The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1896-08-25
POLITICS At Canton, OHIO.
Delegation of PltterS and Farmers Call
Upon Mckinley.
ADDRESSES THEM ON THE TARIFF
State Convention of Gold Democrats in
Philadelphia Bryan the Guest of
Chairman Hinkley at winnisook
Lodge, in the Catskill Mountains.

CANTON, o., Aug. 25.-A thousand work
men from the twenty-eight potteries of
East Liverpool, o., travelled seventy-fve
miles yesterday to call on Major Nc
Kinley at his home. Chairman w l..
Smith Colonel J. n Taylor and w. B.
Blake headed the delegation. The latter
IL pottery bench worker and a good
talker. The visitors on the way TO Can
ton and later on their march to Major
McKinley's residence attracted recruits
until 5000 men assembled about the house.
After the Introductory speeches Major
Mckinley spoke, in part, as follows:
There is no industry, my fellow citi-
zens, in the United States which demands
or deserves protection through our tariff
laws more than yours It's IA business re-
quiring technical and artistic knowledge
and the most careful attention to the many
and delicate processes through which the
raw material must pass to the completed
| product. Down to 1862 the pottery indus
try of the United States had achieved lit
! tie or no success and had made but slight
| advancement in q practical and CONNER
cial way. At the close of the low tariff
| period of 1850 there was but one white
ware pottery in the United States, with
two small kilns Decorating kilns were
not known. In 1873 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. In 1882 there
were flfty-hve potteries, PA kilns twenty
six decorating kilns The wages paid in
the potteries in 1882 were - 3S7 600, and
! the number of employees engaged therein
| 1000, or 45 per cent. You have twenty
eight potteres in the city of East Liver
pool today.
"The difference between the wages of
| labor in this country and of foreign coun-
tries you know better than l can tell you.
| When the law of 1888 was enacted stated
on the floor of congress that if the duty of
so per cent. and 80 per cent. was given 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 dimished. That prophecy has
been more than verified
MY fellow citizens, the people in 1892
were busy at work and gave little atten-
tion to politics. They will not be so in
different again. They have more time this
year than they had four years ago, and
are giving earnest attention and active
work to the national contest which is en-
| gaging the country. We are growing
more and more to recognize the great
necessity of every citizen giving personal
and serious thought to his political duties.
Business men, workngmen and the people
generally are coming to realize that busi-
ness and politics are closely related; that
bad politics mean bad business and that
politics cannot be neglected without en-
dangering our occupations, our earnings
and our labor We have had some dis
tressing experience in this direction which
has taught us that if we do not keep our
| business our business will not keep us,
and that if somebody else does our work
we will have no work to do at home"
a short time after the East Liverpool
workingmen departed delegation of
farmers from Knox county, o., marched
up to the Mckinley residence. They were
most warmly greeted along their line Of
march, 1t was the first delegation com.
posed entirely of farmers which has visited
Major Mckinley since his nomination, In
addressing them the candidate said;
Free silver will not cure over produc'
ton nor under consumption. Free silver
India and the Argentine republic This
competition would remain if you coined
nll the silver of the world. Free silver will
not increase the demand for your wheat OF
make single new consumer. You don't
get consumers through the mints. You
get them through the factories, You will
not get them by increasing the circulation
of money in the United States, You will
only get them by increasing the manu-
featuring establishments in the United
States.
"'Plant the factory by the farm, said
jackson, and that is as wise now and as
applicable now as when the hero Of New
Orleans said it years ago. The best thing
now is for the farmer TO have factory foI
his neighbor, 1t would be better to have
n factory along side of you than to have
another farm along side of you, have nC
fear of the farmer-the most conservative
the most considerate and the most sturdy
of our splendid civilization. They are not
easily misled. They have no aim in poll
tics but an honest one. In 1892, when free
trade was the battle cry of our opponents
it was said then that the farmers woult
follow this heresy, but it was not So II
was the cities which followed the fre,
trade heresy in this country. The country
voted for protection while the great citie
did not So this year they will vote agains
free trade and free silver; they will vott
for home market and for dollar as gOOC
as gold in every market Of the world"
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