The Coconino weekly sun., 1893-09-28
IAN EFFECTIVE APPEAL.
Auspicious Opening of Gov. McHiniey's
 Campaign fin Ohio.

| campaign Tn onio.
 A remarkable speech by Gov. Me-
 Kinley, nominated by the republicans
 of Ohio for reelection, opens a cam
 paign which ought to be memorable
 for its results Never leader in economic legislation had finer oppor- tunity for effective appeal, for never did any country gain more in prosperi- ty within two years than this country in the two years which followed the enforcement of the Mckinley act, and never was there a more sudden and sore reverse than has followed the
 vote to abandon the policy of that act. If experience ever casts any light on the path of those who seek to govern
 themselves for their own welfare, as- suredly it teaches that the tariff of 1890 brought blessings unnumbered in its train, and that the vote to repeal it has brought blight to all the indus tries and the business of America.
 Few men can use great opportuni- ty so effectively as Gov. Mckinley in his speech at Akron. His review of the unrivaled prosperity attained in 1892, continuing to the very day of the presidential election, and of the as- founding prostration which followed before the first half-year of democratic administration had closed, should carry to every mind not darkened by prejudice the conviction that the peo- pie owe their grievous change to their votes of November for a change. Gov. hnK ,,,1a el1 rx-ifh irraGicf ihln logic, that no alteration in the none tary supply occurred to account for the astounding reverse. that the circula- tion before this disaster came was greater than it ever had been, and not currency but confidence was lacking, and that in two directions grave un- certainties resulted from the same vote, for the party which threatened free coinage of silver was also the party which threatened free trade, and then secured entire control of the gov ernment.
 On the silver question Gov. Mckinley declares that the republican party is ready now, as it ever has been, to stand for sound currency--asg good as the best that any other country enjoys If the silver bill be repealed, it will be the joint work of republicans and dem- ocrats. while if it be retained the re- sponsibility will rest with the party now in power. He puts the state bank scheme out or court with the single suggestion that while one hundred and twenty national banks have failed this summer. not one of their notes has been discredi.ed nor has one of their noteholders lost a penny. With effect the admission of President Cleveland is quoted that disasters sprang rather from evils apprehended than from any evils endured.
 It is then shown that the president, his party in the nation and III Ohio, are fully pledged to a change which, in the language of Mr. Neal, the democratic candidate for governor, will expunge the foul blot of protection and wiEa square with the Fundamental princi- pie of the democratic party that the federal government has no constitu- tional power" to impose protective duties. The words of Mir. Wilson, now chairman of the committee on ways and means, are also quoted as evidence, and the phenomenally laundering prophe- cy of Senator Brice last January, that bankers will lend and investors will buy with greater feeling of security after March than at any time within the past history of the state," because all fear of disorganiza- ton of industries had in January al- ready been felt to the fullest extent The sufficient answer comes in quo tation from "Bradstreet's," stating that 4G3, ,000 persons had been thrown out of work between June l and Au- gust l2 in establishments reported, and no less than S0O,OO0 to 0O0, 900 in the whole country. Mir. Mckinley appeals to the people against this policy, and eloquently aflirms that 'idleness is a much greater tax than any tariff tax which can be imposed. There is no burden so great as unemployed men; no tax so grievous as poverty" To the democrats who are petitioning by the thousands against radical change of the tariff at a time so unsuitable, he gives the warning that votes will count infinitely more than petitions.
 1t is cruel in the republican leader to demand of his antagonist what he would do with the duties on coal and iron, tinplates and cotton-ties and wool, and other important products of Ohio industry. Whence is to come the needed revenue, he asks, and are the democrats prepared with Mir. Waiter son to tax sugar, tea and coffee? It is safe to say that questions like these will not be answered, except by the people themselves when they cast their votes--N. Y. Tribune.
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