The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-12-01
The PEOPLES CHAMPION.

At a recent dinner given by the Home
Market club, of Boston, Gov. Mckinley,
of Ohio, delivered an address which
was enthusiastically received. After
congratulating his hearers upon the
| result of the late elections Gov. Nc
Kinley said:
II the great consuming classes are cut on In
their incomes and wages the merchants sales
| decline, and when they decline the demsnd for
labor declines and the workman's wages de-
cline. IL capital cannot get profit out OF its
| investment II will not work and II capital does
not work labor is idle. When labor is idle
wages reach the lowest point even to the few
who are employed.
Capital must have faith in the future. It
must be able to calculate on the future 1t
must know that what it makes to-day 1t can
dispose OF Rt profit To- morrow or next week
or next month 1t must be certain that
no legislation is to intervene which will
inIure or ahect the value OF the goods
ii makes or the market in which they are sold
Manufacturing industries have no assurance
to-day as to market beyond the immediate
present IL they turn a wheel beyond present
orders they are confronted with uncertainty
and probable loss, and capital always sensf
tive shrinlxs from these, ana while IL sits in
fear labor sits in idleness
The very threat of tariff changes has been
and enterprise, and those who were wont to re-
gard protection as a mere bounty to manu-
facturers and TO the laborer in protected indus
tries have come to regard II quite as essential
to one occupation rs another ami quite as nec-
essary TO the prosperity Of one branch OF busi-
ness as to another.
cannot be mistaken that the most vital part
OF the economic contest now going n Is the
question OF Tabor and wages. The more there
is to do the better wages will be paid the less
there is to do the less the wages paid for what
Is done 1t is the more to do not the less, that
is the patriotic striving OF the people and
should be the aim of all political parties. There
will be less to do at home the more we have
done abroad
The more free trade we have, the more for.
eign goods We will have and the more of such
goods we have in competition with our own
products, the less we will have at home and
the less we have at home the less labor will be
employed at home and the less labor employed
at home the less wages will be paid at home
the less wages will be spent ut home.
Free trade, or q revenue tariff, is the remedy
offered by those who differ from US on this
economic question More foreign goods is the
prescription offered by our political opponents
as sure 10 reopen our idle mills VIII. IL helpt
viii it do It: Free trade cannot rekindle fires
In our factories. Free trade cannot increase
our production at home. Nobody advoc ties it
with any such views. Its whole aim is TO in
crease foreign fmportations, which increase
must Of necessity diminish like home produc-
ton
There can be but one OF two results to follow
the introduction OF free trade or a revenue tar
III. Either domestic production diminishes or
the wages of labor will be diminished, or both
and ither or both are results which should
meet with prompt condemnation from the great
body of American people.
Tc hor -hnd., tn
the real trouble in the country to-day: The
president of the United States in his August
message announced q great fact He said:
'It my be true that the EN- mbarrassment from
which the business of the country is suffering
arises as much from evils apprehended as from
those actually existing This is true Re-
move the apprehension Of threatened tariff
legislation, remove the scare of the prom sci
free trade BILL remove the fear which has set
tied upon every business and confidence will
be returned.
1t was this fear which found expression in
the recent elections OF the people and these,
however they may be regarded in certain
quarters. were an impressive protest against
the party which created the fear. We have
everything this year we had last. but good
times We have The same men and same
money, the same machinery, the same mar
kets here that we had last year, but we
have new management We have the
same people. with the same pluck and the
same perseverance and the same manufact-
uring plants, but the people last year
voted for u change OF policy. a policy which
prevailed before the war, policy which had
not been in operation since the war. which
was not in operation during the war. which OIL
policy Is unified to our present conditions. II
q full and free expression could be had ere
is scarcely a state Of the union which would
record its majority vote in favor of free trade,
or purely revenue tariff.
am firm in the conviction that the pre-
ponderating sentiment of the country is for a
protective tariff as it was in - and is now
The verdict OF last year was not against the
protective system
What would be more welcome to the bust
ness interests Of the country, to the wage
workers Of the co lntry and every true Ameri- |
can, than the assurance that This congress
would adjourn without meddling with our in
dustrial legislation What 4 sigh Of relief
would be fel: in everF part of the country.
What confidence would be created, what vi. |
taliZng force would be infused into eve Y de- |
partment OF human activity, what cheer would !
enter the no nes of The laborer Such an as. |
surance would bring glad tidings OF joy to the |
millions OF American homes whose occupants |
see the winter coming the savings of years 60 |
ing or gone and no work or ages in sight
free trade congress is q fearful menIce to |
the industrial interests of the country Busi- |
ness is now waiting on the uncertainty of the |
congress soon to convene or, to be more ex- |
act upon the certainty OF unfciendly leyisla- |
tion when ii does convene, ami while business |
Is waiting the laborer Is waiting outside with |
nothing TO do
sound the notes Of warning here to night |
wish it might reach every corner of the |
country, that every reduction of the tariff will |
be followed by reduction of wages. that every |
cut in the tariff rates will be followed by cut |
In the wage rates. The effect of the proposed |
tariff legislation. whether INTENDED or not is |
IN unerring blow at la Dor which will be felt in |
the home OF every operative in the United |
States
The threat Of it has already been felt The
friends Of protection should not now falter
The fight is only begun II temporarily lost it
s not to be given up Courage was never more |
needed and never more expected y the people |
rom their representatives, IN IN now. 1t is the
demand OF the hour ami the requi ement OF tn
situation. The tinkerers Of the tariff sh 1uld be
hwarted: they should be opposed at every |
tep in their programme OF des truction Re-
,ublicans and democrats who believe in the
protective system in congress and out OF con-
'ress should stand toy ether in resisting every
fort TO weaken or destroy it.
II IL IS at last to be accom- oiished. let none |
Il the responsibility rest US. In tim,
ike the PRESENT with idle men and idle mills,
Ilatforms 10 the rear, and tne 5ries to the
Winds: the voice OF pIrtissnshi should have
70 place in its councils the voice of patriot
sm a'one should BE- heard. Let there
e no yielding principle. no compromise which
ball despoil our workshops and degrafe our
abor Let us be Americans, and NAV the con-
ress soon to assemble show itself as genuinely
american as the great body OF :he peo lie VIII. ch
! represents.