The Coconino weekly sun., 1893-11-30
1AE pEoPLE.s CHAMPION.
Great Speech of Gov. Mckinley at Boston. Lessons of the Hour-Facts for Cnpit"i' and Labor.

Lessons Of the Hour-Facts TUT S"P'" and Labor.
 At 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 a
 ! If the great consuming classes are out ofi m their incomes and wages the merchants sales decline, and when they decline the demand TOT labor declines and the workman's wages de' cline. If capital cannot get profit out or itS investment 1t will not work. and if capital does not work labor is idle When labor is ldle wages reach the lowest point, even. to tho few 1 who are employed. 1 | Capital must have faith in the future. II must be able to calculate on the future. IL must know that what 1t makes to-day 1t can dispose of at profit 10. morrow or next week or next month. It must be certain that l no legislation Is to intervene which Will injure or affect the value of the goods it makes or the market in which they are solh | Manufacturing industries have no assurance l today as to market beyond the immaculate present If they turn wheel beyond present orders they are confronted with uncertainty and probable loss, and capital, always senst l tive, shrinks from these, ana while 1t sits in | fear labor sits in idleness
 The very threat Of tarif changes has been sensibly and injuriously felt in. every industry and enterprise, and those who were wont to re | gard protection q mere bounty to manu- lecturers and to the laborer in protected indus tries have come to regard it quite as essential to one occupation as another ani quite as nec' essary to the prosperity of one branch Of bust ness us to another.
 cannot be mistaken that the most vital part | of the economic contest now going tn is the | question of labor and wages The more there ! Is to do the better wages will be paid the less there is to do the less he wages paid for what is done It is the more Do 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 OWE products the less we will have at home, and l lhe 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 at home
 Free trade, or O revenue tarf, is the re medy 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 VII. it helpi Will 1t do itl Free trade cannot rekindle fires in our factories Free trade cannot increase our production at home Nobody advoc Ites 1t with any such views Its whole aim is 10 in crease foreign importations, which increase must of necessity diminish like home produe- lion.
 There can be but one of two results to follow the introduction of free trade or revenue tar in. Either domestic production diminishes, OF 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.
 Is there anybody any longer in doubt about the real trouble in the country todayg The president of the United States in his August message announced great fact He said: Ut may be true that the embarrassment from which the business of the country is suffering arises as much from evils apprehended as from those actually existnQ' This is true Re. move the apprehension of threatened tariff legislation, remove tne scare of the promised free trade bill, reUOve the fear which has set tied upon every 1usiness. and confidence will be returned
 It was ttss fear which found expression iu 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 avary thing this year we had last, but good times We have tho uRd sams money, the same machinery. the same mar kets here that we had last year. but we have a new management We have tho same people, with the same pluck and the same perseverance and the same manufact uring plants, but the people last year voted for q change of policy, 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 old policy Is united to our present conditions. | full and free expression could be had, tiert is scarcely a state of the union which would record its majority vote fin favor of free trade or purely revenue tarin.
 am firm in the conviction that the pro ponderating sentiment of the country is for q protective tariff 1t was in g! and is now The verdict Of last year was not against the protective system
 What would be more welcome to the busi ness interests of tho country, to the wage workers of the co intry and every true Ameri . ! can, than the assurance that this congress would adjourn without meddling with our in dustrial legislation What sigh of relic would be felt in every part of the country What confidence would be created, what vi talking force would be infused into eve de partment of human activity, what cheer would enter the homes of the laborer Such an as surance would bring glad tldings of joy to tho millions of American homes whose occupants , sec the winter coming, the savings of years go ing or gone and no work or ages in sight
 A free trade congress is fearful menace to the industrial interests of the country Busi' ; ness is now waiting on the uncertainty of the congress soon to convene, or, or to be more ex' act upon the certainty Of unfriendly legisla tion when it does convene, and while business Is waiting the laborer is waiting outside witl , nothing to do
 sound the notes of warning here to night wish it might reach every corner of thu country, that every reduction of the tarin will be followed by a reduction of wagss that every cut in the tariff rates will be followed by cut in tho wage rates. The effect of the proposed tariff legislation, whether intended or not is [ an unerring blow at Dor which will be felt ir the home of every operative in the Unite' , | States
 The threat of 1t has already been felt I'm friends of protection should not now falter ' The fight is only begun If temporarily lost il is not to be given up Courage was never mort , needed and never more expected ny the people from their representatives thln now It is the demand of the hour and the requi ement of tn
 situation. The tinkerers of the tari1 should b' | thwarted they should be opposed at everJ , step in their programme of destruction Re publicans and democrats who believe in tht protective system in congress and out of con gress should stand together in resisting ever! , effort to weaken or destroy it.
 If 1t is at last to be accomplished, let none of the responsibility rest n us. In a tins liiya tho r,rasent with idle and fd mills