The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-04-05
N'KINLEY SPEAKS.
Addresses an Audience of Fellow Republicans at Minneapolis
ABLE AND CONVINCING ARGUMENT.
ReafIlrms the Principles of tho Party and PredIcts Republican Triumph The Lesson the Past Year and Demo- cratic Success Have Taught
 the People.

The great republican orator said:
 MIR PRESIDENT, GENTLEMEN OF THE RE. pI,pIICAN LEAGUE OF MINNESOTA AND EEL Iow-CITIzENS; Much has happened since the rr,at republican national convention of leQ2 assembled in this hall The platform and can didatcs of that great convention admirable as they were, wore rejected oy the people at the election following; but the people had no sooner spoken than they realized their great m!stal,e-a mistake which they now feel most sensbly and regret most deeply. Tho princi. ples enunciated at that convention were true then they arc true now. They arc as dear to republicans now as then; theyaro better under stood and more ardently supported by the great body Of tho people In the year 1894 than they were in the year 1892 While the repub- lican party failed to carry the election, tho cause for which 1t contended did not fail. It survived the awful disaster and shines more brightly and gloriously than ever before
 The past year has been long one the long est since tho war, IL has been full of changes and experiences which have been impressive Qud instructive, but expensive. All kinds of business have been seriously disturbed. h. ycstmcnts have been sacrificed; capital has been despoiled of its earnings, and labor, more than all and dearer to us than all, has sue Cumbed 10 the wasting blasts of the great change by which industry has been cheated of it's lust rewards. Everything has suffered but inc republican cause. Everything has been blighlcd but republican principles They have escaped the mildew which has settled upon everything else Even the democratic party'has suifcred-a calamity we could beur with resig- nation if it had not also carried in its train the vast and sacred interests of tho people.
 What were the great principles and policies then enunciated in this halls Let mo enumero1C them: A protective tarifi, which shall serve the highest interests of American labor and American developments reciprocity, which, while seeking tho worlds markets for our sur plus products shall not destroy American wages, nor surrender American markets for products which can be mado at home; tho use of both gold and silver with which to measure the exchanges of the people and cheat nobody; honest elections which are the true sources Of public authority; the extension of our for cign commences: the restoration Of our mer- chant marine by home-built ships; tho creation Of a navy for tho protection of our national in- terests and the honor of our flag; the mainten- auce Of the most friendly relations with all for eign powers and enIangling alliances with none: the rcaflrmatiou of the Monroe doctrine, and of our faith in the achievement tf The manifest destiny Of the republic as the best sense.
 would reverse this declared policyg Who would strike from tho republican banner a single star or stripef Like all republican doe trInes, they are unchangeaOle Upon them the republican party bases it's claim to future su- premacy and impa.ieUtly awaits tho constitu- tonal opportunity to make it's appeal to the people. ~
 contest since tho war in which 1t has succeeded, by a campaign O; proiuse and glittcring prom tses IL now stands demoralized on the field Of performance, and has so far signally failed to
 
 IL has been for many years denOuncing the tarin because some men became rich under its operations and others poor. The first year Of democratic control has cured all that, and the prescription has proved quite as effective on the poor as the rich, for tt has involved them 0l! in 0 common loss What devastation and distress have been wrought in single year.
 Let the briefest statement Of the business condition at the close of the year 1892 be con- trasted with like statement ot that condition Rt the end of 1895. "The year ls02, says Dun's Review of Trade, the best non-partisan author ity, has been the most prosperous ever known in business" This is the business indoTsement of thirty years of republican rule. Now mark the changel Says Duns Review of Trade for 1893:
 mills crowded with work and all business stimulated by high hopes, tho year le9j has proven in sudden shrinkage Of trade, in com mercial disaster and the depression of indus tries the worst for fifty years. Whether the final results of tho panic of 1857 were relatively more severe, the scanty records or that time do not clearly show, The year closes with prices of many products the lowest ever known with millions of workers seeking in vain for work and with charity lahoring to keep back suffering and starvation in all our cities All hopo that the new year may bring brighter days but the dying year leaves only a dismal record The review Of different de- partments of trade given to-day exhibits a most without precedent The iron industries sustained weekly production of ISL tons of pig May 1, but by October the output had fallen to asgs tons, and the recovery to about l0O.Ooo tons. De cember 1 still leaves 70 per cent of tho force unemployed. Over half the wOolen man. utactories are idle and, excepting brief recoy. cry in November, have been ever since new wool came in in May, for all sales fin the chief markets in the eight months have been but lO6,595, ,46O pounds, partly for speculation, the price having fallen 20 per cent for heeces to the lowest point ever known, against 2l2 339, OO3 pounds in the same months last year Sales Of cotton goods are fully one fourth below the al he small advance nItpuuDtpd in boots and shoes year ago was not sustained, but with prices aJ low as ever the shipments or boots and shoes from Boston are H per cent less than last year in December Not only man ufactured goods as whole, but the most i'm portant farm products are so low that farmers hnd little comfort O1icial and other reports dcluded traders with the notion that crops of last year were so short that famine prices could be realized"
 To add to the perplexities of the situation under tho menace of free trade hero described the Wilson bill, which recently passed the house of representatives at Washington and Is now fin the hands of the senate. proposes os- tcnsibly to reduce the revenue l76,OJ0OJl The real decrease would eventually, after we be- came more and moro impoverished, Do Tar greater This is at a time when the expenses of the government far exceed Us receipts ana when by reason of such acondition the secre- tary of the treasury has been com. pelied to sell (5),000,O0O of government that this is but the beginning of bond issuing to relieve the daily wants or the gov ment The sum of l70OOO,OOO which it Is pro posed to surrender of the revenues, is moro than one third of the entire sum received from customs in the last fiscal year This reduction is made upon the theory of the democratic free traders that it will relieve the people Of bur densome taxation. Whether it does or not de- bends. But of one thing VIC arc certain: It has relieved the people of employment, of work, or wages of prosperity and of plenty-and some .of them of their homes The blessings Of good wages good prices and good times are more to be desired than tho proposed relief from SO called 'burdensome taxation" Such relief is no relief
 Before considering this measure in detail lot us briefly review our tarln Legislation lt Is worth something to us all to know what the founders of the republic thought and did lt Is inspiring to us to know from history that our earliest legislation upon economic questions was not maimed by sectionalism, nor framed upon geographical lines, but was prompted by the loftiest patriotism and marked by nation nl sentiment as broad as the country. The first protective tariff law in our history "a law that vas approved by Washington had for It's au, thor James Madison of Virginia known and leycred as the Father Of the Consultation. Among its supporters and friends were such well-known southern statesmen as Richard Henry Lee, tho friend and eulogist Of Wash lngton; Charles Carroll, of Carrollton; Abra- ham Baldwin and James Jackson, Of Georgia; Theodorc Bland and John Brown, Of Virginia: Hugh Williamson and John Sevier, Of North Carolina; John Henry and Daniel Car roll, of Maryland; George Read and John Vim Ing, of Delaware; Ralph Izard, Thomas Tudor Tucker nnd Thnmna Sumter of South Carolina.