The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1894-09-13
SAID 4. | BY M''.KINLEY.
THE TARIFF BILL RIPPED UP THE
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THE TARIFF BILL RIPPED UP THE
The Apostle of Protection Open. the
Republican n Campaign In Maine
and Devotes His Attention to the
Tariff Bill Passed by the Demo.
cratic Congress. !.
4 Bangor, Me-, Sept. S.-The greatest au-
dience ever gathered in Dorchester county
at political meeting assembled in the
town to listen to Gov. Mckinley Of Ohio.
Long before the time advertised for the
opening of the meeting the hall was filled
to suffocation. Every seat was occupied
and hundreds We're obliged to stand and
at least thousand were turned away.
Fully $500 people heard he speech, which
was received with manifestations Of ap-
prevail, showing that even in this quiet cam
paign interest in national affairs is strong
in Eastern Maine. After making his speech
in the city hall, Gov Mckinley addressed
an overflow meeting at Y. M. C. A. hall.
At the city hall meeting, Congressman
Boutelle presided and made a speech
q Gov. Mckinley prefaced his address by
warm tribute to James G. Blaine and Han
nibal Hamlin. The Democratic president
and Democratic congress, he said, have been
running the government for eighteen
months, during which time little else has
been running. Industry has been practically
stopped. Labor has found little employment
and when employed it has been at greatly
reduced wages. Both government and peo-
pie have been draining their reserves and
both have been running in debt. The gov
eminent has suffered in it's 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, bright
ness or hope had anywhere appeared The
appeals to charity have never been SO
numerous and incessant and their necessity
everywhere manifest. Congress has dis
appointed the people, tri1ed with the sacred
trust confided to it, excited distrust and
disgust among their constituents and i'm
paired their investments. .EE
Pledged, If platforms mean anything, to
overthrow our long continued policy of
protection, they have quarrelled and COM
promised, and upon their own testimony
have been compromised. The result of
their long wrangle Is a 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 almost the entire Democratic side Of
the house condemned by yea and nay vote,
only afew days before its passage affirming
their intention in the most solemn manner
not to permit it to be enacted; a law which
all factions Of the Democratic party are
agreed is e..
The Work of :, Monstrous Trust,
which Chairman Wilson confessed in the
house, amid the applause of his confreres
with deep chagrin, 'held congress by the
throat the law which the house of repre-
sentatives We're SO thoroughly ashamed of
that ttnxv had
they made hot haste to seek it's Immediate
amendment by passing supplementary bills
which put their fairfield sugar, coal, lead
threat of still further similar assaults Ga
the much disturbed and distressed indus
tries OF the country, utterly needless of
the stupe1ldous ruin they had already
denned before its passage and from which,
when passed, he withheld his approval;
law which was characterized, before its
Democratic party, the. senior senator from
New York, as violation of Democratic
pledges and Principles" and which was
and party dishonor'' that if tie house
should at least concur in it "they would
not the rs &c oen es O. county,
condemns since their surrender as the Every
communism Of pelf." .a II,
''The millions of orr countrymcn Who
have fought br1vely and we'll for thrift
expected to continue this struggle boldly
challenging to open warfare and constantly
guarding: against treachsry and half-heart-
he permitted the bill to become law,
lacked the moral courage to veto it. If the
country was disnosed to accept. this bill
as final and could adjust bust
have it so. They have so declared with
holiness and unanimity. This means, I'M
fortunately,
A Constant Agitation
until the, 18th day Of March, 1895, at the
unless the people In the congressional cleo
lions this year make the house Republican.
our Industries or, interference with the
labor of our people can occur during the
administration Of President Cleveland.
VIZ" GOV Nc Mckinley then gave We history of the
new tariff legislation. He said the bill as
it passed the house would have ma created &C,
from s1S!snsy
senate, to which the Bill was entrusted after
it came back from the senate finance com
mittee, was, unknown to the constitution,
or by party caucus. tradition or custom.
The manner of the making of the bill
should condemn 1t.
to principle, public interest or public NOR
ais. 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
ore, they gave to the senators from Louis
lana and elsewhere and the great sugar
trust Of the country the duty demanded on
sugar, they gave
The PopuIist Income Tax,
but did not give Senator Brice protective
tariff on wool for his Ohio constituents,
for the senator did not demand it. He says
he did not. He does not tell US what CON
cessions were made to him nor by whom
they were made, but the people Of Ohio,
looking upon their distressed industries,
have fully determined that no one Of them
received one consideration at his hands. 1t
gives some protection. 1t has some free
trade In 1t here, and some there, but mostly
here In the North. There is a tariff on pea
nuts, but free trade in cotton ties; there is
tariff on sumac, but free trade in wool.
There is a tariff on mica, but free trade in
lumber. In every schedule there is the
grossest exhibition Of sectionalism and
unjust discrimination. s. -
GOV. Mckinley was especially severe in
his characterization Of the case of the.
Louisiana representative who were promised
protection for their sugar inter