The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-10
REUSED BY HIS WORDS.
Policy of Republicans and
Democrats Vividly Com
pared.
WHY PROTECTION rs NEEDED.
Bugs Not the Way to Restore
Prosperity.

HARTFORD, Conn, April 9.-The BAN
quet rendered Governor Mckinley by the
Mckinley Club of this city this evening in
Footguard Armory was brilliant affair.
Many of the States most prominent men
were present, including the entire Congress
sional delegation. Mr.. Mckinley was
greeted with tremendous applause upon
entering the hall. Five hundred persons
sat down to the tables. John Addison
Porter presided and introduced the speak
ers, who were Senators Hawley and Plat,
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS L. A. Cook, Con-
gresham Henry, ex-Congressman ]. R..
Buck, Speaker Fessenden and Mayor
Brainard.
Governor Coffin introduced Governor
Mckinley, who spoke for nearly two hours.
He was frequently interrupted by applause
and was given an enthusiastic ovation at
the close.
Governor Mckinley began with tribute
to the New England town-meeting princi-
pie of self-government and its results in
the country's history. and from a few
words on the constitution of the United
States passed to a description of politics.
The Republican party, he said, invites the
skirks no responsibility.
'Our foreign policy" he said, 'for the
most part during the past two years has
fallen short of the lofty standard of CEN
fury ago and of more recent times as we'll.
While in our domestic situation there is no
cause for congratulation. this is not the
time to indulge in terms of distrust or
aggrayatton."
Passing to the tariff, he declared that the
Brice- Gorman-Wilson bill had reversed
the wise revenue policy of the Government
since its foundation, SO that to-day more
money is being collected from internal
taxes than customs duties, the figures of
Secretary Carlisle few weeks ago showing
that in 1894 the Government received $155,-
900 from internal taxes and $131 600, GOO
from customs duties, laying the burden
more directly on the people than at any
time for thirty years.
1.-THE present administration, said he,
"has transferred the burden of taxes from
import goods of foreign countries to the
incomes, investments and property of our
own people. In less than two years the
Government has been compelled to borrow
1888. 5000 The peoples distrust was
produced by the falling off in the reve-
nues."
Governor Mckinley severely criticized
the bond contract made in secret with the
financiers of Europe, which he termed the
elimination of the hard-bargain business
that began in November, 1892. Regarding
the tariff legislation the speaker said:
There are those who say there must be
no further agitation of the tariff and no at
tempt to change the tariff, but that we
must rest our mighty enterprises and vast
business enterprises upon the tariff legisla-
ton of the last Congress and adjust them
to it, however difficult that may be- That
is what we are trying to do and will do as
best we can, because we cannot for the
next two years do otherwise. But it is nc
permanent settlement of the issue-only
an enforced and impatient pause.
mo Democrat is satisfied with the law,
and the party is now seeking other issues to
regain lost ground. They now promise to
do for silver what they failed to do in 1892.
The Republican party must restore the
happy homes of 1892, and by the principle
of protection, which would restore conf
dence at home and credit abroad"
After calling attention to the strange
spectacle of the greatest Government in
the world without sufficient money from
its own receipts to meet its ordinary ex-
penses, he said that the way to stop loans
was to stop deficiencies, both of which
seem inseparable from the Democratic
party. He closed with these words:
II fear the hazard Washington de-
precated century ago is still great, and
that even now in the blaze of our marvel
Gus education and progress there are those
of our countrymen who, failing to appre.
ciate our institutions, are too strongly
in favor of other systems"