The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-10-25
McKinley's Telling Points.

The visit of Governor Mckinley to
Professor Wilson's district has revealed
in his oratory new versatility. In
briskness, vivacity and snap, the Ohio
executive is fast rivalling that peerless
guerrilla Of debate, Thomas B. Reed.
An instance Of this was supplied at
Wheeling Tuesday, when he said, in re-
ply to some criticisms of local paper;
The Register says that the most pros
porous period in the history of the United
States was from 1916 to 1860, under the
Democratic tariff law of 1876 I want to
say to you that not one, the editor of the
Register or any Of the others who reit-
crate this statement, has read the his
tory OF his own country. 1 ask all such
to read message of President Fillmore in
1850 and 1851, wherein he describes the de-
plorable condition of the country as re-
sulting from the tariff law of 1886 Then
1 would ask that they read the message
or President Buchanan of 1857, who said
that in the midst of unsurpassed plenty
the people of this country had nothing to
do since, that public and private enter
prises were stopped and that workmen of
this country were tramping and beg
ging for work. During the fourteen years
of that Democratic revenue tariff this
government did not collect money enough
to pay its everyday expenses, and had to
go shivering about to borrow money-for
1t had no credit during these years of a
Democratic revenue tariff. 1t had to give
large discount in order to sell its bonds,
and the Democratic secretary of the
treasury recommended that congress ask
H. cd, Na.. Ill
that they might be readily sold. History
is now repeating itself. What occurred
during the last years of the Democratic
administration before the war occurred
during this new administration since the
war. We are not collecting enough
money to pay our bills, and for the first
time since 1865 the receipts of this govern
ment are inadequate to pay its expenses
and 1t has had to issue $50, 100000 of bonds
to keep the credit of this government un-
tarnished, while the gold reserve has been
encroached upon.
Later on, Governor Mckinley spoke
at little town Immediately opposite a
prostrated industrial community in
Ohio. Instantly grasping the signific-
ance Of this circumstance, he said:
When the Republicans in congress pre-
pared the tariff laws of 1890 we put a.
tariff on cotton ties, and a great factory
was opened up across the river at Pome-
roy. When that tariff was placed on cot
ton ties they were selling in the markets
at Sl.25 bundle. After the tariff of 1890
went into effect the price fell to 70 cents
bundle. They have now been made free
by the British Brlce-G German Wilson free
trade law Of 1894, and the manufacture of
cotton ties in the United States has been
destroyed and the American Workmen
who have been making cotton ties are
idle. Who has this industry been given
to? Our commercial rivals on the other
side OF the Atlantic ocean, and 1t was
your own fellow citizen of West Virginia
who had this done. do not believe that
that Is the true, genuine American policy.
1t is the business Of the people of the
United States first to take care of them
selves and let other nations OF the world
take care Of themselves.
Then Governor Mckinley took up a
statement made by Vice-President
Stevenson. He said:
/ notice in the Wheeling Register,
which suppose Democrats will grant is
reliable authority in such matters, that s9C
today is worth more than 500 was worth
In 1892, when the tariff law Of 1890 was In
effect. But where is the 800? How many
men who had 800 in 1892 have 800 today
How many men who had $40 In 1892 have
80 today? 1t is not a question of how much
money is worth today. It is a question OF
how much money we have, or, rather