The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1896-10-15
TO PROTECT HOMES.
Portland Ladies Have Organized and
Are Enthusiastic for Mckinley.

The Multnomah Women's Mckinley and
Hobart Auxiliary League held an interest
ing meeting in the main hall of the Cham
Der of Commerce building, yesterday aft
ernoon. Mrs. Mary Ward, the president,
was in the chair. Interest in the Wom-
ans league daily increases and those who
have become associated with its workings
are enthusiastic over the plan of campaign
that has been mapped out for them.
The following address was read and
unanimously adopted:
AN ADDRESS ISSUED.
ITO the Women of the West: The Multi
nomah Woman's Republican Association
sends greeting and bids you pause for re-
Election upon the condition of our homes,
which, combined, constitute our nation.
''The electors of our country are about
to place the management of governmental
affairs in the hands of certain men, repre-
senting certain beliefs, and dominated by
certain elements, which will result in the
prosperity or destruction of your homes.
1.-THE national republican convention
placed the following words in their plat
form:
" 'Temperance.-We sympathize with all
wise and legitimate efforts to lessen and
prevent the evils of intemperance and pro-
mote morality.
Rights of Women-The republican
party is mindful of the rights and inter-
ests of women Protection of American
industries includes equal opportunities,
equal pay for equal work, and protection
to the home. We favor the admission of
women to wider spheres of usefulness and
welcome their cooperation in rescuing the
country from democratic and populistic
management and misrule
Awake then, to the emergency of the
hour. Put on the whole armor of domestic
activity and consider we'll the lessons of
the past that you may give wise counsel.
-Four years ago the paramount issue
was the tariff question. The country was
then in a prosperous condition. The re-
publican party favored protection to home
industry The democratic party promised
free trade. The democratic presidential
and a majority of the congressional candi-
dates were elected. Long years of tinan-
cal ruin, of domestic privation and suf-
fering have followed the election of 1892.
1.-The party represented by w. ]. Bryan
is the party of free trade, and, in addi-
ton to free trade, he stands for the free
and unlimited coinage of silver.
William Mckinley represents the con-
sentative method of bringing about the free
coinage of silver-international agreement.
Suppose the master of your home were
to tell you that he was about to remove
the fence around your house and garden;
suppose cattle were walking through the
fence removed without a protest? Would
you not ask that the fence be permitted
to remain until there was an inter-neigh-
borhood agreement as to stock law, so
that your lawn, your flowers, your vege-
tables, might be preserved from the raw
ages of your neighbors cattle?
Think of the danger brought upon the
country by the democratic policy in the
past. Reflect upon the comparative pros
perity attendant upon the dominance of
republican principles in the past.
ASK that a ballot be cast upon the side
of reasonable caution: that the dignity of
your home be preserved; that the prosper
ity of the nation be restored; that the adj
ministration of republican principles be
resumed. For,
ga vote for w. j. Bryan means the gov
eminent may engage in experimental
legislation dangerous to the safety and
permanency of American institutions.
"a vote for William Mckinley means a
careful judicious, honorable and safe con-
duct of public affairs.
Yours for republicanism, which is pa
triOtiSn1"