The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-10-29
M'KINLEY IN NEW YORK.

There never was time in our history,
certainly since the great civil war, when
so much was involved in the election as
in that which is to take place on the sixth
day of November. This is a business
campaign We have discovered in the
last nineteen months that If we do not
keep our own business in this country our
business will not keep us. This year men
are going to prefer their own well being
and prosperity to the success Of any po-
litical organization.
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We have everything this year we had
in 1892 except prosperity Qaughter). We
have the same men, we have the same
money, we have the same great manu-
featuring plants, we have the same skill
and ability and genius among our peo-
pie this year that we had in 1892, but we
have q new management and the people
of the country have no confidence in that
management. We have the same enter
prises, but we have a new engineer
Qaughter) and that engineer has had no
practice since before the war Qaughter)
and the methods before the war of run
ming a government are unsuited to the
government under which we live today.
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During these last nineteen months the
congress has been engaged in revising the
tariff, and while they have been engaged
| in revising the tariff the people have been
busy revising their views. applause and
| laughter.) And 1t has not taken the peo-
pie so long to revise their opinion as 1t
has taken congress to revise the tariff.
| Q.aughter) From one end of this coun-
| try to the other the people are burning
| with impatience to pass judgment upon
their work. The people were never so
anxious to vote in all their history, and
| they never were so ready to vote as they
are now. We have been attending school
| for the last nineteen months. 1t has been
| the school of experience. 1t has been a
sort of compulsory education daughter
Nobody has been excluded from its bene-
| fits. Haughter.) And while the tuition
has been free the ultimate cost through
out the country has been very great.
The controversy in this country this
year is as to whether we shall do our own
business under our own flag, or whether
we will give up some Of that business to
some other country under some other
flag. (Applause.) The Republican party
is for our flag (applause) and Republican
protection represents the American mar.
ket and the American workshops Zap
plause) and it believes that both should bt
retained for the American people.
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l do not know what you think about 1t
but / think that the true American spirit
and the true American politics, the policy
that is best for all of us in every relation
or occupation of life Is to make it harder
for the foreign product to get into this
country than to make 1t harder for The
American citizen to live in this country
(Applause) If we do not put on the for
eign product that competes with ours, {
tariff high enough to make up the diff
ference bewwen the wages paid labor IL
Europe and the wages paid labor IL
America, then that difference must b
borne by the workingmen of the United
States. Voices, That is right. woult
rather put 1t on the foreigners produc
than to put 1t on the American working
man. (Applause).