The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-03-29
Says Voters Realize the
Mistake They Have Made.
HE cRITIcIzEs The WILSON BILL.
Can Find No Good Points in II, and IL
Simply Aggravatcs, Irritates, and
Dcpresses the Great Industries of
the Nation.
By-ane Associated Press.e

MINNEAPOLIS, March 29-Upon Gov
ernor Mckinley and partys arrival here
they were met by 600 cadet of the State
University and the University Republican
club. The party were escorted TO the
West Hotel, where 1000 people had as
sembled. a quartet sang "All Hail" F." ex-
pressing the sentiment, Mckinley
Leads; We Follow Thee after which
the governor was introduced by President
Goodnow.
He directed his remarks principally TO
the students, and declared that il was TO
the young men of the county that all
parties must look He declared that the
people of the country never wanted to
vote. in all their history, as they did now.
The governor afterward made an adj
dress at the exposition building, where
the state league of Republican clubs was
in session. He said that nobody could
tell what was going TO happen, and no
body knew what the Democratic congress
would do. He then talked about the
principles OF protection.
Later iu the day he was driven TO some
of the public institutions, and made an
address to the pupils of the Central high
school
In the evening he made an address at
the exposition building, which was packed
to overhowing.
a Talk ON Politics.
Governor Nelson presided, and after
few preliminary remarks, introduced
Governor Mckinley, who was received
with storm of applause. The governor
began his speech by declaring his belief
that the people who rejected the Republi-
can platform and candidates, presented in
that same building in 1892, now feel most
sensibly, and regret most deeply their
great mistake" Continuing, he said:
1.-The past year has been hard one;
everybody and everything had suffered
except Republican high tariff principles
and the Republican party, but they shine
more brightly and gloriously than ever
before. The principles proclaimed in
1892 like all Republican doctrines are
Interchangeable: upon them the Republi-
can party basis its claim TO future
supremacy and it impatiently awaits the
next national election"
For the Democrats are demoralized;
they have not redeemed single party
pledge; they have been responsible for the
business depression in the past year, and
through the Wilson BIZ they threaten to
make matters still worse"
The governor then reviewed at some
length the history OF the tariff legislation
in this country, paying particular atten-
ton TO the early protectionist sentiment
in the south and the gradual growth
there of the free trade idea. his special
purpose appearing to be to furnish an
opportunity for the very remarkable state
ment that now slavery is dead "The in
terests of one section of our common
t.,.ax ...tsl 4. IL.
interests of every other"
THE Wilson bill is not like any of the
early tariff measures, but il one in which
the changed condition of the country and
its marvellous growth and development,
are utterly ignored and forgotten. 1t is
for the plantation, not for the farm and
factory.
sharp Criticism.
81 have looked with some degree of care
through that bill. ! find nothing but ir-
ritation and aggravation to the great in
dustries of the country. No interest suf-
fers by il more severely than agriculture,
and labor of all kinds seems to have been
singled out rs its foremost victim. / have
examined il carefully to find some sec.
ton, paragraph, clause or line removing
the great burden of tariff taxes from the
shoulders of the people, about which we
have heard so much for SO many years,
from the Democratic orators and have
read so frequently in the Democratic
newspapers and platforms. but / have
been unsuccessful in finding any such
provision.
1T is true that sugar. an article of
prime necessity TO every household, and
which the law of 1890 made free TO the
people, has been tariffed at from to 40
per cent pound every cent of which
will be paid by the consumers of the
United States"
After this interesting confession that
there is, after all, one article upon which
the foreign producers" does not ''puy
the tax" or perhaps, because of it,
Governor Mckinley made the still more
interesting announcement that sugar Is
one of the things which 1--WE do not our
selves produce" although he favors a
sugar bounty rs "An encouragement to
native industry"
$40 my mind" he said. another hurt.
full provision OF the Wilson bill. entirely
unwArranted by experience and unjustih-
able of wise international policy. is that
which repeals the reciprocity clause"
and he quoted figures 60 show how
greatly our exports, and particularly of
agricultural products, have increased
under the provision OF this law.
Better Times at Hand.