Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1896-08-29

The cold Candidate Explains HOW
Protective Tariff Has Aided
That Industry.

Canton, ohio, Aug. PA thousand
vorlzmen from the Is potteries from
East Liverpool. Travelled ~ miles to call
on Major Mckinley today. IheSe
glazedware industries have been estab-
lished in America since Mckinley was
sent to congress from this district ~
years ago. Chairman W. l.. omllh'
Colonel j. N. Taylor and w. h. Bake
headed the delegation.
When they reached Mckinley $
home, there were 5000 cheering people
in the crowd. Blake said
Under the Wilson-Gorman compro-
mise which opened up the hoodgates Of
our ports to IoreIgn products, nine million
dollars worth of crockery have been I'M
ported Every dollars worth, or large
percentage Of il, could and would nave
been made in America under our proteC-
tive policy Instead, onr factories nave
been limp and helpless under these I'm
happy conditions Artisans nave been
thrown out Of employment and have had
to put up with an inordinate amount Of
discontinue scarcely capable of keeping
their heads above water, The potterS
want to see prosperous times again,
and to this end Will vote for sound mon
ey. q protective policy and William Nc
Kinlcy'
Mckinley replied as follows: My
fellow citizens: ! can not conceal and
would not conceal the pleasure which
this visit on the part Of the citizens of
East Liverpool and Columbiana county
gives me, ! have been deeply moved
by the warm and generous WorGs spo-
ken by Mr.. Blake and nothing gives
me greater pleasure nor more salts
faction than to feel that / have behind
me, supporting the great principles for
which l stand, the w0rliingmen Of my
old congressional district The mess
age Of good will so elOquently express
ed by your fellow workman has pro
foundly touched me- I can not forget
that you trusted me in my young man
hood, for which l am deeply grateful,
and that you have ever since followed
me with unfaltering confidence, for
which / am also duly appreciative. !
remember the first time that I ever
looked into the faces of an East Liy-
erpool audience some 20 years ago, and
then as now ] was speaking for sound
money and q protective tariff.
Your spokesman has alluded most
graciously to me, and to what | have
given to your great industry, If I
have done anything to bring work to
you or my fellow man anywhere, and
made The conditions on the American
worldngman easier, that is my high
est reward, and greater reward no man
could have. There is no industry, my
fellow citizens, in the United States.
which demands or deserves protection
through our tariff laws more than
yours 1t is a business requiring teen
meal and artistic knowledge, and the
most careful attention to the many
and delicate processes through which
the raw material must pass to the COM
pleted product. Down to 1862 the pot
terry industry of the United States had
achieved but little or no success, and
had made slight advancement in
practical and commercial way. At The
close of the low tariff period of 1860
there was but one whiteWare pottery
in the United States, with two small
kilns. Decoration kiluS were not
known. In 1873, oncoura ged by the tar
if and the sold premium which was an
added protection, we had increased to
% potteries with so kilns, but stiIl mo-
decorating kilns. (ApplauseD
Capital in POtterteS.
THE capital invested was ST ,020. 600
and the value of the product was 81
10000 In 1882 there were 55 potteri2s,
344 Idlns and no decorating ldlns, with
q capital invested of $5,076 600, and an
annual product of So, 299, l40 The wages
paid i'm the potteries in 1882 were 81, 1851, =
000 and the number Of employees en-
gagged therein 1000, or 45 per cent. You
have % potteries in the city of East
Liverpool today The difference be-
tween the wages Of labor in this coun-
try and Of foreign countries you know