Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1894-10-11
M'KINLEY In ST. PAUL
OHI0'S GOVERNOR SPEAKS In
MINNEsOTA's CAPITAL.
He Advocates the Policy OF Protec-
tion Before nm Audience OF Several
Thousand PeOple-A Reception at
Ex-Gov. Merriam's Mansion.

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Ohio addressed a Republican mass
meeting at the auditorium Saturday
night. The $500 seats were oil oc-
cupied, and around the walls, at the
entrances to the aisles and in the
open space near the doors were
massed crowds of eager standing citi-
xens A torch light procession of sew
eral thousand men escorted Gov Nc
Kinley from ex-Goy. Merriam's resi-
dence to the auditorium. Ex-Gov.
Merriam introduced the Ohio governor
in a neat speech, and when Gov. Nc
Kinley arose to speak he was greeted
by cheers which lasted several min
utes. He said in part:
I'm November, 1892. a Republican
national administration, able, efficient
Int patriotic, which had been in con
troll of the government for nearly our
years, and at the head of which was
one of our greatest American presi-
dents, Benjamin Harrison (%applause).
was, by the voice of the American peo-
pie, voted out of power and a Demo
cratic administration voted in. That
administration has been in control of
the federal government, In all of it's
branches, for now nearly nineteen
months. and during that period it has
employed the greater part of its time
In revising the tariff. That long period
ffor 1t has seemed very long to the
American people, has given us an OPP
portunity for sober reflection, steadied
by the discipline of aiversity. The
people have been rejecting, for they
have had little else to occupy their
attention. The people have been
thinking, and those who have not
been thinking have been feeling-feel-
ing the stress of the times wrought
by the great change. 1t must have
been apparent wen 10 congress-, that
while they were engaged in revising
the tariff the people were employed In
revising their views Qaughter) and
were impatient with anxiety to pass
Judgment upon their work. 1t did not
take the people so long to revise their
views as it has taken congress to re-
wise the tariff. And they are only
awaiting an opportunity to express
those revised views in a constitutional
way at a national election. ~(Applause.)
The people of this country never were
so anxious, in all their history, to vote
as they are NJ this hour. And l have
been looking for some one who would
move the previous question and stop
all debate so that a vote might be
taken at once" Great appiause)
He then spoke of the recent elections
In various states Us proof that the peo-
pie wanted another change.
n Tariff Dill Discussed.
The speaker continued: What, my
friends, has been the cause of this
mighty revulsion OF public sentiment?
1t is answered in a single sentence.
The Democratic party has been run
ming the government for nearly nine
teen months, and during that little
time little else has been running.
daughter and applause.) Every in
dustry in this country has been dis
turbed, every investment has been Inn
periied. Men have found little IN
ployment in their accustomed places,
and when they have been employed it
has beer at greatly reduced wages,
There has been no cessation in the
waste of wealth and wages and profit.
It has cost this people more than it
cost this government to put down the
mighty rebellion, for the preservation
OF the Union and the honor Of the
dag.
''The appeals to charity were never
so universal, and their necessity never
so apparent as now. Congress has
tri1ed with the sacred trusts of the
people, imperiled their investments,
disturbed their occupations; they have
quarreled and compromised, and upon
their own testimony have themselves
been compromised. And at length we
get a tariff law-such as it is-a tariff
law which nobody approves, certainly
nobody who lives beneath our flag; Il
tariff law which the president of the
United States refused to sign. Zap
plause.) A tariff law which he char
acterized before it's enactment as an
act Of party peridy and party dis
honor. and which he said if it passed,
the Democratic party could not look
the people of the country In the face,
and which. after the enactment of
that law, he declared to be the very
communism of pelf.
A Tin Pail.
|'While on this stand a workingman
brought me this tin pail-this bucket.
He told me 1t was American tin zap
piauSe), made from American steel,
and that steel made by an American
w~orkingman, and this tin pail made
by an American citizen here in the
city of st. Paul. One week ago to-
day every tin-plate factory in the
United States closed down. Why?
Because the tariff law Of 1894 had so
reduced the duty upon the foreign
product as to make 1t impossible for
those manufactures to produce and
pay the scale of wages they had been
paying under the law of 1892, and 1O,-
600 men last Saturday night were put
out on the streets as the result of the
law of 1894. (Applause) Not only
the 10000 men engaged In the immedi-
ate industry, but the 10000 more men
that were making the steel ingots and
rolling them into the sheet steel to
dip them for tin plate were reduced
In their employment by reason of the
shutting down Of these mills.
my fellow citizens, no party can
long stand In the way of the prospect.