The herald., 1896-08-25
PO1lERS AAD FARM HANDS
Come to Canton to See Major
Mckinley
THE MAJOR DEEPLY MOVED
And Tells Them How They May Tax
Themselves Rich
With Incidental Reference to the Blessings Of
Premium OF Gold-He Pleads
for Votes
associated Press Special Wire

|
in East Liverpool, O., Travelled seventy
miles to call on Major Mckinley today.
This glazed ware industry has been es-
| tablished in America since Mckinley
| was sent to congress from this dis
trict twenty years ago. Chairman w. L.
Smith, Col. J. N. Taylor and w. B.
| Blake headed the delegation.
When they reached McKinley's home
there were 5000 cheering people in the
crowd.
Mr.. Blake said: Under the Wilson
! German compromise, which opened up
the flood gates of our ports to foreign
products, s9,OOO,0OO worth of crockery
has been imported. Every dollars
worth, or large percentage of it, could
and would have been made in America
under our protective policy. Instead
our factories have been limp and help
less. Under these unhappy conditions
| artisans have been thrown out of en-
ployment, had put up with an inordinate
amount of discontinue, scarcely capa-
BILE of keeping our heads above water.
The potters want to see prosperous
times again, and to this end will vote
for sound money, protective policy
and William Mckinley"
Major McKinley's address in response
was as follows:
MY Fellow Citizens-I cannot con-
ceal and would not conceal the pleas
ure which this visit on the part of the
citizens of East Liverpool and Colum-
biana county gives me. I have been
deeply moved by the warm and gener-
Gus words spoken by Mr.. Blake, and
nothing gives me greater pleasure nor
more satisfaction than to feel that
have behind me supporting the great
principles for which stand the work
ingmen of my old congressional district.
| (Applause) The message of goodwill
so eloquently expressed by your fellow
| workman has profoundly touched me.
1 cannot forget that you trusted me in
my young manhood, for which I am
deeply grateful, and that you have
ever since followed me with unfalter-
ing confidence, of which l am also duly
appreciative. 1 remember the first time
that 1 ever looked into the faces of an
East Liverpool audience, some twenty
| years ago, and then as now was speak
ing for sound money and protective
tariff. (Great chers.)
Your spokesman has alluded most
| graciously to me and to what have
| given to your great industry. If have
| done anything to bring work to you or
my fellow man anywhere and made the
conditions of the American working-.
man easier, that is my highest reward,
and greater reward no man could have.
| t.rr,t.z fa11 ~
liens, in the United States which de-
mands or deserves protection through
our tariff laws than yours 1t is busi-
ness requiring technical and artistic
| knowledge and the most careful atten-
! ton to the many and delicate processes
through which the raw material must
pass to the completed article.
Down to 1862 the potter industry OF
the United States had achieved little
| or no success, and had made slight ad-
| vancement in a practical or commercial
way. At the close of the low-tariff Pc
| riod of 1860 there was but one white
ware pottery in the United States, with
two small kilns Decoration kilns were
| not known. In 1878, encouraged by the
tariff and the gold premium, which was
an added protection, we had increased
| to twenty potteries, with siXty-eight
| kilns. but still no decorating kilns
| (Applause.) The capital invested was
| s1,020,0o0 and the value of the product
was S1,1S0000. In 1882 there were fifty
five potteries. 344 kilns, twenty-six
decorating kilns, with capital invested
of s5,O76,0OO and an annual product of
$500, lao.
"The wages paid in the potteries in
1882 were $2,537, 500, and the number of
employees 1000. You have twenty-eight
potteries in the city of East Liverpool
today. The difference between the
wages of labor in this country and for
eign countries you know better than I
can tell you. When the law in 1888 was
enacted, stated on the floor of congress
that if the duty of 55 per cent and so
| per cent were given, as recommended
by the bill then pending, in less than five
years the quality of American ware
would be improved, the quantity in
creased and the price to the consumer
diminished. That prophecy has been
more than verified. (Cries of You are
( right.o In 1882 an assorted crate oe
ware sold for $751; and the same-oniy q
better ware-is now sold for less than
$40. In 1864 we paid for the same crate
of ware $210.
"On decorated ware the immense ben
eft to the consumer is even more appa-
rent. The selling price of all decorated
ware was from 80 to 100 per cent higher
in 1882 than in 1890. In 1882, with the
low revenue tariff duty of "a per cent
and no domestic manufactures, an as
sorted crate of whiteware sold at $780,
in 1890, with the 55 per cent duty and do
mestic competition, with large potter
les, which are the pride of the country,
employing labor and capital at home,
buying our own raw material, the same
! assorted crate was selling for $40. CAP
plause.)
What the state of business has been
in the past three years you know better
than 1 can tell you. Without any actual
knowledge about it 1 think can safely
say that you have not been SO prosper