The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-10-24
POINTS ABOUT COTTON TIES
HOW THE NEW TARIFF LAW HAS
RUINED AN AMERICAN INDUSTRY.
Apt Replies to Questions Put by DEM
Ocrats-Adlai Stevenson and an
Editor sCalIed Down"

ways. He was accompanied from Charles
town by Hon. s. b. Elkins, ex-Secretary
of War; Mr.. Warren Miller, Republican
candidate for Congress In the river dis
~tricts; Mr.. O. d. Elliott, president of the
State League of Republican Clubs; A. b.
White, proprietor of the Parkersburg State
Journal; Mr.. James Hensley, candidate for
the State Senate, and others. Mr.. Elkins's
car. in which the party travelled, was set
in the yards at Point Pleasant, w. Va,
during the night and at s o'clock 1t was
backed down TO the depot at Charlestown,
where Governor Mckinley made a speech
of a few minutes to an audience of several
hundred. An hour later Mason City was
reached. There were several hundred peo-
pie there, to whom Governor Mckinley
spoke briefly: He said:
"I have observed in riding through your
State dismantled mills. Industries that
once filed them have been taken across the
river to the State of Ohio. / presume none
of you saw them depart without deep re-
greet, although only a river was placed be-
tween you ard them. II these mills, instead
of having been moved to Ohio, had been
moved beyond the seas to some other
jurisdiction you would have felt much more
regret. You would rather have them any
where else in the United States than in
Europe. When the Republicans in Con-
gress prepared the tariff law of 1890 we
put a tariff on cotton ties and a great
factory was opened up across the river at
Pomeroy. When that tariff was placed on
cotton ties they were selling in the market
at SIS a bundle. After the tariff law of
1890 went into effect the price fell to rs
cents a bundle. They have now been made
free by the British REORGANIZATION
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ufacture Of cotton ties in the United States
has been destroyed and the American
workmen who have been making cotton ties
are idle. Who has the industry been given
to? Our commercial rivals on the other
side of the Atlantic ocean; and 1t was your
own fellow-citizen of West Virginia who
is the true genuine American policy. 1t Is
the business of the people Of the United
let other nations Of the world take care OF
Themselves"
O., and a number of Ohioans were present.
A band on the Pomeroy side of the river
softly across the river.
Fully one thousand people greeted Gov.
Mckinley when the train stopped at Ra-
venswood. Flags were hung In PROPULSION
over the station. residences and neighbor-
Viii Vile .rs and at ii:se o'ciock the thriving city
Of Parkersburg was reached, where there
was more cheering; A procession escorted
he addressed an audience Of several thou
sand; At 1890 he resumed his trip north
sta Mar Sseps si I9r SPieensNS New we Mar TnsS s.
Moundsville and Benwood, and at each
place the local population generally gath
cred about the station
THE PANIC OF 1873.
At Sisterville, while the Governor was
telling of the prosperity which the country
- - A.
audience inquired how 1t was that protec-
ton did not prevent the panic of 1873.
THAT panic" replied the Governor. twas
caused by the inflated condition of the cur
rency, the approach of resumption causing
contraction, which resulted in wide fnan-
cial distress throughout the country. Had
the protective policy not been in force at
that time the panic Of 1873 would have been
worse than 1T was; What we want to do
is to avoid panics by maintaining our pro-
tective system"
Then Governor Mckinley took UP a state
ment made by Vice President Stevenson.
He said: II notice in the Wheeling Regis
ter, which I suppose Democrats will grant
is reliable authority in such matters, that
$50 today is worth more than 500 was
worth in 1892, when the tariff law OF 1890
many men who had $50 in 1892 have $50 to-
day? How many men who had $40 in 1892
have 50 to-day? 1t is not a question of how
much money is worth to-day; 1t is a ques-
ton Of how much money We have, or,
rather, how little we have; for it is rather
Another unceremonious person interrupted
the Governor with, How about the force
bill?' To this the Governor responded:
What is concerning US mainly to-day is
what about the board bill That is the
main consideration now"
From Benwood to Wheeling there was al
most a continuous demonstration Grimy,
half-naked men ran cheering from iron
mills, presenting a weird appearance as the
furnace ~Grac i1rn,oH thar ChininU fo1rraC
and the female operatives of the long sue
cession of factories ranged themselves be-
side railroad tracks and burned red fires
and piped out shrlll cheers.
There was a crowd at the Wheeling depot
to give the Governor a noisy welcome and
he spoke, from the balcony OF the hotel to
a crowd that literally. packed the street
4. H. White, of Petersburg. and Hon.
Steven B. Elkins made brief speeches
while Governor Mckinley supped. The Gov
ernor. on appearing. was recognized by a
publican year" he said, looking with sat
isfaction down on a solid mass of upturned
faces. 1.-The people of this country were
never so eager in all their history to vote
more about things than they did two years
ago, for they have nineteen months now Of
see that the wheeling Register this morn.
ing takes issue with me on a statement
made in New Orleans last Thursday night
strated that under free trade we had hard
times. business disaster. low wages and
general bankruptcy. The Register says /
was mistaken and that the most
prosperous period in the history of
the United States was from 1915 to
1850. under the Democratic tariff law of
1876. / want to say TO you that no one
the editor Of the Register or any of the
others who reiterate this statement-has
read the history OF his own country. / ask
all such TO read the message OF President
Fillmore in 1850 and 1851. wherein he de-
scribes the deplorable condition of the
Nnnnfr~v no raS1llffnU from fha farfff L.
1876. Then I would ask that they read the
message of President Buchanan OF 1867.
who said that in the midst OF unsurpassed
plenty the people OF this country had
nothing to do since public and private en-
terprises were stopped, and workmen of
for work. During the fourteen years OF
that Democratic revenue tariff this govern
ment did not collect money enough to pay
its everyday expenses, and had to 90
shivering about TO borrow money, for liz
had no credit during these years of a
Democratic revenue tariff. (Applause)
II mad to give a large discount in order 10
tary OF the Treasury recommended that
Congress ask the States 20 indorse the
bonds in order that they might be readily
sold.
'.History is now but repeating itself.
What occurred during the last years OF the
Democratic administration before the war
has occurred during this new administra-
| enough money TO pay our bills. and for the
first time since 1866 the receipts OF this
government are Inadequate to pay its ex-
| penses, and IL has had TO issue $50. ZOO. 900
| OF bonds 10 keep the credit of this govern
ment untarnished. while the gold reserve
- haAn nHAJ ttpnp