The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-10-28
M'KINLEY'S SILLY TALK
Gives Free Rein to His Tongue
on His Hobbies.
HIS CHATTER NAY ELECT BRIAN.


stand on sure Ground Must Vote for
Palmer and Buchnsr.
That Campaign OF Educstion-The National
DDemooratic View OF it,
The Wilmington Every Evening re-
marks very sensibly that as the pros
poets of his election become more GER
tain. Candidate Mckinley IL giving free
rein to his tongue, and endeavoring to
bring his favorits hobbies-tarin and
home market to the front In a speech
delivered on Tuesday TO q delegation
Of miners and mechanics from the Le-
high valley, Pennsylvania Mr. Nc
Kinley said:
Suppose last year we had manufac-
tured a thousand millions worth less
than we did and had gone abroad for
these products expecting to pay for
them with agricultural products, could
q thousand millions more Of agricui-
tural products have been sold abroad
at the price which products brought
here? We sold all the wheat and corn
and meat products that Europe could
take at the price that prevailed Who
can tell at what prices Europe would
have taken five hundred millions or
even one hundred millions more of our
agricultural products than she did
take? The mere statement of the prop
osition Is enough 10 disclose the error
on which it is founded and shows
the Importance of uniting manufactur-
ers with agriculture, or, as Jefferson
states II, putting the manufacturer
by the side Of the farmer
I'm fact, both must. In our country.
depend almost exclusively on the home
market. 1t is folly. II not a crime. to
attempt to change II in these respects.
You would bring ruin and bankruptcy
without the possibility Of having such
q result accomplished. The greater the
diversity OF industries In any country
the greater the wealth-producing pow
er OF the people, and the more there IL
for labor and capital TO divide the more
independent that country becomes.
Now. my fellow-citizens. j take IL that
on the matter of the tariff you need no
argument. but, IL is said, our trouble
is not the tariff, but the money, and
that the way to have prosperity Is to
set our minis running. I do not believe
they would employ any portion Of the
idle miners OF the anthracite region IL
every mint in the United States was
started"
WIN al utttl hiSItkdio Vi laws nv
Kinley, in the above quoted extract
from his speech, goes OF in the most
ridiculous suggestions in order to
make argument for his pet theory.
What is the use OF "supposing," when
the, facts show that, during the past
four months the exports of the United
| States have increased enormously.
while its imports have fallen on?
Would Mckinley choke off this great
| volume Of business In foreign countries.
which is bringing a golden stream of
| wealth to this country, and confine the
commercial transactions of the United
| States exclusively to the home mar
ket?"
| How favorable our foreign trade sit
uation IL at present may be Judged by
| the preliminary September export
| trade statistics just issued by the gov
| eminent. During September. exports
| of all breadstuffs combined increased
| 3s,s23,673 over 1895. exports of provis-
| ions increased 81 &c., 93, of mineral oils
| SS1s, 6ls, and of cotton $11,924.14s. In
| most Of these products the present
| price Is close to the record OF a year
| ago; In some. like wheat, II is much
| higher. Recent detailed statistics OF
| the July and August foreign trade
show that the exports OF manufactured
goods from the United States have In
| creased at a still more extraordinary
| rate. The volume of such trade would
| raise the total of exported manufac-
lures. during the present year. fully
| $50, OO0, 900 above the aggregate Of 1895
| These are facts of so sweeping eco
i nomic meaning that they suggest, even
| to casual observers. the possibilities OF
this country, and indeed the producing
and consuming world In general. are
| on the eve of a momentous change
| from the conditions of the last sir
years.
It is this foreign trade alone that has
| lifted the business OF the country Out
| Of the slough OF despond In which
IL noundered for fully three years. al
| the result of ruinous financial legisla.
ton, a legacy of Republican rule
What would have been the condition
/ of affairs had we been placing our sole
trust in McKinley's home market?"
What IL the use of talking about q
higher tariff, when the Wilson bill Il
4 bringing into the treasury a greater
amount of revenue than was realized
under the Mckinley bill? The latter
measure was entitled AN Act to Re.
duce Revenue" and IL did SO.
It 10 evident that Mckinley 10 not a
ease when discussing the great ques.
ton of honest money-the only. Issue
really before the people In this cam.
paign. He persists in flying OF into q
discussion of the tariff question, which
the voters have not the slightest inter.
est in this year. BY, thus becloudin1
the main issue he IL endangering the
cause of honest money. II by any mis-
fortune Bryan should be elected presi
dent, such calamitous result could b.
Justly attributed TO William McKin