The record-union., 1894-09-29
M'KINLEY ON THE STUMP.
He Addresses Large Audience at
GalliOpOlis, Ohio
HIS SPEECH DEVOTED TO THE
TARIFF QUESTION.
Senator Hill to Open His Guberna-
torial Campaign at Brooklyn-Pre-
monitions of Trouble Between
Out of the Dispute Over the Bound
airy Between the Two Countries.
Special to the REcoRo-USrox.

Special to the REcoRD-USIoN.
GALLIPoLIs (O.l. Sept. Ex-Governor
Mckinley spoke here tonight to a big
audience. Many people came from near
by points to hear him.
In the course of his long address, Gov
ernor Mckinley inquired what indus
tries the tariff law of 1894 created and
what industries it had stimulated, and
said:
Il find answer to my question in a
newspaper dispatch of to-day from Lon
don, furnishing particulars of banquet
given by the Chamber of Commerce OF
London to Mr.. Wilson, member of Con-
gress from West Virginia, whose rugged
hillsides [ see just over the river. Sir
Albert Rollitt, who presided at the BAN
quet, said that Mr.. Wilson's name had
become honored and familiar in Eng
land, and that London in honoring him,
honored itself; that the new tariff law,
While 1t might not have realized the ex-
pectatlons OF its promoters, had already Y
benefited England. Furnaces have been
reopened in Wales and Yorkshire, and
an impetus has been given to the textile
Industries.
This will be cheering news to the
people OF the United States and will bring
comfort to the idle men who FOR a year
have been waiting for the American
mills to reopen. You have not heard of
any commercial body in the United
States, through its spokesman, declare
that any industries in America have
been stimulated by this law, whatever
benefits have gone to other countries.
Nhlle the banquet at London was pro-
ceeding, the Board of Trade at Edinburgh
ont ,lnr
singular absence OF any American dis
patches.
Here Is word of encouragement from
Mr.. Wilson himself given to the meet
ing. He said our protectionists have
been building defenses to keep you and
other nations from competing with us in
our home markets. The tariff reformers
are breaking down these defenses. THAT,
said Governor Mckinley, sis what we OBJ
Ject to. If we do not defend our home
markets against the products of the
cheaper labor of other countries, who
will? Is it any wonder that agents of
the Chamber of Commerce applauded
Mr.. Wilson when be uttered such state
ment? Mr.. Wilson even despairs of free
government, for he says we are being
rapidly sobered, though unappalled, by
the truth forced upon us that of all
human governments a free government
is the most complex, and, judged by the
worlds experience, the NEST uncertain
and shorteSL-lived.
II beg TO assure Mr.. Wilson of West
Virginia that the Government of the
United States, resting. as it does, upon
the free will of a free people, is safe and
secure-quite as secure as the govern
ments that are conducted by the titled
tew-and that free people like ours,
capable of governing themselves, and
having so demonstrated for more than a
hundred years, will be alert enough to
see to it that no industrial policy shall
long continue in this country that will
lower the condition of it's people to the
level OF their European rivals and rob
them of their dignity and independence"