Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1896-10-22
POTTERY AND IRON WORKERS.
They Greet the Champion of Protection
To American Industry.


to American Industry.
The next visitors were from West Vir-
ginia and included pottery workers, iron
workers and a club known as the Tariff
Champions of Wheeling. To these con-
solidated delegations Maj. Mckinley
said:
Gentlemen: Republicans seem TO be
on all sides this year. Great laughter
and applause; n voice: And Demo-
crats.") And many Democrats are with
us. (Applause) l am honored by this
call of this large assemblage from the
state of West Virginia. | am glad to
meet the 6-footers. Cheering from the
Six-Footers' Protective and Sound
Money club of Wheeling) They ought
to be, and l am sure will be, giants in
this contest for national honor. / am
glad to meet the potters Of West Nir-
GINA. l am glad to meet the iron and
steel workers of the Riverside mills. l
am glad to meet you all and glad to feel
that the mission you are mere upon is to
make Republican principles triumphant
on the 3D. day of November.
There is Unborn in every human breast
a sentiment that moves him To strive to
better his condition. The humblest,
those born with least fortune, those with
most unfava-able surroundings, all of
them aspire to better things and all have
a right so to aspire. The genius of our
free institutions exalts ambition and
most men want to lift themselves up. to
elevate and improve the condition of
their families. The thought in every
mans mind here today is: How can
better my condition? How can l improve
the condition of my familyr The an
swer comes almost with one voice: The
way to do it is to protect American in
dustry and defend American labor Tire
mendous cheering.) Let us do our own
manufacturing here in the United States.
Let us make our own iron and steel our
own pottery, our own glass-and when
we do that, then we will employ every
idle man in the United States and bring
hope and happiness to every American
home. / believe in that policy of pro-
lection to home industries and to the en-
ergies of American people. / do not
believe anything is cheap TO the Amer
lean people that imposes idleness upon
a single American citizen. What you
want is work and wages. Do you believe
free trade will aid your Do you believe
protective tariffs will do it? eyes, yes,
every tme.") Then vote that way.
loud yells and cries of you bet we
will.')
protection never closed an American
factory; protection never shut an Amer
lean mine; protection never put Amer
lean labor out on the streets. / wish 1
could say as much for partial free trade,
such as we have experienced in the last
three and half years.
"More than that, my fellow citizens.
we not only want an opportunity to
work. but when we get that opportunity
we want to be paid in honest dollars
worth 100 cents each. Continuous cheer
ing.) We believe neither in free trade
nor in free silver. The one debases the
labor, and the other the currency of the
country, and more than that. you gentle.
men, i know, are in favor Of the main
tenance of law and order. Now. / thank
you for this call and / trust that the
little Mountain state will in 1896 repeat
the verdict of 1894 by giving the Repub-
lican party n grand and glorious tri.