St. Paul daily globe., 1894-09-09
PLANT OF M'KINLEY,
Author Of the Protective Tar
III MOurnS for Its Un-
timely End.
BANGORIIES HEAR HIS Wall.
Two Monster Mass Meetings,
at Which the Buckeye
Governor Speaks.
HE SCORES DEMOCRACY,
The President, Senate and
Everything Else Except
Mckinley.

| COulty VI rOlt'cal UieetlnS aSSenUleu
in the town hall to listen 10 Gov. Nc
kinley. of Ohio. Long before the time
advertised for the opening of the meet
ing the hail was filled to Sutfocation.
Every seat was occupied and hundreds
were obliged to stand. and at least a
thousand were turned awap. Fully
$500 people heard the speech. whice
was received with manifestations of ap-
| proval. showing that even in this quiet
campaign interest is national affairs is
strong in Eastern Maine. Altar making
his speech in tho city ball. Gov. McKin-
| ley addressed an overflow meeting at Y.
| NJ. G. A. hall. At the city hall meeting
Congressman Boutelle presided and
| made il speech.
Gov. Mckinley pretaced his address
! by warm tribute to James G. Blaine
| and Hannibal Hamlin.
The Democratic president and Demo-
| cratic congress. he said, have been run
ming the government for eighteen
months. during which time little else
has been running. Industry has been
practically stopped. Labor has found
little employment. and when employed
It has been at greatly reduced wages.
Both government and people have been
draining their reserves. and 10th have
teen running in deot. The govern
ment has suffered in its revenues and
the people in their incomes. The total
losses to the country in business. prop
erty and wages is beyond human cal
culatiOn.
There has been no cessation in the
waste of wealth and wages. no content
ment. brightness or hope has anywhere
appeared. The appeals TO charity have
never been no numerous and incessant
and their necessity everywhere so man.
ifsst. congress has disappointed the
peopled. .trifle with the sacred trust con-
tided to it. excited distrust and disgust
among its constituents and impaired
their investments.
Pledged. If platforms mean anything,
to overthrow our long continued policy
of protection. they have quarreled and
compromised, and. upon their own ties.
tim0ny. have been compromised. The
result of their long wrangle is tariff
law with which nobody is satisfied;
law which even those who made it
apologize for: law which the chairman
on ways and means and almost the en-
tire Democratic side or the house con-
demned by yea and nay vote only
few days before its passage. affirming
their Intention i'll the most solemn man
ner not to permit it to be enacted; law
which all factions of the Democratic
party are agreed is the work of mon
strous trust, which Chairman Wilson
confessed in the house amid the ap-
plause OF his cOnfreres with deep cha
grin ''held congress by the throat.'
The law of which the house of repre-
sentativeS were so thoroughly ashamed
that they had no sooner passed it than
they made hot haste to seek its imme
diate amendment by passing supple
mentary bills which put their tariflied
sugar. coal. lead, iron and barbed wire
on the free list. Under threat of still
further similar assaults on the much
disturbed and distressed industries of
the country, utterly needless of the
Stupendous ruin they had already
wrought, law which the presi-
dent condemned before its passage,
and from which, when passed,
he withheld his approval. A law which
was characterized, before its passage,
by the greatest leader in the Demo-
cratic party, the senior senator from
New York, as ''violation of Demo.
cratic pledges and principles" and
which was denounced by the official
head Of the government as such as an
act of party periidy and party dis.
honor" that il the house should at least
concur in "they would not dare to look
the people of the country in the face.n
and which the executive still condemns
since their surrender as the Every
communism OF pelf."
The president. in his letter to Con-
gresham Catchings, of Mississippi,
says:
1.-The millions of our countrymen who
have fought bravely and well for tariff
reform mot accepting this biID should
be expected to continue this struggle,
boldly challenging to open warfare, and
constantly guarding against treachery
and half-heartedness in their CAMP" |
Yet while he permitted the bill to be- |
come law, he lacked the moral courage |
to veto it. If the country was disposed |
to accept this bill as final, and could |
permanently adjust business to it, the
party in power would not have it so.
They have so declared, with boldness
and unanimlty. This means, unfort.
uHately, constant agitation until the
4lh day Of March, 1895. at the least, and
for two years longer after that,
unless the people in the
congressional elections this year |
make the house Republican, in which |
event no further wrecking of Our indus |
tiles or interference with the labor of |
our people can occur during the admin |
straton of President Cleveland. What |
will your verdict be?
Gov. Mckinley then gave a history
OF the new tariff legislation He said
tie bill as it passed the house would
have created, according to the estimates
he had seen of its revenue-raisng
power, q deficiency Of from SAC. .OCO. 900
to S60,000,000. The 'self-c1nstituted
adjustment committee" of the senate, to
which the bill was entrusted after it
came back from the senate finance COM
mittee. was unknown 10 the constitu-
tiOn, unauthorized by the rules of the
senate or by party caucus, tradition or
custom. The manner of the making of
the bill should condemn it.
at was traded through" without re-
gard to principle, public policy, public
interest or public morals.
The adjusting committee went
through the whole list of senators yery
patiently. They gave Senator Murphy
his duty Oh collars and cuffs; they gave
the senators from Tennessee, Alabama,
Virginia ana West Virginia the duty on
coal and iron ore; they gave to the sena-
tors from Louisiana and elsewhere and
the great sugar trust Of the country the
duty demanded OH sugar; they gave the
Populists the income tax; did
not give Senator Brice pro-
tective tariff on wool for his
Ohio constituents. for the senator
did not demand it. He says he
did not. He does not tell us what con-
tessions were made to him, nor bv
whom they were made. but the people
OF Ohio, looking upon their distre ssed
industries. have fully decided that no
one OF them received one consid ara tion
at ais hands.
1t gives some protection. 1t has some
free trade in 1T here and there. but
mostly here in the North There is a
tariff on peanuts. but free trade in cot.
ton ties: there is tariff on sumac, but