The record-union., 1896-09-15
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PILGRIMAGE TO CANTON
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worth S13, ,421, 900, and which in 1896
were worth only $6.711 900.
In 1892 we had AZ ,273, ,553 sheep in
| the United States valued at S12o, 600, :
600. In 1895 we had SO, Dos, 900, valued
| at So, ,00O,0 ad the total imports Of
wooden goods in 1892 under the Repub-
| lican protective tariff law was little
| above $37, 200, 000 and in 1895 under
| the Wilson tariff law these imports
amounted to more than S6O,OOO,O0O.
| (Cries of "Hurrah for Mckinley and the
Republican party.O
ION the second day of April, 1888,
in presenting the minority report in
opposition to the Mills tariff law in
the National House of Representatives,
1 said: Wool on the free list is dead
| ly assault upon a great agricultural
interest, and will fall with terrible
severity upon a million people, their
household and dependencies. 1t will
destroy invested capital, unsettle es-
tablished values, wrest from flock mas
ters their lifetime earnings, bankrupt
thousands of our best and most in
| dustrious farmers and drive them into
| other branches of agriculture already
overcrowded. (Cries of That's what
it has done'O 1t is a vicious and in
defensible blow at the entire agricul-
tural interests Of the country (Cries
| CT You are right.)
| Major Mckinley quoted Alexander
| Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson as
saying in effect that the duties we
| lay on articles of foreign manufactur-
| ers secures us against relapse into
| foreign dependency. MY own idea,' -
| he said, lis that we should encourage
| home manufactures to the extent Of
our own consumption. applause }
have said that the home market is
| the best maket. You know that from
experience, and the home market is
made better by increasing our factories
and giving employment to idle work
men. Great cheering) Put every idle
man In the country to work and your
consumers will be increased Gap
plause and cries Of That's right'D And
when your consumers are increased
| then your market is improved, and the
better the price you receive for your
| products (Cries of Good, good'O 1t
was said that if we opened up this
country to the free use of the wool Of
the world the farmers would be bene-
flied. 1t was done, and with what
benefit you know better than 1 can tell
you.
"Now they tell you that free silver
| 0aughter) is the panacea for all your
ills (renewed laughteD and you have
the same money in circulation now
| that you had four years ago, but you
wool growers have not got as much Of
it as you had then. (Cries of That's
right.D AS free wool degraded your
| industry, 50 free silver will degrade
your money. applause and cries of
That's right'') You have already
been fleeced by loss on your fiocks, and
you do not propose to be fieeced further
by loss Of your money. (Cheering)
My fellow citizens, 1 am glad to re-
ceive you and welcome you here at my
| home, and it will afford me sincere
pleasure to shake hands with each one
CT you personally if you desire me to
| do So" Great applause)
Major Mckinley dined at the resi-
dence Of Isaac ID. Harter this evening.
Mr.. Harter is a brother of the late Con-
gressman Michael d. Harter.
Major Mckinley read the reports
from Maine during the evening with
evident satisfaction, but without very
| great surprise, for his advices from
Augusta had prepared him for a VIC
tory of more than ordinary proportions.
! Major Mckinley will receive three
| delegations tomorrow. The first comes
from Michigan, the second from Som
erset County, Pa, and the third will
| be composed of Grand Army Posts Of
| Canton and vicinity.