The record-union., 1894-09-26
M'K[NLEY At INDIANAPOLIS.
He Opens the Republican Cam
paign in Indiana.
PRESIDENT HARRISONS ADMINS
TRATION BULOGIzED
His Interpretation of the vflson Tariff
Law Surprise to His Audience
He Says 1t Discriminates Against
Domestic Sugar Growers and in
Favor of the Trusts and Foreign
Producers.
Special to the REooaD-UN1oN.

|
was introduced to the audience that
Harrison. The two famous leaders were
received with great enthusiasm.
In opening the meeting, ex-President
| Harrison said:
Ny FeitOp- Citizens: The delightful
duty has been assigned me by the State
| Central Committee of the Republican
party of Indiana to preside over this
great meeting. Two years ago this coun-
try was not only the most prosperous
| country In the world-for that it had been
before-but it stood upon the highest pin
nacle of prosperity that it had ever be-
fore attained. Cheers. This is not the
verdict of politicians, it is the verdict OF
the commercial representatives; it is the
expressed opinion of those men who
make a profession of studying business
| conditions.
The last two years have been years of
distress and disaster; the losses of them
DEFY the Skill of the calculator. 1t has been
said, and L think not without reason, that
they exceed the cost of the great civil
war. These losses have not been class
losses; they have been distributed. The
holder OF stocks and bonds had found his
wealth shrinking, and so the farmer and
the workingman has found his wages
shrinking. There has been general par
ticipation in the calamities of the past two
years, as there was general participation
In the prosperity of the preceding years.
The great national losses, like those of
the civil war, have sometimes their ade-
| quate compensatiouS. Great as was the
| civil war of the Union, we feel that it was
| adequately compensated in the added
| glory that was given to the flag and in
the added security that was given TO our
civil institutions and the unity of the
Nation. [Cheers. But the losses OF the
last two years have no such compensat-
| ing thought. There is no good To be
gotten out of them [laughterl except for
guidance. They seem to be of a retrib bu-
tive nature. Like the swamp into which
traveller was unconscously driven,
! they have no ameliorating suggestion
except that they teach him to keep on
the foothills and on the roads that are on
/ the hiiltopS.
! We were told the rich were getting
richer, and the poor poorer, and to cure
that imaginary i'll our political opponents
have brought time in which every body
| ig getting poorer. Great applause.
think L remember to have heard once
OF an inscription on tombstone that ran
something like this:
Il was well; l thought to be better; I
took medicine, and here lie."
Our Democratic friends have passed a
tariff bill that is approved, so far as L can
40dA III ny SlA OSiuOCIdllC S6HdIOfS, aIlU
by nobody else. Mr.. Cleveland has re-
pudiated it, and has declared it involves
perfidy and dishonor-that it was so
shameful In its character and influences
that he would not even put his name To
it.
All the leading Democratic papers in
the country have condemned it, both OF
the stalwart party and the mugwump
variety. The Democratic Chairmen OF
the Ways and Means Committees have
condemned it, and the entire Democratic
majority i'll the House OF Representatives
condemned it. Now, that is great mis-
| fortune. 1t is misfortune that the DEM
| ocratic party was not able' to evolve a
tariff bill that the party would accept as a
settlement of the tariff question. But it
is not accepted as a settlement. Already
we have proclamation from Mr.. Cleve-
land and MIR. Wilson that this is only the
| beginning of the crusade against Ameri-
| can Industries.
Now, that is great misfortune. If we
could have been told by our Democratic
friends that we were at the bottom of the
well-dark, damp and dismai-we would
have begun to look up TO see where we
could find some star of hope; we would
| have begun to anoint our bruises and
build some scaffold by which we might
climb out. But we are told there are
lower depths in store for us. So this
pense. 1t can be ended in just one way,
and that is by an overwhelming Repub-
| lican victory in November. When New
| Y York gives Levi =. Morton rs, 900 major
ity. and Indiana her State ticket q, ,00I
and Illinois and those States that have
wavered shall fall again into line, and the
| next Congress is Republican, there will
be an assurance that we found the
end of this disastrous condition. [Cheers.
l think the Ohio Democrats the other
day declared that all these disasters OF
which we speak came upon the country
under the Mckinley bill. Well, to be
sure, the Mckinley bill was a law until
the 18th day of August, when the Cor
man bill was passed. 1t had been ar
rested. We were listening from day to
day to prophecies that in from two
weeks to three or four that it would be
repealed. 1t was not q law in any sense
| that any merchant or manufacturer could
act upon il. 1t was dead III a business
| sense, though alive on the statute books
Why, sir. it would be just about as rea-
sonahle TO complain of a man who had
| been arrested, handcuffed aud locked uu
III cell for not supporting his family as
to complain that the Mckinley bill did
not give prosperity during this period OF
suspense. And then we are told that un-
der the Mckinley law the price of WOO
| went down, and since it has been killed
the price has been going up; that sugar
on the free list was higher than with
sugar at 40 per cent. duty. And all this
| Notwithstanding the Democratic doctrine
that the duty was always added to the
cost of the domestic article.
General Harrison then made a nea
speech, presenting Governor Mckinley
GOVERNOR M'KINLEY SPEECH.
Governor Mckinley in his speech
opened with a eulogistic reference to the
administration OF President Harrison
under which, he said, the country pros.
pered as it had never prospered before, OF
since.
The address was devoted almost wholly
to discussion of the tariff, especially the
effect of the Democratic tariff law. The
Governor presented a phase of the law
recently passed which was a STARTLING
surprise to the audience.
The sugar schedule schedule E1 he
said in effect provides for the continua.
ton of the treaty OF 1875 made with the
King of the Hawaiian Islands. unde,
which all sugar from these islands was
admitted free. The provision was i'm.
serted by the Senate.
"It gives the sugar trust" said Gov.
erner Mckinley, ian advantage which
has not heretofore been suspected. The
sugar production of the Hawaiian Island
is under the control of the sugar trust
that country is the field of its primary
operations.
1.-THE Democratic party took away
from the sugar.raisers of the United
States bounty OF SI0.000,000 year and