The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1894-10-12
M'KINLEY IN ST. PAUL
oHIO.s GOVERNOR SPEAKS IN
MINNEsOTA'S CAPITAL.
Hc Advocates the Policy Of PrOtee-
ton Before an Audience Of Several
Thousand Pcopie-A Reception at
Ex-Gov. Merriam's Mansion.

meeting at the uPuitnfluin SdtuFudy
night. The S.J0l seat. We're all oc-
cupied, and around the walls, at the
entrances to the aisles and in the
open spaces near the doors were
massed crowds Of eager standing citi-
zens \ torch light procession of sew
cral thousand men escorted Gov Nc
Kinley from eX-Goy. Merriam's ) resi-
dence to the auditorium EX-Gov.
Merriam introduced the Ohio governor
in a neat speech, and when Gov. Nc
kinlcy arose to speak he was greeted
by cheers which lasted several min
utes. He said in part:
"ln November, 1892, Republican
national administration. able, efficient
and patriotic, which had been in con-
troll of the government for nearly four
years and at the head Of which was
one of our greatest American presi-
dents Benjamin Harrison tapplause),
was, by the voice of the American peo
pie, voted out of power and a Demo
cratic administration voted in. That
administration has been in control of
the federal government, in all Of its
III tol III" hlIClSSh
months. and during that period 1t has
employed the greater part of It's time
in revising the tariff. That long period
for it has seemed very long to the
American people) has given us an OPP
portunity for sober reflection. Steadied
by the discipline of adversely. The
people have been rejecting, for they
have had little else to occupy their
attention. The people have been
thinking, and those who have not
been thinking have been feeling feel
ing the stress of the times wrought
by the great change. 1t must have
been apparent even to congress, that
while they We're engaged in revisin.
the tariff the people were employed in
revising their views llau-hter) and
were impatient with anxiety to pass
Judgment upon their work 1t did not
take the people SO long to revise their
views as it has taken congress to re-
wise the tariff. And they are only
awaiting an opportunity to express
those revised views in constitutional
way at a national election. fApplause)
The people Of this country never were
SO anxious, in all their history. to vote
as they are 1T this hour. And | have
been looking for some one who would
move the previous question and stop
all debate so that vote might be
taken At once" Great applausc)
lie then spoke Of the recent elections
In various states as proof that the peo-
pie wanted another change.
The Tariff Dill Discussed.
Ihe speaker continued: What, my
friends, has been the cause of this
mighty revulsion of public sentimenta
IL IS answered in a single sentence.
The Democratic party has been run
ming the government for nearly nine
teen months, and during that little
TIME little else has been running.
daughter and applause) Every in
dustry in this country has been dis
tufoed, every investment has been i'm
perlled. Men have found little en-
ployment in their accustomed places.
and when they have been employed It
mas been at greatly reduced wages.
Ihere has been no cessation in the
waste OF wealth and wages and profit.
IL mas cost this people more than it
cost THIS government to put down the
mighty rebellion, for the preservation
" the Union and the honor of the
flag
he appeals to charity We're never
SO universal, and their necessity never
SO apparent as now. Congress has
'rlned with the sacred trusts OF the
people, imperiled their investments
disturbed their occupations: they have
quarreled and compromised. and mon
.helr own testimony have themselves
peen compromised And at length wa
get tariff law-such as i IS ,,r;f,
law winch nobody approves, certainly
NOBODY who lives beneath our flag: 4
afil law which the president Of the
.nileu states refused to sign. IAN
plause.) a tariff law which he char.
acterlzed before its enactment as an
act oI party perfidy and partv dis
nonor ana which he said If It nassad
.he democratic party could not look
the people Of the country in tho f,ca
ahu which, after the enactment =,
tnat law. he declared to be tho VOW
communism Of pelf.
Tin fnil.
hro,' VINE on this stand workincman
u,oaSnt me this tin pail-this bu.l,at
~ .oiu me i W. american tin ian.
pAuse)' made from American stoa,
"hu .Aal steel made by an Ameri..,,
s.aan, and this tin pail made
Dv IN American citizen here - tha
e''s o. st. Paul One weel ana -
uay every tln-plate factory in tha
pni.eu states closed down. Whv2
n.,ause the tariff law Of 1894 had 60
reduced the duty upon the fnra;,n ~
ploduct as to make it impossihle fnr
@ .nose manufactures to produce ana
pay ne scale Of wages they had Noon
paving upIar tl,o - h'u Deen