The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-09-26
ENJOYED FREE WOOL


have been the most disastrous in the
history of American wool manufactor-
ies-greater than the disaster which
followed the close Of the war in 1872,
or the panics of 1853 and 1857. CAP
plause.) 1t is a Well-knoWn fact that
since free wool it has not been posi-
BILE to make wooden goods in the Uni
ted States with any confidence that
they would sell in the market for what
it cost to make them. The imports OF
wooden goods following free wool were
simply enormous. They averaged five
millions a month in value, so that at
the end of the first year under the new
| law the total value of wooden goods
imported had exceeded sixty millions
foreign value. In 1S95sit is estimated
that nearly one-half of the woolens
which entered into consumption were
of foreign make. We have in this
country enough wooden machinery to
manufacture for all our wants, but it
IS NOT ALL IN DEMAND
under present conditions. We must
start all the machinery in the United
States, my fellow citizens of Seneca
county. (Applause) While they are
Idle, working people are looking for a
JOB; foreign wool-growers are sending
their wool to the United States, while
American farmers are selling their
locks. applause and cries of That's
right.'O
Contemplating these figures and this
condition, what do you think of Mr..
Springer's prediction? Great laugh
teri Livery word of his prophecy has
proved false; every promise has been
/ broken. applause and cries of That's
/ right.') If this is scattering plenty
Ger a smiling land, we pray God to
spare US any more Of it. Great laugh
ter and applause.) Those who prom
Used plenty and prosperity under free
trade are now assuring us that they
can only be secured though free Sill
yer. daughter and CRIES of NOD
How will free silver stop the importa-
ton of foreign wool. ~tGries of 1T
won't.'D How can free silver check
the appalling importations of wooden
goods from the old world? Cries of
1T cannot do it.') How can free
silver
PRESERVE THE HOME MARKET
to the wool producer and the wooden
manufacturer? (Renewed cries of "ht
cannot do it.") My fellow citizens, it
is as delusive as free trade. 1t will only
further cripple every interest in the
United States. How oan-free silver in
crease the demand for American labor
and American products? Answer me
that. (Cries of 1T cannot do ito Re-
member, my fellow citizens, that money
does not make business. 1t never did
ard it never will. Business makes
money. (Cries of That's right.') Poor
money never helped legitimate business
in the history of mankind. 1t has al
ways hurt 1T. 1t is destructive to
every interest but that of the specula-
tor. (Applause) what is true Of
wool. is
TRUE OF OTHER INDUSTRIES.
All have been suffering, if not to the
same extent. 1T is because the blow on
osher industries was not so severe. We
want in this country q sound govern
ment, a sound tariff and sound money.
(Great applause.) And we want to
take care OF this goodly Inheritance of
ours and keep it what it has been for
the most part in all its glorious history,
the most prosperous beneath the sun,
with more happy and contented homes
than can be found in any other coun-
try in the world. (Applause)
To a delegation from Marion, Indi-
ana, which arrived at Canton shortly
after Z o'clock this morning, Major Nc
kinley spoke in part as follows:
congratulate you upon being first
To-Day. Naughter.) No other delega-
ton has yet preceded you. CRenewed
laughter.) You have in your city of
Marion, as I recall, an industry which
manufactures glass, that used to be in
! the city of Canton Am 1 right about
that? (Cries of Yes, yes.") 1t is a
good Industry. Well, now, that fairly
illustrates my idea. That used to be,
as l said. a Canton industry We
would very much have preferred 30
have had. it remain here but it was
taken away However, it did not go
out of our own country. Great ap-
/ plause and cries of Good good ~ 1t
went into neighboring state and,
therefore,
BENEFITS THE AMERICAN FAM
American workmen still do the work
We share in your good fortune and
prosperity, but we would have felt diff
ferently if it had gone on the other side
and out of the United States. (Cries of
Yes, we would.") In a word, we want
to do our manufacturing at home
! (p-Ta3,t cheering and cries of 9Th ass