The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1893-11-25
MKTNLEY At BOSTON.
Ohio's Governor Addresses the
Home Market Club.
ISSUES BEFORE THE COUNTRY.


Protection Views, and Predicts That
Disaster viii Result from TinIering
with the Tariff.
Boston, Nov 25.--Twelve hundred Re
publicans sat down to n love feast in the
big Mechanics hall last evening. The
galleries about the hall were crowded
with several thousand more. Governor
WAS on the speakers platform.
Tom Reed was there also, and Mt his side
was Governor-elect Greenhalge, Governor
Fuller of Vermont and Congressman
Cousins of Iowa. Collector Beard was
present, and by his side sat the venerable
Senator Hoar, and President Bent, OF the
Home Market club, was the center Of them
all.
After the dinner President Bent opened
tho speech making with brief address. He
then introduced Senator Hoar ms the first
speaker. Mr.. Hoar was followed by
Governor-elect Greenhalge.
Mr.. Greeuhalge said in his speech that
one of the first steps toward giving secur-
ity and prosperity to the home is to give
security and prosperity to the home mar
ket. The governor elect closed his nd
dress with a fervid eulogy Of Governor
Mckinley and Congressman Reed, oi
Maine.
Governor Mckinley was received with O
roar of applause which shook the hnll tc
its foundation. In the course of his adj
dress he said:
"This year in Massachusetts,, as in Ohio,
politics was business and business was
politics, and united they triumphed. il
was discovered that business rests upon
confidence and certainty, and industry is
only their agency to meet the wants Of
mankind. While the wants of mankind
are the great factor of industrial pros
perity, the ability to CRAFTY these want
is essential. If the great consuming
classes are cut of in their income ant
wages the merchants sales decline, ant
when this occurs the manufacturers Orders
decline, and when they decline the de
mand for labor declines and the work
mans wages decline. II capital canno
get profit out Of its investment it viii
not work, and If capital does not worl
labor is idle. When labor is Idle wage
reach the lowest point, even to the few
who are employed. ....-.
Capital must have faith in the future
1t must be able to calculate on the fu
turc. 1t must know that what it makes
today il can dispose of at n profit tomor
row or next week, or next month. /
must be certain that no legislation is tt
intervene which will injuriously affec
tho value of the goods it makes nor tn,
market in which they are sold. Manu-
featuring industries have no assurance to
day, either as to the price or the market
beyond the immediate present.
Free trade or revenue tariff is tn,
remedy offered by those who differ from
us on this question. More foreign good
and more easily to he obtained is the pre-
scription offered by our political opponent
as sure Ia reopen our idle mills. Will 4
help Will II do It? Free trade canno
rekindlc the fires in our factories, Ere,
trade cannot increase our production n
home. Nobody advocates it with an!
sach view. It's whole aim is to increas,
foreign importations, which increase mus
of necessity diminish like domestic pro
duction. There can be but one of two re
suits to follow the introduction of FREE
trade or revenue tariff. Either domesti,
production will be dimlshcd or the wage
Of labor will be diminished, or both, an,
either or both are results which shout,
meet with prompt condemnation from tn,
n
rs there anybody any longer in doub
about the real trouble in the country to
day. The president, in his August mes
sage, announced great fact. He said; /
may he true that the mbarrassment from
which the business of the country is suf
fering arises as much from the evils mp
pretended as from those actually exist
ing
This is true Remove the apprehension
of the threat ened tariff legislation, remov
the scare of the promised free trade bill
remove the fear which has settled upol
every business interest and confidence will
return. 1t was this fear which found eN
preston in the recent elections. We havt
everything this year we had last but gooC
times. am firm in the conviction tina
the preponderating sentiment of the coun
try is for n protective tariff, was in '02 ant
Is now. The verdict of last year was no
against the protective system, and II tn,
party in power SO interprets it it will de
SO at its own peril.
al sound the note of warning here to
night wish it might reach every corne
of the country-that every reduction o
the tariff will be followed by reduction
of wages; that every cut in the tariff rate
will be followed by a cut in the wag,
rates. The effect of the proposed tart
legislation, whether intended or not is al
Iunerring blow at labor, which will be in
stantly felt in the home of every operativ
in the United States. The threat of it ha
already been felt.
In time like the present, with idl
men and idle mills, platforms to the rea
and theories to the winds, the voice o
partisanship should have no place in gu
eounsels; the voice of patriotism alon
should be heard. Let there be no yielding
of principle, no compromises which shall
despoil our workshops and degrade GU
labor"
Other speakers were Congressman Rec
and Cousins and Hon. William Chance, o
Ohio