The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1896-10-21
HELPS ALL SECTIONS.
Mckinley Points Out to southerners HOY
Protection Has Benefited Them.

~SinAoy fOints Out TO SOutherners How
Protection Has Benefited Them.
Canton. O., Oct. 1.-THE first dele.
CATION to call on Maj. Mckinley Friday
morning was party of business men,
farmers and miners from Pennsyl.
vania. They represented Bradford,
Easton. Carbon, Northampton, Luzerne,
Lehigh and Wyoming. Congressman ].
II. Codding, of Tonawanda, acted as
spokesman. In responding Mai. Nc
Ainiey spoke at some length upon the
advantages to the miners of settled
foreign policy backed up by a sound
and stable currency.
These conditions, together with the
return of confidence to the business
void, he said. would restore the pros
perlty OF the country that had been de-
stroyed by the enactment of the Wilson
tariff bill.
West Virginia sent fine delegation
OF 700 voters to Canton Friday. They
came from the oil-producing town of
Sisterville and the counties of Wetzel
and Tyler. R. L. Moore and P. A. Shanor
made short spirited addresses to Mai.
Mckinley. In replying to their re-
marks Maj. Mckinley made one of the
most exhaustive speeches to southern
voters that he has yet delivered this
campaign. twas received with marked
demonstrations of approval. He said:
THE policy OF protection to American
farms. industry. enterprise and labor is
broad national policy. 1t has not tinge Of
sectionalism In 1t; 1t Is sound in truth and
wholesome in practice. It is not narrow
and provincial, but wide in it's blessings
and Its benefits, always promoting in
dustrial growth. serving national ends, re-
warding individual efforts and advancing
the just aspirations and hopes Of the Amer
lean people. 1t Is the doctrine of true
patriotism: the welfare Of our country and
countrymen first: our home and families
| first an ardent and sincere Americanism
that loves our flag better than any other
| and would rather subserve our own inter-
ests than the interests Of any other peo-
pie or of any other nation Of the world.
1t Is not the plea of one state against an
other or one group or section against an
other, but 1t Is for the benefit of ala
policy that Injuries no American interests
but protects them all. 1T is only perfect
when universal and it is only under this
principle that the republican party advo-
Gates its restoration.
''The way some of your orators used to
talk to you was as If the tariff was a good
Z IL
but positive detriment to the West Vir-
ginia farmer and laborer; as IL it could
benefit the miner of Pennsylvania, but in
jure the miner Of West Virginia.: as if
the wheat and grain grower in Kansas
or the beet producer of Nebraska would
grow rich by its operations and the cotton
and sugar planters Of Texas and Louisiana
become impoverished under 1t. Time and
again you have heard them declare that
while protection might be good thing
for New England. it was curse to the
west and the south. You know better now
after having had three years and a half
experience under partial free trade.
as it not true that partial free trade
has injured us, one and all? Is it not true
that partial free trade has injured every
interest and every industry in West Vir-
GINA? Have not the people and the gov
eminent grown steadily poorer under it's
destructive operations? Have not both
producer and consumer been injured? The
southern, in common with all the other
states, steadily advanced under the pro-
tective system-if there was difference
between them and the northern states it
was in their favor-Steadily every year
from 1870 to 1890, simply because their re-
sources were greater and their develop
ment more general and rapid. The census
of 1880 and other reliable reports show the
greatest gain in the south of any other
part Of the country, and her enormous
strides in the decade from 1880 to 1890 may
well challenge admiration and pride.
doubt if a similar exhibit of such remark
able advancement towards commercial and
manufacturing supremacy or the advance
ment and uplifting of agriculture can be
shown on any other page of the world s
history
Maj Mckinley then cited statistics, quot
ing from a recent speech by Gen. James
I.ongstreet at Augusta, Ga, to show that
the advancement of the south under the
American protective system was the best
possible argument for it's continued en-
forcement. He continued:
This all occurred after the so-called
crime of 1873, when the free coinage of sill
yer was suspended. No other section Of
this country, no other section Of the world
made such progress as the south made be-
tween 1880 and 1890, and during all that
period we were on a gold basis. one dol
lar being as good as every other dollar, and
all of them equal to the best; at the same
time we were under protective tariff pol
icy that encouraged our own development
and the increase Of our own manufactures.
Do you want to turn your backs upon that
policy, men of West Virginia? Do you
want return of that prosperity which
Then, my fellow citizens, the way to ac-
complish that is to vote for that party
not for the individual-but to vote for that
party that has always stood for protective
tariff and believes in protecting our own
as against all the world. This has been
the principle of the republican party
from the beginning 1t is it's principle now,
and our party believes now. as it has al
ways believed, that the business of this
country must be done with dollars that
are worth 100 cents in every state of the
union and in every part of the civilized
world"
Sherin Renounces Bryan.