The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-09-25
THE. SPEECHES..
An Eloquent Tariff Talk TO a1lners-h Big
Delegation Cheers Protection Sentiment.
All Brnnc ns of the OIL Industry Hear n

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Delegation Cheer. Protection Sentiment.
Great Speech.
CANTON, Ohio. Sept. 2.-The first
delegation TO come TO call on Major
Mckinley was from West Newton, Pa.
The visitors brought with them bands
ns music and drum corps. The spokes-
man for the first section was Mr.. Van
Dyke. To his words Major Mckinley
responded as follows:
Mr.. Van Dyke and My Fellow Citl-
zens:-Is had not expected TO meet the
people OF Westnioreland, county in sec
TONS had supposed that you would
come to me to-day lnTa united body
and that / might have an opportunity
OF addressing you all together but It
seems there arc so many Republicans
this year that when they make jour-
ney they have to come in sections.
Laughter and cries of That's 500
There is no sort OF objection to being
divided now, but I trust that on the
third day OF November you will all be
united (Cr!es of 1--WE will.") l count It
very great personal pleasure to meet
and greet the people of West Newton.
recall your busy and enterprisnS
city with great satisfaction; remem-
bsr the only visit I lever paid 10 you
and at that time found your city
one OF tn. most active and the most
prosperous In the whole country.
regret 10 hear from your spokesman
mat all that has changed, and where
plenty and prosperity presided want
and despair now sit. And thatNnatur-
ally leads to the inquiry. what has oc-
Casloned 1t? That Is the Thought In
every mans mind; that !s the question
that Is In every mans Thought. We
have the same country that we had
four years ago; We have the same
splendid resources, the same FARMS the
same factories. the same mines, the
sturdy. cnterpr!slng people that we had
then. aud what is the, reason We have
not the same prosperity now"
The reason Is not hard TO discern.
For more than thirty years we lived
IN this country under n protective tar
ih: II turiT that protected and encour-,
aged American enterprise and Amer!-
can Industry; tariff that made us In
That period OF time the greatest nation
~ the world In manufactures, In min
ing and In agriculture; a system that
protected everything we made In this
country against similar things made In
Eur0pc:a protection to every American
Interest against conflicting foreign In
tcrCst 7a s-'i 4Ff
Cause OF The Trouble.
Now that protection has. been par
'lhlly removed and when the people OF,
this country in 1899 decreed that there
was TO be a change OF policy and tf-;t
We were to go from protective policy
tJ partial free trade policy. or a ireve-
nlic tariff policy. then uncertainty hung
over this country and no man knew
what to do. No man could count up
uA what the future would bring; no
man knew when lic mined coal how
much he would get for 1t: no man
khew what he put the raw material In;
10 one end OF the factory how much he
rpald get for II when II went out Mt the
oltsra'and when on account OF the un-
certainty which hung over us because
~ the anticipated competition from
other countries, the business OF this
country was at once deprcnsed and for
'p,if years We have boon suffering be-
'atiSe our. own Industries were not
trhSDcrous; mud while our own indus.
tiles were not prosperous that indus:
tFlcs Of other countries were. Il. n 2
N0w am one of these who believe
thdt II is the business OF this country to
make laws for the benefit OF thia coun-
Try. Cloud applause.) J. BELIEVE
TIE BUSINESS OF THIS F'iaT ri;
iOvERNMENT3 3Iy TO Ofj-PRE,SE;RvE
lElAAtER1ChN4 NAH * ETsTO THE!
AMERICAN EPRODUCER,WHE,r JI9It
IN THE FACTORY oIt TIL u FARM
and 70 preserve tho Amerean5 mines,