The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-09-26

more than 10000 visitors to Canton.
One railway company has arranged for
fourteen special trains. Major McKin-
ley has found it necessary to make his
speeches shorter All of his speeches
Saturday, except one, will be brief. To-
day he made his longest speech to
delegation from Seneca county, Ohio
1t was wool speech and was largely
addressed to the wool producing states.
Major Mckinley said.
Men of all parties this wear as in the
contest of the civil war, when the nation
was threatened with dismemberment, are
standing together for public honor AMI
public honesty, for good currency. good
credit and national good faith .tApplause.)
This is a year when those who stand op-
posed to us indulge in glittering promises.
They offer a remedy which they say will
cure all our ills. We might accept their
services and take their remedies " we had
not been doctored by them before. tGreat
laughter and applause) Free trade and
free silver are the false friends of labor.
They lure with promises TO cheap com,
modties and cheap money. The partial
trial of free trade has proved that the
cheap commodities promised are dear 10
the laborer and at the cost 10 labor AMI
ana a sacrifice to their highest and best
Interests. Wries of that's right We
cannot but remember the promises that
were made TO the people I'm 1892 OF the uni
{
the Inauguration OF Il tarin for revenue
only policy and with what prodigal bounty
il was 10 benefit labor, increase the pur-
chasing power of wages and decrease the
price OF everything il bought and Increase
the price OF everything IL made Jap
pauseJ They did not pan out. Wool
vas made free and every man in This
country knows how poorly the perform
anceS have tailed with the promise then
made Instead of adding 5o,UOo laborers TO
the pay rolls Of the woolen mills II has
taken of more than that number
II is well known there Is but one cuSio-
mer for the wool grower of the United
States and that customer Is N" man
ufac'urer Of the United states. The Amer
lean wool grower has no foreign market
today. he cannot compete in any other
market with the wool grown on cheap
lands ana by cheaper labor of other cou;i-
tries. This is his market and when il Is
taken from him II eni ails loss ANA ruin
~ him.
Have these free imports OF wool benefit
ed the manufacturer? Cries of no"
The two years in which the manufacturers
have enjoyed free wool have been the
most disasi rous in tn. history of Amtii
can wool manufactures, greater than the
disaster which followed the close Of the
war vi 1872 or the pauics OF lN'i and 1871.
tAppluus-) The imports uf the WOODEN
goods free wool Were simply enormous.
They averaged 5000 WW Il month Ia value:
thar at rhr end of ih- drst year under the
new law the total value ot woolen goois
imported had exceeded S,d,0po,OVO foreign
/ value. In 1885, IL iS estimated that nearly
/ One-Eilf Of the woolens that entrrt q into
consumption We're of foreign make. We
have In this country enough WOODEN ma
chnery to Manufacture all our wants, but
II Is not all In demand under present con.
dliOns. While onr idle working ueople
are looking for lob, foreign wool grow
ers are sending their wool to the Gated
states. and American farmers are selling
right,'D Bradford. England, alone sent It's
in 1895 $e174i.0 0Vo worth OF goods, an IN
crease of u per cent over the value of
Their largest EXPORT, So great Mh> ,h-
English manufacturers could not find
enough wcavers To run their looms While
this was going on. American tools We're
silent and American workmrn were idle.
Not one half OF the wooden machinery "
the United States - employed That is
the result OF free wool in The United
States. tApplause.)
WORD FREE IS DELUslvE.
Ny fellow citizens, you want to study
that word 'fre-,'' when applied to soois
or Sr,n,.ay money: II Is delns,se, Many OF the
ming on half or short time. and 1t Is esti-
mated thai not one half of those who were
employed in lss9 lind employment now.
employed and ut higher rates of wages
than they had ever before enjoyed. ZAP
plause and cries OF that's right'D The
naw ass %as S9kns Sr
-
Then the manufacturer was hunting the
employe: now the employe IL hunting
work. 1t Is said that there is enough wool
machinery In the United States TO give em-
ployment to 10000 men and women and
their wages down 70 1892 amounted TO
100000 annually. Forty million dollars
has been taken away from the homes of
labor. Those who were promised plenty
and prosperity under free trade are now
assuring ns that they can only be secured
through free silver, Laughter and cries
Of mo- How will free silver stop the
| importation Of foreign wool? Cries of
! '.it won't:''D How can free silver check
the appalling importations of woolen
silver preserve the home market TO the
wool producer and the woolen manufac-
turer? iCries of cit can't do it.'D
My feliow-citizens, 1t Is as delusive as
free trade. 1t will only further cripple ev-
cry interest in the United States. How
can free silver Increase the demand for
American labor and American products? :?
| Answer me that. (Cries of ''it can't do
it.o Remember, my fellow-citizens. that
money does not make business. II never
money. Cries of that's right Poor
money never helped legitimate business
! in the history of mankind. 1t has always
hurt II. 1t is destructive to every interest
! but that of the specula tor. (ApplauSe)
What Is true of wool is true of other in
dustries. All have been suffering. II not
I 10 the same extent it Is because the blow
on industries was not so severe. We want
In this country sound government. a
sound tariff and sound money. Great
/ apDlause.l And we want to take care of
this goodly inheritance of ours and keep
| 1t what it has been for the most part in all
! Its glorious history the most prosperous
beneath the sun, with more happy and
i contented homes than can be found in any
other country of the world. (ApplauseJ