The morning call., 1894-09-26
OPEN THE FIGHT.
Harrison and Mckinley on
the Stump.
TRUTH FOR DEMOCRATS
Told in Fashion That Is Wonder
fully Telling.
LEARNED TALK ON THE TARIFF.
The Worst Is That Yet Further AS
Sauits Upon American Indus
tries Are Threatened.


Z lnley of Ohio opened the Republican
in this State to-day. He was
introduced to an audience that packed
Tomlinson Hall by ex-President Harrison.
with great enthusiasm.
In Introducing Major Mckinley to his
audience ex-President Harrison said:
MY fellow-citizens: The delightful
Central Committee of the Repu blican
party of Indiana to preside over this great
meeting. l am to be its chairman, not its
speaker, and l congratulate you on that
fact lLaughter.l
1.-TWO years ago this country was not
ouly the most prosperous country in the
world-for that it had been before-but it
stood upon the highest pinnacle of pros
perity that 1t had ever attained. [Cheers. !
This is not the verdict OF politicians, it
is the verdict ofthe commercial reports; it
is the expressed opinion of those men who
make a profession of studying business
conditions. The last two years have been
years of distress and disaster; the losses
of them defy the skill of the calculator.
1t has been said, and think not without
reason, that they exceed the cost of the
great civil war. These losses have not
been class losses, they have been distrib-
uied.
''The holder of stocks and bonds has
found bis wealth shrinking and so has the
farmer as the workingman has found his
wages shrinking. There has been a gen.
eTal PARTICIPATION in the cnlamities of the
past two years. as there was a general
participation in the prosperity OF the pre-
ceding years. Great national losses, like
those of the civil war, have sometimes
their adequate compensations. Great as
was the civil war for the Uuon, we feel
that it was adequately compensated in the
added glory that was given TO the flag and
in the added security that was given to
our civil institutions and the unity of the
nation. CCheers.1
''But the losses of the last two years
have 90 such compensating thought.
There is no good to be gotten out of them
[laughter] except for guidance. They
seem to lave been OF a retributive nature.
Like the swamp. into which traveller was
li0rating suggestion except that they teach
him to keep on the foothills and on the
roads that are on the hilltops.
"We we're told the rich were getting
richer and the poor poorer, and to cure
! hat imaginary i'll our political opponents
have brought in time in which every
body is getting poorer. [GTeat applause. !
think l remember to have heard once of
an inscription on a tombstone that ran
something like this:
Il was well; [ thought to be better; l
took medicine, and here ie.'
''0ur Democratic friends have passed a
tariff bill that is approved. so far as / can
learn, by six Democratic Senators and by
nobody else. Mr.. Cleveland has repudi-
aled it and has declared that it involves
perfidY and dishonor, that it was so
shameful in its character and influences
that he would not even put his name to
it. All the leading Democratic papers in
the country have condemned it, both of the
old stalwart variety and of the mugwump
variety.
''The Democratic chairman of the Ways
and Means Committee has condemned it
and the entire Democratic majority in the
House of Representatives condemn 1t.
Now that is a great misfortune. 1t is a
that the Democratic parry was
not able TO evolve tariff Ill that the party
would accept as a settlement Of the tariff
question. But it is not accepted as settle
ment. Already we have a proclamation
from Mr.. Cleveland and Mr.. Wilson that
this is only the beginning of the crusade
against American industries.
''Now that is also great misfortune, If
we could have been told by our Demo-
cratic friends that we were at the bottom
of the well-dark. damp and dismal-we
would have begun TO look up TO see
whether we could not find some star of
hope. We would have begun to anoint
our bruises and try TO build some scaffold
by which we might climb out. But we
are told there are lower depths in store for
u.s., So this country is to be held in
state of suspense.
1T can be ended In just one way. and
that is by an overwhelming Republican
in November. When New York
gives Levi p. Morton $4,000 majority and
Indiana her State ticket 25, 600, and illinois
and those States that have wavered fall
again into the line and the next Congress
is Republican. there will be an assurance
that we have found the end of this disas
trous condition. TCheers.l
81 think the Ohio Democrats the other
day declared all these disasters of which
we speak came upon the country under
the Mckinley bill. Well. to be sure, the
bill was law until the 29.h day
of August, when the German bill was
passed. 1t had been arrested. We were
listening from day to day to prophecies
that in from two weeks to three or four
that it would bs repealed.
1T was not law in any sense that any
or manufacturer could act upon
it. 1t was dead in business sense. though
alive on the statute books. Why, sir. it
would be just about as reasonable to COM
plain Of a man who had been arrested.
and locked up in cell for not
his family as TO complain that
the Mckinley bill did not give prosperity
during this period of suspense
And then we are told that under the Me-
Kinley bill the price Of wool went down and
that since it has been made free it is going
up; that sugar on the free list was higher
than sugar at 40 ner cant dutv ond ali