The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-02-22
M'KINLEY lNDORSED.
r,. Govcrnor's Address to the Ohio Re- publican League.

rho ninth annual meeting of the Ohio ponrblican league took place at Colum- tas on February IS, on which occasion Gov Mckinley, in response to the toast, ..Orr Country" spoke as follows:
 CSrns preseut condition of the country is
 .,,bSr cheerful nor attractive The pause in ,rosnerity is apparent, and has given occa Vas Vu' ,reu ms opportunity for reflection. The s.S Ss, yeor has been one of compulsory educs
 i The country has witnessed much and ,aorred much. While congress is al work re- r,snc inc tariI the people are work revising ,soir views. While the representatives Of the ro,nIc are madly struggling to execute election ts,rnes of 1899, as they interpret them, the peo- n,S ,re IS madly repudiNting their own action f,,bat year and condemning the interpretation
 rlcb their representatives place upon the vo,e which gave them power. The elee- ,t,ys of lsgs did not mean free trade any more cham they meant the free and unlimited ,,rore of silver: and if it could be accurately ssccrlained 1t would be found that the doctrine o, free coinage influenced more states for Gro yer Cleveland and the democratic representa- ,iyes in congress than the free trade plank in ,rs national democratic platform If the party tr rower at Washington would reject the free trade doctrine as they have already the free coinage doctrine they might emphasize their yraut of good faith to party pledges and party nrotessions and add another to their many in- con,istencies: but in doing so they would in. crease the faith of the people in their business Caracity, their financial wisdom and their true American splriL
 "TAo repeal of the Sherman law-so called did not bring the relief promised by President Creyeand How much of evil it may have sy,rted do not stop to discuss. It is certain tba: business distress is felt even more oppres. siyely now than when the silver law was iu force md before congress was called in special ses. sion
 .The people are just now feeling politics They are having an. object lesson-one which furnishes practical demonstration We are attending upon the school of experience, and while the scholarship Is free the expense is enormous The school of events,' as Lincoln called i-, has many graduates just now IL Is singular anomaly that the people, the source of oil power in this country, arc powerless to help themselves, and have been since the election of 1892 IL is a condition where the peoples rep resentatives are legislating against the inter. esls and opinions Of the people, and the latter have no immediate power to remove their com missioners O discharge them from their serv- ice They must suffer for their own acts and the acts of their agents, and must submit until lhe relation Of principal and agents is termi- mated by law. They cannot displace their pub lie servants until the legal period for which they were chosen has expired They can as- serl their power at the next election and not before, and at that time can retire their repre- ser:auyes and select new ones who will .ry out their will
 "It is to be regretted that the people must so long wait, so long surer, and suffer from their own agents but as this Is a government of law the people. who are the sovereigns. must submit to the time This lesson, dear as iI has been, may be useful It will teach us all that elections are serious public transac- lions, and that their effect does not end on the day 0. election but continues through the legal and constitutional term for which president and congress are elected and cannot be ended sooner, and it teaches us also that small and extraneous matters, local dissensions, and per sonal and sectional preiudices should not con trol in great public elections which involve great principles and questions of grave public policy
 The history of the government is that the people are supreme and the officers their serv- ants, The situation now Is one where the servant is supreme and the master is tempo rariy helpless The people can petition to congress, but that has no influence. That makes no impression
 There is another anomaly in the situation to-day. While congress Is engaged in reducing the revenues Cleyeland's admins trati tion--of the same political faith as congress-is iacreas. ing the revenues by what it calls temporary loans Congress Is professedly reducing taxa ton 10 relieve the people of burdens, and Cleve- land !s adding to their burdens by fastening upon them bonded debt of $50 O0Q,OJ0 It does nOI seem to occur to the leaders of the demo- cratic party that the bonds of the govern nent bearing per cent interest, are a bur den quite as oppressive as any system Of tariff or taxation and that they will some time have to be paid, and that the only means of pay ing them is through taxation. They seem to regard 1t quite as business like and statesman like to pay the current expenses of the govern. ernment as by raising the money by taxation But what else could you expect? They are pledged to reduce the tariff, and will do it even II it interrupts the prosperity of the country and involves an increase in the public debt
 That the receipts of the government are falling short of the needs of the government does not stop them in their career of tartn re- form. Indeed this condition is a free trade SC queRce, and has always in our history followed the inauguration Of free trade or a tarin-;or- reVenue.only policy. Again, while they are re- ducing the revenues of the government they are reducing the incomes of the people, and gov. ernment and people are getting poorer at the same time and from the same cause. Their proposed free trade messpre is not only dimin- ishing the occupations and wages of the people, but Is diminishing the value of the peoples in- vestments. Every variety of property has shrunk in value since the party of tarir reform entered upon It's possession of the government Every manufacturing plant every stock and bond, from government to a municipal bond. has felt the depreciating influence of the free traders They have diminished everything but the peoples debts. The people want change, and they want 1t bad They want lt sooner than they 1ver dreamed they would want 1t; and they never wanted to vote so badly in all their history as they do to-day. They are tired of their contract before the period of its legal termination. They are tired of this tariff -tinkering, bond-issuing, de6tincreasing, treasury depicting, business paralyzing, wage-reducing, Queen-rsstoring ad- minis tration.
 'The country will not, however, have long to wait-too long, fear, for many interests until it can commence the work Of busting In November next the people will have chance to deal with the house of representa- uyes; and, remembering what the people have done in their majesty, beginning last November in Iowa, Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey, Kansas, Illinois and Ohio, and In Chicago in December and in New York city tniIanuary, we cannot be mistaken as 10 whati they will do next November The democratc house will be changed into a repub- lfcan house. Free trade domination will give way 10 protection majority British policy wil Dc dethroned and genuine Americanism enthroned and the final work will be com pleted in November lB06 in the restoration of