The Portland daily press., 1893-09-13
WHERE 1T BELONGS.
Responsibility for the Present Trou.
lesOlae Times.
GOV. M'KINLEY PLACES Ill ON THE
nEfOCRATIC PARTY.

Democratic Threats Against the Tariff
Have Alarmed the Business World
The Sherman Law Should Be Repealed
and Protection NIaintained--Hoke
Smiths Injustice to the Veterans.
Akron, o., September 12.-Governor
Mckinley spoke for the first time in the
campaign today. He spoke of the great
change in the present conditions as COM
pared with those which happily existed
during the last state campaign in 1892.
The Sherman silver law, he said, should
be repealed, as it contributed to some
extent to the present state of affairs, but
the great underlying cause of the stress
now upon the country is from the evils
which are apprehended. Continuing,
Governor Mckinley said:
The President, in his recent message,
makes significant and, for him, some
what surprising statement. He says:
sit may be true that the embarrass-
| ment from which the business of the
country is suffering arises as much from
evils apprehended as from those actually
existing"
Whatever other things may have con-
tributed to our present condition, every
man knows, as the President puts it, that
the great underlying cause is from
'sevils unprecedented" d"-evils which are
yet to come-evils which ar. threatened
evils which it is believed will follow
the executed decrees of the last Demo-
cratic national platform. He announces
in his message the real evil to be appre-
hended. This is the evil to be appre-
| I. T. 6 al 1/1+1.
which the country fears. and because of
which it ia. in large part. suffering to-
day. He renews the threat of his plat
form, and declares that every effort of
the administration shall be employed to
carry it into execution 1t is the antici-
patton of tariff reform, or free trade, or
revenue tariff, which has set the coun-
try where it is. Who can doubt it?
With the condition which confronts us,
with idle factories and idle men in every
part of the country, the present question
is. how can they best be set to work?
The mills are closed. Will free trade
start them? Will a lower tariff rekindle
their fires? Will larger importations of
competitive products made by cheaper
labor increase our domestic production?
If the foreign shop is to have easier ac-
cess to this market with it's competitive
goods through a lower tariff, will that
help American shops? Will freer access
to the markets Of competitive products
increase the demand for American pro-
ducts and American labor? That is the
question. Will the larger use of goods
of foreign shops competing with our own
increase the labor in our own?
increase the demand for like domestic
goods? Lower tariff or no tariff makes
it easier TO bring in foreign goods and
harder to dispose of kindred domestic
goods. The more foreign goods used
competing with ours the less domestic
goods will be used, and the less domestic
goods which are used, the less will be
made, while the less made the less men
are required to make them, and those
who do make them have less work and
will have less wages. Do we want to
make it easier than it now is to import
foreign goods competing with our own?
Do we want to have foreign competition
without hindrance OF restraint? II we
do, free trade or revenue tariff will ac-
complish it. If we want our goods made
abroad and not at home. we should be for
a revenue tariff. If we want them made
at home. we should be for protective
tar;ff II wa make them at home. we
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maoe apIoao, Iul9isn iapba b ~ ~ in"Ao
tnem ana nome lapor .,lr, WIZ 1l1:. oe iu,e 49,.
But, they say, me hepuoiicans are
responsible for all this, 1t Is uhe1r
legislation which has produced 1t. IL
that be true, the Democratic party owes
duty to the country, to themselves and
to YOU to repeal that legislation at once;
as the President said in his silver mes
saga onotino from another saw to him
sas1l quo.r1g .4g ttG e.Ha a;ues twice Who o;uas
anu DIS parry, ~ % tho hai;eu ~U 4,af r,o
quickly. Aao ~ 'ney ,oon ooo,Iso Iao % .nae uno
protective Iari1 law oI Ioso nas ptoouc-
eo Ihe Conallion u BUSINESS sas sHehs4on 81 u
their imperative duty, without debate or
discussion, to repeal it at once. II they
are sincere they will do it. They can no
Longer trifle with the people. They
must ston s.playing', politics and enter
n..n, a,,nn tba ser;oms eTac,it;on of rraa+ nnh-
~: 1;a;as in ,nbinl 49, hare ~ often do.
iio poiiotee 49, tLa , NY mnso 81 o.Son w ~
clarea 70 sne peoPie were necess"is ~
thelr lei wei! oelng anu prosperity.
There Is no occasion Tor this slIuaGlon
except 6he uncertainty n when eveaywnehre the e
prevails. We have the same men, men, the tne
same money, the same manufactures @ anu