The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-09-25
MINERS VISIT CANTON.
Major Mckinley Addresses Them and
DwelIs on Protection.

OW644S Oh 3EOGSGG1Cns
Canton. Sept. 25.-The following is
Maj. McKinley'S speech made yester-
day to the miners of West Newton:
Mr. Van Dyke and My Fellow Citi-
zenS:-I had not expected to meet the
people of Westmoreland county in sec
tons. / had supposed that you would
come to me today in united body and
that might have an opportunity of ad-
dressing you all together, but it seems
there are so many Republicans this
year when they make a, journey they
have to come in sections. daughter
and cries of That's 500 There is no
sort of objection to being divided, but
trust that on the third day of Novem-
Der you will all be united. (Cries of
we WILD 1 count it a very great per-
SOna1 pleasure to meet and greet the
people of West Newton. recall your
busy and enterpriSing city with great
satisfaction; remember the only visit
l ever paid to you and at that time
found your city one of the most active
and the most prosperous in the whole
country. regret to hear from your
spokesman that all that has changed
and where plenty and prosperity pre-
vailed, want and despair now sit, and
what has OccasiOned it? That is the
thought in every ones mind; that is
the question that is in every mans
thought. We have the same country
that we had four years ago; we have
the same splendid resources, the same
farms, the same factories, the same
mines, the same people.
For more than 80 years we lived in
this country under a protective tariff;
a tariff that protected and encouraged
American enterprise and American in
dustry; a tariff that made US in that
period of time the greatest nation in
the world in manufactures, in mining
and in agriculture; a system that pro-
tected everything we made in this
country against similar things made
in Europe; a protection to every Amer
lean interest against the conflicting for
eign interest. Now that protection has
been partially removed and when the
people of this country in 1892 decreed
that there was to be a change of policy
and that we were to go from a prOtec-
tive policy to a partial free trade poll
cy, or a revenue tariff policy, then IN
certainty hung over this country and
no man knew what to do. No man
could count on what the future would
bring; no man knew that when he
mined coal. how much he would get for
it; no man knew when he put the raw
material into one end of the factory
how much he could get for it when
it went out at the other; and when on
account of the uncertainty which hung
over US, because of the anticipated
competition from other countries, the
business of this country was at once de-
pressed and for four years we have
been suffering because our industries
were not prosperous, and while our own
industries were not prosperous the in
dustries of other countries were. Now
1 am one of those who believe that it is
the business of this country to make
laws for the benefit of this country
cloud applauSe.)
believe the business of this free gov
eminent is to preserve the American
market to the American producer,
whether in the factory or on the farm,
and to preserve the American mines
and the American factories for the
Workingrnan. (CrieS of That's right
And that is all there is of a protective
tariff. We want enough tariff in this
country put upon foreign goods that
compete with ours to make up the diff
ference paid wages in Europe and
wages paid labor in the United States.
tremendous applause.) We want the
difference between American conditions
and European conditions made up by a
protective tariff upon a foreign product
that completes with the American pro-
duct. That is the policy pursued by the
Republican party ever since it came in
to power. Then We want my fellow cit
liens, to restore cOnfidence-busines
confidence. We do not want any cheap
money any more than we want cheap
labor in the United States. (Cries of
That's right.'O
When the miners of West Newton
have dug their coal by their honest toll
they want to be paid in dollars that are
equal to the best dollars of the world
and will not depreciate in the future
and will be as good on one day and in
one country as in another. (CrieS of
That's what we want.')
Inc EL6DuDllCdu party QO6S not COIL
cea1 it's policy; they are an open book
Everything that the Republican party
believed in when it has been in power
it has written in public law; it has no
aim but the public good; it has ever
stood on the side of the country and
the flag.
It's great central idea has been the
welfare of the people, and all the peO-
pie, and every principle that it has ever
advocated has embraced the highest
good for the greatest number of Amer
lean citizens. That has been the policy
of the Republican party for nearly a
third of a century; it is the policy of
the Republican party today. For the
Republican party advocates its princi-
pies no less in defeat than in victory,
and these principles today are dearer
to the American people than they have
ever been before. Great applause.)
Now what we want is to write on our
ballots next November what we think
is best for US; best for our labor; best
for our wages; best for our mines; best
for our factories and our farms; best
for our families and best for our chill
dren. Let your ballot represent these
considerations, my fellow citizens, and
the Republican party need not fear for
a triumph on the third day of NOvem-
Der (Applause.) I thank you for this
pleasant and interesting call, and it
will give me great pleasure to shake
each and every one of you by the hand.
(Three cheers for Mckinley were
givanl