The San Francisco call., 1896-06-19

tory-have been when everything was the
lowest and cheapest measured by gold, for
everything was the highest and the dearest
measured by labor. We have no wish to adopt
the conditions of other nations. Experience
has demonstrated that for us and ours, and tor
the present and the future, the protective
system meets our wants. our conditions, pro-
notes the National design, and will work out
our destiny better than any other.
That all which Mckinley said in that
speech has come true, every intelligent
citizen of the Republic who has watched
the drift during the last five years knows
full we'll The bill passed Congress and
became law. 1t was attacked by theory,
ignorance and prejudice, and for the
moment, perhaps, it seemed to those
whose protective principles were not hrm
8 too radical measure. Then the prosperity
which Mckinley predicted dawned, only
to disappear in 1892 when the Democratic
victory spread its blighting effects over
the industrial regions of the country.
Then followed two years of panic and dis
tress, which was only lifted from our pros
trated business when the principles so
eloquently set forth in that address were
again victorious in 1894.
Following is an extract from a notable
speech by Mckinley in theOhio campaign
of last year:
They say prosperity has come Well, we
have got more prosperity this year than we
had last, because we had none at all last year.
{. Tney say that wages are better this year than
they were last, but we had little or no wages
last year, and we did not have any prosperity
in this country until after the elections OF
1894. When the people of this country, from
To in their mi CHI and In their
majesty as one man and voted in a Republican
House. that was the first rift in the clouds. That
was the first star in the business man S constel-
lation. Then, with the feeling that for two
years the Democratic party could not injure
his enterprises, the business man commenced
to do business the best he could, making his
own advancement, and whatever prosperity
we have got now we have got because of that
victory and in spite of the Democratic party.
And now you are ready to vote. The people
of this country everywhere are ready to vote,
for they are sick and tired of this tariff tinker
ing and the increased bond-issuing, pension
cutting, queen-restoring Democratic admins
tration.
In an address, in 1895, to the laboring
men of Chicago, Mckinley expressed these
eloquent 8 ntiments:
Peace, order and good will among the people,
with patriotism in their hearts; truth, honor
and justice in the executive, judicial and legis-
lative branches of the Government, municipal,
State and National; all yielding respect and
obedience to law, all equal before the law, and
all alike amenable 70 law-such are the con-
ditions that will make our Government too
strong ever to be broken by internal dissen-
sions and too powerful ever to be overturned
by any enemy from without. Then will the
government of the people, under the smiles OF
heaven, bless, prosper and exalt the people
who sustain and support it.
In America no one is born to power; none
assured of station or command except by his
own worth or usefulness. But to any post of
honor all who choose may aspire, and history
has proved that the humblest in youth are
frequently the most honored and powerful in
the maturity of strength and age. 1t has long
been demonstrated that the philosophy of
Jefferson is true, and that this, the land of the
free and self-goyerned, is the strongest as well
as the best Government IN the world. We ac-
cept no governmental standards but our own /;
we will have no flag but the glorious old stars
and stripes.
That Mckinley has comprehensive
views on the vast educational system of
the country his public utterances certainly
indicate. There is nothing sectarian,
nothing narrow about his views on this
important subject.
William Mckinley is not only sincere
and earnest man, but religions man. He
is member OF the Methodist church. He