The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-11-01
Preached by Mckinley, Reid and Depew
in the Empire State Yesterday.
Ohios Governor Told the Plain, Unyarnished
Truth About the Tariff and the Currency
at Poughksepsie and Brooklyn,
While the Editor and Orator Crowded
Facts Into Few Words at Ithaca.
Prompt Replies from Mr. Reid When Inter-
rupted by Democrats Who Wanted to Know
About Indiana and the Force Bill.
M'KINLEY SPEAKS TWICE.

M'KINLEY SPEAKS TWICE.
Once at Poughkeepsie and to the Largest
Audience of the Campaign at Brooklyn.
Special TO the Indianapolis Journal
NEW YORK. Oct. Ex-Governor Mckinley
addressed an audience of 1900 people at the
Collinewood Opera-house in POughkeepsie
this afternoon. In the auditorium were
fifty Vassar College students. The Gov
ernor discussed the question of State banks,
and declared that the Democracy favored
q return to o system of banking under
as the bankers. IF there is anything up
on which the two parties should unite it is
upon proposition to let the currency of
the country alone" said the Governor. "for
there is nothing so debasing to q people as
'debased money. The Democracy favored
free trade. A tariff for revenue only is
British free trade. Free trade kindles the
fires in European furnaces and extinguishes
the fires in American industries. The tariff
law of 1890 is protective law. know it,
because helped make it. In the hardware
store of 1860, 95 per cent. of the articles for
sale were made abroad and per cent. at
home; under the tariff law of 1890 per
cent. of articles in the same store were
made abroad and 95 per cent. of them at
home. know not what others may think
but for me and mine there is no place like
home" The speaker eulogized President
Harrison, and said that his administration
was one of the cleanest and most thor
oughly American administrations in the
history of America. At the close of his
speech the Governor took the train for New
York.
Seven thousand people cheered for Har-
rison and Reid. and listened to Governor
Mckinley speak in the Clermont-avenue
Rink at Brooklyn tonight The meeting
was the most enth husiastic Republican rally
ever held in Kings county. and q few mln-
utes after the doors were opened, at o'clock.
there was not vacant seat to be found in
the vast building. When the author of the
Mckinley bill appeared on the platform.
seven thousand mon and women stood on
the seats and ratings around the galleries
and cheered. The Governor prefaced his
remarks by referring 20 the priceless priv
ilege of suffrage enjoyed by the citizens of
the United States, and said that unless tho
right of suffrage was free and uucorrupted
tuo WclloE0 VI buc NatlOn W0o bntOutcuCus
Il am here to talk to you by present and
living Issues" said the speaker, land do
not propose to try the two parties by any,
thing except what they propose to do ac-
cording to their platforms" Continuing,
he said:
is the proposed abolition OF the lO-per-cent tax
on State bank circulation. In 1862 there were
$l66,Oo0, 900 OF State bank money in circula-
ton and just $40. .OOO. 900 of security for that is
sue. wehad as many different kinds of money
as there were States. Everyone had TO take an
old counterfeit bank-note detector about with
kind of currency. Workingmen of Broo klyn, 1t
takes you just as long TO earn n bad dollar as to
earn good dollar. There should be no
sry % We n hsVe e is@'' to-day the @ best @ '1%M onr-
rency in the world, good not only
in our own country, but in every country of the
we have more per capita than any other nation
in the world, and more tnan we ever had before
in the history OF our country. Not one man or
woman in this vast audience sneed care from
what state or bank the money in their pockets
come from. for the government Is at the back of
1t all. and all the national banks in the country
money, for 1t is guaranteed by the government.
And yet the Democrats want to go back to
the currency of thirty years ago. That Is why l
find fault with the Democratic party. 1t Is al
ways seeking to go backward and never for
ward.
The Democratic party is for free trade. Some
they S5'' are not e-traders. then they are not
Democrats, Free trade builds up the factories
Of Europe and gives employment to workin gmen
les OF the United States and gives employment
to American workingmen. The Democrats say
that this tariff law would build Chinese wall
around this country and that we could not get
anything in or out. They don't seem to know
that don't put tariff on things that go out;
the Constitution prohibits 1t. We put tariff on
foreign importations that we can produce here
ourselves. and the WOrklngmen are tDeQefiteO
thereby.
The Democrats say that high protective tar.
have read the history of their own Constitution.
The first tariff ever adopted III this country was
protective tariff, and it was expressly set forth
in the preamble to the bill that 1t was for the
purpose of protecting American industries. Ii
Grover Cleveland better constitutional lawyer
than James Madisona ["No, no." from the audi
encel
The Democrats say If we had free trade We
could get things cheaper. Well. perhaps we
might for little while. But just as soon as
England got control of this great market prices
would go up The Democrats said wescould not
make watches, but we do. They said that we
could not make steel rails; well, we could not
under Democratic tariff. but we do now They
said you cannot mako tinplate. and they say SC
still. but not SO loudly. For thirty years the
principal claim Of the Democratic party on the
people has been its prediction that Republican
measures and administrations would be q
failure: They predicted that the war woule
be failure They predicted that the ,,r tarif
They predicted IL in 1890. but the tariff was
only twelve weeks old baby then; too younl
to speak for itself. 1t is two years old now
Nothing that can say can help it; nothing thai
its enemies can say can hurt it, Every mar
knows what he is working for and what the
necessities OF life cost him.
For these two great principles that have dis
cussed benjamin Harrison lcheers] and White
law Reid stand TO represent. President Harri
sons administration has been clean and marked
by ability and progress. His foreign policy ha
been sound. There is not q nation OF Europe
that does not want rover Cleveland elected
There Is not a nation OF Europe that does no
want Benjamin Harrison defeated. There Is no
nation of Europe that does not want this tarif
law abolished. Well, the tariff law OF 1890 wa
not made for them tApplause.l That is til,
reason that this tariff bill has caused so much
talk abroad. Applause.
Governor Mckinley copcluded his address
by again referring TO the sacredness of th,
ballot. and declared that IL the citizens O.
the country voted according TO the dictates
of their conscience. the election of Harri
son and Reid would be certainty.