Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-09-16

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He eulogized the administration of Presi-
dent Harrison, and was cheered with the
utmost enthusiasm. He closed by thanking
the crowd for its attention and interest.
Governor Mckinley on a Live Topic.
Major Mckinley was next introduced,
and for some time the house was in per-
feet uproar, the audience rising en- masse
and greeting the speaker with waving hats
and handkerchiefs
The Governor, after expressing the graft
fication ne felt at being present with the
League in the opening which it gave'to the
campaign of 1892 said the issues this year
which were to be settled were made by the
national platforms of the two great parties,
both of which, without qualification or
equivocation, stated the principles which
they represented. He continued:
Two striking questions are raised by the
| platform of our political adversaries. The
| first is its adherence to free trade, and Sec
ond. it declares for the abolition of the tax
| upon State banks of issue. This tax was i'm
| posed by Congress to destroy the banks, that
| they might adopt a national money. 1t is
| proposed by the Democratic leaders not
| only to go back to free trade, or a revenue
| tariff which prevailed in this country from
| 1916 to 1850, and during which, for the greater
| portion of the time, the country in its none
os I ana conoit;nn bnt Il is bro
| posed also to return to the use of State bank
| circulation with which to measure the eX-
changes of the people. If there was noth-
ing else in the contest but the proposal for
| the abolition of the tax upon the State DanKs
| and their revival, that ought to be sufficient
to defeat the Democratic party.
Evils of Free Trade Pointed Out
Governor Mckinley outlined the evils
which would result from the proposed
change, and then proceeded to discuss the
tariff question thus:
| If the Democratic party should be success
full, and the principles declared at Chicago
| should be put into permanent forms OF legis-
| lation. we should have the British system OF
| free trade, which would reduce the wages of
| the laboring man of the United states. Free
| trade in this country would be welcomed by
| every European country of the world, by
| every commercial rival of the United states,
| and by every enemy to our progress ana
| prosperity. Free trade would increase for
| eign production and diminish domestic pro-
| duction in all competing products until
| the la borer of our country would accept the
| miserable wages which are paid foreign
| workingmen. Free trade would encourage
| the foreign shop and discourage the Ameri-
| can shop; il would increase the demand for
workingmen abroad and diminish the de,
| IN and for workingmen at home; it would
| permit the foreign producer to enjoy this
| greatest and best market in the world with
out condition or restraint upon exactly the
| same terms the producers of our country
| enjoy this market to-day. And do not for
| get that whatever of our market they take
| is a loss to our own citizens and a sacrifice
| of the interests of our own laborers for the
| alien and the stranger.
What Protection Is Capable of Doing.
Free trade-or a revenue tariff. such as is
advocated by Democratic leaders-would
| make everything free in this market which
| completes with what we produce in this
market, because they are against protection
| in every form, and would tax only those
| foreign products which have no compe-
tition in our own markets, and which we
cannot produce among ourselves. Pro-
lection imposes its tariffs on exactly oDpo-
site principles; it permits everything to
come into this country except Injuries
which we cannot produce at home, and puts
its tariffs upon those products from abroad
which come in competition with the
products of our own labor.
Continuing, the speaker referred at length
to the many advantages to be derived from
protection and the evils resulting from free
trade. Free trade among ourselves in A
States and with 63. 900, 900 of people and
reasonable restraint upon those seeking to
invade our markets with competing products
was the dictate of enlightened patriotism
and the doctrine OF the Republican party.
The speaker asserted that all Europe wanted
a Democratic victory, and cited numerous
extracts from European newspapers to
prove the truth of the assertion. He said
the Democratic leaders for more than 80
wears had waged their warfare upon the
Republican party upon prophecies of fail
ure of Republican measures and policies.
He could not believe any party could long
hold public confidence which based its
claims upon the disappointments of the
people. The new tariff law was yindicating
itself, winning its own victories, which
were victories of the people. Oregon, at
its election in June, spoke for it, and has
been followed by Vermont and Maine.
Regarding the tin plate industry, the
speaker said:
What Mckinley Saw at Elwood.
visited at the city OF Elwood. Ind. Tues
day the works of the American Tin Plate
Company, as good plant as can be found
anywhere. 1 saw with my own eyes, as did
10000 people. the manufacture of tin plate
from the raw steel, from the raw to the fin
ished product. l saw in that factory all the
machinery had been made in the United
States, and the sheet steel which they rolled
and from which they made their tin plates
was made in the United States and in Ohio;
factory employing 30 men and women at
good living wages, happy and conten ted
workmen, and yet the Democratic lead ers
insist that we are not making and could not
make tin plate. But that is not to be W on
dered at. They said we could not make
steel; they said we could not make steel
rails; they said we could not make watches
and pottery and china and glass and plate
glass, but, undaunted by their predictions,
anywhere in the world, and SO it is with tin
plate The American people can make any
thing they want, and with a good protec-
tion, which we propose to give them, they
viii make everything they want.
l must close. Other gentlemen are to fol-
low me- l have already occupied too much
of your time. am glad the Republican
party has enlisted in its cause the energy
and the activity of the young Republicans
of the party, and 1 am especially glad to
congratulate the Republican National
League upon the matchless leader they have
in the person of General Clarkson. With
him you must be a mighty force in this great
contest for the industries and wages OF our
country, and with your cooperation with
all the Republicans of the country. am con-
fident that the Sth OF November will bring
a triumph and victory; victory for the
United States.
Sloat Fassett Rouses the Boys.
Mr. McKinley's address was frequently
punctuated with applause, and when he had
finished the Rutgers College Glee Club sang
few selections Hon. j. Sloat Fassett, of
Elmira, was next introduced, and said after
listening to the utterances of the high
priest of protection he felt himself un-
worthy to say anything on that subject
He humorously alluded to the disastrous
Republican campaign in New York State
last year, saying there was plenty of en-
thusiaSm then, but somehow it did not get
out of the air into the ballot box. 1--WE
were right then and we are right now, said
he. "What the Democratic party has done
and what the Republican party has done
in the past entities the Republican party to
every vote this fall
The speaker urged earnest and untiring
work in the cause of Republicanism He
referred to the Maine elections, and when
he mentioned Blaine's name he was greeted