Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-09-24
AMERICAN TIN PLATE,
Made at Norristown, Pa, 1892.

ner, said: 'There is another trophy of pro-
tection," and the audience cheered itself
hoarse. In opening his speech Governor
Mckinley spoke of the great manufactures
of Philadelphia, and its place in the history
of the country as the city in which liberty
was born and the Constitution framed.
Coming to the direct text of his speech Gov
ernor Mckinley said:
The money of this country should be as
national as its flag. It should be as sound
as the Government itself, and that is the
character of the money we have to-day and
which we mean to maintain. If Congress
should happen to be Democratic, then
want Benjamin Harrison President. He
believes in sound money, and will veto any
Democratic bill to corrupt and debase the
currency of the United States. 1 am not
only opposed to cheap money. but am op-
posed to free trade, which means cheap Ia
Dor. Free trade and debased money go
hand in hand. The tariff issue this year is
sharply defined between the Republican
tectfon against free trade. The Re-
publican party is in favor of
tariff to raise revenues for the Government.
Protection permits everything that free
trade does, but 1t gives protection to and
stimulates our own people and industries.
The Democratic platform is for tariff reve-
nue. only, and is Needless of capital, and has
no concern for the laborer.
The Last Resort of Democratic Leaders.
The Democratic tariff has no object in
view but to raise revenues for the Govern
ment. A protective tariff does everything
to raise revenue for the Government that
tariff for revenue only does. and it has
never failed us but twice in the his
tory Of our Government. The Democratic
party says in its platform that this
tariff is unconstitutional. This is the last
precedes surrender. This tariff is not in
violation of tile Constitution of the United
States. but it may be under the Constitution
of the Confederate States. But thank God
for us, we are not operating under the Con-
stitution of the Confederate States, but un-
der the Constitution OF Washington and
Lincoln.
The first great act passed in l779 was re-
ported to the House by James Madison,
afterward Presi dent Of the United States
It was signed by Washington July 4, l779,
and was a declaration of Industrial inde-
pendence. The men who made the bill
made the Constitution of the United
States. Isn't James Madison as safe a
Constitution interpreter as Grover Cleve-
as good constitutional lawyer as Adlai E.
Stevenson? And all the Democratic leaders
cannot weigh against the Supreme
Court of the United States, which has given
its judgment in favor of the law of 1880
which / believe is conceded to be the pro-
tective tariff law. That was the pur-
pose OF the men who made it. and if
anything else, it is result of accident
and not design.
Peck's Figures Pointed to With Pride.
Governor Mckinley then took up the
tariff in its foreign aspect, and quoted fig
industries Of the country and the welfare of
the people. He referred particularly to the
reports Of the Labor Commissioners
OF Indiana, Massachusetts and New
York in confirmation of his
statements. He said Mr Peck's report has
left the Democrats stunned and confused,
and that they ary trying to arrest facts by
the commissioner. Governor Nc
Kinley quoted largely from Senator Hills
recent Brooklyn speech, and warned him |
that he could not make platform for his
party, as they would reject it, as they did |
him. In concluding his speech Governor |
said:
My fellow citizens: There is no perma-
nent place in the politics of American civ |
IliZation for party that bases its claims for |
confidence upon failures and discourage
nents Of the people. There is no honora-
Die and permanent and successful place for |
any party in America that appeals to the |
prejudice and the passion and ignorance of |
,he people themselves. That has been the |
history of the Democratic leaders for IS |
years. Their arsenal and their armament |
ias been the prediction of failure of Repub- |
ican measures and Republican politics.
A Party of Unfulflled Predictions.
Every Republican measure and every Re- |
publican policy for 80 years was predicted a |
allure by the leaders of the Democratic |
party. You all remember it. The was was |
% be failure; the issue of greenbacks was |
% be failure; the resumption of specie |
payment was to be q failure, and |
low the tariff law of 1890 is to |
,e failure. They propose nothing |
hey reject nothing. Their platform is a |
declaration of retrogression. They look
,rckward instead of forward. They look |
nto the night instead OF the morning. But |
,f every prediction that the Democratic |
,arsy has made since 1861, not one of them
las been verified.
1 cannot believe that the people of this
will vote for Grover Cleveland for
President of the United States-the repre-
of this retrogressional reaction
;he representative of free trade and all dis.
resses that follow in its wake, the repre-
entasivs Of every principle Of the
rot believe but that the people of this
country will vote for Harrison and Reid be.
cause thes represent Republican principles
and Republican policy and President Har-
lison's administration for the past
our years has been one of
;hfs country has ever had. 1t has been
,lean, conservative and patriotic, wise and
Ible. its domestic policy has been wise and
Its foreign policy has been
irm and thoroughly American. 1t was this
that said to foreign Gov
that was making unreasonable de-
nands upon this country-it was this ad-
lever yet received orders from foreign
and doesn't propose to-"
/ would as soon as put in command OF the
Lrmies of the United States a public enemy