Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-09-24
LATE NEWS BY WIRE
Excursions of Republicans to McKin-
ley's Home.
BE CONTRASTS THE Times With 1892
Declares That the Democrats Tariff
Policy Has Been to Blame.
RESTORATION OF CONFIDENCE

CANTON. Ohio. September 24.-The first
delegation to come to Canton today to call
On Major Mckinley was from West New
ton. Pa The visitors brought with them
bands of music and drum CORPS The
spokesman for the first section was Mr..
Vandyke.
Shortly after noon a special train of six
teen coaches brought party from Oil
City Pa, to greet Maj Mckinley. The
party was introduced by Amos Steaffee,
and the ccngratulatory address was made
by w. j. Hullings. unique feature was
forty-fve young ladies representing each
state and each bringing to Mrs. Mckinley
a basket of roses
Mai. MckinIey's Remarks.
Major Mckinley spoke as follows to the
West Newton delegation:
Mr.. Vandyke and my Fellow Citizens
I had not expected to meet the peop.e of
WeStmoreland county in sections. L mad
supposed that you would come to me today
in a united body, and that might have an
opportunity of addressing you all together
but it seems there SO many republi-
cans this year that when they make
journey they have to come in sections
daughter ard cries of That's So
There is sort CT objection 20 being dl-
L
OF November you will all be united. Cries
of I'VE WILL
Il count it very great pleasure TO meet
and greet the people of West Newton L
recall your busy and enterpriSing city with
great satisfaction; l remember the only
visit ever paid your home, and that time
l found your city one of the most active
ana the most prosperous jim the whole
country.
Il regret to hear from your spokesman
that all that has changed and where
plenty and prosperity presided want and
despair now sit. And that naturally leads
to the inquiry. What has occasioned it?
That is the thought in every mans mind;
that is the question that is in every mans
thought
What Makes the Difference.
We have the same country that we had
four years ago; We have the same splendid
resources, the same farms, the same fac
tories, the same mines, the sturdy, enter
prisinS people that We had then, and what
Is the reason we have not the same pros
perity now? The reason is not hard to dis
cover.
For more than thirty years We lived in
% this country under protective tariff: a
tariff that protected and encouraged Amer
lean enterprise and American industry; a
tariff that made us in that period of time
the greatest nation in the world in manu-
factureS in mining and in agriculture: a
system that protected everything We made
in Eur ope: a protection TO every American
In the country.
Now that protection has been partially
removed, and when the people of this coun-
try in 1892 decreed that there was to be d
change of policy and that We Were to go
from protective policy to a partial free
trade policy. or revenue tariff policy, then
uncertainty hung over this country and no
one knew what to do.
No man could count upon what the future
would bring; no man knew when he mined
cCal how much he would get for it; no man
Knew when he put the material into
one end of the factory how much he could
get for 1t when it went ont at the other,
and when, on account of the uncertainty
which hung over us because of the antici-
pated competition from other countries. the
DU SineSS of this country was at once de-
pressed and for four years we have been
suffering because our own Industries were
not prosperous and while own indus
tries were not prosperous the industries Of
other countries were.
Preserving the Home Market.
Now. 1 am enc of those " no believe that
it is the business of this country to make
laws for the benefit of this country. loud
applause.) / believe the business of this
free government Is to preserve the Amer
lean market to the American producer.
whether in the factory the farm, and
to preserve the American mines and the
American factories for the American work.
iIgmen (cries of That's the stuff and APP
plause). and tina. is all there is of a pro-
tsctive tariff
I'VE want enough tariff in this country
put upon foreign goods that compete with
ours TO make up the difference between the
wages paid labor in Europe and the wages
paid in the United States. tremendous
applause.) We want the difference between
American conditions and European condi-
tons made up by protective tariff upon a
foreign product that completes with the
American product. That is the policy pur-
sued by the republican party ever since it
came into power.
Then. we want, my fellow citizens, to
restore OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES confidence. We
do not want any cheap money any more
than We want cheap labor in the United
States. Cries of That's r:gnt.D When
the MIXERS of West Newton have dug their
coal by their honest toll, they want 10 he
paid in dollars that are equal to the best
dollars of the world, and will not depre-
eiate In the future. and will be as good on
che day in enc country in another.
(CrieS of That's what we want",