The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-10-04

tainly there is little Improvement or ad-
vance in prices generally: AS prlces
about February q were on the whole
the lowest ever known in this country,
considerable space is given this week 10
a comparison of quotations in the most
important branches of manufactures,
and then followed lengthy table. Of
which / rec doTly say that il aDDar-
emily and abundantly eustains its asser-
ton and shows a most deplorable con-
diticn OF all kinds of business. As
egiimate result we never knew or so
many failures as in 1895. We had hoped
that things would take a turn for the
better, but they have not, although 1
am sure that such is the wish OF the
American people today and the earnest
ard sincere arm of the Republican par
ty.
ONE PLAIN REMEDY.
'But such a condition seems impossi-
bic under our present revenue legisla-
ton. 1 Will not pursue the distressing
record further Never has business
been poorer; never has industrial pro-
gress of the country been so retarded
as during the low tariff, or no tariff.
years of 1994-96 in all our history. And
the government has Jared little better
because the treasury reports have re-
corded monthly deficiencies and addi-
tons to the public debt, and the def
cheney still continues VIII any one
say in the presence Of such facts that
the tariff legislation of the country
must remain unchanged, that it is not
the plain and palpable duty Of the gov
eminent to provide adequate revenue
for the public treasury and protect
American labor against the cheaper Ia
Dor of the Old world? Government ex-
penditures must not exceed government
receipts. The creation of a public debt
in time of peace is only justified in sus-
tanning the public credit of the gcvrn-
ment and the public honor, but it should
not be continued a moment longer than
the congress. whose duty it is TO raise
the revenue, shall make provisions TO
supply it.
FARMS SUFFER MOST.
'tNo one has suffered more under these
conditions than the farmers of the United
States. They have lost much by a di-
minished home market and have suffered
IN the foreign market by the repeal o.
the reciprocity provisions OF theTariH law
OF 1880. The foreign market opened BY
reciprocity during the administration %
President Harrison must be reopened and
the home market must be improved and
preserved for the American farmer. while
to the American workingman. No pa
triotic citizen should object to regaining
and then holding our proud rank of the
greatest manufacturing, mining and farm
ing nation of the world. With me, the
necessity of the restoration of judiciouS
and wise American tariff policy is a firm
conviction, second to nothing in import
ance except the preservation of order and
law, which We must have, of justice and
domestic tranquility. and the preservation
Of our credit, our currency and our ma
uonal honor. Great applause.)
DECISIVE MAJORITIES.
MY fellow citizens, we must defeat by
decisive majorities every scheme for the
debaSement OF our currency, whether it
be free silver or irredeemable paper
mony; but while we do this We must also
defeat the destructive and dangerous
menace of free trade. We have lost
enough already in the reduced wages of
our labor and We do not propose to be
cheated further by being paid in debased
dollars. Let US effectually dispose of
both and restore to the country the great
business prosperity which is naturally
and properly ours TO possess and enjoy.
II am glad, my fellow citizens, to meet
all of you here today. / am glad to meet
my friends from Pennsylvania and my old
friends from Athens county, Ohio. What
you and they want and what all Of US
want in this country is the restoration of
public confidence, that will set the wheels
OF industry in motion and give employ
ment to every man in the land" Great
cheering and cries of ''Hurrah for Nc
KinleyM