The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-10-21

New Orleans La, Oct. Ex-Governor
Mckinley addressed an audience Of
no less than $4,000 people tonight in the
big Auditorium. There were COM
paratively small proportion of negroes,
the audience being composed in the
main of business men of New Orleans
and neighboring parishes and was con-
spicuously an intelligent and appre-
ciative gathering, which was entirely
liberal with its applause and discrim-
mating in its bestowal.
The platform was profusely decorat-
ed with sugar cane. Hon. j. L. Ben
ham, chairman of the Republican state
committee, presided, and introduced
Governor Mckinley, who spoke at
much length. The substance of his
address was:
Il come here at the invitation of the
Republican committee, of Louisiana,
to address you on a public question of
great national Importance, which con-
Germs alike, not only the prosperity OF
your section, state or locality, but all
sections and parts of our common
country From 1889 to 1892, period OF
103 years, there mas been forty-seven
years when Democratic revenue tar
iff policy had prevailed and fifty-slX
under the protective policy, and note
worthy fact is that the most progress
i've and prosperous periods of our his
tory were during the years when the
protective party was in control and
protective tariffs were maintained, and
the most disastrous years were dur
ing the free trade or revenue tariff
years of our history.
1.-The foreign market for agricultural
products is one of the delusions of free
trade If it ever had any real sub
stance as against good home market,
that has long since disappeared. We
have free trade among ourselves,
throughout our forty-four states ana
territories That is because we are one
family, one country. We are one ma
ton, have one standard of cit1zensnlp'
one flag, one constitution 6one destiny.
That is why we have freefcrade among
ourselves. Our relations with foreign
states are necessarily different from
our relations with one another. They
are commercial rivals. We deny TO
those foreign states trade with US up
on the same terms we enjoy ourselves.
"Here, in the south, your people have
been offering freedom from taxation
for ten. fifteen or twenty years TO
those who would bring their capltal
here and invest it in productive enter
prises. With all this work going on,
the leaders of the Democratic party
are proposing to tear down our protec-
five tariff and inundate this country
with foreign products to displace those
which these very manufacturers pro-
nose to make and which the people
were willing to tax themselves 10 es-
tablish. Which
are for protection? Germany, France
Italy, Spain, Mexico, CANADA, South
America, Portugal, Denmark, Aus
tralia, Switzerland, Austria ana hun ,
gary. Sweden and Norway; ana ana are
United States of America. Which are
against protection? England New
south Wales and New Zealand.
Tariff for revenue only, or the tariff
reform. is almost exclusively an En-
glish decoration.
How stand the people of the world
on this question? Four hundred ana
thirty millions are in favor of protec-
ton: $4,000. 900 of Britons are against 1t,
to whom must be added those Amer
leans whose numbers are not known,
who. while living under our flag, seem
to follow another. This is how the
worlds jury stands. The tariff law of
'94 is not like any of the early meas
ures, but is one in which the changed
conditions of the country and its mar
velous growth and development are
utterly ignored and forgotten. It's au-
ttorS do not recognize or appre-
ciate the manly independence and dig
nifty of American laborers and cannot
understand that the business policy of
the country under which we have had
such splendid prosperity is not tc be
determined on the lines of sectional
prejudice, which appeals to the hatred
of the past and not the hopes of the
future. The law is a narrow and pro-
vincial measure, unworthy of the great
party in whose name it was enacted.
and wholly unsuited to the needs of
the country. Nor are the masses of
with what has been done. Congress
has disappointed the people, trified
with the sacred trust confided to it,
excited distrust among the constitu-
ents of its members and impaired their
enterprises and investments.
THE country has not failed to Oh
serve that a great change in public
sentiment is apparent throughout the
south. Nothing has occurred of late
years which has been to me more graf
flying than the action Of the planters
of Louisiana, who, if 1 am correctly
Informed, have turned away from the
Democratic party, which, they have
been all their lives associated with, and
announced their unconditional endorse
ment and support of the great doctrine
of American protection to American in
dustries, and thereby allied themselves
permanently to the national Republican
party.
You need no assurances of the de-
votion of the Republican party to all
the material interests of the south. No
one can charge that in all it's in
dustrial legislation for a third of a
century past it overlooked a single
southern interest.
In the stormiest years of sectional
prejudice, moved by no other consider
alton than the good of the whole
country, the Republican party has
sacredly guarded the smallest as we'll
as the greatest interests of the south.
my fellow countrymen, the question
of tariff is a business question In the
truthful words of a true American,
who spoke as seer and prophet forty
years ago, we may still declare that in
dustry has its campaigns and battle
fields and is not yet beyond the need
of entertainments or Notifications.
.'God grant it is the wisdom and
virtue to press forward on the shining
path thus opened plainly before us to
the end that our labor may be fully
employed and fairly paid. and that age
after age may witness the rapid yet