The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-10-21
Thirteen Thousand Hear Gov.
Mckinley at New Orleans.
AND CHEER FOR PROTECTION.
He Tells Them the Republican Party
Is the South's Friend.
Thomas II. Reed Speaks at Chicago on
the rses of Adversity and the lesson
of the Empty Dinner-Pasi-rners IL
NeMarkes Where There Is No Money.

NEW NRLEANs, pcf. .A.--tsoy. Mckinley
addressed audience of no less than
1900 tonight IN the big Auditorium.
There was n comparatively small portion
OF negroes. the audience being composed
In the main OF business men of New Or
leans and neighboriIg parishes, and was
conspicnously intelligent and apprscis-
tive gathering. which was entirely liberal
with it's applause and discriminating in its
besiowal. The platform was protuseiy
decorated with sugar cane. Hon. J. IT.
Benham. chairman of the Republican
state committee, presided, and introduced
Gov. Mckinley, who spoke a. much
length. The substance OF his address
was:
~ come here at the Invitation Of the
Republican committee of Louisiana TO ad-
dress you on a public question of great
national importance. which concerns
alike not only the prosperity OF your sec
ton, state or locality, but oil sections
and parts of our country. From ITs9 10
1892. o period Of l03 years, there has been
iorty-seyen years when a Democratic
revenue tariff policy prevailed and fifty
SIX under the protective policy, anc
noteworthy fact is that the most pro-
cressiye and prosperous periods of cur
history were during the years when the
protective party was In contTo. and pro-
tectiye tariffs were maintained, and the
most disastrou, wears were during the
free trade or revenue tariff years OF our
history.
The foreign market for agricultural,
prod ucts IS one of the deluslons OF Tree
trade. If it ever had any real substance
as against a good home market II has long
since disappeared. We have free trade
among ourselves, throughout our forty
four states and territories. That is be-
cause We are one fanily--one country.
We are one nation, have one standard of
citizenship. one flag. one constitution,
one destiny. That is why we have free
trade among ourselves. Our relations
with foreign states are necessarily differ
ent from our relations with one another.
They are our commercial rivals. Wedeny
to those foreign states trade with US upon
the same terms as We enjoy among our
selves.
Here in the South your people have
been offering freedom from taxation from
ten, fifteen or twenty years TO those who
who would bring their capital here and in
vest IL in productive enterprises. With all
this work going on the leaders of the DEM
ocratic party are proposing TO tear down our
protective tariff and inundate this country
with foreign nroducto 10 displace those
which these very manufacturers propose
TO make, and which the people were will
ing to tax themselves TO establish
Gall the roll of the nations: Which
are for protection3 Germany, France.
Italy, Spain, Mexico. Canada. Portugal,
Denmark, Australia, Switzerland. Austria
and Hungary. Russia, Sweden and Nor
way and the United States of America.
Which are against protectiouY England.
New South Wales and New Zealand.
Tariff for revenue only, or tariff reform. is
almost exclusively English. How stand
the people of the world On this question:
AT least 430, 900 900 are in favor of protec-
tion: A3 600 900 of Britons are against 10,
10 whom must be added those Americans,
whose numbers not known, who. while
living under our flag, seem TO follow an
other This is how the worlds jury stands.
The tariff law of is9i 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. Its
authorities do not recognize or appreciate
the manly independence aed dignity of
American laborers, and cannot under
stand that the business policy of the coun-
try, under which we have such splendid
prosperity. Is not to be determined on the
lines of sectional prejudice, which appeals
to the hatred of the past arst not the hopes
of the future. The law Is narrow and
provincial measure. unworthy OF the great
party in whose name it was enacted, and
wholly unsuited 10 the needs OF the
country. Nor are the MASSES OF the
Democratic party at ali satisfied With what
has been done. Congress has disappointed
ths people, triied with the sacred trust
oongded TO IL, excited dis;rust among the
constituents of It's members, and im-
paired their enterprises and investments.
"Ths country has not failed 10 observe
that a great chsnge in pubic sentiment Is
anuarent throughout the South. Nothing
has occurred of late years which has been
10 me more gratifying than the action OF
the planters Of Louisiana, who, II | ana
correctly informed. have turned away
f-om the Democratic party, which they
have been all their lives associated with,
and announced their unconditional in
dorsement aud support OF the great doc
trinee OF American protection 60 American
industries, and thereby allied themselves
permanently 10 the nationai Republican
nsrty. You need no assurances OF the
dsxotlon of the Republican party TO all
the material interests of the south. No
o,a e.o charge that in al its industrial
leri.lation for third Of century past IL
overlooked a single Southern interest lE
the stormiest years OF sectional prejudice,
uoyea By no other consideration than the
.-oes az the whole country. the Republican
Dartv has saerediy guarded the smallest
As well as the greatest interest oil the
Slulh-
.sasv fellow countrymen, the question OF
| the tariff - business g0esbon. In the
trntbtul words Of q true American who
| smoke as seer aud prophet forty years ago.
Ne roav still declare that industry has is
r.sn,.afens and battleflelas and is not yet
hnvand the need Of intrenchments or
! foTtf3eations. God grant us the wisdom
| and virtue 20 press forward on the shining
/ na,h thus oyseaed plainly before Us. to the
| end tba, our labor maY be ialsy employed
| and fairly paid. and that axe after age
| may witness the rapid yet snosfanhAs pro-
- md growth OF our people in all the
| srts of peaee. al the Clements Of national
| 2eiI-beinr"
GOV Mckinley was given supper ~
I ,h- aetel Royas. and st midnight left on
spsciaI train for Huntington and
/ .-harlsston. W. Va. where he speaks
Monday. "
~ HEEn AT CHICAGO. !.