The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-10-08
CUT PARTY TIES.
They Should Not Hold Against
the Public Veal.
So Says Major Mckinley In a
Speech Yesterday.
OF so CENT DOLLARS
He Tells Farmers They Don't
Want Them.
More Remarks Concerning Good
Morals and Honesty.

Canton, o., Oct S.-The rains OF a
few days ago We're not dried up by a
bleak wind yesterday. which made 1t
necessary to carry out the programme
save one number in the tabernacle.
Two Ohio counties sent crowds and
it was intended to double them up, but
they were so much larger than expect
ed that it was found the doubling UP
process would not work
The Parkersburg delegation closed
the day with a demonstration. This
party was introduced by E. NJ. Cald-
we'll
In his response to the delegation from
Parkersburg and West Virginia, Major
Mckinley asserted that the interests OF
West Virginia We're Identical with and
not different from those of every other
section of the country After speaking
of the disappearance Of sectional lines
he expressed a desire to see the people
of the north and south united with a
common purpose and together making
laws and administrations which shall
be national in fact as well as in name.
He said:
Parties, my fellow citizens. are only
the instruments in the hands of the
people for the accomplishment of the
good of the country They should not
require our fealty or allegiance a sim
sAE A4JnlEiN AFTER LHEJ nave CEoLSEA 10
be instruments for the public good, for
the public honor and for the public
veal Party attachments, strong as
they are, should be quickly broken if
to continue them means injury and
hurt to the country's highest interests
and the welfare of all the people. No
patriotic citizen can follow any politi-
cal organization no matter how long he
has been a member of it when the po-
and credit and Industrial independence
OF the government.
Nor should former political opinions
be closed against revision when exper-
fence has demonstrated that those
opinions are clearly wrong. I do not
believe there are many men In this
country. no matter what they have
thought in the past who viii not say
that free trade or so-called tariff re-
form as proven by the experience of
the past four years has been q signal
and disastrous failure 1t has failed.
utterly failed Ia every prophecy prom
Use and expectation 1t has not secured
a single thing that its advocates said
would follow its adoption. Not one
More it has not served a single Ameri-
can interest.
''It has served the interests Of other
nations Of the world. but has given no
DenEl1L TO Lle American people HI mas
not helped the laborer. the farmer, the
manufacturer, the mechanic, the mer-
chant. the umberman. the miner, the
trader. 1t has not helped either the
producer or consumer. 1t has given
the treasury insufficient revenue and it
has given the 1aborer Inadequate and
insufficient employment and the farmer
o disappointment and ruinous prices for
his products.
THE way to bring prosperity to the
farmer is to buy your products at home
and make your tariff high enough to
keep the products of the cheaper labor
and the cheaper lands of other coun-
tries from destructive competition with
our own producers. You would have
thought if this tariff reform revenue
law would have done anything it would
at least have raised enough money to
run the government It has not even
done that; as a producer of revenue,
it has been an utter failure, and as a
producer of wealth or wages or mar
lzets or prices to the farmer, It's failure
is deplorable and unprecedented"
In the course of his address to the
delegation from Ashland county, Ohio,
Mai Mckinley said
Eighteen years ago your county was
in the congressional district for which
I stood as a candidate for congress. /
remember as young man to have gone
to your county almost a stranger, and
I never viii forget SO long as I live the
me and the splendid support you gave