The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-04-04
GREAT ENTHUSIASM.
The Big Republican Rallies II In
fantry and Music Halls.
MCKINLEY AND REED At BOTH,
Great spseches ON b sahjscts Now At
tracing the AttsntAea Of An Inssiii-
gent People in th~ Country-Both Halls
Full Of People Chesrtus. Continually.

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Saturday night was a great occasion for
the Republicans in Rhode Island. The
meetings at Infantry aud Music halls
were attended by all the people who could
get into the halls. and the enthusiasm was
very great.
The spacious floor at Infantry Hall wa
literally packed with human beings Sat-
urday night, but the discomforts expert
enced were amply compensated for by the
brilliant speeches of Gov. Mckinley and
ex Speaker Thomas b. Reed. Previous to
the arrival Of the speakers the Brown
University Republican Club headed by
the College band made things interesting
in the hall and cheered everything and
everybody regardless. Soon after 8 o'clock
the procession escorting the speakers.
headed by the National band. arrived at
the hall and in n few moments the meet
ing was opened. The leaders of the Re-
publican party were seated on the plat
form conspicuous among them being Will
liam Goddard, Howard O. Sturgess, Fran
els Colwell. Rathbone Gardner, the Hon.
ii. j. Spooner, the Hon. w. W. Whipple,
the Hon. A. X. Goodwin, the Hon II. Z.
Taft, the Hon. Nelson w. Aldrich, ID.
Russell Brown, the Hon. II. w. Burbank,
the Hon. J.. c.. B. Woods and Others
Hon. A. X. Goodwin, who introduced the
presiding officer Of the evening, the Hon.
Royal G. Taft. Rhode Island" said he,
sled the van four years ago when q Re-
publican President was elected, and next
Wednesday we propose to do The sams
thing.r
Gov. Mckinley Of Ohio was then intro
duced and spoke as follows:
MI. President and Fellow Citizens of the
United States:
This splendid audience is the greatest
tribute which can be paid to the great
cause in which we are engaged tonight.
/ left q magnificent audience an hour ago
in one of your ~neighboring cities, an earn
est, courageous and determined assem-
blage of the people. / witness in this
demonstration. the like Of what was pos
sibly never before seen in Providence,
and this Notwithstanding the out
side attractions that are taking
place. Qaughter.) I have come
here, my fellow citizens, to speak to you
earnest words upon the great question
which is very close to your interest, very
close to the interest of the people of the
entire country, for 1t affects every one of
them in their employment. their occupa-
tion and industries. You cannot buy for
eign goods and expect TO make the same
- ~ "a w. 80 hBVA "
eiRn products from Europe, and expect to
employ labor at home in making
these -same-PfeduetsE"Fo cannot
have wages unless have work. and
you cannot have work unless there is a
market for the product which EMPLOYS
your work. The revenue tariff takes that
market from the American people, but
the protective tariff preserves that market
to the American people. Washington, In
his farewell address, said, that so long as
you must have revenue for federal pur'
poses. SO long you must have tariffs. To
support our great country we ave to
have revenues and to obtain these reve.
nues we are obliged to have q tariff. II
requires 100000 every twenty-fouI
hours to run the great machinery OF this
government, and the question Is how will
we raise that money! It can be raised by
your property. your labor, your farms
and your factories, or it can be raised by
putting a tax upon the products OF other
countries seeking a market In the United
States. The Republican party believes
that we never ought to tax our own peo-
A revenue tariff, or tariff for revenue
only, which has no other aim or design
is the principle of taxation advocated by
the leaders Of the Democratic party to
day; u tariff that disniisses the consider
alton of the labor of the American people
UDaJ seeks OUT INC IOEclBu PTOQuCtS WukCL
the necessities OF u people must bsv'
and puts a tariff on them, letting them q,
free to the consumer; a tariff which con
siders what is unfavorable to our owl
labor, to our own interests, to our owl
people, that is the doctrine Of the Repub
lean party the prlnciRlss o On which 1siaG you ar ar,
principle for which You will cas-
your vote on next Wednesday
Are you in favor of a tariff for revenue
of protection? A tariff for revenue Is al
ways paid by the because it II
paid by people who have no composition
at home. There is nothing here to deter
mine the price. The price is the price o
foreign raw material to the American con
sumner, with the American tariff added.
A protection tariff is sometimes paid BY
the consumer for n time, but It is onl!
paid SO long as we are learning to manu-
facture the goods, and when the prcduc
tion is well under way we yield up on
prices to the foreigner who IL trying Il
get a foothold in the American market
There is not q product In this country
the manufacture Of which las been bull
up by. the American tariff. blu
what is cheaper by from 30 7
Thirty years ago the hardware sold Il
Rhode Island stores was almost. %entirel.
of English make, while now 1t Is mostl.
home production, and the prices are nearl.
so per cent. less, In many cases ~ per cent
less, than when We were using goods o
English make. Who pays the tax : Why
the foreigners, for the American is pro
tected by n tariff on all kinds of hardware
to build up American ideas.
But IL ia said that things will b
cheaper under free trade, that II all right
but to have them cheap at the expense o
American labor would be the ~costlies
way in which they possibly could be
Cheap products that abound for %enforce'
idleness are too high at any price. and
want to remind you that the Democrat
and free traders mo have Chimes
prices unless they employ Chinese meth
DDS. And, speaking for myself as one o
the great protection legion OF the Unite'
States, 1 would not have any such system
at any cost. A revenue tariff never bull
a factory or lighted a furnace in tn
United States, but IL did extinguish tn
fires that had been lighted In the furnace
by the Wing tariff of'4a. A revenue tai
III secures ~cheapness ut the expense @
labor. but a protective tariff elevates an
saves labor. One secures cheapness fror
low prices, but the other does 30, by els
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