The San Francisco call., 1896-10-17
Partial Free Trade Has Injured
Every Industry in the
Nation.
DOCTRINE OF TRUE PATRIOTISM
Visitors TO Canton Tod How the Coun.
try Will Prosper With Sound
Currency and Settled Tariff.

OAN 1ON, OH1O, OCt. ID he uTSJ Q6lC'
CATION to call on Major Mckinley thi:
morning was party of business men
farmers and miners from Pennsylvania,
They represented Bradford, Easton, Car
bon, Northampton, Luzerne, Lehigh and
Wyoming. Congressman ]. II. Cordine
OF Tonawanda acted as spokesman.
In responding Major Mckinley spoke at
some length upon the advantages to
miners of settled tariff policy backed UP
by sound and stable currency. These con-
ditions together with the return of conf
dence to the business world, he said,
would restore the prosperity to the coun-
try that had been destroyed by the enact
ment of the Wilson tariff bill. Continu-
ing, he said:
The way to restore confidence is to have a
settled tariff policy that will enable the man
ufacturers of this country 10 know just what
their competition viii be abroad and then
prepare for ii. Then, more than that, we
want to have q currency in this country that
is interchangeable in value aad equal to the
best money in the world. We want everybody
in and out of this country to know thatwe are
not q nation OF repudiators [applausel, and
that we do not mean either to cheat ourselves
by a short dollar or anybody else lGreat ap-
pIsuse.l
Our dollars hereafter. as now, as ever since
1879, shall continue to be worth 100 cents
each in gold, and not only at home but
wherever trade goes. What you want is the
dollar you have now, and the only trouble
that you are not getting enough of them is
because you have not work enough. Now.
whatever will put our people to work is the
true, patriotic and American policy, and the
one by which your votes on the third day of
hor uo11 data
body determines anything for the American
people but the American people themselves.
West Virginia sent a fine delegation of
1o0 voters to Canton. They came from
the oli-producing town of Sisterville and
the counties of Weiset and Tyler. The
Elkins Invincibles. marching club, 400
strong, wearing old gold hats and coats.
were with the delegation and formed an
important part of it. R. L. Moore and P.
A. Shanor made short, spirited addresses
to Major Mckinley. In replying to their
remarks, Major Mckinley made one of the
most exhaustive speeches to Southern
voters that he has delivered this campaign.
1t was received with marked demonstra-
tions of approval. He said:
The policy of protection to American farms,
industry, enterprise and labor, is broad Ma
tional policy. 1t has not tinge of sectional
ism in it; ii is sound in truth and wholesome
IN practice. It is not narrow and provincial, but
wide in its blessings and its benefits, always
promoting industrial growth, serving National
ends, rewarding individual efforts and ad-
vancing the just aspirations and hopes of the
American people. 1t is the doctrine OF true
patriotism; the welfare of our country and
countrymen first; our homes and our families
tristan ardent, sincere and genuine American
ism that loves our flag better than any other
and would rather subserve our own in terests
than the interests of any other people or of
any other nation. 1t is not the plea of one
State against another, or one group or section
of States against another; hut it is Tor the
benefit of ALA policy that Injuries no Ameri-
can interest, but promotes them all
"It is only perfect when universal" and ii
is only under this principle that the Republi-
can party advocates its restoration. The way
some of your orators used to talk to you was as
if the tariff was a good thing for the Ohio
farmer and laborer, but positive detriment
TO the West Virginia farmer and laborer; as if
it could benefit the miner of Pennsylvania,
but injure the miner of West Virginia; as If
the wheat and grain grower in Kansas or the
beet-producer of Nebraska would grow rich by
its operations and the cotton and sugar plant
ers Of Texas and Lou isiana become impover-
ished under it. Time and again you have
heard them declare that while protection
might be a good thing for New England, it
was a curse to the West and the South You
know better now, after having had three years
and half experience under partial free trade.
[Applause.l
In vain did Republican speakers and papers
remons trate against this madness, but of no
avail; and so the people gave 1t a trial. With
what result? Is il not true that partial free
trade has Injured US, one and all? Is it not
true that partial free trade has in jured every
interest and every industry in West Virginia?
Have not the people and the Government
grown steadily poorer under its destructive
operations? Have not both producer ana con-
sumner been injured2 The Southern, in COM
mon with all the other States, steadily ad-
vanced under the protective system If there
was a difference between them and the North
ern States, 1t was in their favor steadily every
year from 1870 to 1890, simply because their
resources were greater and their development
more general and rapid.
Saturday promises to be the liveIiest day
of this campaign in Canton. Thirty
delegations are scheduled to arrive
here tomorrow and the visitors will begin
to come as early as 5 o'clock in the morning.
The indications are that more than 25, 900
people will come TO Canton tomorrow
and shat MAJOR Mckinley will have to
make no fewer than twenty-five speeches.