St. Paul daily globe., 1893-11-25
M'KINLEY BLOWS ABLAST.
EE GIVES HIS PRESIDENTIAL BOOM
ANOTHER BOOST.
TALKS TARIFF IN BOSTON.
Remove the Apprehension of the
Threatened Tariff Legislation
and Confidence Will Return,
the Leader of the High.Tariff
Robbers EXclaims-Tom Reed
Talks About the Late Victory.

the Leader of the High.Tarif
Robbers EXclaims-Tom Reed |
Talks About the Late Victory.
BosToN, Nov. 24--Twelve hundred |
Republicans sat down to love feast in |
the big Mechanics hall this evening. |
The galleries about the hall were |
crowded with several thousand more, |
while the air was alive with enthusi- |
aSm. Gov. Mckinley, of Ohio, was on |
The speakers platform, and he looked !
like man of victory. Tom Reed, of |
Maine, was there also, and at his side
was Gov.-elect Greenhalge, of MasSa-
chusetts. Gov. Fuller, of Vermont, and
Congressman Cousins, of Iowa, were in
the midst Of them. Collector Beard, the
old Republican war horse of MaSSa
chuse It's, was present, and by his side
sat the venerable Senator Hoar. Thomas
N.Hart, ,eX-poStmaster of Boston and Re-
publican candidate for mayor of Boston,
also sat at the table reserved for the
principal guests, and President Bent. of
the Home Market club. was the center
of them all. After the dinner President
Bent opened the speechmaking with
brief address. He then introduced
Senator George F. Hoar as the first
spea ker. Gov.-elect Greenhalge fol-
lowed.
Gov. William E. Mckinley. of Ohio,
was received with clamorous applause
which shook the great hall to its foun-
dation. He said: This year in Massa-
chusetts, as in Ohio, politics was busi-
nli nd
unitedly triumphed. 1t was discovered
that business rests upon confidence and
certainty, and industry is only the
agency to meet the wants of mankind.
While the wants of mankind are
THE GREAT FACTOR
In our industrial prosperity, the ability
to crafty these wants is essential. The
manufacturer makes cloth because the
merchant wants it and can give ample
security for payment, and the merchant
wants it because his customers want 1t
and are able to pay him for his invest
ment with profit. If the great con-
Suming classes are cut off in their i'll
come and wages the merchants sales
decline. and when this occurs the manu-
facturerS' orders decline, and when they
decline the demand for labor declines
and the workman'S wages decline. If
capital cannot get profit out of its
investment it will not work, and II
capital does not work labor is idle.
When labor is idle wages reach the low
est point, even to the few who are en-
ployed. Capital must have faith in the
future. 1t must be able to calculate on
the future.
The too common expression that tariff
could not affect business is little heard
now. Free trade or revenue tariff is
the remedy offered by those who differ
from us on this question. More foreign
goods and more easily to be obtained is
the prescription offered by our political
opponents as sure to reopen our idle
mills. Will it help? Will it do it?
Free trade cannot rekindle the fires in
our factories. Free trade cannot increase
our production at home. Nobody advO-
Gates it with any such view. Its whole
aim is to increase. foreign importatIons,
which increase must of necessity dimin-
ish like domestic production. There
can be but one of two results to follow
the introduction of free trade or
A REVENUE TARIFF.
'Either domestic production will be
diminished or the wages of labor will
be diminished, or both, and either or
both are results which should meet
with prompt condemnation from the
great body of the American people. Is
there anybody any longer in doubt
about the real trouble in the country
today? The president of the United
States, in his August message, an
nounced a great fact. He said: 1t
may be true that the embarrassment
from which the business OF the country
is suffe ring arises as much from the
evils apprehended as from those actu-
ally existing This is true. Remove
the apprehension of the threatened
tariff legislation. remove the scare of
the promised free trade bill. re-
move the fear which has settled
upon every business interest, and
confidence will return. 1t was
this fear which found expression
in the recent elections of the people,
and these, however they may be re-
garded in certain quarters, were an i'm
pressive protest against the party which
created the fear. We have everything
this year we had last, but good times.
If a full and free expression could be
held, there 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 convic-
tion that the preponderating sentiment
of the country is for a protective tariff,
was in '92, and is now. The verdict of
last year was not against the
PROTECTIVE SYSTEM,
and if the party i'll power so interprets
it it will do so at its own peril as a
party, and at the peril of the vast ill.,
vested interests of the country. There
Is not a state, if its real sentiment could
be had, today but would advise con-
greSs to keep its hands off the present
tariff, and leave any revision which eX-
perience may prove to be necessary to
the friends of the protective system; not
a Democratic representative from an
industrial state, who. if he would voice
the true sentiments of his constituents
today, but would vote against the pro-
posed raid against our industries. What
would be more welcome to the business
Interests Of the country, TO the wage
workers of the country, and the very
rue American interests, than assur-
Rnce that this congress would adjourn
without meddiing with our Industrial
legislation. The free trade congress is
a fearful menace to the industrial inter.
ests of the country; business is now
waiting on the uncertainty of the con
gress soon to convene; OF. to be more
exact, upon the certainty of unfriendly
legislation when it does convene; and
while business is waiting, the laborer is
waiting outside with nothing to do.
sound the note of warning here tonight
wish it might reach every corner Of
the country; that every reduction of the
tariff will be followed by a reduction o.