The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1896-10-22
HUMAN STREAM 70 CANTON
SEVERAL DELEGATIONS VISITED
THE NEXT PRESIDENT AT
HIS HOME YESTERDAY.
THE NECESSITY OF A SAFETY VALVE.
Engineers of the Silver Party Would
Run the Engine of State Without
Safety Valve, Brakes or
Any Other Restraint.

Canton, o., Oct. 15.-The first train
of callers to see Maj. Mckinley today ar.
rived in special of six cars over the
Cleveland, Canton and Southern rail
road at 1890 o'clock. The party was
composed of farmers and business meI
Nrom northern Erie county, Pennsyl
4rania, and were in charge of w. j. Sell
This delegation was held ten or fifteen
minutes till the arrival of second sec
ton of fifteen coaches from Cory. Pa
and together the two parties were com.
bined and marched to the Mckinley
home, where one address sufficed for
both. $. A. Smith spoke for the Cory
party and w. j. Sell for the Erie party.
A delegation from western New York,
consisting of professional men of the
cities and farmers, grape growers from
the surrounding country, arrived in the
afternoon and paid their respects to Mai.
Mckinley. The Introductory addl csss
was made by Congressman W. b. Hon
ker of Fredonia.
TO the New York delegation Mai. Nc
NlLicS Sulu, Ill part:
'Dunkirk l read of as town noted
for the manufacture of locomotive en-
gines. Imagine if you can the construc-
ton OF any engine without safety
valve, and yet there are some political
engineers III this country who seek to
run the republic-the greatest of all ell
gines for human progress-without Il
safety valve without brakes or without
other restraint than their own misguided
will. Some of them would run the
engine one way and some would run it
another They are divided and inhar-
monlous in the way to run it. They
have a surplus of engineers. each of
whom has been educated in different
school and none in the school of expert
ence. They differ upon very many
propositions, but apparently are united
Ill opposition to maintaining sound cur
rency and preserving inviolable the obi
cations OF the government. sThey seem
to unite in favorng Il reduction of one
khalf of the savings and the salaries and
IAle wages of the country, for they have
- -pressly declared in favor of Il finan-
IEial policy which would have just that
Iresult. There is one thing the people
of this country will not submit to-that
| the savings of the poor shall be squan-
dered and wasted by Il depreciation of
the hard-earned money which they have
! laid aside as the result of their
| economy. Let me tell you what think
f is Il better, safer and more honorable
policy. Let us restore the protective
tariff system and pay as we 90. Put
our laboring people at work and restore
business confidence from one end of the
country to the other. | am protcc-
| system is best adapted to our conditions
and citizenship. 1t does everything
that revenue tariff does and vastly
more 1t supplies revenue. A revenue
| tariff can do no moro and the present
| tariff has not done that much. 1t ac-
composites this end with equal if not
| greater certainty than Il revenue tariff,
and while doing that it wisely discrimi-
mates in favor of American interests and
is ever mindful of the American people
| 1t protects our own products against
while the domestic consumer is secured
reasonable prices through domestic com
petition. 1t diversifies the occupation
and mutiplies the opportunities of our
people; secures an mrivallcd home mar
ket for agriculture and uncqualled wages
for labor. 1t opposes trusts and COM
binations to control the markets and
prices to the injury of the people, for it is
opposed to free trade, which has been
the parent or trusts. ana llSlStS tlll
competition with the old world shall be
on equal conditions. made SO by the
tariff. If Europe will pay her laborers
as we pay ours. we will meet her in the
neutral markets ana contend without
fear of supremacy. Let her lift her con-
dltions up. We will not pull ours down.
Protection encourages skill and genius
to the highest activity and under its OPP
eerations we reached the foremost rank
IN mechanism and invention and the
widest individual and national prosper