The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1894-03-29
ELOQUENT M'KINLEY.
TREMENDOUS MULTITUDE GREETS
HIM AT MINNEAPOLIS.
Ehe Famous Apostle of Protection
Delivers an Eloquent and Brilliant
Address Before the Convention of
League Clubs-Full Text of His
Speech.

Minneapolis, Special.-A tremendous
crowd gathered at the exposition build
ing on the evening of March % to
hear Gov. Mckinley, who had been
invited to address the league of Repub-
ucan clubs On being introduced to the
vast audience he received perfect
ovation lasting some minutes. The fol-
lowing is the full text of his speech:
Mr.. President, Gentlemen of the Repub-
Ncun League OF Minnesota and Fellow Citi.
GEMS Much has happened since nee the ne g 1sa5
candidates Of that great convention, admir-
people at the election following; but the
people had no sooner spoken than they real
lied their great sn yeera
most deeply. The principles enumerated at
that convention were true then; they are
now as then; they are better understood
and more ardenty supported by the great
Sa Sf the Ps ss ear s. g the Re
eSs cause p1 4os EisS It seatsn%sd Sd moi ns
shines more brightly and gloriously than
The past year has been "a. long %s:n o1 f9,1 ne
changes and experiences which have baen
impressive and instructive. but expensive
disturbed. Investments have been sacri-
feed; capital has been despoied Of its earn
ings, and labor, more than all and dearer to
us than ALL has succumbed to the vast
ing blasts of the great change by which IN
dustry has been cheated Of its Just REWARDS
Course .Ar Everything has been olighted
but Republican, principles: They, have es-
capped the midew which has settled upon
everything else. Even the Democratic par
ty has suffered-a calamity we could bear
with resignation, if it had not also carried
in Its train the vast and sacred interests
What were the great principles; and poll
cies then enunciated IN this nan! Let ,i me
shall serve the highest interests Of Amer
lean labor and American Development 1t
far o wn sarpus predues
shall not destroy American wages nor sur ut.
render American markets for productss
both gold and silver with which to meas
IRE the exchanges of the people anu cheat
nobody;
Honest Elections,
which are the true sources OF puDllc au-
thority; the extension of our foreign COM
merce; the restoration of our merchant
marine by homebuilt ships; the creation
of navy for the protection of our national
interests and the honor Of our flag; the
maintenance of the most friendly relations
with all foreign powers and entang1ng ain
ances with none; the reaftirmation OF the
Monroe doctrine, anu VI Jul IdllH III IIAS
achievement of the manifest destiny. of the
republic as the best government OF earth
in the broadcast and truest sense
would reverse this declared policy; who
would strike from the Republican banner
single star stripe? Like all Repub-
lean doctrines they are uncha an yea it
claim to future supremacy and impatiently
awaits the constitutional opportunity to
make its appeal to the people.
Tho Flo pt
every contest since the war in which 1t
has succeeded, by a campaign Of profuse
and glittering promises 1t now stanas , ae
has so far, signally failed to redeem a
single pledge it made to the people. 1t has
been for many years denounciag the tariff
because some men became ri III under ITS
operations and others poor The first veal
of Democratic control has cured all thai
and the prescription has proved quite as
effective ON the poor as on the rich. fol
1T has involved them all in common loss
What devastation and distress have beer
wrought in a single year
Let the briefest statement Of The bust
ness condition at the close of the year 1S9:
be contrasted with like statement of tina
eoa I at the end Of lseS g. 1rhe yea
best non partisan authority. "has been tn
most prosperous ever known in business
This is the business endorsement of thirt.
years of Republican rule. Now mark tn
change! Says Dun's Review of Trade TO
1893:
"starting with the largest trade eve
business stimulated by high hopes, tn
year 1893 has proven in sudden shrinkag
of trade, in commercial disaster and tn
nifty years Whether the final results Of tn
panic of 1887 relatively more severe
scarcity of records of that time do NO
clearly show. The year closes with price
of many products the lowest ever known
with millions Of workers seeking in val
for work. and with charity laboring t
keep back
Suffering and Starvation
in all our cities. All hope that the ne
year leaves only a dismal record. The r.
view of different departments of trat
and business which is almost without pre-
edent The iron iadqs St Leg, sustained t
100000 tons Dec still leaves 40 per Gel
oo tee foafs e and
cepting brief recovery in November ha'
been ever since new wool came in in Ma
eight t'' months S1th ~ have BEEN but ios 795.
pounds, partly for speculation. the pri
having fallen 20 per cent for feeces to t
OO3 pounds in the same months last yea
Sales of cotton goods are fully one-four
below the usual quantity. The small a
vance attempted in boots and shoes We
ago was not sustained, but with prices
low as ever the shipments of boots al
shoes from Boston are "a per cent less TIL
last year in December. Not only man
featured goods as whole, but the mo
Important farm products are so low tn
farmers find little comfort. Official al
other reports deluded traders with the 1
ton that crops of last year We're SO she
that famine prices could be realized"
TO add to the perplexities Of the situati
under the menace of free trade, here
'scribed, the Wilson bill, which recent
passed the house Of Representatives
Washington and is now in the hands of
senate proposes Ostensibly to reduce
revenues $4,000, OOO The real decres
would eventually, after we became me-
This is at time when the expenses Of
government far exceed Its receipts a
when by reason Of such a condition
secretary of the treasury has been co
PEELED to SELL $4,000. 600 Of "governm'
bonds, with the belief in many quart
that this is but the beginning Of bond
suing to relieve the daily wants OF
government. The sum Of $40. 600, 900 VIII
It is proposed to surrender OF the reven
Is more than one-third Of the entire s
received from customs in the last fs
year. This reduction Is made upon
Of no traders u