The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1892-11-03
!. REPLIES 10 MKINLEYs
HOW THE MKlNlsY Bin PROTECTS
~ "a = THE FARMtRIsp y f,

the High Protection Speech of Major
Mckinley ct Washington, Penn.
Not long ago, since Gov. Mckinley
made his tariff Grafton to several
crowds from various urroundingitowns
with eight or ten brass bands at Wash
iugton, Pennsylvania. Col VanBennett
of Kansas, one of the Prohibition ora
tors, shook the white rose from his coat
lapel for couple of hours and made a
tariff speech, which captured the town
After he had finished, it was the sober
opinion of several preachers, who are
always sober, that the Major was not in
1t with Col. Van Bennett. The follow
ing are extracts from Col. nBennett's
Grafton:
Mr.. Mckinley used the following Ian.
guage on Protection and labor:
ave do not compete with labor that
is paid n per cent less than ours with
out protective tariff, unless the labor
of this country will come down to the
labor of Europe, will tell you when
we can have free trade in this country
whenever the nations of the world
and all of them will bring their labor
up to ours. We will never level ours
down to theirs. Protection levels up.
Free trade levels down."
Now suppose Mckinley was just as
honest In this declaration as in any of
the others have examined. Now let
me ask, did Carnegie level up or down ?
Did he hire an army of Pinkertons to
help Frick and him to level up or down ?
There have been 400 labor strikes under
the Mckinley bill. Were these strikes
because protection leveled wages up ?
Were the Pinkertons hired to shoot the
laborers down who would not consent
that Frick and Carnegie should level
their wages up? Had not Carnegie the
highest protection ever granted to steel
manufacturing? Then why the boy
colt if protection levels up2 Why the
employment of a Pinkerton army to
shoot down the men who built Home
stead and made it possible for the year
ly income of the Scottish chief to reach
S1,5OOOO0?
1 picked up the Press and saw pic
ture of Cluny castle in Scotland, the
home of the millionaire monopolist of
Homestead, whose income under high
protective tariff and the labor of
$500 workingmen has reached 81, 800 900
a year, as ] understand he stated HIM
sells, On another page l saw the picture
of the dead steel workers and laborers
of the Homestead mills on the banks
of the Monongahela shot down because
they would not consent to have their
wages leveled down under the McKin-
ley bill. Mckinley had been to Home
stead just before Harrison was elected.
He promised the Homes. s.esders that if
they would vote the Republican ticket
the scale of wages should be main
tanned. And yet this champion of the
protective robber tariff goes over the
land, not, however, to Homestead, with
manipulated figures, poisoning the
minds of the voters to perpetuate the
robbery that built Cluny castle and
murdered the men whose sweat and
toll drove every nail, made every piece
of iron, built every stack and bought
eVery engine or made it, that made
Homestead and its owners million
aires.
Now, my fellow citizens, let roe refer
to the style of Major McKinley's speech
for / cannot call it an argument. He
says: "In support of the great policy
of protection can be cited the utter
ances of Jefferson, Madison, Jackson
and Silas Wright. Is Grover Cleveland
a better constitutional lawyer than was
Thomas Jefferson? Is Adlai Stevenson
better able to interpret the constitution
than Andrew Jackson? Is Henry
Watterson wiser than Henry Clay ?"
May not with as much propriety and
with more force ask, Is Governor Nc
Kinley greater than James Blaine, who
forced the Democratic doctrine of reci
procity, free trade, into the Mckinley
bill? Does Mckinley know more
"that such excessive protection not
duction, but forces labor into
protected employment?" Is Ma.
jor Mckinley a better interpreter of
constitutional law than Judge Cooley,
of Michigan, who has given his whole
life to the study and Interpretation of
constitutional law.
And finally, is Major Mckinley, who
cannot make a speech thirty minutes
without contradicting himself thirty
times land every prominent tariff
talker In the Republican party knows
it), better constitutional lawyer than
all the members of the Re-
publican supreme court Of the United
States, and especially that great
jurist and Republican, Justice Miller,
of Iowa, whose decision l have just
read?
THE BLESSINGS OF THE MKINLEY
TARIFF TO THE FARMER AND
LABoRER.
Let me enumerate some of the bless
ings OF the Mckinley bill which falls to
the farmer and the laborer.
Every protectiOnists boasts of the
great benefits of the protective theory
to the farmer. 1t is provided in the
Mckinley tariff that uncut diamonds
may come in free. So the farmer would
not have to pay any tax on his
diamonds. What happy arrange
mentl The farmer, you see, If he can't
get uncut prices for his wheat, hogs ana
cattle, can get basket full of uncut
diamonds and scatter them over the
barnyard TO give light so his chickens
can see to go to ro0st, If the tariff on
hio uhaaf 1naa NOT haJn him 20 call 10