The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-10-21
CALLING THE ROLL
NATIONS FOR PROTECTION ARE
STOOD UP AND COUNTED
Tariff Revenue an Almost Exclusive
ly English Institution-Protectio
Doctrine Heard With EagernesS
in New Orleans-Mckinley Starts
for Virginia.

| NEW ORLEANS, Oct. Ex-Governor Nc
| Kinley addressed AN audience of not less
1900 people tonight in the big auditorium.
| There were comparatively small proper
tion of negroes, the audience being COM
posed IN the main of business men of
New Orleans and neighborinG parishes.
and was conspicuously an intelligent and
appreciative gathering which was entirely
liberal with its applause and discrimina-
ting in its bestowal. The platform was
profusely decorated with sugar cane. Hon.
L. j. Benham, chairman of the Republi-
can state committee presided and intro
duced Governor Mckinley, who spoke at
much length. The substance of his ad-
dress was:
81 come here at the invitation of the Re-
publican committee of Louisiana to ad-
dress you upon public question of great
| national Importance, which concerns alike
not only the prosperity of your section,
state or locality. but all sections and parts
| OF our common country.
FIFTY YEARS VERSUS FoTRY- SEVEN.
From 1883 to 1892, period of 1O3 years,
there has been forty-seven years when a
|
vailed, and fifty-six under the protective
| policy, and noteworthy fact is that the
most progressive and prosperous periods
OF our history were during the years when
| the protective party was in control and
| protective tariffs were maintained, and
the most disastrous years were during the
free trade OF revenue tariff years of our
| history.
''The foreign market for agricultural
I n = Of h. u Il
| trade. If it ever had any real substance as
against good home market, that has long
! since disappeared. We have free trade
| among ourselves. throughout our forty
four states and territories. That is be-
| cause we are one family, one country. We
are one nation, have one standard of citi-
Zsnshlp, one flag, one constitution, one
destiny. That is why we have free trade
| among ourselves. Our relations with for
| eIgn states are necessarily different from
| our relations with one another. They are
our commercial rivals. We deny to those
| foreign states trade with Us upon the same
terms we enjoy ourselves.
CALL THE ROLL OF THE NATIONS.
Here in the south you people have been
Offering freedom from taxation for ten,
| fifteen or twenty years to those who would
BRING their capital here and invest 1t in
productive enterprises. With all this
work going on the leaders of the Demo
cratic party are proposing to tear down
our protective tariff and inundate this
| country with foreign products to displace
those which these very manufacturers
propose to make and which the people are
willing to tax themselves to establish
Call the roll OF the nations. Which
are for protection? Germany, France,
Italy, Spain, Mexico. Canada, South
America, Portugal, Denmark, Australia,
Switzerland. Austria and Hungary, Russia
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States of America. Which are against
protection? England, New South Wales
and New Zealand.
Tariff for revenue only, or tariff reform,
Is almost exclusively an English Institu-
ton.
UTTERLY IGNORED AND FORGOTTEN.
"How stand the people of the world
on this question? At least 400 600. 600 are
III favor of protection; As, 000, GOO of Britons
are against 1t, to whom must be added
those Americans whose numbers are not
known, VINO, while living under our flag,
seem to follow another. This is how the
worlds Jury stands. The tariff law of
1894 Is not like any of the early measures
but Is one in which the changed conditions
OF the country and its marvellous growth
aud development are utterly ignored and
forgotten. It's authors do not recognize
nor appreciate the manly indepen-
dence and dignity of American laborers
and cannot understand that the business
policy of the country in which we have
had such splendid prosperity is not to be
determined on the lines of sectional preiu-
dice, which appeals to the hatreds OF the
past and not the hopes of the future The
law Is narrow and provincial measure
unworthy or the great party in whose
| name 1t was enacted and wholly unsuited
to the needs of the country. Nor are the
masses of the Democratic party at all sat-
isf1a 1 w hat has haat.
has disappointed the people, trified with
che sacred trust confided TO it, excited dis
trust among the constituents of its menu
| bers and impaired their enterprises and
/ investments.
| TURNED FROM THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY.
1.-The country has not failed to observe
that great change in public sentiment is
apparent throughout the south.
| Nothing has occurred of late wears
| which has been to me more gratifying
| than the action of the planters of Louis
| lana, who, II / am correctly informed,
| have turned away from the Democratic
| party which they have been all their lives
associated with and announced their I'M
| conditional endorsement and support of
| the great doctrine OF American protection
| to American industries and thereby allied
| themselves permanently to the national
| Republican party.
| You need no assurance of the devotion
| OF the kepuDlIcan Iarty 10 ali the mater.
| ial interests Of the south. No one can
charge that in all its industrial legislation
! for third of century past 1t overlooked
! single southern interest
"Iu the stormiest years of sectional
! prejudice, moved by no other considera-
| ton than the good of the whole country.
the Republican party has sacrediy guarded
the smallest well as the greatest in
/ terests of the south.
/ TARIFF Is \ BUSINESS QUESTION.
MY fellow countrymen, the question OF
| tariff is a business question In The truth
/ full words of true American who spoke
| as seer aud prophet forty years ago, we
| may still declare that industry has It's
! campaigns and battletields and i not vet
| beyond the need of entertainments or
| Notifications.
! God grant it the wisdom and virtue TO
press forward on the shining path thus
! opened plainly before u to the end that
I our labor NAV De fully employed and
! fairly paid, and that age after age NAV
/ witness the rapid yet substantial progress
/ and growth of our people IN all the arts OF
| peace. all the elements OF national well
! being
] Governor Mckinley was given sumner
: at The Hotel Royal, aud 1t midnight left
/ on special train for Huntington and
Charleston, W. Va, where he speaks Mon
/ day.
THAT JOYFUL FEELING.
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