The San Francisco call., 1896-09-13
AT MoKINLEY'S HOME.

Three thousand visitors from Vermont,
Pennsylvania and other places paid thelI
respects to Major Mckinley at his home
last Friday, and they came as cam paign
organizations, which shows that they are
in line OF battle. Major Mckinley de-
! llvered an admirable address to each dele
CATION. In this connection it might be
observed that Major Mckinley is not like
Mr.. Bryan, man with only one speech,
nor does he repeat last week. s speech to
this weeks audience. But. then, Major
Mckinley is statesman, full of under
standing of the science OF government,
and 1t is an easy matter for him to dis
cuss economic problems without repeat
ing himself.
OF the several speeches he made last
Friday the one that was called forth by
the Erie (Pa.) Lincoln Club will probably
elicit more applause than any of the
others. After analyzing the industrial
situation and the condition of the people
to-day, and comparing the prosperity of
three years ago to the business depression
which hangs heavy upon the country at
this time, Major Mckinley quoted the fol-
lowing from speech of Abraham Lincoln
in 1860: THE first OF our resolutions de-
clares tariff OF duties upon foreign i'm
portations, producing sufficient revenue
for the support of the General Government.
and so adjusted as to protect American
industry, to be indispensably necessary to
prosperity OF the American people, and
the second declares direct taxation for a
National revenue to be improper"
The force OF what Mr.. Lincoln said
when the Republican party was about
to achieve its first National victory was
then and is now in the fact that
he laid down an economic policy
which has always been q fundamental
principle OF the party. Mr.. Lincoln
made the mission of the Republican
party to be a continuous effort for the bet
terment of the peoples condition of exist
ence, and the party has never turned from
the path OF duty, nor has it ever had ar
abler, more loyal, or a more capable leader
since the days of Lincoln than Major
Mckinley.
1t is charged against Major Mckinley
by the opposition that he dwells too much
upon the tariff question in his public ut
terances. but it will be observed that he is
right in line with Mr.. Lincoln's declara-
tions, and they should be good enough for
this time. 1t is very true that the tariff
question is the burden of all of Major
McKinley's speeches, but enforced idle
ness of wage-earners and the inactivity in
and about our industries are the one great
burden upon the country and Major
Mckinley would roll it off. He does not
nor does any other sensible man believe
that prosperous conditions can be secured
until our factories and mills and shops are
in position to open their doors to labor.
Major Mckinley is anxious to see the
people of the United States enjoying pros
perity, but he knows there can be no sub
stantial prosperity so long as we let for
eign countries force our industries into
idleuess. He believes that every man.
woman and child in the United States who
desire to work should have an opportunity,
and at good wages at that. He wants
peace and plenty to abound all over the
land. If tnat is mistaken notion, the
fault is Lincoln's rather than McKinley's.
for the great leader founded the Republi-
can party to secure greater prosperity to
the people of his country.