The morning call., 1894-09-09
PUT ON THE FIRE.
Mckinley Scorches the
Democracy.
RUIN TO ALL INDUSTRIES
Wrought by the Party in
Power.
FREE TRADE IN THE NORTH
And Protection to All of the South
Excepting the Planters of
Sugar.

II the town to listen to Governor Nc
Kinley of Ohio. Long before the time ad-
vertised for the opening of the meeting.
the hall was filed to suff0cation. Every
seat was occuIisd and many were obliged
to stand up and at least 1000 were turned
away. Fully $500 people heard the speech,
which was received with manifestations of
applause, showing that even in this Quie;
campaign interest 10 national affairs is
s'rohg in Eastern Maine. After making
his speech in the City Hail, Governor Nc
Kinley addressed an overflow meeting at
7. NJ. c. A Hall. At the City Hall meet
ing Congressman Boutelle presided and
made a speech.
Governor Mckinley prefaced his ad-
dress by warm tributes to James G. Blaine
and Hannibal HamliD. The Democratic
President and the Democratic Congress, he
said. have been running the Government
for eighteen months. during which time
little else has been running. Industry has
practically been stopped. Labor has found
little employment, and when employed it
has been at greatly reduced wages. Both
the Government and the people have been
draining their reserves, and both have
been running in debt. The Government
has suffered in its revenues and the people
in their incomes. The total losses to the
country in business. property and wages
are beyond human calculation. There has
been no cessation in the waste of wealth
and wages; no contentment, brightness or
hope has anywhere a psared. The appeals
TO charity have never been so numerous
aud incessant nor the necessity every
where so manifest. Congress has disap-
pointed the people, trified with the sacred
trust confded 10 it, excited distrust and
disgust among its constituents and impaired
investments.
Pledged, IL platforms mean anything, to
overthrow our iong-continued policy of
protection, they have qUarreled and COM
promised, and. upon their own testimony,
have been compromised. The result of
their long wrangle is q tariff law with
which nobody is satisfied law which
even those who made 1t apologize for; a
law which the chairman of the Ways and
Means Committee and almost the entire
Democratic side of the House condemned
by an aye-and-no vote only few days be-
fore its passage. affirming their intention
in the most solemn manner not to permit
it to be enacted; q law which factions Of
work of a monstrous trust, which, ChaiT-
man Wilson confessed in the House, amid
the applause of his eonfederates, with
deep chagrin. "held Congress by the
throat; a law of which the House of
Representatives was so thoroughly
ashamed that they had no sooner
passed it than they made bot haste
to seek its immediate amendment by
passing supplementary bills which put
sugar, coal. lead, iron and barbed wire on
the free list. Under threat of still further
similar assaults on the much disturbed
aud distressed industries of the country,
utterly needless of the stupendous ruin
they bad already wrought, they gave the
land q law which the President con-
demned before its passage, and from
which. when passed. he withheld his ap-
proyal; a law which was characterized
before its passage by the greatest leader In
the Democratic party and the senior Sen
ator from New York as i violation of
Democratic pledges and principles" and
which was denounced by the official head
of the Government as such as an act If
party perfidy and party dishonor"; law
of which the President bad said that If the
House should at last concur in il they
would not dare to look the people of the
country in the face. and which the ex-
eeutive still condemns since their sur
render as the very communism OF pelf."
The President in his letter TO Congress
man Catchings said: "The millions of
our eountrymen who have fought bravely
and we'll for tariff reform, not accepting
this bill, should be expected to continue
this struggle, boldly challenging TO open
warfare and constantly guarding against
treachery and half-nesrtedness In their
camp" and this while he permitted the
bill to become law, lacking the moral
courage TO veto IL. Ii the country were
disposed to accept this bill as final aud
could permanently adjust business to it,
the party in power would not have it So
They have so declared with boldness and
uuanimity. This means. unfortunately, a
constant agitation until the 4th day OF
March, 1895, at the least. and for two years
longer after that, unless the people in the
Congressional elections this year make the
House Republican, in which event no
further wreeking of industries or inter-
ference with the labor of the people car
occur during the administration Of Presi-
dent Cleveland. What will your YER
diet be?
Governor Mckinley thea gave history
Of the new tariff legislation. He said a bill
such as that passed by the House would
have created, according to the estimates he
had seen of its revenue-raising POWER, a
deficiency OF from $40, ,OOO COO TO $50, ,OOO, 600.
The "self-cons iituted adjustment commit
tee" of the Senate 10 which the bill was
entrusted after it came back from the
Senate Finance Committee was unknown
TO the constitution, unauthorized by the
rules Of the Senate or By party caucus ira
dition or customs. The manner Of the
making of the bill should condemn it.
cit was traded through, without regard to
principle. public policy, public interest or
public morals.
1.-The adjusting committee went through
the whole list of Senators very patiently.
They gave Senator Murphy his duty on
collars and cuffs; they gave the Senators
from Tennessee, Alabama, Virginia and
West Virginia the duty on coal and iron