The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-10-14
MAJOR McKINLEY'S REMARKS.
Mr.. Mckinley smoke as follows:

Mr.. Mckinley spoke as follows:
You have greatly honored me in having
iouyneyed SO long a distance to bring as
surances of your good will. / do not take
this call as in any sense personal to my
self, but rather as u tribute to the cause
which for the moment ! represent and TO
the great principles which the Republic
can party upholds in the pending presi-
tial contest. 1t gives me pleasure to meet
my old friend, your spokesman. with whom
! served for years in the national house
of representatives.
1t also gives me pleasure to meet and
welcome you to my home and to say that
! appreciate most highly your visit and
the encouraging message which you bring.
(Applause.) 1t was scarcely necessary to
advise me that the people Of the anthra-
cite regions are in favor of the protective
tariff. l have long known and appreciat-
ed that fact, and sympathize with you in
that sentiment. I believe in the great
American doctrine which lies at the foun-
Gation of the law of self-preservatiOn. |
believe it is the duty of this government
to encourage its own people and to pass
such laws as will give them the highest
to improve their condition, the
highest scale of wages and the greatest en-
to their skill and their la
Dor. Great applause) We have in this
country more free trade than in any other
country of the world, hut it is free trade
among ourselves great applausel, with
forty-tve states and seventy millions Of
people. We are constantly vieing with
each other in. every section of our common
country for promotion of the highest in
terests OF our respective. populations;; We
believe in free trade in the United States
In the same sense that we believe in the
equal and reciprocal obligations which be-
long to every family. (Applause) We are
only great. national family. We trade
with each other With absolute freedom
and without restraint. and engage in free
and unresentful rivalry In ali the oc"l-
pations. employments and industries of our
people; the triumph of any section is the
triumph of the other. all working to-
gether for the general good. When we
have free trade with other countries it
should be In those products which We can
not produce ourselves and which we must
have all in exchange for which those
countries will take the products that we
make and grow and We should put II
duty upon those foreign products that
compete with American products sutfi-
cient not only to supply enough revenue
for the uses of the government but sufii-
cient TO protect American people in their
own occupation. against the products of
the cheaper and under-paid labor of the
world. (Great cheering)
DOCTRINE OF THE TARIFF.
That seems to me to be the dictate of an
enlightened patriotism, and 1t is GER
trncs of the Republican party: and why
should 1t not be 80, my fellow-citizens?
We are one nation; We have one flag; We
have a common destiny. The other ma
tions of the world have their separate
and Independent political organizations for
the purpose of working our for themselves
The highest destiny possible. They owe
no allegiance TO this government: they
contribute nothing to its support. either
in war or in peace: and If they are 10
come into this country and compete with
our people We say that YOU can do it upon
condition that tariff shall be- put upon
your products. and that a tariff will 20
the same time win he n defense to our
own laborers and producers. Crremen-
dous applause)
That is the whole doctrine Of tariff, if we
ever need il. We need II now. We need il
for the federal treasury, for that is in
condition of deficiency; We need II for the
people of this country, for they, Ike the
treasury. are generally in a condition of
deficiency. 'ApplauseD
WHAT THE TARIFF WILL DO.
Now, whatever will put money nto The
public treasury and stop debts and def
ciencirs and bonds, | take II, every bo.ly
would say would he u wise and PATRIOTIC
thing. no matter what political party they
have belonged to In the pJ3t. take il
that whatever policy will encourage our
own people to mine coal, II Manufacture
products. To employ labor, il the puli..y
that ought to commend itself to every pa
triotic citizen. And IL a tariff will do those.
things, the tariff surely is what by our
votes three weeks from today, We ought 10
sustain. (Applause) Pennsylvania has
always been a protection state James
buchanan, q Democrat when he was pres
ident of the United States. gave some prct-
~ good advice which Is applica ble to The
present situation. He said: mo states
man would advise that We should 20 OH in
creasing the national debt to meet the or
dinary expenses of the government. This
would be u ruinous policy. In case of war
our credit must be our chief resource. at
n nnSt fn hot Hr-f h uTEUNt. "A t...
greatly impaired by having contracted a
large debt in time of peace. 1t is our true
policy to Increase our revenue so as 10
equal our expenditures. 1t would be ruin
Gus to continue to borrow"
That Is the position OF the Republican
party today. Mr.. Randall, a Democrat of
great Distinction. a man of wonderful
power. who was always for Pennsylvania,
the workingmen of Pennsylvania, deiaf ed
In 1887 in the opposition to the Mills bill:
IF the farmer ceases to buy the products
of the manufacturers, he will certainly
ducts in the market where he buys what
he consumes himself. Suppose last year
we had manufactured a thousand millions
worth less than We did and had gone
abroad for these products expecting to pay
for them with agricultural products, could
a thousand millions more of agricultural
products have been sold abroad at the
price which products brought here? We
sold all the wheat and corn and meat pro-
ducts that Europe could take at the price
that prevailed. Who can tell at what
prices Europe would have taken 5OOOOO 600
or even 1,0C0,O00,OO0 more Of our agriculture
al products than she did take? The mere
statement of the proposition is enough TO
disclose the error on which 1t is founded
and shows the Importance of uniting man.
ufactures with agriculture, or as jefferson
states it, putting the manufacturer by
the side of the farmer" In fact, boIh
must In our country depend almost ex-
clusively on the home markets. 1t is folly,
If not a crime to attempt to change II in
those respects. 1t would bring ruin and
bankruptcy without the possibility of hav-
ing such a result accomplished. The
greater the diversity of Industries in any
ing power of the people and the more