The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-08-25
HE MADE TARIFF TALKS TO TWO
VISITING DELEGATIONS AT
CANTON.
PoTTERs CAME IN FIRST.
MIR. M'KINLEY TOLD THEM PRO-
LECTION WAS THE THING THEY
NEEDED.
KNOX COUNTY FARMERS FOLLOW.
To Them the "Advance Agent OF
Prosperity" Made Regular
High Schedule Speech.

CANTON, O., Aug. PA thousand
wcrkmen from the twenty eight pot
teries Of East Liverpool, O., travelled
seventy miles this morning to call upon
Maj. Mckinley at his home. This
glazed ware industry has been estab-
hshed in America since Maj. Mckinley
was sent to congress from this dis
tr1ct twenty years ago. Chairman w.
L. smith, Col. ]. N. Taylor and w. B..
Blake headed the delegation. The lat
ter Is a pottery bench worker and an
eloquent talker. The visitors on the
way to Canton and later ON their march
70 Mckinley's residence, attracted re-
crults until 5000 enthusiastic. cheering
people gathered about the MCKINLEY
home.
Later In the day a party Of seven
carloads Of Knox county farmers
leacneo canton by special Pennsylvania
Iraln. They had the Centerburg q
Cornet band with them, and no more
enthusiastic delegation has reached
canton than they. They marched the
mile from the station to the MCKINLEY
meme In good form. A local farmeg.
neaueo une parade, with load of new
i..o"n nay. Iney were sturdy look
went up as their chairman annear red
on the stoop with Maj. McKiniey- r
y; Crltchf1eld, Of Mount Vernon a son
VI d hnox Vounty farmer nada q
neat presentation q
IN replying. Mr.. Mckinley said:
u = am glad especially to meet the farmers 30
hnox county, for the farmers of the TTnite5 ~
states form the most conservatives force In
our cltizenship and in our civilization (an1
pood poadSoJ, Iorce that has always stood for
1ntr -
sor honesty. Great applause.) Whafever The Iba
farmer is suffering today is because his oo-a
ce,,so csu.ofS nave increased in numbers and be-
lAppiause and cries Of ssYou are rieb+ ,,1 n r
uo not know that we can decrease the numhar
=, your competitors, but with true American
toners to work. tremendous cheering,
can the farmer be helped by free coina oa
oI,a or sliver! (Cries of mo, no, no.") No for
rsbi rsb fo no my fellow citizens. Cres of sHur-
tan h LOT Mckinley.) He cannot be helned
because II the nominal price of grain were
10 rise through an initiation of the cIIrrancv
.d cue Price p OF everything else would rise also
ana the farmer would be relatively M better
on tnan ne was before. He would not get
any more real value for his grain than he
se,, se.s now, and would suffer from the general
coinage of silver. You cannot helm tbe 20 rno ~ &C
py more coinage of silver; he can on1v he
vWelpeu Wol, py more consumers for his products
Iou cannot help him by free trade hut ha
can be hurt and seriously hurt @ Nv tha nus srae ne
antroaucuon OF competing products into this
the ghoanIy. Better. thousand times enlarge
enIarna fees fha @ aor American products than to
thhdafge the m1nts for the silver product Of
tne world. Tremendous cheering and cries
Q, You are right.''J You might Just as well
to anythino now b' ina tnat you cannot add value
~ ~ AWNING by diminishing the measure of
sne Value py which the thing is sold or eY
changed. If you can increase fbe valua -,
~ toweaIng sa tne measure OF value, and you want
20 Denent the farmer, then make the bushai
smaller, the pound lighter, and declare fegai
ooZen less than twelve. Great laughter.1
Inc nome market is the best friend Of the
relaDie market, it Is his only natural mo
ket. He should be protected in its enioy-
MenI Dy wise tariff legislation and this home
stroyed by lessening the demand of American
labor and diminishing the pay of American
workmen and thereby diminishing the de-
mano ana. Ior agricultural products. (Applause.)
prosperity OF manufacturers is fnsepar-
aDle from the prosperity Of agriculture Set
al. al our "heels IN motion, set all our spindles
MN, Wtmianng, SET all our men at work on full
country, bring back confidence and business
and the farmer will at once feel the in
nuence in the greater demand for his products
ana IN the better prices he would receive
lGreat applause and cries of sYou are right. y
lie wants to be protected by wise tariff legis-
latlon from the competition of the other side
and then he wants the mines and mills and
factories of his own country humming with
busy industry, employing well-paid work
men who can buy and consume his products
When he has got consumers he wants his
pay for what he sells in such unuuestioned
coin that he will know it is good not only to-
day, but will be certain to be good every
day in the year in all countries Of the world
Qong and enthusiastic applause.)
have no fear of the farmer-the most
conservative. the most considerate and the
most sturdy of our splendid civilization. They
politics but an honest one. In 1892 when
free trade was the battle cry of our op-
ponents, it was said that the farmers would
follow this heresy, but it was not so. 1t
was the cities which followed the free trade
heresy in this country. (Cries Of That's
right , The country voted for protection
they will vote against free trade and free
silver: they will vote for home market and
for dollar as good as gold in every mart
and market of the world. Great applause)
Maj McKinley's response was re-
peatedly interrupted with applause,
and it was quite lengthy.
He said the hardships of the
American farmers came from the
fact that the farmers best customers,
the American workingmen, had been
largely out of work for the past three
years. The Republican party could not
dispose of the competitors, but it could
help the American. market for the far
mer. The home market under protec-
ton consumed 95 per cent of American
agricultural products. He said that
the home market is the best market;
that the factory was the farmers best
friend; that prosperity had come to
the farmer through the factories, not
through the mints. He said he had no
fear Of the farmers vote.
In 1892 they had stood firmly and 10y
ally against free trade They would
stand against free trade and free sill
yer this year. That to lower the stand
ard of value would not give the farmer
any actual gain, but the panic of
free trade and free silver policy would.
but add to the hardships Of the last
three years. He quoted from the presi-
Dental messages Of Fillmore Jackson
and Buchanan, to show that a low
tariff policy had always worked to the
hardship of agriculture. He said free
silver would not cure over-production
of farm products, or the under-con-
sumption.of the American people. Free
silver would not close the wheat fields
of Russia, India, or the Argentine Re
public. That the farmer as well as
the working man wanted his pay in an
honest dollar.
KEYNOTE BY COCHRAN