The herald., 1896-10-16
A MOST SURPRISING event.
In the Annals of McKinley's
Campaign
THE CANTON WORKMEN CALL
Wore Their Working Clothes and Pro.
bably Were Working
1t Would Be Mean to Send Even the
Child Laborers and Then Dock
Their Pay

CANTON, o., Oct. lo.-Whlle there
were large parties from New York and
Pennsylvania, the most surprising
event of the day was the informal call
of the working people of Canton They
came in thousands from the hundred
| and twenty-five factories, large and
small, which employ twenty-five to two
hundred people each in prosperous
times They filed broad Market street
for half mile, from the public square to
the Mckinley home. They came in their
working clothes, and girl and boy oper-
atives Joined.
There was an unusal tremor in Nc
Kinley's voice when he rose to respond
to the venerable spokesman. He said in
part:
Il have been with you in every under
taking to build up our splendid city, to
bring enterprise, thrift and employment
to our people. and in all the years of the
past there has not been moment have
not felt that whether had the support
or not, l did have the respect ana con
fidence Of the workingmen of Canton.
II do not believe that in my relations
with you for more than quarter of
century, have undertaken to mislead.
deceive or misguide you. My opinions
may have been wrong, but they were
honest opinions and none more honest
than those l expressed to you in 1892
You know the conditions in 1892. You
know the conditions now. bid you,
workingmen of Canton, use your bal
lot as will best subserve your interest
and that Of your family, whose well
fare and happiness you have in sacred
keeping"
To the New York delegation from
Dunkirk and Chautauqua county he said
in part: .i+
"Dunkirk l recall as town noted for
the manufacture of locomotive engines
| Imagine, If you can, the construction of
an engine without safety valve, and
yet there are some political engineers
in this country who seek to run the re-
public, the greatest OF all engines for
human progress, without safety valve,
without brakes, without other restraint
than their own misguided will. Some
! OF them would run the engine one way,
some another. They are divided and
| irharmonious in the way to run it,
| They seem to unite in favoring a. re-
duction Of one-half OF the savings and
the salaries and the wages of the coun-
try for they have expressly declared in
favor of financial policy which would
have just that result.
Let me tell you what think is a bet
ter safer and more honorable policy.
Let us restore the protective tariff sys.
tenn and pay as we go. Put our laboring
people at work and restore business,
confidence from one end of the country
| to the other. / am protectionist be
cause l believe the protective system
is best adapted to our conditions and
citizenship. 1t gives everything a rev.
enue tariff does and more. 1t supplies
needed revenues. A revenue tariff can
60 no more, and the present tariff has
not done that much. 1t accomplshcs
this end with equal If not greater, GER
tainty than a revenue tariff, and while
doing that it wisely discrminates IN
favor of Amerincan interests and is
ever mindful of the American people.
1t protects our own products against
those of the alien and the stranger
while to domestic consumer is secured
reasonable prices through domestic
competition. IT diversifies the occupa-
tions and multiplies the opportunities
of our people, secures an unrivalei
home market for agriculture and unA-
qualed wages for labor. 1t opposes
trusts and combinations to control the
markets ard prices to the ini Jury Of the
people, for it is opposed to free trade,
which was the parent Of trusts, anj
insists that ompetition with the oil
world shall be on equal conditions made
so by the tariff. If Europe will pay her
I labor as we pay ours, we will meet her
on the neutral markets and contend
without fear for supremacy. Let hey
lift her conditions up. We will not pull
ours down.
In the course of his response to Rev
S A. Smith. pastor of the Congregations
al church at Cambridgeboro, Pa, who
spoke in behalf of the delegations from
Erie and Crawford counties Pernsylva-
mia, Major Mckinley said:
You all understand this government is
conducted by its legislative and execu-
tive departments. If the people of this
country want 10 put into power an ad-
miristration and law, or any settled
policy, they must have both executive
office and the congress OF the United
States. You cannot embody your pur-
poses into law by having the one or the
other; and / trust the people of Pennsyl-
vania and the people of all the states of
the union will see to it that the national
house of representatives, and the senate
of the United States are not neglected
at the polls next November.
A NEWSBOY BOYCOTT