The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-04-06
M'KINLEY SPEAKS.
Addresses an Audience Of Fellow
Republicans at Minneapolis
ABLE AND CONVINCING ARGUMENT.
Reaff1rms the Principles of the Party ana
Predicts Republican Triumph - The
Lesson the Past Year and Demo-
cratic Success Have Taught
the People.

following able address IN minneapolis,
Mimi, on the evening of March IS, 1894.
The great republican orator said:
Mr. PRESIDENT, GENTLEMEN OF TIE RE-
PUBIICAN LEAGUE OF MINNESOTA ATO Eel
Low-CITIZESs: Much has happened since the
or, at republican national convention OF 1872
Assembled in this hail The platform and can
dkdstes Of that great convention. admirable as
they were were rejected by the people at the
election following: but the people had no
sooner spoken than they' realized their great
mistake mistake which they now feel most
sens.bly and regret most deeply The prtnci-
piles enunciated at that convention we're true
then: they are true now. They are as dear to
republicans now as then Sheyare better under
stood and more ardenty supported by the
great body Of the people IN the year 1873 than
they were il the year 1892. While the repub-
lican party failed TO carry the election the
cause for which it contended did not fail II
survived the awful disaster and shines more
brightly and glOriously than ever before
The past year has been long one-rhe long
est since the war. II has been full OF changes
and experiences which have been impressive
and instructive but expensive All kinds OF
business have been seriously disturbed In
vestments have been sacrificed; capital has
been despoiled Of its earnings, and labor. more
than all and dearer TO US than all, has sue
cumbed TO the wasting blasts OF the great
change by which industry has been cheated OF
fits Just rewards Everything has suffered but
the republican cause Everything has been
bliehted but republican principles They have
escaped the mildew which has settled upon
everything else. Even the democratic party'has
sufered-a calamity We could bear with resig-
nation If il had not also carried in its train the
vast and sacred tnterestS.of the people.
What we're the great principles and policies
then enunciated in this hall: Let me enumerate
them: A protective tariff, which shall serve
the highest interests OF American labor and
American development; reciprocity which.
while seeking the worlds markets for our sur
plus products, shall not destroy American
wages, nor surrender American markets for
products which can be made at home; the use
of both gold and silver with which TO meas ure
the exchanges of the people and cheat nobody;
honest elections. which are the true sources OF
public authority: the extension OF our for
-eign commerce; the restoration OF our mer-
chant marine by home-built ships; the creation
OF a navy for the protection Of our national in
terests and the honor Of our flag; the mainten-
snce OF the most friendly relations with all for
-eign powers and entangling alliances with
none the reaffirmation OF the Monroe doctrine,
and Of our faith in the achievement OF the
manifest destiny OF the republic as the best
government OF earth in the broadcast and truest
sense
would reverse this declared policy: Who
would strike from the republican banner
single star or stripe: Like all republican doc
trlnes. they are Interchangeable upon them the
republican party bases its claim to future su-
premacy and impatienuy awaits the constitu-
tional opportunity to make its appeal TO the
people
contest since the war in which il has succeeded,
By campaign OF prOfuse and glittering prom
ises- II now stands demoralized on the field Of
performance, and has so far signally failed to
redeem single pledge il made 10 the people
1t has been for many years denouncing the
tariff because some men became rich under its
operations and Others poor The first year OF
democratic control has cured all that, and the
prescription has proved quite as effective on
the poor the rich, for IL has involved them
al in common loss What devastation and
distress have been wrought in a single year!
Let the briefest statement OF the business
condition at the close OF the year 1892 be con-
trasted with a like statement OF that condition
he of 1897 - Dun'S
Review OF Trade, the best bipartisan author
fly, has been the most prosperous ever known
of thirty years OF republican rule Now mark
the change! Says Duns Review OF Trade Tor
1888:
starting with the largest trade ever known.
mills crowded with work and all business
stimulated by high hopes, the year 1898 has
proven in sudden shrinkage OF trade in COM
mercial disaster and the depression OF indus
tries the worst for fifty years. Whether the
final results Of the panic of 1887 were relatively
more severe, the scanty records OF that time
do not clearly show. The year closes with
prices Of many products the lowest ever
known, with millions Of workers seeking in
vain for work. and with charity laboring to
keep back suffering and starvation in all our
cities AL hope that the new year may bring
brighter days, but the dying year leaves only
dismal record The review OF different de-
partments OF trade given to-day exhibits
collapse OF industry and business which is al
most without precedent The iron industries
sustained a weekly production OF 1851
the output had fallen to 7Sss5 tons, and
the recovery to about 10000 tons De-
cember l stu leaves - per cent; OF the
ufactories are idle and, excepting q brief recov-
cry in November, have been ever since new
wool came in in May for all sales IN the chief
markets in the eight months have been but
lo6, 7e5, $50 pounds, partly for speculation, the
price having fallen 20 per cent for feeces 70
the lowest point ever known, against 2l2, $50 OO9
pounds in the same months last year. Sales Of
cotton goods are fully one fourth below the
usual quantity. The small advance attempted
in boots and shoes year ago was not sustained.
boots and shoes from Boston are "a per cent
less than last year in December. Not only man
ufactured goods as whole, but the most i'm
portant farm products are so low that farmers
ind little comfort Of1cial and other reports
deluded traders with the notion that crops OF
last year we're so short that famine prices could
be realized"
To add to the perplexities Of the situation
under the menace Of free trade here described.
the Wilson bill which recently passed the
house Of representatives at Washington and is
now In the hands OF the senate, proposes os-
tensibly TO reduce the revenue s76oo0O0 The
real decrease would eventually. after we be
came more and more impoverished, be far
greater. This is al time when the expenses
of the government far exceed It's receipts and
when by reason OF such q condition the secre-
PEELED to sell s5OOOO,oOO OF government
hi, x'A su. ise m q bond
issuing 70 relieve the daily wants OF the gov
ment The sum OF sc, 0O0, 600 which IL Is pro
man one third Of the entire sum received from
customs In the last fiscal year. This reduction
Is made upon the theory Of the democratic free
densome taxation Whether Il does or not de-
ponds But OF one thing We are certain: II has
relieved the people OF emplosment Of work, OF
wages, OF prosperity and OF penty-and some
of them 81 their homes The blessings of good
wages, good prices and good times are more TO
be desired than the proposed relief from So
called Cumbersome taxation Such 6 RELIEF is
Before considering this measure in detail,
let Us briefly review our tariff legislation II
Is worth something 70 Us all 10 know what the
founders OF the republic thought and did II
is inspiring 10 US 10 know from history that our
earliest legislation upon economic questions
was not manned bv sectionalism- nor framed
upon geographical lines, but Was prompted by
the Hottest patriotism and marked by nation
a. sentiment as broad as the country. The first
protective tariff law in our history "a law that
was approved by Washington had tor its au-
thor James Madison. OF Virginia known and
revered as the Father OF the Constitution
weIlknown southern statesmen as Richard
Henry Lee, the friend and eulogist Of Wash
fngton: Charles Carroll, OF Carrollton; Abra-
ham Baldwin and James Jackson. OF Georgia:
-Theodoric Bland and John Brown. OF Virginia;
Hugh Williamson and John Sewer, Of North
roll Of MARYLAND: George Read and John Vim
Ing. Of Delaware; Ralph lizard. Thomas Tudor
Tucker and Thomas Sumter, OF South Carolina
These men had for the most part been sol
-diers OF the revolution and members OF the
convention which framed the constitution.
They held protective legislation 10 be essential
70 our Industrial independence and progress
and knowing something OF the constitution
did not hold such legislation 70 be an infraeuon
of that instrument
A still more strongly protective law was en-
scIed in I791, and IL IS a significant fact that
of the thirty-nine votes given FOR the bll
tvenry-one were from the southern thirteen
from the MIDDLE and five from the New Eng
land states Its advocates included most OF
the southern leaders already named ana James
Monroe, Of Virginia The early laws which in
sugurated the policy Of the government hac
the approval OF three presidents. all from tbs
eouth-Wa hington Madison and Monroe %
the thirteen votes against the law nine were
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