The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1892-09-23
The Mckinley TARIEE.

Protective Benefits Enumerated-It Has
Built Towns and Cities and Helped
America.
Every American voter of every party
should read the following expressive
statement of one OF the great issues of
this campaign. made by C. C. Shane at
BallstOn Spa, New York:
Bear in mind that the Mckinley pro-
tective tariff has not been in operation
quite two years. but it has already
shown its beneficial effects Thousands
of new industries have been started all
over the country, worlzmen's wage have
beed maintained and everything manu-
featured for general consumption can
be purchased cheaper to-day than two
years ago.
Competition of the home manufac-
turers in their strife 70 supply the home
market has brought about this desirable
condition.
The republican policy of protection
since 1860 has built towns and cities all
over the union.
at has more than doubled our trade
with foreign nations.
ut has diversified our industries.
at has given employment to our own
people.
1t has increased our manufacturers
five-fold in twenty-five years.
''It has opened up oar natural re-
sources.
1T has benefited labor on farm and in
factories by applying it to unlock our
natural resources.
1T has. through competition, reduced
prices of every useful article to the con-
sumner.
1T mas made farming profitable by
building factories near to the farm
1T has made home market for 30 per
cent of all we raise and manufacture.
ut has made the United States ma
tional workshop.
1T has developed the ingenuity of our
people.
1T has made 100000 Of people
customers instead of competitors OF the
American farmer.
1T has protected American labor from
being forced to compete with cheap
foreign labor.
1T is constantly opening new avenues
for the employment of our people
st has prevented an inundation Of
foreign made goods to take the place Of
our own manufacture.
1T has added to the comforts of work.
ingmen in that it gives them living
wages.
1T has enabled the American work.
ingmen to deposit over 81, 600, 900, 600 in
ings banks
1T is the guarantee and safety Of the
nation in time of war. With our pres
emit facilities we can manufacture all
munitions of warfare as well as articles
of subsistence for our people.
1T has crowded the national treasury
with money.
at has reduced the national debt in
twenty years nearly $1,000, 900, 900.
1T has quadrupIed our railroads in .
quarter of a century.
The prospects of the American farmer
and workman are bright and it is in
tended by the American party that no
legislation shall be enacted that will
interfere with them The republican
American party legislates for the bene-
fit of Americans, not for the benefit Of
other countries TO the detriment OF
America.
THE reciprocity idea, whereby the
products of the American farm are re-
ceived into other countries free of duty.
and the products of the soil of other
countries (which we cannot produce)
are received by Us free of duty, is an
other one Of the great benefits conferred
upon the American people by the repub-
lean American party.
Protection and reciprocity will be in
dorsed and sustained by patriotic peo-
pie, and will go hand in hand, a blessing
to our race"
After contrasting at length the condi-
ton of the workingman here with that
of the wage Garner in European eOun-
tries, Mr.. Shayne concluded his elo-
quent address as follows:
Bear in mind that when you vote for
Harrison and Reid You vote to have the
capital invested in America. When you
vote for Cleveland ad Stevenson you
vote to have the capital invested in Eu-
rope. Which country do you intend to
sustain, Europe or America? That Is
the only important question to be set
tied by you next November"