New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-10-16

every obligation of the Government sdcIeu al"
every dollar Of our currency as good as golu
Nor will business activity revive so long as We
do any part Of our work abroad that we can 40
at home. The people must not only nave stdp'i'
ity In their currency, but they must nave s'a-
bty I'm their tariff laws. These tarh laws inus'
never be ever-changing with each new admins
tration. You know that the home manufacturer
must be able to count with certainty upon the
character Of his foreign competition before he
can plan his years work. The sharper the
home manufacturers foreign competition Is. the
lower must be the of his product. If ne would
keen this market Is that not true? loud
cries Of ''Yes"D
need not say to you that the lower the price
Of the product the lower must be the wages OF
labor in producing 1t. Is not that true? ceres
Of "Yes") Nor need tell you that the lower
the tariff duties. the sharper the foreign compe-
titon. the harder the fight to maintain this mar
ket and the lower will American wages be.
Your ballots on the Sd of November. with the
ballots of your fellow -citizens everywhere, VIII
determine whether we are tc have shifting
currency. or whether it shall be good ana
sound one and so recog llzed in every part OF the
world. These ballots. too. Will help 10 deter
mine whether we shall continue tariff policy
that fails to supply the Government with ade-
ply ample revenue and at the same time enable
the labor of this country to be employed In doing
the work of this country rather than by the
labor of any other country while our own work.
ingmen are idle. Your ballots free. You
have nobody to answer to for your vote but
your conscences and your God.
A delegation which came from the northern part
of Chautauqua County. N Y, early in the after
noon was an enthusiastic one. Congressman w. b.
Hooker was the spokesman
A STIRRING SPEECH TO NEW-iORKERS.
Major Mckinley was greeted with storm of APP
plause and he made one of the most stirring
speeches of the campaign. He said,
The great Empire State is now respected every,
where for her free independent and powerful
voice in the councils of the Nation She stands
proudly erect this year for country. patriotism
and National honor. Great applause0 She re-
fuses to wear party yoke which would lead to
National dishonOr reputation. The glorious
old flag is her only banner She refuses to march
under any other. and | am told that from the
Battery 10 Forty-second-st., in the great city OF
the country, "Old Glory waves her spotless
stripes and stainless stars upon every block and
square. appealing for National honor and eXal-
. tation of the American name. 1t Is sgnt wncn
inspires the young and makes the old young
again. Let ii wave. holy banner of the free.
(Applause) 1t never stained in defeat and
II never will be- Great cheerng) 1t was never
lowered in dishonor. and never Will be. CRe-
newed cheering) And the Government whose
= Security and honor enshrined upon every
fold and embaZoned upon every star will not be
covered dishonored Continued cheerng)
- In the election of 1894. Chautauqua County
lind Dunkrk bore honorable part Both
-wcre the right SIDE both for honest money
rtEn. III always in the past. and as they will
ever be in the future, for that Is distinct pro-
vision Of the Republican code of principles and
the unquestioned judgment of the citizens Of the
% great State of New-York, without regard to
ri party. Both were for Protection and Reciprocity.
Both for the enforcement Of law and order:
Both favored the preservation and sanctity of
courts, and were emphatically opposed-or
would have been had they imagined such thing
possible-to attack upon those revered tribu-
nails Of justice which have always been our great
anchors of safety and true safeguards OF constl-
tutiOnal 1berty-the Federal courts Of the United
States. Dunkirk, recall, is a town noted FOR Its
manufacture OF locomotive engines Imagine. II
you can. the construction Of an engine without a
safety valve. Great laughterD And yet there
are some political engineers in this country who
seek 10 run the Republic-the greatest Of all en-
gines for human progress-without safety
o'valve daughter and APPLAUSE without brakes or
other restraint other than their own misguided
will. Some of them would run the engine one
way and some would run it another. Great
laughter) They differ upon very many PROPOSE
lions. but apparently are united in opposition to
maintaining a sound currency and preserving
inviolable the obligations Of the Government
They seem TO unite in favoring a reduction of
one-half Of the savings and the salaries and the
wages Of the country. for they have expressly
declared in favor of financial policy which
would have just that result.
LET Us PAY AS WE co.
There is thing the people of this country
will not submit to-that the savings of the poor
shall be squandered and wasted by depreca
ton of the hard earned money which they have
laid aside as the result Of their thrift and econ
omy. applause and cries OF "Good") Let me
tell what think is better a safer and more
honorable policy Let us restore the protective
tariff system and pay we go. Enthusiastic
cheering and "Hurrah for McI<inley"D Put our
iaboring people at work and restore business
confidence from one end of the country TO the
other. Great applause) i am Protectionist
because / believe the protective system is best
adapted to our conditions and citizenship 1t
does everything that revenue tariff does and
vastly more. 1t supplies the needed revenue.
Revenue tariff can do more and the present
this end with equal. if not greater certainty
than revenue tariff and while doing that IT
wisely dscriminates in favor of American inter-
ests and is ever mindful Of American people.
1t protects our own products against those Of
the alien and stranger while the domestic con-
sumner Is secured reasonable price through do
nestle competition. 1t diversifies the occupa-
lions and multiplies the opportunities Of our
people: secures an unrivalled home market for
agriculture and unequalled wages for labor.
1t opposes trusts and combinations to control
the markets and prices to the injury of the peo-
ple for 1t is opposed to Free Trade. which has
been the parent of trusts. and insists that COM
retition with the Old World shall be equal
conditions made so by the tariff. If Europe will
pay her labor as we pay ours we VIII meet her
In the neutral markets and contend without
fear for supremacy. Let her lift her conditions
up We will not pull ours down. Protection en-
courages skill and genius 10 the hiehest ac'N-
ity and under its operations we reached the fore
most rank In mechanism and invention and the
widest individual and National prosperity. Pro-
lection favors the United States and the flag
OF the United States. (ApplauseD Ii favois
the people of the United States and is the true
friend Of every American girl and hoy strug-
Cling upward Ii builds up so 1t never tears
down. II you favor the restoration of prosperity.
the honest payment Of our debts the fuliiimcnt
Of our obligations and the continuation of our
high rank and our Importance among the great
nations of the world men of NewYork. bid
YOU two weeks from next Tuesday cast your
votes that way.
large delegation of Republicans from Erie