The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-10-07
DELIBERATIONS AND SPEECH MAX
ING ONCE MORE ATHE ORDER
AT CANTON.
MARCHED ABoUTAIN THE MUD.
RAHN AND sLUsH HAD NO APPARENT
EFFECT ON REPUBLICAN EN-
THUsIAsAI.
CAMPAIGN CLUBS REPRESENTED.
In the Evening AID Combined and
Gave Canton thee Pleasure Of
WitnessingAa Parade. M

CANTON. o., Oct. Grain and slush
did not keep the big delegations from
Canton today. No more enthusiastic
callers have been here than those from
Tonawanda and Buffalo and Syracuse
and Lenawee county, Michigan. And
through the drenching showers the
callers marched to the Mckinley home,
making the city resound with their en-
thusiasm, while mounted troops and
large bands of music and finely drilled
companies uniformed in mackintoshes
evoked cheers from the thousands who
stood sheltered in the doorways and
under awnings while the visitors
marched by
The formal receptions of the visiting
delegations did not end the demonstra-
items. Soon as the city was shrouded
in darkness, the clubs were again on
the street, Michigan, New York and
Ohio uniting to form the spectacle.
When the parade was well organized it
marched and countermarched past the
Mckinley home, and was reviewed
from the little stand on the front lawn
by Maj. and Mrs. Mckinley, President
Higgins, Of the Indiana Republican
league and a number Of friends Of the
Mckinley family.
A special train Of five coaches ar
rived about o'clock this afternoon
bearing the lumber dealers of Buffalo
and Tonawanda. This was a distin-
guished- appearing and thoroughly en-
thusiastic body. 1t was composed Of
business men connected with the lum-
Der trade and, according to the state
ment of the spokesman, included many
held in the Tabernacle, rain prevent
ing a demonstration on the lawn Mil
lard S. Burns made the Introductory
address. ~ asA
| am very much honored to have this visit
from the lumbermen Of Buffalo and Tonawan-
da of the great Empire state. No one can
know better than the men engaged in your
occupations the value of stable money and
of general prosperity. No one can know
Of the waves OF depression and those Of pros
perity, and | receive the assurance so feel
ingly given to me by your spokesman with
grateful heart, and return to you all my
sincere thanks.
This is a year when party discipline sits
loosely upon the people Of the country. This
Is year, as your spokesman has we'll said
that party ties are not strong enough to
hold any patriot within 1T who believes
that his party has ceased to represent the
highest and best interests Of our glorious
ciate the great industry which you repre-
sent, Of which you are a part-one of che
greatest in the country. The number Of
establishments engaged in manufacture of
lumber and other mill products. from logs,
etc., is q, OIL; the capital invested is
the enormous sum of $496. 339, $685. The plan
ing mills number S679. The capital invested
In them is $40 ,271, 440, and the cost of mate-
rial used is 1886, 482 ASP, and the value OF
TIE annual product is ss5SS, 349, I2T and they
give employment to aTS,0S5 men, who are
MIR A mir -
sum of $136 734, 513 In 1890 the lake trade
| In lumber at Buffalo was over 2S2, 900 900
feet and at Tonawanda over 717,Oo0,0GO feet
though under the lumber provisions of the
| present tariff law, the trade of Buffalo has
since decreased until. in 1895, it was 81 000,-
600 feet less than in 1890, while that of Tom
awanda had shrunk in the same period more
than 1850 900 feet. Canadian free lumber
has been encouraged at the expense of The
lumber interests of the great state of New
York, and all the other lumber states of the
American Union. I may be pardoned, gen.
tlemen, If / say in this presence that I be-
iieve in the policy that gives preference to
Buffalo and Tonawanda rather than to Mon
treal and Toronto.
marvellous than the growth of our internal
commerce; and l have a comparative state
ment Of vessel tonnage. entrances and clear
ances, which certainly conclusively proves
that it ought to be the policy Of this govern
| ment to constantly build it up by every
means at it's disposal This table shows that
tHo lOuudS6, GUtTaUce anu Cledrd0CeS Tor our
Pacific coast in 1890 fer 365 days was 4.261 $50
tons; for the Suck canal. all nations. 365 days,
$3.50 094 tons; for the port of Liverpool $50
days, 1851 421 tons; for the port of London,
| 365 days. 20. e92, 514 tons The total tonnage
for our Atlantic coast 1865 days. was o. 497 ST.
tons-more than the entire tonnage of either
Liverpool or London; and the tonnage OF
Lake Erie and the great lakes United States
and Canada, 228 days. was % 991, $50 tons, the
greatest commerce of the world.
Therefore. am in favor of encouraging
our shipping interests in every proper and
suitable way, and am in favor of the restor-
alton Of tariff SYSTEM which builds up home
factories, home markets and home trade and
which makes this wonderful internal COM
meTce possible. We know by experience in
the last three years that there is nothing we
could exchange it for and not be woefully
cheated in the bargain. No one knows bet
ter than you the effect upon your business
as we'll as upon the general business of the
country, of having all cur Industrial enter
prises at work and constantly at work.
manned with an army of workingmen.
In common with other good citizens YOU
are concerned In the proper settlement of
the free coinage question. Did. you ever re-
feet how it would help the prices of real
estate and of buildings to have all values
unsettled and the validity of contracts thrown
into jeopardy? The history of the world
proves that real estate suffers most severely
IN every period of financial distress and OF
all property it Iecovors the most slowly.
Read the history Of the great financial de-
pressions and panies of 1917 1926 1897 1S4t.
this is not true. The triumph Of sound
money and protection at the polls in No
yernber will, in my Judgment, restore conf