The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-09-13

help the Republicans Of Akron to cele-
brate Mckinley day, the opening OF the
governors campaign in Ohio.
Governor McKinley's Speech.
Governor Mckinley addressed an inn
mense throng Of people, saying in part:
We meet in political discussion for the first
time since the overwhelming defeat of 1892.
We meet with deep concern and in changed
conditions~'rom those happily existing when
we last assembled. Whoever may be respon-
sible for bringing this condition upon us Is no
longer important; but whoever stands In the
way Of relief to the country from its present
stress Is responsible for its continuance and
Is public enemy, who will be held TO awful
accountability. The purchase by the govern
ment of 900 ounces of silver every month
under the Sherman law, so called, and the
issuance In payment therefor Of treasury
notes in the sum Of the value of the silver thus
bought. 10 believed in the great financial
centers to be the cause which, IL not wholly
responsible for the present situation, has con-
tributed thereto.
The president shares In this general belief
most fully. II is fair to assume that, what
ever the so-calleJ Sherman law has to do with
the present condition Of our finances, IL must
now go. unless Mr.. Cleveland's party in the
senate prevent II. II it is repealed IL will be
the joint work Of Republicans and Democrats.
If Ii Is not repealed, the responsibility will
rest upon the Democratic party, which is
chargeable with public legislation, having
been entrusted with control Of every branch
OF the government.
The Money Question.
On the subject of money the Republican
party stands where il has always stood. We
do not want to strike down either gold or sill
yer. But we insist now, as we have always
insisted, that the one shall be at parity with
the other, to the end that we may have the
use Of both. Wenever, in all our history, had
so much money per capita as a basis for busi-
ness as we have today. But the money
has gone out Of circulation, much
of IL has been boarded through
fear of the future. The suggestion for
state bank money coming from any quarter
should be promptly rejected and the party
proposing II should be deprived of the power
20 promote such scheme. The experience
through which we have passed during the
last three months should admonish us that
whatever other kind of money we may em-
ploy, state bank money should not be thought
M The President Criticised.
The president, In his recent message, makes
a significant and, for him, somewhat sur
prising statement. He says; ut may be true
that the embarrassment from which the busi-
ness of the country is suffering arises as much
from evils apprehended as from those actually
existing" Whatever other things may have
contributed to our present condition, every
man knows, as the president puts it. that the
great underlying cause is from ''evils appre-
hcnded"--evils yet to come-evils which are
threatened which IL is believed will fol-
low the executed DEGREES of the last Demo-
cratic national platform. He announces in
his message the real evil to be apprehended.
This is the evil TO be apprehended, and the
one most Of all others which the country
fears, and because of which IL is. in a large
- a,,Ha t<<1a IIo 4 he.
of his platform, and declares that every effort
o. the administration shall be employed to
carry Ii into execution. IL is the anticipation
of tariff reform or free trade or a revenue
tariff which has set the country where II is.
Who can doubt itf That revolution in our
tariff policy is to be expected admits Of no
doubt.
Free Trade.
You cannot have revenue tariff or free
trade in this country without n complete read
justment OF business, not only in the so-called
protected industries, but In every department
of American enterprise and activity. Every
body knows that who cares to know it. Every
body knows that who Is not blinded by
partisanship, or who, actuated by heartless
greed, would reduce the American condition
down TO the European condition.
change from a protective to a revenue
tariff involves revolution Of values. of
prices, OF wages, OF every variety OF invest
ment. IL Involves revolutlon In the manner
OF living. Such change would penetrate
every homo in the land, and suffering the
most cruel would be sure to result. We have
slight foretaste az the coming change now.
What will the full fruition of free trade be?
But they say, "the Republicans are re-
sponsible for all this. that it is their legisla-
tion which has produced t." III that be
true, the Democratic party owes n duty 10 the
country. 20 themselves and TO yon 10 repeal
that legislation at once; as the president said
In his silver message, quoting from another,
say to him aud his party, HE gives twice who
gives quickly"
And II they believe that the protective
tariff law Of 1880 has produced the condition
Of business suspension and suffering which
now prevails. 10 IL their imperative duty, with
ut debate OF discussion, 20 repeal IL at once.
IL they are sincere they win do IL. They can
no longer trife with the people. They must
stop playing politics and enter upon the
serious execution Of great public policies
which they have so often declared 10 the peo-
pie were necessary TO their wellbeing and
prosperity.
Pensions.
The admin istration has been unjust IN the