The San Francisco call., 1896-08-25
Workingmen and Farmers Visit
Canton and Listen to Words
of Cheer.
PROTECTION TO INDUSTRIES
HELPS PRODUCERS.
The Way to Benefit Labor Is to
Provide Steady Work and
Good Wages.

CANTON, OHIO, Aug. 24.-Eight hum
dred citizens OF East Liverpool, Ohio, un-
der the auspices of the Mckinley and Ho-
bart Club of that city, arrived here this
morning. East Liverpool is the center of
the pottery industry in Ohio, and most OF
the men were workingmen from the pot
teries. This delegation came on special
train and marched up the streets with
flags flying and bands playing.
The spokesman was introduced by Will
liam Surls, the marshal of the day. The
spokesman was A. V. Blake, potter ho
works at the bench. He made an ELOQUENT
address to Major Mckinley. congratulate
ing him on the fact that he had renamed
a true and steadfast advocate of protec-
ton principles and assured him that the
workingmen OF Eastern Ohio were enthu-
siastic in his support.
Three rousing cheers were given for
Major Mckinley before he was permitted
to speak. Major Mckinley spoke with
great vigor. He said that twenty years
ago he faced an East Liverpool audience
for the first time and that then as now he
was speaking for protection and sound
money. He then described present con-
ditions, comparing them with those which
existed under the Harrison administra-
tion. "The way TO help labor" declared
Major Mckinley, sis to provide it with
steady work and good wages and then
have these good wages always paid in
good money as sound as the Government
and as untarnished as its flag. No matter
what kind of money, we cannot get it
without work-whether it is poor or good,
gold or silver. We cannot get one dollar
unless we have employment for our hands
and heads" This sentiment was greeted
with prolonged cheers.
A short time after the East Liverpool
workingmen departed, large delegation
of farmers from Knox County, Ohio,
marched up to the Mckinley residence.
They were most warmly greeted along
their line of march. 1t was the first dele
CATION composed entirely of farmers which
has visited Major Mckinley since his
nomination, and there was uncommon in
terest on the part of the citizens of Canton,
irrespective of party, to hear what the
farmers would say to Major Mckinley and
what he would say to them. Their spokes-
man, H D. Critchfield, explained in his
address to Major Mckinley that Knox
County is typical agricultural commun-
ity Of the Central States and that it con-
tains men of all shades of opinion. The
Populists have been active there, he said,
and still are "But we are here to assure
you, Major Mckinley, that the vote of
every Repu blican and some of the Demo-
Gratis of the county Will be cast for you"
When Ma ior Mckinley stepped upon
chair to speak the 500 farmers who faced
him cheered long and Justify. Major Nc
Kinley spoke with deliberation, at first
reading from a typewriter manuscript
He said in part:
am giad especially to meet the farmers of
Knox County, for the farmers are the most
conservative force In our citizenship and in
our civilization. [Applause.l A force that
has always stood for good government, for
country. for liberty and for honesty. What
ever the farmer is suffering to-day is because
his competitors have increased in number and
because his best customers are out of work
Applause and cries of 'sYou are right"l I do
not know that we can decrease the number of
your competitors, but with the adoption of a
true American protective policy we can set
your best customers to work. Tremendous
cheers and cries of "Hurrah for McKinley"I
We have suffered in our foreign trade and
farmers have suffered in their export trade
and they have likewise suffered in the home
market. Under the Republican tariff law of
1890 we imported in 1893 over III 900 900
pounds of wool valued at over SIS, 200, 900.
In 1885, under the Democratic tariff law we
imported 248 100000 pounds of wool valued
at $33 900, 000 Nearly $40, 600, 900 worth
more of wool was imported under the Demo-
cratic tariff law than under the Republican
goods in 1894 amounted to Sic, ,809, 900 and
in 1895 to $75, ,495, 900. From the reports OF
the Treasury Department at Washington we
find AZ, 243, 900 sheep in the United States
valued at $125, ,9o9, 900.
On the 1st of January. 1896, there were
3S, ,298 600 sheep in the United States, valued
at S65. 600 900, a decrease of 5000 900 in the
number of sheep and of $50, 100000 in value
over S2,OOO,0 900 worth more of shoddy was
fmported under the Democratic tariff law than
under the Republican tariff law. In wooden
goods the difference is more than $50,00o,O00
in favor of the foreign manufacturers. The
total loss in these three items to the American
wool-grower and the wage-earners in Ameri-
can wooden factories is more than $62. 600, 900.
Is it any wonder. my feliow-citizens, that the
sheep husbandry is no longer profitable So
with other agricultural products.
During the last seventeen months of the Re-
publican tariff law there were imported 14O,-
900, 600 tons of nay, and during the first sew
enteen months of the Democratic tariff law
there were imported 373,000,000 tons. The
Wilson law gave the foreign producers mar
ket for 233. 900 600 tons more than they en-
joyed in the last seventeen months under the
Republican tariff lsw. This loss exceeds
g, 900, 600 The total wheat, rye, barley,
oats and corn crops for 1895 amounted to
B,556, 100000 bushels. The total OF this