The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-09-09
HAvsmEYER LAW CONDEMNED.
Diseriminates Against the North and
Is Cruel 20 the Farmer.
III the Next Congress ls Democratic
Basiaes. win Continue TO Es rarai-
yned by the Cncsrsaiasy = LoaisiAn.
Tsrniag Eepubifcae.

Ia tAks A0Ah ~ sfe~SA ~ Wv AAti-
ley. Of Ohio. Long before the time ad-
vertised for the opening Of the meeting
the hall was alled 20 suftocation.
Every seat Was occupied and many were
obliged To stand up. and at least loo were
turned away. Al least :. 500 people heard
the speech, which Was received with
manifestations OF applause. showing
that even in this quiet cam
peign interest in national affairs Is
strong IN Eastern Maine. After making
his speech In the city hall Gov. Mckinley
addressed an overflow meeting a. Y NJ. C.
A. hall. At the city hail meeting Con-
gresham Boutelle presided and made a
speech. Gov. Mckinley prefaced his al
dress by warm tributes to James e. Blade
and Hannibal Hamlln. He said:
The Democratic congress has been run
ming the government for eighteen months,
during which time little else has been
running. Industry has practically been
stopped. Labor has Band little en-
pioymsnt, and when employed, il has
been at greatly reduced wages.
Both the government and people have
been draining their reserves, and both
have been running in debt. The govern
ment has suffered IN ITS revenues. and
the people IN their incomes. The total
losses 10 the country in bushes,
property and wages are beyond human
calculation. There has been no cessation
In loss OF wealth and wages; no content
ment. brightness or hope has anywhere
appeared. The appeals To charity have
never been SO numerous and incessant,
nor the necessity everywhere so manifest.
Congress has disappointed the people,
trifed with the sacred trust coniided to it.
excited distrust and disgust among its
constituents and impaired their invest
ments. Pledged, ii platforms mean any
thing. 10 overthrow our long continued era
OF protection. they have qnarreled and
compromised. and upon their own testi-
mony have been compromised. The re-
suit of the long wrangle is tariff law
with which nobody is satisfied "a law
which even those who made il apologize
for; law which the chairman of the
committee on ways and means. and almost
the entire Democratic side of the house,
condemned by yea aud nay vote only
iew days before its passage. affirming their
intention in the most solemn manner not
TO permit il to be enacted; q Law which
factions of the Democratic party are
agreed Is the work of monstrous
trust, which Chairman Wilson confessed
in the house, amid the applause of his
coutederates. with deep chagrin, Held
congress by the throat law of which the
house was so thoroughly ashamed that /,
had no sooner passed il than IL
made hot haste to seek its immediate
amendment by passing supplementary
bills which put sugar. coal, lead. iron and
barbed wire on the free list, under threats
OF still further similar assaults on the
much disturbed and distressed industries
of the country, utterly needless of the stu
pendous ruin they had already wrought: a
ias which the president condemned before
"a g. A..
he withheld his approval; alaw which was
characterized, before its passage, by the
greatest leader in the Democratic party
and the senior senator from New
York. as a violation of Democratic
pledges and principles and which
was denounced by the official head of the
government as such an act of party per-
fidy and party dishonor' that II the house
should at last concur in ii they would not
dare TO look the people of the country in
the face. and which the executive stilI
condemns since their surrender as the
very communism Of pelf.
The president, IN his letter TO Congress-
man Caschings, said: The millions of
our countrymen who have fought brsvely
and we'll for tariff reform. not accepting this
bill as passed, must be ex pected to continue
this struggle. boldly challenging to open
warfare and constantly guarding against
camp, and yet he permitted the bin TO
become q law. lacking the moral courage
to veto IL. III the country were
disposed to accept this bill! as
final and adjust business to IT,
the party In power would not have
10 so. They have so declared with bold
ness and unanimity. This means, unfor-
tunateiy. constant agitation until the
4th dav of March, 1888, al the least. aud
for two years longer after that. unless
the people in the congressiona al
elections this year make the house
Republican, in which event no further
wrec king of onr industries or interferencs
with the labor OF our people can occur
during the administration of President
Cleveland. What will your verdict be %
Gov. Mckinley then gave q history of
the new tariff legislation. He said the
bill as it passed the house would have Gre
ated. according to the estimates hs had
seen Of its revenus-raising power, a def
cheney of from 100000 20 $50. :
OF, 900. The '.self-constituted adjustment
COMMITTEES" of the senate, 10 which
the bill vas entrusted after IL came back
from the senate finance COMMITTEES. was
unknown 10 the constitution. unauthor-
lied by the rules Of the senate or by party
caucus, traditions or customs The man
ner Of the making Of the bill should con-
denim ii. 1t was traded through without
regard to principle. public poiicy, public
interest or public morals. Gov McKin-
ley continued:
The adjusting COMMITTEES went over the
whole list Of senators very patiently. They
gave Senator Mgrphy his duty on collars
and cuffs; they gave the senators from
Tennessee, Alabama. Virginia and
Wess Virginia the duty on coal
and iron ore; they gave 10 sen
ators from Louisiana and elsewhere
and the great sugar trust of the country
the daty demanded on sugar: fhey gave
the Popalists the income tar. buf did not
give senator BFice. of uAIo. = protective
tariff on wool for bis Ohio constituents,
for The senator did nos demand IT lie
SAYS he dad not. tie does net tel Is what
concessions were made - him, nor by
whom they we're made, but the people IF
Oh&o, looking upon Their distressed in
dRstries. have faily determined that nos
one Of them has received considera-
ton AZ bis hands. The Ast gives some
protection IL has some free trade in
u here and some there. but mostly
here IN the NoTth. There = A szri. on
peanuts, bat free trade IA cotton ties.
there IL q tariff on sauaae. bat Tree trade
on wool; there j. q terl8 on mica
bu. tree trade on -fnnlher la every
schednle there - the grosssSf ex B ihition Of
section aiisna and unjust discrimination. =
Gov. Mckinley Was especially severe
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