Pawtucket tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 1890-189?, 1894-02-14
Gen. Gibson TO Nominate
Him For President.
REVIEWS THE SITUATION.
H Claims That the Am erican People
Now Desire a Change.

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Governor Mckinley for p.,s..... &. p.
next convention IN la9&
AT the Lincoln Day h. &C.. u... -.
To the meeting, the pr,r'."4. rd 'r,.- ~
delivered by Governor Nc i'ul,y
Governor William McKinley responded
TO the toast, "Our Country" a. follows:
"Ths present condition OF the country
Is neither cheerful nor attractive. The
pause In our prosperity IN apparent, and
| has given occasion as well ~ opportunity
for reflection. The past year has been one
OF compulsory education. The country
has witnessed much and learned much.
While congress IL at work revising the
tariff, the people are at work revising
their views. While the representatives of
the people are madly struggling To exc
cute the election DEGREES OF '82 as they in
tsrpret them, tho people are as madly re-
pudiattng their own action OF that year
and condemn ming the Interpretation which
their Representatives place upon the votes
which gave them power.
''The elections OF 1892 did not mean free
trade any more than thoy meant the free
and unlimited coinage of silver, and IL IL
could be accurately ascertained IL would
be found that the doctrine of free coinage
Influenced more states for Grover Cleve-
land and the Democratic representatives
In congress than the free trade plank IN
the national Democratic platform.
Promised Relief Hasn't Come.
1.-THE repeal OF the Sherman law, so
called, did not bring the relief promised by
President Cleveland. How much OF evil
II may have sverted do not stop TO dis
cuss IL Is certain that business distress
Ii felt even more impressively now than
q -. n
fore congress was called I'm special session
THE people are just feeling politics.
They are having an object lesson-one
which furnishes practical demonstra-
ton. We are attending upon the school
experiences; and while the scholarship il
free, the expense Is enormous. The
School Of Events as Lincoln called IL, has
many graduates just now. IL il singular
anomaly that the people, the source Of all
power In this country are powerless to
help themselves, and have been since the
election OF 1892
"They must suffer for their own acts
and the acts OF their agents, and must
submit until the relations OF principal
and agent is terminated by law.
A Rap at Congress.
"There Is another anomaly In the situa-
ton today. While congress Is engaged
In reducing the revenues, Cleveland's ad-
ministration-of the same political faith
as congress-is increasing the revenues by
what it calls temporary loans
Congress Is professedly reducing tax
alton to relieve the people of burdens, and
Cleveland Ia adding to their burdens by
fastening upon them a bonded debt of
$50, 100000. 1t does not seem to occur to
the leaders of the Democratic party that
the bonds OF the government, bearing
per cent interest, are a burden quite "a
oppressive as any system Of tariff taxa
ton, and that they will sometime have
to be paid, and that the only means of
paying them Is through taxation.
"Again, while they are reducing the
revenues Of the government, they are re-
ducing the incomes of the people and
government, and people are getting poorer
at the same time and from the same cause.
Their proposed free trade measure is not
only diminishing the occupations and
wages of the people, but it Is diminishing
Predicts = Turnover.
"The people want change and they
want 1t bad. They want 1t sooner than
they ever dreamed they would want it;
and they never wanted to vote 40 badly in
al tntlT nHlory as tnty 10 tOuay. Iney
are tired of their contract before the
period OF its legal termination. They are
tired of this tariff -tinkering, boud-i-su-
ing, debt-ncreasing, treasury-tcpl'tny,
business pnralyzing waze-reoUciu. ana
queen-restoriDg administration.
"The country will not, however, have
long 10 wait until it can commence the
work of ousting. In Nov brr next The
people will have a chance to deal with the
house OF representatives,, and remember
Ing what the people have done in their
majesty, beginning last Novem Der. one
cannot be mistaken A. to what they will
do next November. The Democratic
house will be changed into Republican
house. Free trade domination will give
way to protection majority. British policy
will be dethroned and genuine American
ism enthroned; and the final work
will be completed in November, '96, In
the restoration Of the Republican party,
which through pique and passion and
prejudice was hurled from power in 1892.
"The true American sentiment cannot
be trampled upon with impunity, and
when 80 trampled upon, the national
spirit swiftly asserts its mastery"