The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-10-16

CANTON, O.. Oct. 15.-The COM
manding feature of the day at Canton
was the great spontaneous labor
demonstration which took place late
in the afternoon. Four thousand Can
ton workingmen called on Major Nc
Kinley.
Major Mckinley said:
IT have witnessed in front of this
porch many scenes which have touched
my heart, but none which have more
deeply moved me than this gathering
of the workingmen of Canton. L bid
you all hearty and sincere welcome TO
my home
been on a safe and sound basis, is now
assailed by our political adversaries.
It
INVOLVES THE OLD QUESTION
of the honest payment of the public
debt, and the pensions of our soldiers,
and of all public obligations which the
people long ago determined on the
side of good faith, good morals and
common honesty. But with that state
ment some people are not satisfied. So
we are called upon 10 pass upon this
question There is still the ques-
ton of protection against free trade or
tariff refoxm. In 1892, free trade as
against protection was the paramount
issue of the campaign, and free trade
triumphed before the great tribunal of
the American people, and this year we
bring the question to you again. We
ask you to review, to express your re-
considered and better and more ma
tured Judgment on that issue, after
three years of dreadful experience. l
spoke in the city of Canton on Monday
evening, November 8, 1892, and in that
speech L appealed to my fellow citizens
at home, as 1 had appealed to them
elsewhere. not to overturn the protec-
tive policy which had brought us
SUCH UNIVERSAL PROSPERITY
and which at that very moment was
spreading it's blessings and benefits
throughout the entire country, and in
every industrial centre, and in the
course of that speech, I said what was
true then and what is true now. This
is what 1 said four years ago: But
again the Democrats say that if we
have free trade we could buy cheaper
than we do at present. Yes. We
might while the struggle between
American and foreign industries was
going on, but when the former are
| wiped out, the price would go up to
whatever figure might be dictated by
the foreign manufacturer, and in the
meantime labor will be scantily en-
ployed and at reduced wages. Free
trade cheapens the article by cheapen-
ing the artisan; protection reduces the
price of a product by giving the artisan
just reward for his labor and receiving
its reward on higher skilled industry.
Free trade cheapens the product by
cheapening the producer; protection
cheapens the product through the
skilled genius and the industry of the
producer (Applause) But, my
countrymen, nothing is
CHEAP AT ANY PRICE
which comes from abroad, that entails
idleness upon the American people,
! (Applause.) The maxim of free trade
is buy where you can buy the cheap
est l win give you a maxim worth
ten thousand times more than that:
Buy where you can pay the easiest
| tremendous cheeringJ but where
labor receives its highest reward, and
that is in the United States of America
or was four years ago. During the
years of protection, every manufac-
tured product had been cheapened. but
in that process, thank God, men, living
men, had never been cheapened. While
| the products OF the country had gone
down in price. labor up to 1892 had
more than held its own, and a working
man at that time was receiving so per
cent more for his labor than he re-
ceived in 1860. All we have done by
| protection is to take care of our own
households and great national family.
That's what we propose to do in the
future by our ballots on the 3rd of
| November
4 said another thing then: IF by
your ballots you adopt thissfree trade
policy, while things may be cheaper in
the United States, you will have less
labor and less wages with which to
buy right
Was 1 right, men of Canton? (Cries
of Yes Those were the words spoken
to you four years ago and We're nv
best and most mature convictions. nv
opinions may have been wrong, but
they were honest opinions and none
We're more honest than those I ex-
pressed to you in 1892. How far they
were truly and worthily spoken YOU
can now Judge We have passed from
the field of prediction into the Kingdom
of fulfillment daughter and applause)
we have
PASSED THE PERIOD OF PROPH.
ECY