Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1896-02-26
MeKINLEYIsM KANSAS.
\ PFomtasht CitiSsR sf wishits Givss His NteWs oR the Political
 Situation There.

A PFomtasat CiussH sf wIshrt. Gi,ss
 His NieWs ca the Political
 Situation There.
 The JoUKNAL-MINER, some time since, published letter written by Governor K. C. Powers to fueud in Wichita, Kansas, in which he gave some very clear views on the silver question. In reply he has re- ceived the following:
 WIcmrA, Kansas, Feb. 70 Hon. R. C. Powers, Prescott, Arizona, My Dear Governor: --I beg to scknowl- edge your valued favor of the Ed ut. | agree with you that Major ! Mckinley is the warmest friend of free silver of any of the republican candidates yet named.
 We republicans of Kansas, how ever, are supporting him almost unanimously, more, l thiRk, because of his protective ideas than because of his kn ,wu friendliness for the white metal
 Our people are intelligent enougl to know what aIls them. Like the fellow who swallowed the siedlitz powder in separate decoctions, they know where the difficulty lies. They are not seeking a qusck doctor to diagnose the disease that afflicts the body polite, but they have locat, d the trouble and all they are now asking is an opportunity to admin ister proper medicine to the patient and that remedy Is a protective ballot.
 The people have learned that pro ! lection means for the labOrsr pleDty of work at fair wages; for the mAnu- facturer q demand for all his fin ished products at remunsrstive prices; for the merchant activity m trade; for the farmer a ready market for all hls commodities. They have ! learned that under protection. America consumes ninety 10 ninety l five per cent. of all she produces, while under free trade her markets are glutted with foreign goods, her gold dralned out to pay for them, her labOrers thrown out of employ ment and her markets destroyed. Five times in the history of this nation has free trade had fair and impartial trial. Without a single exception 1t has been accompanied by general commercial disaster, re heved only by a return to a pro tectige tariff. It was so after the war of the Revolution, up to the protective legislation of l7S9. Then followed a period of prosperity up tC the practical free trade policy of lSl6. Then again ensued general depression, until 1924 Congress passed a decidedly protective tariff, more rigid than that of l7S9. Once more the nation began an era of prosperity hitherto unknown. The relief to the country, attained ' through the tariffs of 1924 and lS2S, as stated by Daniel Webster, was profound and general, reaching all ! classes-the farmer, the manufac- turer. the ship owner, the mechanic and the day laborer. The change was as great as was wrought when Hamilton smote the rock and public credit and abundant streams of revenue gushed forth"
 But in 1888, under the demand of Southern lsaders-always the most persistent advocates of free trade, and their people always the greatest losers thereby-all the protective features oi the tariff were wiped out, and then immediately again followed all the calamities of the former free trade periods, and con tinued up to lS42. During that period. in Ohio, horses sold at E., cows $l, hogs at a cents per head, and other property, not only Tn Ohio, but throughout the country, in proportion. In the midst of this terrible period came the great fnan- cial crash of 1887. the most appall- ing. widn spread and disastrous that had ever been known.
 In lS42 the whigs again came into power. \ highly protective tariff was passed. Prosperity came like a sun burst through the gloom; fac tories, long idle, started up, new ones were built, ten thousand enter prises, untilizing the best brAwn and brain of the land, were set on foot, labor was in demand, business of every kind revived, and the hum of industry swelled like an anthem of joy and gladness from every hill and valley of the nation.
 But once more came the dread Il ..F duplicity of James K. Polk, he was elected president. and, in lS46, the fourth free trade period was inau- gurated. The inevitable results fol- 10 oSed, as always before, eliminating in the awful crash of 1857 and con tinuing with appalling severity up to 1861, when, again, under republican rule, Q protective policy was for the fourth time triumphant. This period of protection continued up to 1892 The degree of prosperity attained by the nation in these thiTty-one years IS unparalled by any country since the world began. To recount the progress and give statistics of our growth in com merce, manufactures, agriculture, wealth and population would lengtheu this letter beyond endur- ance. You and l arc old enough to have watched with amazement and taken note of the marvellous and countless evolutions of this period.
 But in 1892 the sun whose splen- dor had illumined our country and