The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1894-02-23
M.KINLEy AT COLUMBUS.
Speech Delivered Before the Republican
League Of Ohio


neither che 'rful nor attractive. The pause I'm
our prosperity IL i,arent and has given occa-
sion as we'll rs oppoi tun tv for reflection. The
past year has been one of compulsory educa-
tion. J he country has witnessed much and
learned much While Congress is at work
vising the tariff. the peorle are at work revis-
ing their views. While the r p~esentatives OF
the people are madly struggling to execute
the election DEGREES of 90 they interpret
them, the people "a mady repudiating
their own action OF that year and condemn
ing the Interpretation which their represe ia
tives place upon the votes which gave them
power.
The eleoti ms Of 800 Gi not can free trade
any more than they meant the free and unlim-
tied coinage OF silver; nd IL it could be ac-
curdteiy ascertained IL ould be found that
States for Grover Cleveland ond the Demo-
cratic Representatives In Con ross than the
free trade plank in the national Democratic
@sshnpion woald eieet the fG@st
doctrine "a they have already The free
coinage doctrine they might emphasize
party professions and sdd another TO their
manv Inconsistencies: but in doing so they
bu siness sagacity, their finansia wisdom and
their true American spirit The repeal OF the
Sherman law. so called. did not bring the re-
much of evil il may have averted do not stop
to discuss. 1t is certain that business distress
Is felt even more oppressively now than when
the silver law was in force and before Congress
was called in special session.
Expensive school of Experience.
The people are inst now feeling politics.
They are having an object lesson One which
furnishes practical demons,ration. we ere
the scholarship rare. ihe expense Is enor-
nous. THE school of events" as Lincoln
called IL, has many Graz yates just now
1t is a singular anomaly that the people.
the source OF all rover in this country, are
power.ess to help I'll emseves and have been
since the election or lS9?. It is condition
where the peoples represent atives are legis-
lating against the interests and opinion or
the people and the latter have no ediate
power to revoke their commissions or dis
charge them from their service. They must
suffer for their own acts and the acts OF their
agents and must submit until the relation or
principal and agent is terminated by law.
They cannot displace their public servants
until the legal pliod for which they were
chosen has expired. They can assert their
power at the next election and not before and
at that time can retire their represent atives
and select new ones who will carry out their
will.
it Is to be regretted that the people must so
long wait. so long suffer. and suffer from their
own agents; but as this IL government OF
law, the Poop e, who are the sovereiRns, must
submit to the law. The lesson however. dear
as 1t has been to the country and It's vast in
terests may be useful. 1t NIL teach us all
and that their effect does not end on the day or
election, but continues through the legal and
constitutional term fOr winch PreSlCenU ana
Congress are elected and cannot tie ended
sooner and 1t teaches rs also that small and
extraneous matters. local diss ensious and per-
sonal and section al prejudces should not con-
troll In great public elections which involve
great principles and questions of grave public
policy.
people are SUPP eme and the officers their ser
wants. The situation now is OF e where the
servant Is supreme and the master Is tempo
Congress, but that has no influence. That
makes no impression.
Burden OF "a Bonded Debt
There is another anomaly in the situation
to-day. While Congress in engaged in reduc
of the same political faith Congress, is
increasing the revenues by what 1t calls tenn
porary loans; Congress Is professedly
dens, and Cleveland is adding to their burdens
by fastening upon them bonded debt Of s5O,-
100000 1t does not seem to occur to the lead.
ers of the Democratic party that the bonds or
the Government, bearing per cent. interest.
are a burden quite as oppressive as any sys-
some time have to be paid and that the
only means of paying them Is through
taxation. They seem to regard it as
like to pay the current expenses of the
Government by bonding the Government as
by raising the money by taxation. But what
reduce the tariff, and must do it, even II il in
terrupts the prosperity OF the country and in
wolves an increase In the public debt That
the receipts OF the Government are falling
short of the needs OF the Government does not
stop them In their career of tariff reform. In
deed this condition is q free trade sequence.
and has always. in our history, followed the
inauguration of free trade or a tariff-for-reve-
-enly policy.
Of the government they are reducing the in
comes of the people. and the government aud
the people are getting poorer at the same time
trade measure Is not only diminishing the oc-
equations and wages OF the people, but IL Is
diminishing the value of the peoples invest
ments. Every,variety Of property has shrunk
in value since the party of tariff reform
entered upon it's possession of the gov
every stock and bond = from govern
ment to municipal bond-has felt the de-
preciating influence OF the threatened free
trade. They have diminished everything but
the peoples debts. These go on. The people
want change and they want il bad. They
want it sooner than they ever dreamed they
would want IL; and they never wanted TO vote
so badly in all their history as they do to-day.
They are tired of their contract before the
period OF its legal termination.
They are tired of this tsriff-tinkering. bond
issuing. debt increasing. treasury depicting,
business par alyzing, wage-reducing, queen
restoring administration.
Country Hasn't Long to Wait.
The country will not, however, have long to
wait-too long fear, for many interests-un-
til 1t can commence the work of ousting In
November next the people will have a chance
to deal with the House Of Repre- entatives.
and remembering what the people have done
in their majesty, beginning last November
In Iowa, Massachusetts,, New York, New
Jersey, Kansas, Illinois, and Ohio
and in Chicago in December and In
New York City in January, we cannot be
mistaken as to what they will do next Novem-
ber The Democratic House will be changed
into Republican House. Free trade DONNA
tion will give way TO n protection majority
British policy will be dethroned and genuine
Americanism entbroned: and the final work
will be completed In November, 'g6, in the res
toration OF the Republican party, which
through pique and passion and prejudice wac
hurled from power in 90.
The true Ameri an sentiment cannot be
trampled upon with impunity and when so
trampled upon the national spirit swiftly as
serts it's mastery. The people of the United
States have not lost love Tor their own coun-
try; and having for thirty years enjoyed the
benefits and blessings resulting from genu-
Inc American policy and having had less than
years experience with the other and the un-
American policy practi ed by the present adj
ministration they will as speedily as constf-
tutional opportunity offers displace the one
and reinstate the other.