Pawtucket tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 1890-189?, 1893-11-25
POLITICAL GIANTS
Discuss Politics From q Re-
publican Standpoint
MCKINLEY TALKS TARIFF.
Reed and Hoar Say Some
thing For Protection.
6reenhaIse ard Others Speak at the Home
Market Clubs Banquet.

of he Home Market orpaniz ,tion, for b
gatheii X wa, If great size and unusual
enth usiasm. SPEAKER II led and G v-rnor
Mckinley divided the honors, and IL the
applause for the western pue-t WAS mere
intense, that for the easterper was the
more lasting
Twelve hundred Republicans sat down
to love fea- t in the bia Mechanics hall
The galleries about the hill were crowde
W tn several thousand more, while the air
was alive with enthusiasm.
After he d nnsr Pres deut Bent opened
the speaking with br ef address. He
then introduced s nator Hoar as the first
speaker. Mr.. Hoar said;
The Bav states senior senator.
"I don't think just now that there is any
occasion for the Hume Market club 10 dis.
band. There is pie ty Of work for hem t.
do The party tnat is in p"wer is oppos' d
to everything like x. .od government, and
opposed TO every principle upon which the
happiness Of tue employer or employe de-
pends.
"Thcre are certain principles thaC the
Republcal party stands by, whether In
victory Or in defeat. We believe that gov
erument il y ,ilure unles. every man re-
ceives n rta onabie compen -atioafr IT his
labors We took this cuuntry 80 years
ago, its fl * disboDored, its bonds below
par, its c d { almost gone, treason aud
revolution rampant In ~ states ont OF 81.
ami W. it il AT the height prosperil v.
Eight snort months Of Democratic rul +,
the nppr, 'usion OF three years more OF
Den ocratic rule, has brought ia to our
present condii n. IL ~ the duty of the
Home Mark.t club TO do its most to
bring he iuntry back to its former con-
dition."
Mr.. Mckinley was the next speaker.
His speech follows:
The speech of the Evening.
"This year, in Massachusetts,, A. in Ohio,
politics was bus ness aud bu>iness was
politics, and, united, they triumph d. 1t
was discovered that business rests upon
confidence and certainty. Industry il
only the agency TO meet the wants OF
mankind. While the wants of mankind
are the great ctor in our Industrial pros
perity, the ab liry to crafty tn 80 wants
10 essential. The manufacturer makes
clio h ecause he merchant wants IL am
can give ample security for payment. and
the m, reliant wauts>it because his Gus
toners want il aud are abe to pay him
for his N etn ent with profit.
IF lnr gr at consuming classs~ are cut
off in he r lncume ana wage, the nIer
chant sa es decline, and when this occurs
the manu- acturer's orders decl ie, aud
when they decline tue Cemand for la or
declines and the workman's wapes
decline. II capital cannot yet n profit ut
of iis invtstm, mt il will n IT. w"rk, and ~
capi al doe, MT W rk labor is idle. When
labor * idle wages re toh tie lowe.t point,
even To tn few Who are employed Cap
ital mist have iarth in tie future 1t
must he a ] a. C lculale on he future |,
must know that what it makes today it
can dispo,e at profit tomor. ow, or
mex week, or next month.
II must be c,.tt,in trat no leg sla' ion is
To iut, rye le W wIich will injuii Il, y ufTert
IN, value Il The goods il make. nor the
market in which they are sod Manu-.
featuring industries have no assurance
today eilher as to q price Or he market
beyond the immediate present. IL they
turn wheel beyond present orders they
are 90 frontrd with uncertainty and prob
able loss and capital, always sensitive,
>hrinks from these, and while 1t 81 in
{. a, labor t. in idIenrss. The too com
mon expression th "ar ifs C uld not
affect Y business" is litt heard now.
Free trdue OF rtNtnuc ldIlu Tue
remedy offered BY tho who differ rom
us on ths economic question. More 20 :
e IN goods aud more easi y To be oh aited
l. he prescription offer d by our political
opponents ~ sure O reopen our Idle nj
VIII IL helt VIII it d itt Free trade
cannot k'ndle tue fires in our iact cries.
Free trade canuot increase our pt'du ion
at home. NobGd, advocats II ni,h any
r. nj l.
foreign imporGations, which increa-e must
of necessity diminish like domestic produc.
tinn.
There can be but one Of two results to
follow the intro luctirn Of free trade or a
revenue tariff Either dom,s ic produc-
lion will lie dimni sh q, or the wages Of
labor will be q miuished. or both, and
either or b tn aie rrsults which should
meet with prompt condemnation from the
gr at body OF the American people. il
tnrIe unybt dy any nger In dou bt about
the eal trouble Ia the country today? TIE
Pres deut OF the United sta 9, IN his
August message announced great fact.
He I'D:
"'It may be true that the embarrass-
ment from which the business II the
county is suff RI Y arises as much from
evils app eheudeJ a. rom those actually
exIs,ing'
"TuiS Is true. Remove the apprehen-
sion II tbre itensd tariff leHisl ,tion, re-
move the scare OF the promi ,ed free tr ,de
bill, remove the fear which has Sc tel
upon eveIy bus ness interest, and conf
deuce will return. IL was this fear W pich
ouud ex preston in the recent elections Of
the prople and these, however they may
I've regarded In certain quarter~, we're i'm.
pressve protests against the party which
created the fear. We have ever, thing
tnis year We bad last but good times
III full aud free xpres.iun could be
bad. there j. scarcely state OF the Union
which would record It's m ,joriy woe IN
favor of free tra'ie or purely rrNe ne
tariff. AN firm Ia the convic ion thai
the prepoDderatinH sentime { II tne
country Is for n protective IA ,ff-was in
~ and is now. The verdict of last wear
was not against the prot, c'iNe system, aud
II the party IN power so interprets IL, IL
will do 50 a. Us own p,ril as a party, and
at the prril OF the vast invested Interests
of the untry.
"There ~ not n stat, II its real senti-
ment could be bad today, but would sd.
wise congr~.s TO keep lis hands fl the
pre.eut AFT ~ lie W any =, vi ion whicii
exIeri ne mRy pruve G is nrcr-sary tu
the frie d. of the pro e e'iive system; no.
q Dpmucrsiic Representative fr, m an in-
dnstr,al sfAla who. II he would voice tbs