The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-09-09

county at political meeting assembled IN
the town today to listen to Governor Nc
Kinley. of Ohio. Long before the time ad
gerised for the opening of the meetings
ihe hall was filled to suffocation. Every
seat was occupied and hundreds were
obliged to stand and at least thousand
were turned away. Fully $500 people
heard the speech, which was received with
manifestations of approval, showing that
even IN this quiet campaign, interest ID
national affairs is strong i'll eastern Maine.
After making his speech in the city hall
Governor Mckinley addressed an overflow
ing meeting at the Y. NJ. c. 4. haH. Al
the city nall meeting Congressman Bou-
telle presided and made a speech.
Governor Mckinley prefaced his address
by warm tributes TO James q. Blaine and
Hannibal Hamlin.
The Democratic president and Demo
cratic congress, he said, have been running
the government for eighteen mouths, dur
ing which time little else has been run
ming. Industry has been practically
stopped. Labor has found little employ
ment and when employed it has been at
greatly reduced wages. Both government
and peoDle have been draining their re-
serves.
BEYOND HUMAN CALCULATION.
sThe government has suffered in its
revenues aud 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 Of the woes
of wealth and wages; no content, bright
ness nor hope has anywhere appeared.
The appeals 10 charity have never
been so numerous and incessant,
nor the necessity everywhere so manifest.
Congress has disappointed the people,
rrifled with the sacred trust confided TO it,
excited distrust and disgust among their
constituents and impaired their invest
ments,
pledged, if platforms mean anything,
20 overthrow our long 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 tariff law
with which nobody is satisfied, a
law which even those who made
It apologize for; law which
The chairman on ways and means, and al
most the entire Democratsc side of the
house condemned by a yea aud nay vote
only few days before its passage, affirm
ing their intention in the most solemn
manner not TO permit it to be enacted; a
law which the factions of the Democratic
party are agreed is the work of a mon
strous trust, which Chairman Wilson con-
fessed in the house, amid the applause of
his confsderates, with deep chargin, "held
congress by the throat"
PASSED IT AND THEN WANTED TO AMEND.
"a law of which the representatives
were so thoroughly ashamed that they
had no sooner passed it than they made
hot haste TO seek its immediate amend
ment by passing supplementary bills
which put their tariff sugar, coal, lead,
iron and bsrbed wire on the
free list, another threat of
still further similar assaults on
The much disturbed aud distressed indus
tries OF the country, utterly needless of
the stupendous ruin they had already
wrought; law which the president con-
demned by its passage, and from which,
when it passed. he withheld his approval.
a law which Was characterized, before its
passage, by the greatest leader in
the Democratic party, the senior
senator from New York, AS violation of
Democratic pledges and principles" and
which are denounced by the official head
Of the government as such, as an act of
party perfidy aud party dishonor'' that if
the house should at last concur in it. they
would not dare TO look the. people of the
country In the face, ;" and which the eXecu-
i've still condemns since their surrender,
as the very communism OF pelf."
WHAT WILL YOUR VERDICT BE?
THE president in his letter to Congress-
man Catchinss OF Mississippi, said: The
millions of our couutrymen who have
fought bravely and well for tariff reform
iuot accepting this bid, should be ex-
pected To continue this struggle, boldly
challenging TO open warfare and con-
stantly guarding against treachery
aud halfhearledness in their camp
and while he permitted the bill
to become law, lacking the moral cour-
axe 10 vote. If the country was disposed
TO accept this bill as final and could per-
mainly adjust business TO it, the party in
power would not have II SO. They have so
declared with boldness and uuanimitv
bis means, unfortunately. constant ag-
itation until the fourth day of March, 1925.
at the least, and for two years longer after
that, unless the people. at the congressional
elections, make the house Republican
IL which event, no further wrecking of
our industries or interference with the
labor OF our people can occur during the
present administration of President Cleve-
land. " hat viii your verdict bey'
IT WAS SIMPLY TRADED THROUGH.
Governor Mckinley then gave history
OF the new tariff legislation He said the
bill as it passed the house would
have created, according 20 the estimates
be had seen of Its revenue-rising
u0Wer a deficiency Of from, san 900 ON -
s60.O0000O The self constituted adjust
ment committee of the senate to which
The bill was entrusted after il came back
from the senate finance committee. was
unknown 10 the constitution, unauthorized
by the rules OF the the senate or bv party
caucus, tradition or custom. The manner
OF The making OF the bill should condemn
il.
1T was traded through without regard
to principle, public policy, public interest
or public morals. The adjusting commit.
lee went through the whole list of senator's
very patiently. They gave Senator Muir
ply his duty on collars aud cuffs; thew
gave the senator's from Tennessee. Ala.
bama, Virginia aad West Virginia
the duty on coal and iron ore,
they gave the senators from Iouisi-
ana and elsewhere and the great
sugar trust OF the country the duIv de-
msnded on sugar; they gave the Populists
the lRcome tax; did not give Senator Brice
protective tsriff en- wool for his Ohio
constituents FOR the senate did not de-
mand u. He SAYS he did not. He does
not tell Us what concessions were made 70
him. nor by whom they were made. hut
the people of Ohio, looking upou their
distressed industries have fully dieter.
mined that not one of them received one
consideration at his hands.
FREE TRADE FOR THE NORTH.