know these conditions, and
that to introduce them here will bring wide
spread discomfort and revolutionzs values. 1t
will be self-destructive. Cleveland joined the
chorus of calamitists in his speech of accept
ance. fear that he has not consulted the mar
kets since 1890. He had in mind the campaign
prices then prevailing, and seems to have been
unadyised of what has occurred since. He has
not read the report of the Senate committee ap-
pointed to investigate the effect of the new
tariff law upon the consumer and producer
and the wages of labor. This report was unan-
imous, and, Mckinley asserted. showed a de-
cline in the retail price of pa selected articles
OF comfort and necessity. The report shows in
every part, he said, = constant tendencv to
lower the prices Of the essaries of life and its
comforts. Tho repoet also shows that while the
cost of living has decreased here, it has during
the same period in England increased. As to
wages, it appears that wages in special indus
tries selected averaged in the United States n
per cent greater than in Great Britain, which is
under a Democratic free trade revenue tariff.
A ito the farmers to whom Cleveland so
plainly refers, this report says the average price
OF ali agricultural products except fiaxseed,
when put at proper relative Importance, were
1867 per cent. higher In September, 1884, than
in June, 1882 May not, in the light of this re-
port and facts everywhere observable, remind
Mr. Cleveland that in the year 1892 we are con-
fronted by conditions and not a theory The
truth the protective tariff has cheapened every
manufactured product; not by cheapening
labor, but by its high rewards, securing from
labor its highest efficiency. Substantially every
thing which protection directly affects has been
reduced in price except labor. Under the new
tariff old industries have been stimulated and
many new industries started, which it is now
estimated give employment to from 100000 to
250,000 persons. 1t is q fact well established BY
reports from all countries that at this time
while depression aud inactivity exist in their
industries, there is prosperity in the United
States alone.
Notwithstanding the cry that under the pro-
tective tariff we cannot sell abroad if we do not
buy abroad, during the last fiscal year we sold
abroad. This was an excess in our favor, which
foreigners paid TO US and which We have at
home circulating among our people. The value
OF our exports OF merchandise during the last
fiscal year was 81 05o 33 626, increase OF $la5-
S54,sl6 over the previous year. a wonderful in
crease OF foreign trade under the law which was
10 close foreign markets to us! Our exports
never before reached this point in given year
in all our history. Mckinley quoted figures 70
show at 1udar a fr.a trade rayap ,a " frop,
18i7 to 1851 the balance of trade against us was
more than $43l, ,000,0 600 In the fifteen years from
1876 TO 1884, with protection the balance of trade
in our favor was 1859, .246
Mckinley argued at length in refutstion of
the Democratic assertion that the farmer wou d
be benefited by a revenue tariff and said pro-
lection was positive benefit to the farmers of
this country: that no class OF citizens more GER
tainly adyantaged by 1t. What the farmers
want is consumers, and the more consumers
and fewer competitors he has the better il is
He wants those consumers steady and regular,
and has such in 5000 900 consumers in this
country who are the best and most profitable
consumers on the globe. The Democratic lead
crs OF today seem to think there is some pecu-
liar sanctity about the foreign consumer that
does not attach TO the domestic. | don't
prefer the domestic consumer because he is the
best He consumes more and has more money
10 pay for his living than any other consumer
in the world. The sgrieultuEists in this
county 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 aud furnishes him with what he most
wants-proftable consumers. IL is no fault OF
the new tariff law j, the farmers OF the United
states do not supply every agricultural want of
our entire popu. alton. That law was framed to
give them this market snd TO encourage indus
tries which would increase consumers by in
creasing factories and the demand for labor
therein
Mckinley quoted utterances by Gladstone and
Cardinal Manning to show that free trade Eng
land has in many parts not only a stationary
but decreasing rural population, ana said
there was nothing in the condition of agricul-
ture in that country 10 induce our farmers to
exchange Whist they have for what it offers