Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-08-11

BEATRICE, Neb. Aug 2. - Fifteen
thousand people were at the ChautauQua
grounds this afternoon and listened to a
stirring address by Governor Mckinley, of
Ohio. Special runs in the morning
brought in throug& Of people from Kansas,
Iowa and Missouri 70 hear the great pro-
tectionist
The governor SAID. in beginning. tn at
the latest national democratic platform IS
a holder recognition of free trade than
any of its predecessors, and analysed
it at length. quoting points
reported by tie committee and
stricken out before Cne platform was fnal-
ly adopted As to the charge that tne
protective tariff is unconstitutional, tae
governor said It's coastitutionality has 10.
been seriously questioned in more than a
hundred years.
The policy was recognized in the Sec
ond act ever passed by congress. If a
protective policy is violation of any
constitution it cannot be that OF the
United State 1t is manifest violation
of the constitution of the confederate
states. Possibly that is what they
mean. Happily. however, we do not
recognize that instrument, and never did.
we are not Operating under it We can
no have free tr de IN this country without
having free trade conditions The demo
cratic platform demands it upon
these conditions and Is bound TO have i
a any cost. The world knows what these
conditions are The farmers and work =
ingmeu ii E gland know what they are.
Thousands of men who work on both
sides OF the ocean oni under both systems
know these conditions. To intro
duc3 them mere will bring widespread
discomfort and rev0utioniz9 values. It
would be self destructive. Cleveland
joined The choir Of calamity in his speech
of acceptance 81 fear, said the
speaker, THAT he has not CON
suited the markets since 1890.
He had IN n md the campaign prizes then
prevailing, and seems to have been unad-
vised of what has occurred since He
then read report of the senate committee
appointed to inve, tigate the effect of the
new tariff law upon the consumer and
producer and the wages Of la
Dor. This rep ut was unanimous
and Mckinley asserted that it
showed decline in the retail price of ga
selected articles of comfort and necessity.
The report shows in every part, he said,
constant tendency to lower prices of the
necessaries Of life and its comforts.
The report also shows that while
the cost of living decreased here,
it has during the same period
In England increased. As to wages it
appears that wages in the special indus
tries self cted averaged In the United
States Y per cent. greater than in Great
Britain, which is under the democratic
free trade revenue tariff.
GAS to the farmers to whom Cleveland
SO plainly refers" said the governor,
"this report says the average pric' of all
agricultural products except fl lxseed,
which is put at the prop
er relative Importance, was l8 81 per cent.
higher in September, 1891, than IN June,
1889. May not in the light of this re-
port and facts everywhere observable,
remind Cleveland that in 1892 we are
confronted by conditions, and not by
theory. The truth is the protective
tar # mas cheapened every manufac urea
product, not by cheapening labor bu by its
high rewards, securing from labor il, high
est ethoieuci. Substantially everything
VIII ch protection directly affec has been
reduced in price except labor Uoder the
new tariff, old industries have been slim
ulated and many new industries sta rted
Mckinley argued at length in rafuta-
ton Of the democratic assertion that the
farmer ouid be benefited by a revenue
tar # and said protection is a positive
benefit 20 the farmers of this country.
What the farn want is consumers, and
the more consumers and fewer competitors
ce mas, the better 1t is. He wants those
consumers steady and regular, and be has
such in the 100000 Of consumers in
this country, who are the best aud
most profitable consumers on the globe.
Every new industry increases the farmer S
home market and furnishes him with
what he most wants, profitable Gu to ners.
1t is no fault of the new
tariff Law if the farmers of che United
States do not supply every agricultural
want of our entire population. That law
was framed to give this market, and to
encourage industries which would increase
the consumers by increasing factories and
a demand for labor therein.
He refuted the idea that we cannot sell
abroad if we do not buy abroad by q
lengthy argument, and spoke of many
phases OF the subject substantially as he
did in Madison
REBUKED BY POWDERLY.