Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1894-10-21
M'KINLEY AT NEW ORLEANS
HE mas AN uNLuciSy NUMBER TO
HEAR HIM.
Thirteen Thousand People Crowd the
ruTiiistic Pit-rhe stage Decorated
with suEnr Canc-.rrotection the
One Thcme OF His speech.

for exhibitions OF pugilism. There
was comparatively small proportion
of negroes, the audience being COM
posed in the main OF business men OF
New Orleans and planters from neigh
boring plantations and II was con-
spicuously an intelligent and appre-
ciative assemblage which was liberal
in applause and discriminating In Its
bestowal. The platform was profuseiy
decorated with sugar cane.
General w. ]. Behan. chairman Of
the Republican state central commit
tee. presided and introduced Governor
Mckinley. who spoke ut much length.
The subject OF his address was;
II am Impressed with the great in
terest OF the people in the welfare OF
the government In which their voice
is supreme. realize now. perhaps,
more fully than ever before, the
strength and grandeur of that govern
ment. came here at the invitation
of the Republican committee of Louis
lana to address you on n public ques'
ton OF great national Importance,
which concerns alike not only the pros
perlty OF your section aud state, but
all section OF the country. From 1883
| to 1892. n period OF 1903 years, there
had been a years when Democratic
revenue tariff policy had prevailed and
/ 90 under the protective policy. and IL
Is noteworthy fact that the progress
sive 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 or revenue tar
IN cras OF our history"
\ long history Of tarInf legislation,
showing that In former years, the pro-
tective policy was supported by prom
inent Southern statesmen, was given.
by Gov. Mckinley, who continued.
''rhe foreign market for agricultur-
al products is one OF the decisions Of
free trade, IL It ever had any real
substance as against home market.
that has since disappeared. We have
free trade among ourselves through
out a states and the territories, That
IL because we are one family, one
country. We are one nation and have
one standard OF citizenship one nag,
one constitution, one destiny. That is
| why we have free trade among our
selves. Our relations with foreign
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 en-
Joy ourselves.
Here In the South, you people have
been Offering freedom from taxation
for ten, fifteen, and twenty years to
those who would bring their capital
here and invest IT, with an this
going leaders OF the Democratic
party are proposing to tenr down our
protective tarin and inundate rs with
foreign competing products to displnce
which these very manufactures pro-
pose to make what the people are will
ing TO tax themselves to establish
The people are now coming to see
this and their votes this year will go
where their material interests lie.
call the roll OF nations which are
Tor protection. Germany France, Italy,
Spnin, Mexico, Canada, South Amerlca.
Portugal, Denmark most OF Australia,
Switzerland, Austria and Hungary,
Russla, Swenden and Norway aud tho
United states OF America, Which are
against protectlon2 England. New
South Wales and New Zealand.
Tariff Tor revenue only. or tariff re-
FORM, Is almost exclusively an English
creation. How stand the people OF the
world on this question? At least $50.
100000 are In favor OF projections; 43'
OOOOOO of Britons are ngainst II. 10
whom must be added those Americans
whose numbers are not known who
| while living nTnpr a..
follow another. This Is how the worlds
jury stands.
"The tarifr law Of 1885, ~ nos like the
carly tariff measures. but IL ono In
which the changed conditions Of tho
country and its marvellous growth and
development are utterly Ignored and
forgotten. Its authors do moi recognize
or appreciate the manly Independence
and dignity of American inDorers and
can not understand that the business
policy OF the country under which we
have such splendid prosperity In not
10 be determined on the llGes OF Sec
| tionnl prejudice, Which appeals to the
hates OF the past and not tae hopes %
the future. The law Is a marrow ana
provincial one. unworthy OF the great
party In whose name I. was ennctel
and wholly unaultod to tbs needs Of tho
country. Nor ara the MASSES OF the
Democratic party In the Uni
h'h pthhNo ~ u9hifHsht NiAh
what has been done. Congress
has disappointed the people. tfllled
with the sacred trust conhded 10 Il,
excited distrust among the culstitu-
ents Of It's members and impaired their
entci prises and inyes'msi'iS.
"rbc country mas ntf failed TO OBJ
serve that u great changu in public
continent ~ apparent throughput the
south. Nothing has occurred of lnIc
years which has been 10 Ine more grati-
flying than the action OF the planters
OF Louisiana, who, II l am correctly
Informed, have turned away from the
Democratic party, which they have
been all their lives supporting, and
announced their Intention to support
the policy OF American protection to
American industries and thereby all
lied themselves permanently 10 the Re-
publican party. What this may mean
in future politics OF your state, you
know better far. than /. but II does
seem 10 me that your action must have
a wide and beneficent Influence. II Is
indeed gratifying that no large body
OF the best business men OF LOUISIANA
who have for years been trying to
make themselves believe that the DEM
ocratic party Is the friend Of our great
industries. should be cOmpellei 10
abandon that position and declare that
the material interests In this
country are alone safe In
-. banda of tho Rruublicau