The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1894-10-17

pect by still further changes in tariff
schedules or renewed agitation of the
subject?
"After most bitterly denouncing the
bill they have just passed, democratic
leaders and press console. themselves by
declaring that the new law, after all, is
better than the act of 1890. Better for
whom? Better for what? Where has it
given hope? Whose factories will ii set
TO work? 1t has improved no American
interests whatever unless it be the sugar
and whisky trusts. II will not start a
single new factory at home. 1t will not
light solitary new fire at home. 1t will
not increase the demand for labor at
home. Whatever hope it brings is 10 the
alien and the stranger. Whatever in
dustry it quickens is beyond the seas; it
is not located beneath our flag, and yields
it no allegiance or support.
"Better than the law of 1890, a law I'M
der the operation OF which every man in
this country was employed at good
wages, every factory was running at its
full capacity, and the consumer was Sc
curing the necessities of life cheaper than
he had ever received them before. Does
any thoughtful man believe that the law
of 1894 will ever restore these happy con-
ditions here in the United States?
"How many industries in the United
States are paying the wages paid in 1892?
Tell me, workingmen of Ohio, how many
of you are idle now who had remunera
tive employment in 1892, and how many
of you, fortunate enough to have employ
ment now, have escaped reduction of
your wages? And what are your pros
poets for the future if you continue to
the tariff policy of the party now in
power? These are all practical questions
which every vorkingman can best answer
for himself"
The Currency Question.
Passing to the SUBJECT OF the currency,
Governor Mckinley said:
"The democratic party has been in
control Of every branch of the govern.
ment since the 4th day of March, 1898
Its legislative branch has been in session
more than twelve months, yet it has
given us no silver legislation whatever
except to strike down the Sherman law
at the special session, called for that pur
pose, and ia response to the urgent
recommendation of democratic presi.
dent.
Having disposed of the republican
makeshift, as they denominated the Sher
man law, they were going to give silver
an honorable place in the coinage of the
country. Nothing has been heard O
this since Nothing will be heard of il
in the present congress. Nothing car
come OF it 50 long as Mr.. Cleveland il
president, for it is well understood thai
he will veto any coinage bill. Yet thu
Ohio convention went through the idle
ceremony of declaring for the free ant
unlimited coinage of silver at ratio O
l6 to / mot, however, without serious
opposition from $50 delegates), knowing
that it meant nothing and could NEAR
nothing, and that it binds nobody at all
not even the delegates present.
Senator Brice, at the head OF the Ohio
democracy, himself in attendance upor
the convention, made swift to denounct
that plank in the platform, after he had
crossed the Ohio line, and openly an
nounces that he is not bound by it unles.
he can be permitted to construe it as he
pleases. 1t is mere pretense. 1t il
an attempt to raise false issue. 1t is
another effort at deception.
"The era when democratic promises
avail his gone by. The period of theil
fulfilment is at hand. The democratic
congress can no longer offer the excuse
that the republican party stands in thu
way. Nothing can stand in the way of tn,
democratic party executing the will OF tba
party. But free and unlimited coinage
of silver is not the crystallized will OF tn,
democratic party, and it will not be
The party that has struck silver down
and given It the severest blow it eve
had, can not be relied upon to give tina
metal honored treatment"