The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1894-09-15

ceived with manifestations of APP
plause. After making his speech in tile
city ball Governor Mckinley addressed
an overflow meeting at the Y. Nj. q.
A. hall. Governor Mckinley prefaced
his address by "a warm tribute to James
G. Blaine and Hannibal Hamliu.
Congress a disappointment.
1.-THE democratic congress aud demo-
cratic president" he said. "have been
running the government for IS months,
during which time little else has been
running. Industry has practically
been stopped. Labor has found little
employment, and when employed 1t
has been at greatly reduced wages.
Both the government and the people
have been running in debt. The total
losses TO the country in busi-
ness, properly and wages are beyond
human calculation. Congress has dis.
appointed the people, trfled with the
sacred trust confided TO it, excited dis.
trust and disgust among their constit-
uents aud impaired their investments.
Pledged to overthrow our long con-
tinued policy of protection. they have
quarreled and compromised, and
upon their own testimony, have been
compromised. The result of their long
wrnngle is tariff law which even
those who made il apologize for 1t. A
law of which the house Of representa-
tives was so thoroughly ashamed that
they had no sooner passed it than they
made haste to seek its immediate
amendment by passing supplementary
bills which put sugar, coal,
lead, iron and barbed wire on
the free list. A law which
was characterized, before its passage,
hy the greatest leaders in Inc demo
cratic party and the senior senator
from New York as violation of
democratic pledges aud principles
and which was denounced by the off.
cial head of the government as such all
act of party perfidy and party dis
honor that if the house should at last
concur in IL 'thev would not dare to
look the people OF the country in the
face and which the executive still
condemns, since their surrender, as the
very communism OF pelf.
Reviewed Tariff Legislation.
Governor Mckinley then gave the
history of the new tariff legislation.
He said the manner of making the bill
should condemn il. "It was traded
| through without regard to principle,
public policy, public interest or public
morals. They gave Senator Murphy
| his duty on collars and cuff. They
gave the senators from Tennessee, Ala
bama, Virginia aud West Virginia a
duty on coal and iron. They gave the
senators from Louisiana and else where
and the great sugar trust the duty de-
manded on sugar. They gave the pop.
ulists the income tax, but did not give
Senator Brice a protective tariff on
wool for his constituents, for the sena-
tor did not demand II. 1t gives some
protection. IL has some free trade IN
IL here and some there, but mostly in
the north. There is tariff on peanuts
but free trade in cotton ties. There is
tariff on sumac. but free trade on wool
There is a tariff on mica, but free trad
in lumber. In every schedule there i
the grossest exhibition of sectionalisn
and unjust discrimination"
New Tariff Deadly to the Wool Grower
Governor Mckinley was especial.
severe in his characterize ton Of Ih
case Of the Louisiana representatives
who were promised protection for thei
sugar interests and then left on
in the cold. He devoted considerabl
time TO a comparison of the tariff bill
+ of 1890 with the new law, to the ad
vantage of the former. THE Law c
+. 1894, he said, "has struck the farme
] right and left. He has been shown n
= mercy whatever. The deadliest bloN
is against the wool grower"
The concluding portion of the ad
y dress was the arraignment of the den
It ocratic party for what were describe
$ as its false pretenses, for its treacher
d to pensioners of the Union army an
I navy and for its incapacity to condut
q the affairs of the nation.
= AN ARMIsTICE REPORTED.