Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1892-08-06
tie Gives Another Talk on His Pet
Theme Before 10000
People
He Analyses the Democratic Platform
and Points Out Its Supposed
Defects.
Ii is substantially the Same story
Recited by Him at the
Assembly.

BEATRICE, Neb., Aug. 2. - Fifteen
thousand people were at the Chaulauoua
grounds this afternoon and listened to
stirring address by Governor Mckinley, Of
Ohio Special trains in the morning
brought in throngs of people from Kansas,
Iowa and Missouri to hear the great pro.
tectiouist,
The governor said, in beginning, that
the latest national democratic platform is
holder recognition Of free trade than
any Of its predecessors, and malyzad
| 1t at length, quoting points
eported by the committee and
stricken out before the platform was final
by advpted. AS to the charge that the
protective tariff is unconstitutional, the
governor said it's oonshtutjonaGty has not
been seriously questioned in more than
hundred years.
The policy was recognized in the sec.
ond act ever passed by congress. If al
protective policy is a violation Of any
constitution i, cannot be that of the
United States, 1t is manifest violation
of the con titution 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
not have free trade in this country without
having free trade conditions. The demo.
cratic Platform demands it upon
these conditions and is bound to have il
at any cost. The world knows what these
conditions are. The farmers and work
ingmen Of England know what thoy are
Thousands of men who work ON both
sides Of the ocean and under both systems
know these conditions. To intro
duce them here will bring widespread
discomfort and revolutionjza values. II
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 ind the campaign prizes tb,n
prevailing and seems to have been unad-
vised of what has occurred since lie
then read a report Of The senate committee
appointed to Investigate the effect Of the
new tariff law upon the consumer and
producer and the wages Of la.
Dor This report was unanimous
and Mckinley asserted that IL
showed q decline in the retail price Of 2l4
selected articles of comfort aud necessity
The report shows in every part, he said,
constant tendency to lower prices of the
DecessaTies of life and it's comforts
The report also shows that while
the cost of living decreased here,
| it has during the same period
in England increased. AS 10 wages it
appears that wages in the special indus
tries selected averaged in the United
States n per cent. greater than in Gree;
Britain, which is under the democratic
free trade revenue tariff
las to the farmers to whom Cleveland
so plainly refers, said the governor,
this report says the average price Of all
agricultural products except hlx,eed
which is put at the prop
er relative importance, was Is 81 pea cent.
higher in September, 1891, than in June,
1889. May not 10 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 Fl has cheapened every manufactured
product not by cbcapening labor but by its
high rewards, securing from labor It's high
est efficiency. Substantially everything
VIII oh protection directly affect has been
reduced in price except labor. Under the
new tariff, old industries have been slim
ulated and many new industries started
Mckinley argued at length in rafuta-
ton Of the democratic assertion tina. the
farmer would BE benefited by revenue
tariff and said protection is a positive
benefit 70 the farmers 81 this country
/ What the farmers want is consumers and /
/ the more consumers and fewer competitor
/ be mas, tn9 better it Is. lie wants those
consumers steady aud regular, and he has
nch in the 100000 Of consumers in I
Ithis country, who are the best and |
most profitable consumers on the globe
/ Every neS industry increases the farmers |
home market and furnishes him with |
what ne most wants, profitable Gu toners
Ifs is no fault IT the new
! t8rf lagif TIE farmers Of the United .
States 10 not supply every agricultural /
rant of our entire population That a
was framed e give this market, and to
encourage industries which would iDcraHa
] the consumers by increasing factories AMI
demand for Iapor therein.