Evening star., 1896-08-25
MCKINLEY TO THE poT.rERs.
nc Descrfbes the Growth of the In.
dustry Under Protection.

delegation Of potters from East Liverpool,
ONO. that visited him yesterday at Can
ton, Ohio:
"Mr Blake and my fellow citizens:
cannot conceal and would not, the pleas
ure "hicn this visit on the part of the citi-
zens OF East Liverpool and Columbiana
nuuney nouaS hsl gives tH me 1 have been deeply
spoken by Mr.. Blake, and nothing gives me
sreatef pleasure nor more satisfaction than
10 leel that l have behind me, supporting
.io great principles for which 1 stand, the
Worklngmen Of my old congressional dis
trict. Applause)
Inc message of goodwill so eloauently
n1pfesse1 nspfe by your fellow workmen has
thot '1n touched me. 1 cannot forget
.hat you trusted me in my young man
nooa' h' Ior which am deeply grateful and
.nat you nave ever since followed me with
a1.a anlaitering eig confidence, for which 1 am
aiso a uuly appreciative. l remember the
~ iif >. 'Ilhe that l ever looked into the faces
VI al East Liverpool audience twenty wears
seo' s ana then, as now, 1 was speaking
Great cheering) >0''''
our spokesman has alluded most era-
Siousiy 10 what he terms the services /
aHe siVen 10 your great industry If /
nr aare We, ooi,e ANYTHING to bring work to you
VI my IelloW man anywhere and made the
conditions OF the American workingman
eas.i' . that is my highest reward, and
s.easer .eas reward y, no man could have
inere is no industry, nv fellow citi
zens. in the United States which demands
or deserves protection through our tariff
avs; AVS more tnan yours 1t Is business re-
qul,lns technical and artistic knowledge
and the most careful attention to tho rnany
and delicate processes through which ths
ra" material must pass TO the comnleted
product Down to 1862 the pottery industrv
or or IN une @ onited states had achieved little
OF no success, and had made but slight
advancement In practical and CONNER
clai way. At the close of the low tarin
period OF 1850 there was but one white
ffarNy
two small kilns. Decorating kilns were NOV
known. In 1879, encouraged by the tarif
and the gold premium, which was an added
protection, we had increased to twenty
potterles with s.1ty-eight kilns but still
no decorating kilns (applause) The cant
tai invested was sl02O,NO, and the value Of
the products was sl.fSO0OO In 1850 ;hero
We're hify-f1ve potteries, 2l4 kilns, twenty
SIX decorating kilns, with a capital in
vested OF S'ol6mh, and an annual product
OF 140 The wages paid In the not
teries in 1882 We're $2.3S7 900 and the MIN
per OF employees engaged therein. 1000, or
10 per cent. You have twenty-eiRht not
teries in the city of East Liverpool TODAY
me difference between the wages of
ianor in this country and of foreign coun-
ttlss you Know better than l can tell you
Nhen the law OF 1883 was enacted stated
on the floor Of Congress that n the d1,tv ~
80 per cent and GO per cent was piven as
recommended by the bill then pending, in
less than five years the quality of Ameri
can ware would be improved the quantity
increased, and the price to the consumer
sensibly diminished That prophecy has
been more than verified Cries of You are
r.ght.D ~
I'm 1889 an assorted crate of ware sold
Tor S'i, and the same-only a better ware
Is now sold for less than $40 In 1864 we
PAD for the same crate Of ware S21O On
decorated ware the immense benefit to the
consumer Is even more apparent The SELL
ing price Of all decorated ware was from,
80 to 100 per cent higher in 1882 than in
lS:m- In 49,, with the low revenue tariff
duty of "A per cent and no domestic manu-
facturers, an assorted crate Of white ware
sold az 800 In 1870. with the 81 per cent
duty and domestic competition with large
potteries which are the pride Of the coun-
try. employing labor and capital at home.
buying our own raw material the same as-
sorted crate is selling for $40. (Applause)
What the state Of business has been in
tie past three years you know better than
can tell you. Without any actual knowl-
edge about it. 1 think I can safely saw
that you have not been so prosperous as
you were prior to 1893. tCries of You are
right; we haven't.0 And that the past
three years have been years of unsteady
and irregular employment, reduced wages,
less work and less pay. (Cries of 'Yes.D
MY fellow citizens, the people in 1882
to politics. They will not he so Indifferent
again. applause and cries of You are
right; they won't.) They have more time
this year Qaughter) than they had four
and active work to the national contest
which is engaging the country. We are
growing more and more to recog' .iZe the
great necessity of every citizen giving per-
st nal and serious thought to his political
duties. Business men, workingmen and the
people generally are coming to realize that
business and politics are closely related;
that bad politics means bad business and
that politics cannot be neglected wi hout
endangering our occupations, our earnings
and our labor We have had some distress
ing experience in this direction, which has
taught us that II we do not keep our bust
ness our business will not keep u.s. (Great
checringD
And that If somebody else does our
work we will have no work to do at home
(Applauseo The people are settled in one
purpose this year-they will not tolerate
the surrender of any more of their bust-
ness. and will as quickly as possible re-
cover what they have already lost They
know how they lost it, they know when
they lost it. and they know how to get II
back, and they mean to do it. (Tremen-
dous applause, and cries of 'Hurrah for
Mckinley
Another growing sentiment among the
people is that, much as they are attached
to old party associations, and hard as 1t is
to leave their old relations, they would
rather break with their party than to
break up their business; that parties are
not as strong as bus,iess ties, and the good
of the country is more to be desired than
the success Of any political party.
Men Will no longer follow party when IT
leads away from business success and pros
perity, when its policies cripple our indus
tries and the earning power Of labor. They
Will not follow party whose policies i'm
peril our financial integrity and honor of
the country. Great applauseo
I'VE are learning another thing NV fell
low ctiZenS-indeed, we know it already
that, no matter what kind of money we
have, We cannot get 1t unless we have
work. (Cries of you are right, ma ator.0
Whether it is poor money or whether il 10
good money, whether it is gold or whether
it is silver we cannot get one dollar Of n
unless We have employment for our hands
and heads. Enthusiastic cheering and
waving Of hats.) And We know another thing
that when we have work, we have honest
dollars, with the most purchasing mower
dollars which will not depreciate in our
hands over night. but which will be good
every day and every year and eyerywhere
Renewed cheering, and cries of 'Hurrab
for McKinley.) We cannot help the labor
by reducing the value of the money in
which labor is paid. The way to helm labor
is to provide it with steady work and good
wages, and then have those good wspcs
always paid in good money, money as
sound as the government ana as unsn,1iad
as this flag pointing to the American fiaol
Tremendous cheering and applause1
II thank you. my fellow-citizens. for thts
call, and for the warm messages brourht
to me by your spokesman, and be assured
1t will afford me pleasure to meet and
greet every one of nv old friends -, -