Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1896-10-24
ATTRIBUTE FROM NEIGHBORS
A Pleasant Surprise Given Major
Mckinley.
The Working People OF anton Pre-
pare One OF the Most Enthu-
siastic Demonstrations
OF the Campaign.

Canton, O., Oct. l6.-Secretary VIM
NJ. Osborne OF he republican nationa
committee witnessed big delegations III
Canton yesterday. He said he had read
OF them daily, but had no comprehen'
sionof their magnitude or impressive
ness. He spoke most confidently OF tbs
outlook. While there were large par
ties from New York and Pennsylvania
h most surprising event OF the da!
was the informal call OF the WORKING
people OF Canton. They came In thou
sands from the l25 factories, large ant
small. In this city. which employ from
twenty-five to $500 people each In pros
porous times. They came. many o
them with their wives n children ant
babies. They came from the forge AM
factory and mill in working clothes un
I'll 1t appeared as If half the population
OF this city OF 40, 900 was trying TO gee
within hearing distance OF Major Nc
KInley's voice. There was an unusua
tremor in Major McKinley's voice wheT
he arose to respond to the sentiments OF
the venerable spokesman from local fac.
tories who addressed him, n many q
gray haired man, with bent form and
hardened hands, but tendes heart. pre-.
scented a lace with tears g~llstenlng In his
eyes as he greeted the major when the
speech makin9 was sovas. No naeatins
has affected Major Mckinley so much
as THIS tribute OF the worklngmen OF his
home.
Major McKinley's Address.
Major Mckinley, after bidding the
people OF his home city a warm and
sincere welcome to his home, spoke
upon national issues, saying in part:
The currency, which has been since
1874 on a safe and sound basis, is now
assailed by N political a~dversaries. II
involves the old question OF the honest
payment of thep public debt and the pen.
sions OF our soldiers and OF all public oh.
legations which the people long ago de.
termined on the side OF good faith, good
morals and common honesty. But with
that settlement some people are not sat.
isfed, so We are called upon his year &c
pass upon this question. There liz still
another-the question OF protection
against free trade, or tariff reform.
In 1892 free trade as against protcc
49, '@S ~ lo' aA'uli lbEht vi II
campaign. and free trade triumphed be
fore the great tribunal OF the American
people, and this yea we bring the ques
ton to o again. We ask you TO re
view 1t and to pass your re~consldered
better and more mature judgment upor
that issue, after three years OF dreadful
experience. ] spoke In the city OF Can
ton-and many OF you doubtless wsr,
present-on Monday evening, Novembel
8, 1892, and In that speech ] appealed L
my fellow citizens at home, as I had ap
pealed TO them elsewhere, not 10 over
turn the protective policy which had
brought us such universal prosperity
and which at that very ome wal
spreading Its blessings and benefit
throughout the entire country and In
every Industrial center. Protection
against free trade was the leading lssu,
then, n In the course OF hat speech
said what was true then and what 1,
true now. This is what / said foui
years ago:
But again the democrats say tina II
we have free trade we could buy cheaper
than we do at present. Yes, we NIGH
while the struggle between American ant
foreign Industries was going on, but whei
the former are wiped out the price woull
go up to whatever figure might be d.ctate4
by the foreign manufacturer, and In tn,
meantime labor would be scantily EN-
ployed and at reduced wages. Free trad,
cheapens the article by cheapening the ar
t!san; protection reduces the price OF /,
product by giving the artisan just rewar,
for his labor and receiving its rewards Is
his higher skill and Industry"
Free trade cheapens the product D.,
cheapening the producer; protection
cheapens the product through the skill
the genius and the industry OF the pro.
Queer. cloud %applause.) But. my coun.
trymen. nothing is cheap at any pr.c,
which comes from abroad tina enta.li
idleness upon the American people. Tho
maxim Of free trade is buy where you car
buy the cheapest. l will give you a maxim
worth ten thousand times more thar that
Buy where you can pay the easiest
tremendous c~heerlng.) Buy where laboi
receives rs highest reward. and that IS ir
the United States OF America, or was foui
years ago. During the years Of protection
every manufactured product had beer
.cheapened. but In that process, thanh
God, men, living men. had never beer
Canton, o., Oct. 1.-THE first delega:
ton to call on Major Mckinley this
was q party OF business men,
farmers and miners from Pennsylvania. |
Codding, OF Tonawanda, |
acted as spokesman. In responding Ma.
or Mckinley spoke at some length upon
he advantage to miners OF a settled
arif policy backed up by a sound and
table currency.
These conditions together with the re.
urn of confidence to the business world
lie said would restore the prosperity to
he country that had been destroyed
the enactment OF the Wilson tariff
i'll.