The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1896-10-01

the mines of the south and not those in
| Pennsylvania and Ohio, but we can stand
Il matter of home competition. 1t is our
| own people, blood of our blood, owing al
| legiance to the same flag that has made
this wonderful development in the south
ern section of the country. We con-
graduate them and rejoice with them. 1t
is the foreign competition against which
we must protect ourselves. Continued
| cheering) What we want above all is to
encourage both home production and
home competition. Let us have it in the
great American family whose charge
should always be our special concern.
WEST NEWTON DELEGATION.
Canton, Ohio, Sept 24.-The first dele
CATION to Canton today to call on Maj
Mckinley was from West Newton.
! Westmoreland county, Pa. The visitors
brought with them bands of music and
drum corps. The spokesman for the first
section was Mr. Van Dyke.
Shortly after noon II special train of
sixteen coaches brought party from Oil
City, Pa, to greet Maj. Mckinley. The
party was introduced by Hon. Amos
Steife and the congratulatory address
was made by Hon. j. NJ. Hulings. An
unique feature was forty-tivc ladies rep
| resenting each state and each bringing to
Mrs. Mckinley basket of roses.
| Mr. Mckinley spoke to the West New
non delegation ms follows:
Mr.. Van Dyke and My Fellow Citi-
zens-l had not expected to meet the peo-
pie of Westmorland county in this see
ton. | had supposed that you would
come to me today i'll Il body and that |
might have an opportunity of addressing
you all together, but it seems there are
so many republicans that when they
make journey they have to come in
sections. applause and cries of that's
500 There is no sort of objection to he
ing divided now, but trust on November
3 you will all be united. Cries of we
will.O
81 count it Il very great personal pleas
IRE to meet and greet the people of West
Newton. | recall your busy and enter
prsng city with great satisfaction; re-
member the only visit ever paid TO you
and that time | found your city one of
the most active and most prosperous in
the whole country. | regret to hear from
your spokesman that all that has changed
end where plenty and prosperity presid-
| I'd, want and despair now sit, and that
naturally leads to the inquiry what has
taused it? That is the thought in every
mind; that is the question that is in every
mans thoughts. We have the same coun-
| try that we had four years ago; we have
|
farms; the same factories the same
mines; and the same sturdy, enterprising
people that we had then, and what is the
reason we have not the same prosperity
now? The reason is not hard to dis
Germ. For more than thirty years we liv-
ed in this country under Il protective
tariff; a tariff that protected and en-
couraged American enterprises and
American industries: Il tariff that made
us in that period of time the greatest ma
ton in the world in manufacturing, in
mining and in agriculture; system that
protected everything we made in this
rountry against similar things made in
Europe; a protection to every American
interest against conflicting foreign inter
ests. Now that protection has been par
tally removed and when the people of
to be a change of policy and that we were
to go from a protective policy to a par
tial free trade policy or a revenue tariff
policy, then uncertainty hung over this
country, and no man knew what to do.
No man could count upon what the future
would bring; no man knew when he
mined coal how much he wonld get for
no hiai Knew when he put the y n, a.
terial into the factory he 90 much b e oa m,,
get for it when it W.. ont ON ac"nu r1u ~
o onu ah &c y which hung over MS be
a. a"'e =. tnc anticipated competition from
-.,cr countries; the business Of this coun
try Was at once depressed and for foul
years we have been suffering because
our own industries were not prosperous
and while our own industries were not
prosperous industries of other coun
tries were. Now, | am one of those who
believe that il is the business of this
country to make laws for the benefit OF
this country. (Applause.) | believe the
business of this free government is tc
preserve the American market TO the
American producer, whether in the fac
tory or on the farm, and TO preserve the
American mines and factories for the
American workingmen. Cries of "That's
right.o That is all there is of pro
tective tariff. We want enough tariff in
this country upon foreign goods that
compete with ours to make up the differ
ence between the wages paid labor in
Europe and the wages paid labor in the
| United States. tremendous applause. }
We want the difference between Ameri-
can conditions and European conditions
made up by IL protective tariff on II for
eign product that completes with the
pursued by the republican party ever
since it came into power. Then we want,
my fellow citizens to restore confidence
business confidence. We do not want
any cheap money any more than we want
cheap labor in the United States. Cries
of that's right When the miners of
West Newton have dug their coal by their
honest toll they want to be paid in dol
lars that are equal to the best dollars of
the world, and will not depreciate in the
future and will be as good one day in
one country as in another. The republi-
can party does not conceal its purpose;
they are as an open book. Everything
that the republican party believed in
when it had been in power it has writ
ten in public laws. 1t has no aim but the
public good; it has ever stood on the side
of the country and the flag. Its great
central idea has been the welfare of the
people and every principle that it mas
ever advocated has embraced the highest
good for the greatest number of Ameri-
can citizens. Now what we want to do
is to write on our ballots next November
what we think best for us, best for our
wages, best for our mines, best for our
factories and our farms; best for our
families and best for our children. Let
your ballot represent those considera-
tions, my fellow citizens, and the re-
publican party need not fear for a tri-
umph in November. (Applause.)
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