Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1894-10-27
AMONG THE PELlCANS
Gt-. Mckinley Addresses a New
Orleans Audience


That ilied tho immense Auditoriars
While Thousands Were Turned Away
-Dcies ations From All Over =
the State and Mississippi.
NEW ORLEANS, Oct. 2l.-Thirtcen
thousand citizens of the Pelican state
were crowded into the Au iitorium last
night to give greeting TO Gov. Mckin-
ley, and after the police, as precau-
tlonary measure, had formed Gordon
about every entrance, fully one-half Of
That number sought for admittance in
VAN. 1t was the most remarkable
political demonstration that Louisiana
has witnessed since the early seventies,
Delegations were present froia TIA
principal points in the state ami syfAfssIs.~ :
sippi within radius of 20o miles
The governors train reached the
city shortly after p. IN. There was
a big crowd at the depot and three
cheers We're called for and given with
a will as the governor alighted from
the train and entered his carriage.
The meeting at the Auditorium was
announced for o'clock. but two hours
earlier the crowds around the public
entrances were SO dense that the doors
were opened and "A company of police
was called for to assist in regulating
admissions.
When Gov. Mckinley entered, the
cheers and applause We're deafening
and long-contnued. ..
Gov Mckinley was introduced and
spoke as follows:
standing in the presence of this
vast asscmblage, which is similar in its
numbers TO the great meetings have
recently addressed in other states, east
and west, | amimpresscd with the pro-
found interest of the people in the well
fare Of the government in which their
voice is supreme. Irealize now perhaps
more fully than ever before, the
strength and grandeur of that govern
ment and the utter inability of any
man to fully comprehe nd its mighty
resources, its splendid possibilities
1t is Il proud distinction to be cti-
zen Of any state in the American union,
but It IS prouder one TO feel that we
are one and all citizens of our mighty
nation. Desiring first of all its con-
tinued uneXampled progress and high
est national prosperity rather than
the temporary triumph of any political
organization.
Il come here, as have gone to other
states, at the initiation of the repub-
| lican committee of Louisiana. to adj
dress you upon public question of
| great national Importance which con
Germs not only the prosperity of your
| section, state or locality. but all sec
tions and parts of our common coun-
| try, and which is now more than ever
of commanding interest to all our 65.-
| OOO,0O0 of inhabitants 1t is touching
directly every home and hearthstone
in the land every Investment and oc-
cupation of our people, and the income
| of the people. 1t is no new subject
| propose to consider; it is question as
old as government by men, for the
tariff is Il question of taxation, and
taxation, with but few exceptions, has
been the chief "nl absorbing political
issue for more than century of our
national history,
This is the first time ! have ever
had the honor of addressing an audi
encc in Louisiana, ana assure You
that while appreciate the cordiality
of your welcome. | do not misnter-
pref its meaning, 1t demonstrates the
| interest you feel, in comm IN with the
people Of the other states, in the cause
OF protection to home industries and
the return OF the business activity
and prosperity which we rashly voted
away in 1892. To this cause of
protection to American interests,
as a national policy, the re-
publican party has always been de-
voted. from the hour Of its birth. Re-
| publican principles do not change with
each new campaign, nor with state
lines They do not appeal to any
special class. nationality or faction.
but always to the whole people. They
are not limited by section or local
boundaries. They comprise within
their aims and purposes the whole area
of the United States and embrace
within their benefits and advantages
all the people who acknowledge allie
glance to our flag, from the Florida
reefs To Puget Sound, and from the
great lakes to the gulf. They know
no north or south, no east or west. hut
are as national as the federal consti-
tuition and as broad as the country.
They are as applicable to Louisiana as
to Ohio: to Alabama as to Pcnnsylva-
mia, to Georgia as to Maine; to the
sugar and rice belts of the south as to
the corn and wheat belts of the west;
and to the agricultural as TO
the manufacturing states. They
are principles that inspire patriot
ism, promote national pride.
encourage the best and highest aspira-
tions of the people, and the best
achievements of their skill and in
dustry. The proof of all this is found
in our own history, and is best mani
tested by the personal experience of
our own citizens. No one can read
that history without II feeling of glow
ing pride in the progress of our coun-
try under the American policy of protec-
ton, and without a feeling of profound
conviction that it ought not to be
abandoned"
The speaker proceeded TO consider
at length the economic policy of the
various national administrations for a
period of a century.
The south, he continued. was the
parent of the doctrine of protection to
home industries, and it had prospered
and proiitcd as a result of that par
entage. lie dwelt upon the argument
that agriculture and manufacture
must go hand in hand, and that the
foreign market for agricultural prod
ucts was one of the delusions of free
trade. Then he continued:
81 do not know how it may seem to
you, but would rather have my po.
litical economy founded upon the
everyday experience Of the planter and
the manufacturer, and the tradesman
then on the learning of the professor
-on the experience Of the farmer, the