The herald., 1896-10-14
Forces the ExcursiOnists to Seek
Shelter
PEOPLE OF PENNSYLVANIA
Open Their Mouths Wide to Receive
Protection Taffy
Coming Under Orders to Applaud, the
People Cheered. and Sometimes at
the Appropriate Places

Associated Press Special Wire
CANTON, Oct. ia special train of
ten coaches arrived this morning with
miners, mechanics and other citizens of
Lehigh valley. Pennsylvania. Incle-
ment weather still continues, so the Wis
itors were taken to the tabernacle,
where Major Mckinley went to receive
their greetings. The visitors were in
troduced by ex-Congressman Charles
T. Brumm.
Major Mckinley said in response:
We have In this country more free
trade than there is in any other coun-
try in the world. But it is free trade
among ourselves. (Applause.) With
forty-five states and seventy millions of
people, we are constantly vying with
each other in every section of our COM
| mon country for the promotion of the
| highest interests of our respective pop
| ulations. The triumph of one section is
the triumph of another. We are all
working together for general good.
| When we have free trade with any
other country 1t should be in those pro-
| ducts we do not produce and which we
| must have, and in exchange for which
| those countries will take products we
make and grow, and we should put du-
| ty upon those foreign products that
compete with American products suf-
| ficient not. cnly to supply enough reve-
nue. for the use of the government, but
| sufficient to protect the American peo-
pie in their own occupations against the
| products of cheaper and underpaid la
| Dor of the world. That seems to me to
| be the dictates of an enlightened patri-
| otism, and it is certainly one of the
| great fundamental doctrines of the Re-
| publican party. a-n-
! If we ever needed tariff we need it
| now; we need it for the federal treasury,
for that is in a condition of deficiency;
and we need it for the people Of this
country, for they, like the treasury, are
| generally in condition of deficiency.
| Now, whatever will put money into
the public treasury and stop the debts
| and deficiencies and bonds, I take it,
everybody would say would be a wise
and patriotic policy, and no matter what
political party they belonged to in the
past, I take it that the policy that will
encourage our own people to dig coal.
to manufacture products, to employ la
Dor, is the policy that ought to COM
mend itself to every patriotic citizen;
and if tariff will do these things, tar
iff Is surely what, by our votes three
weeks from today, we ought to sustain.
(Applause.)
| Pennsylvania has always been a pro-
| lection state. James Buchanan, Dem
ocrat, when he was president of the
United States, gave us some very good
advice, which is applicable to the pres
ent situation. He said: mo states
man would advise that we should go on
increasing the public debt to meet the
ordinary expenses of the government.
This would be ruinous policy. In case
of war our credit must be our chief
resource. at least for the first year, and
this would be greatly impaired by hav-
ing contracted a debt in time of peace.
Our policy is to increase our revenues
so as to equal our expenditures; it would
be ruinous to continue to borrow
That is the position of the Republican
party today. Mr.. Randall, Democrat
of great distinction, a man of wonder
full power, who was always for Pennsyl-
vania and the people of Pennsylvania,
and for the workingmen of Pennsylva-
mia, declared in 1887, in the last speech
4 that he made in the congress of the
United States, in opposition to the Mills
bill: 'If the farmers ceases to buy the
product Of the manufacturers, he will
certainly cease to sell to them; but he
must sell his products on the market
where he buys what he consumes HIM
SELF
Suppose last year we had manufacture
ed thousand millions worth less than
we did and had gone abroad for these
products, could a thousand millions
more of agricultural products have been
sold abroad at the price which products
brought here? We sold all the wheat
and corn and meat products that Europe
could take at the price that prevailed
Who can tell at what prices Europe
would have taken five hundred millions
or even one hundred Millions more of oul
agricultural products than she did take
The mere statement of the proposition
is such as to disclose the error on which
1t is founded and shows 4 G importance
of uniting manufaAt with agricul-
ture, or as Jefferson states it, putting
the manufacturer by the side of the
farmer" ... 6i,-
In fact both must depend almost ex.
clusively on the home market 1t is fol
ly. If not crime, to attempt to change il
in these respects. 1t would bring ruiz
! and bankruptcy, without the possibility
of having such result accomplished
J The greater the diversity of industrie!
, in any country, the greater the wealti
| producing power of the people and the
more there is for labor and capital to df
vide the more independent the country
. becomes. Now, my fellow citizens,
take it, that on the matter of tariff vol
need no argument. 1t is said our trouble
is not the tariff. but the money, and the
, way to have prosperity is to set oul
1nints to running. daughter and ap
plause.) do not believe they won v EN-
ploy any portion of the idle miners o.
the anthracite region if every mint ir
, the United States was started. Now
take 1t, whatever may be our employ
ment, we want good money. money
that will buy all purchasable thing.
wherever they are, is better than
money that will not. Now is a none,
that is only current in the United State:
at its face value and which must stant
|, a discount everywhere else as good as g
money that is current in every civilized
country?