New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-09-25
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A FINE DISPLAY IN CANTON.
THREE REMARKABLE DELEGATIONS
CALL ON MAJOR M'KINLEY.

LARGE PARTY FROM OIL CITY ACCOMPANIED 81
YOUNG WOMEN. WHO HEAP THE SPEAKERS
STAND WITH FLOwERs-MoRE THAN
5000 MINERS AND GLAsswoRKERs
ALSO ADDRESSED - THREE
TELLING ARGUMENTS
FOR SOUND MONEY
AND PRoTEc-
TIoN
Canton. Ohio Sept. 24-Three delegations
called on Major Mckinley to-day. The first
composed Of miners from West Newton Penn.
arrived shortly before noon The next was the
Mckinley and Hobart Club and First Voters
Club. of Oil City Penn The Oil City delegation
brought with it about 200 women There were
forty y-hve pretty young women in costume bear
ing large baskets Of flowers and each repre-
sentins one of the States OF the Union At
tached to each basket Of flowers was a long
ribbon bearing the name of a State Following
the young women bearing these beautiful bur-
den1 or flowers were 800 men carrying red.
"hte ana blue umbrellas. Then there was a
large club OF first voters, and after them
ooo voters representing all the trades and
PROFESSIONS and the agricultural interests.
Ihere has been no delegation here repre-
sehtihg men In more walks of life than
that which came from OIL City to-day. This
morning a committee came from OIL CITY
and erected in Major McKinley's ward. near the
south end Of the porch, a stand twelve feet
nigh hfteen feet broad at the bottom and six
al the top The stand was filed from base TO
top with the flowers brought by the OIL City
deiesatlon The Oil City delegation was Justify
cheered along its line of march from the station
"a McLg gt,la
fnest-ooking delegations that has visited Can
ton The third and last delegation was from
Westmoreand County Penn It was largely
composed Of miners and gassworkers and num-
bered 5000 men.
MKINLEY TALKS TO MINERS.
Major Mckinley was in excellent condition to-
day. and spoke with clearness and vigor His
first speech was made in response to the re-
marks Of w. S. Van Dyke, who spoke for the
delegation Of miners from West Newton. Major
Mckinley said:
1 mad nor expected to meet the people OF West
moreland County In sections I had sunnosed
that you would come to meet to-day I'm a united
body. and that might have an opportunity of
addressing you AL together: but il ems there
are so many Republicans this year that when
they make journey they have to come in Sec
lions. daughter and applause) There is no
sort OF objection 20 being divided now ut I trust
that on the third day Of November you will all
be united. (Cries Of I'VE will,') coun, Il a
very great personal pleasure to meet and greet
the people OF West Newton. I recall your busv
and enterprising city with great satisfaction
remember the only visit I ever paid you. and AZ
that time found your city one Of the most &C.
tive and most prosperous in the whole country.
| regret to hear from your spokesman that ali
that has changed and where plenty and pros-
perity presided. want and despair now sit And
that naturally leads to the inquiry: What has
occasioned 1t? That is the thought in every
mans mind: that is the question that is in every
mans thoughts We have the country
that we had four years ago We have the same
splendid resources. the same farms the Same
factories. the Mines the same sturdy. en-.
terprising people that we had then and what is
the reason we have not the same prosperity now,
The reason Is not hard to discern. For morn
than thirty years we lived In this country under n
protective tariff-a tariff that protected and en-
couraged American enterprise a. American in
dustry, tarln that made US In that period Of
time the greatest nation in the world in manu.
factures, In mining and in agriculture; a system
that protected everything we made in this coun
try against similar things made in Europe; a pro-
lection to every American interest against CON.
ctng foreign interest
Now that protection has been narti.uv -
moved and when the people of this coun,r, g.,
lS32 decreed that there was TO be a change of mol
icy and that we were TO go from a protective mol
icy to partial free trade policy or a reyenua t.r
if policy, then uncertainty hung over this conn
try, 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
would get for it; no man knew when he nut the
raw material into end Of the factory how
much he could get for 1t when IT went ou, at the
other end; and with the uncertainty which hing
over Us, because Of anticipated competition from
other countries, the business of this country was
at once depressed and for four years we have
been suffering because own industries were
not prosperous, and while our own Industries
were not prosperous the industries Of other coun-
tries were
LAWS SHOULD BE FOR HOME BENEFIT.
Now. am one Of those who believe that II n
the business Of this country to make laws for
the benefit Of this country. loud applause)
believe the business Of this free Government is to
preserve the American market to the American
producer. whether in the factory or the farm.
and to preserve the American mines and the fac
tories Of the American workmer. (Cries of
That's right" and applause) And that is ALI
there is OF protective tariff We want enough
tariff in this country put upon foreign goods that
compete with to make up the difference be-
tween the wages paid 10 labor in Europe and the
wages paid to labor In the United States Crre-
mendous applause) We want the difference be-
tween American conditions and European condi-
tions made up by protective tariff upon a for
eign product that compe es with the American
product. That is che policy pursued by the Re-
publican party ever since II came into power
Then we want. my fellow-citizens. 70 restore
conhdence-business confidence We do not
want cheap money any more than want
cheap labor in the United States. (Cries Of
That's right"D When the miners OF West New
ton have dug their coal by their honest toll,
they want to be paid In dollars that are equal to
the best dollars of the world and will not
deLreciate In the future. but will be as good on
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