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Mckinley 'on the Tariff! !
Powerful Presentation Of Political
Issues at Bangor.

Ohio's great governor was in Maine
last week, and was everywhere received
with enthusiastic demonstrations of ap-
proval in his remarks. At Bangor he
scored the Democracy right and left, but
the criticisms were not his own words
the1President and Congress had given
him an immense fund to draw from, an
opportunity he was not slow to avail
himself of. Following is resume of his
great speech, Saturday:
RUNNING IN DEBT,
"The Democratic President and Dem.
ocratic Congress 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 re-
duced wages. Both Government and
people have been draining their reserves,
and both have been running in debt.
The Government has suffered in it's rev.
enues and the people in their incomes.
The total losses to the country in bust
ness, property and wages; are beyond
human calculation. There has been no
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wages; no contentment, brightness or
hope has anywhere appeared Discon-
| tent and distress have been universal.
The appeals to charity have never been
so numerous and lncessant, nor their ne
cessity everywhere so manifest.
Congress has disappointed the
people, trifled with the sacred trust con-
| fided to it, excited distrust and disgust
among their constituents and impaired
their enterprises and investments. In al
most continuous session for thirteen
monthsi they have done nothing but ag-
gravate the situation. Pledged. if plat
forms mean anything, to overthrow our
long continued policy of protection, they
have quarreled and compromised, and,
upon their own testimony, have been
compromised.
WORK OF A TRUST.
1.-THE result of their long wrangle is d
tariff law with which no body is satisfied.
| A law which even those who made it
apologize for. A law which the chair
man of the Committee on Ways and
Means and almost the entire Democratic
side of the House condemned by yea
and nay vote only few days before its
passage, affirming their intention, in the
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be enacted. A law which was never ap-
proved by majority of either the House
Committee on Ways and Means or the
Senate Committee of Finance, who were
charged with the preparation and man.
agement of the bill. A law which all
factions of the Democratic party agree is
the work of monstrous trust, which
Chairman Wilson confessed in the House,
amid the applause of his confederates,
with deep chagrin and humiliation,
held Congress by the throat
ga law which never received the delib-
crate consideration of the Conference
Committee, and was not withdrawn by
the Senate only because of the forced
and hurried action of the House in ac-
cepting it, under the threat of the agents
of the trusts that it was that or nothing,
and in all probability nothing. A law
which since its passage, the majority of
the Senators have rushed swiftly for
ward to renounce and condemn, although
they are responsible for its passage.
GUERILLA BILLS.
"a law of which the House of Repre-
sentatives were so thoroughly ashamed
| that they had no sooner passed it than
they made not haste to seek its immedi-
ate amendment passing supplementary
bills which put their fairfield sugar, coal,
lead, iron and barbed wire on the free
list, under threat of still further similar
| assaults on the much disturbed and dis
tressed industries of the country, utterly
needless of the stupendous ruin they had
already wrought. A law which the Pres
ident condemned before its passage, and
from which, when passed, he withheld
| his approval. A law which was charac-
terized before its passage, by the great
est leader in the Democratic party, the
senior Senator from New Y ork, as "a vio-
lation of Democratic pledges and princi-
ples,' and which was denounced by the
official head of the government as such
an act of party perfidy and party dishon-
or that, if the House should at last con-
cur in it, they 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 com
munism of pelf.'
"Those who believe that the present
Administr alton was to settle the tariff
question and take it out of the domain
of politics and public discussion, have
already discovered their fatal mistake,
for they find that even those who made
the law spurn it as settlement. 1t is a
settlement where the participants-those
who projected and carried it on-boldly
declare either that it is no settlement, or,
if anything, a spurious one. After Is
months useless agitation, not yet con-
tent with the vast ruin they have
wrought, they are still unwilling to give
the business interests of the country
any rest or relief, but continue and con-
stanUly renew the threat of still other
and more hurtful changes in our tariff
schedules.
CLEvELAND's BoAsTING.
Even the President himself, in his
letter to Congressman Catchings of
Mississippi, says: The millions of our
countrymen who have fought bravely
and we'll for tariff reform mot accepting
this billy should be exhorted to continue
the struggle, boldly challenging to open
warfare and constantly guarding against
treachery and half-heartedness in their
camp And who while he permitted
the bill to become law, lacking the
moral courage to veto it, yet boastingly
announces: