Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1894-09-09
MKlNLEY IN MAINE.
The ENDORSED Champion Of Protection
Expresses Himself.
THE NEW TARIFF LAW.
It Is Declared " Considerable Of Southern
Interests But Destructive OF Those
of tho North"

BANGOR ME-, September S.-The
greatest audience ever gathered indoors
to hear political speech In Bangor as
sembled In the City Hall to listen TO
Governor Mckinley, OF Ohio. Every seat
WAS occupied, hundreds were obliged TO
stand. and at least 1900 were turned
away. Fully 200 people heard the speech,
which was received with enthusiastic APP
probation The Governor prefaced his
address with warm tributes TO James u.
Blaine and Hannibal Hamlin
"The Democratic President and Demo-
cratic Congress-" he said. have been
running the government for eighteen
months, during which time little else has
been running. Industry. has been practi-
oally stopped. Labor has found little en-
ployment. and when employed IL mas
been at greatly reduced wages. Both gov
eminent and people have been draining
their reserves. and both have been runhlnS
I'm debt The government has suffered In
its revenue and the people in their IN
comes The total losses 70 the country
in business, property. and wages are pc
vond calculation. There has peen no
cessation in the waste or wealth. anu
wages: no contentment, brightness VI
hon has anywhere appeared. The appeals
to charity have never been 50 numerous
and iucessant. nor their necessity every
v,bsre so manifest Congress has disap-
point.I the people. trided with the sacteu
trust confdcd to It, excited dIstrust and
disgust among its constituents anu III
paired their investments.
pledged. II platforms mean anything
10 overthrow our long continued poHcy
Of protection, they have quarrellel anu
compromised, and upon their own testimo>
ny have been compromised, ana the result
81 their long wrangle IS n tariff law win
which nobody Is satisfied; Il law when
even those who made 1t apologize for'
a law which the chairman OF the COM
rnfttee on WAYS and Means and almost
the entire Democratic side Of the House
condemned by a yea and nay vote only
few, days before its passage, affirming
their intention, I'm the most solemn man.
ner. not 70 permit it TO be enacted; law
which all factions Of the Democratic party
agree Is the work Of a monstrous trust,
which Chairman Wilson confessed in the
House, amid the applause Of his con-
federates, with deep chagrln, held Con-
grcss b. the throat
"a law Of which the members Of the
House were so thoroughly ashamed that
they had no sooner passed II than they
made hot haste to seek its immediate
amendment by passing supplementary
bills which yut their fairfield sugar, coal,
lead. iron, and barbed-wire on the free
list"
~ law which never received the delibe-
rate ou-ideration Of a conference cons
mlttee, AID was not withdrawn by the
Senate only because OF the forced and
hurried action Of the House In accepting
il under a threat OF agents Of the trust
that IL was that or nothing and in all
human probability, nothing"
a law which the President condemned
before It's passage. and from which when
passed he withheld his approval; a law
which was characterized before its pas
sage by the greatest leader in the Demo-
cratic party, the senior Senator from New
York. as a violation of Democratic
pledges and principles
POPULAR APPROVAL.
"But even II the Democratic leaders
were satisfied with what they have done,
before the settlement could be accepted
as final and the country be set at rest
the new law must pass the review OF the
people and be approved by them. II the
country was disposed 10 accept ii as final
and could permanently adjust business 10
fl, INC party in power would not have
!. ST.. TLey have declared with belIueGS
and unauimlty, unfortunately for CON
slant agitation, until the 4th day OF
March, lsg5; at least. and for two years
longer after that, unless the people in
the congressional elections this year make
the House Republican. in which case no
further stoppage OF our industries or IN
reference with the labor Of our people
can occur during the administration OF
President Cleveland.
What Will your verdict be? \ Demo-
cratic victory means further and longer
steps in the direction of free trade-deeper
cuts and more deadly blows upon our in
dustrial life \ Republican victory-a Re-
publican H1use-meaus that during the
closing half Of Mr. Clevelands Admins
tratton the enemies Of the protective sys-
TEN will be unable TO satisfactorily wage
war upon the prosperity Of the country
After denOuncing the bill they have
Just passed, the Democratic leaders ana
press console themselves by declaring that
the new law, after all, Is better than
the act OF 1880. Better for whom? Bet
ter for what? Better in what particular?
Not better In its free list, nor better in
its dutiable list. Not better for the
United States. Not better for our in
crstries: not better for American labor;
not better for the American farmer.
Where has 1t given hope? What factories
Will it set To work? 1t has improved
no American interests. whatever. unless
il he those of the Sugar Trust and the
NVhiskey Trust. IL VIII not start @ single
new factory at home. II will not increase
the. demand for labor at home. Whatever
hcpe It brings IS to the alien aud the
stranger. Whatever industry it quickens
lies beyond the eeas; IL is not located be-
meath our flag.
Better than the law Of lS9O-a law
under the operation OF which every man
I'm this country was employed az good
wages. every factory was running at
its full capacity, and the consumer was
securing ele necessaries of life cheaper
than he had ever received them be-
fore. Does any thoughtful man believe
that the law OF 1891 will ever restore
these happy conditions here in the United
States?"
NEW LAW SECTIONAL
In conclusion. he said: The law of
1891 is not national; it is sectional. Every
paragraph manifests its inspiration and
dlscloses its authors. 1t has been con-
siderate Of the manufactures Of the
South. but has not spared the vast in
duetrias Of the North"