The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1896-03-21


Of the West and the plantations OF the
South Western faen ie.i by Allison,
struggled TO this end, and stood for -ooi
the farmers fsnishe1 product. TO share
equally In protection with the cloth of the
Eastern manafac .sreT's looms. II passei
the house by triumphant majority.
IN the senate some of the Western Re
publican senator's. Plnmb Paddock and
PettizTew. resisted IL nd voted against
h because 1t Was A tariff too high for the
East and too lo~ Cor the West: and 1t was
Only BY gaining the ya-es of three Demo-
Cratic senator's. representing states that
lad great material interests benefited by
the tariff. that il secured 4 majority in
the senate and in congress. Peanuts in
Virginia. cotton IN Alabama and lead in
Missouri saved the Mckinley tariff bin,
by the grace of three Democratic votes
The Tariff for the West.
II am for high tariff bat want II as
h'gh for the West as for the Fast. want
to see the Western farmer and miner as
fully protected as the Eastern manu-
factu-er. No sectional tarif can ever he
enacted in this eoantrv sr1In. Under its
protection New England. New York and
Pennsylvania have had their natural re-
sources developed and their Industrial
systems built up so as to compete E;th
any manufacturers anywhere in the world.
The Eext Republican tariff must make the
farmer and the miner as much the object
OF its solicitlde and projection or even
more. as the Eastern manufacturer.
On Great Financial Questions
What we need now is the statesman
ship of commerce-not only on the tariff
for everybody knows what the Republican
party will do with the tariff. Ii has an
open thoroughfare on that. Ii will revise
and increase the tariff. We need broad.
financial questions, which are far more
vexed and intricate than the tariff.
1T is here that Allison, who has been
for twenty years the strongest man IN
public life west of the state of Ohio. is
strong at every point. He has been III
congress thirty-one years. He entered
the house in 1852, served with Lincoln and
Salmon p. Chase in maturing and perfect
ing the great monetary and financial sys-
TEN that paid the Union army and saved
the life of the nation. He was eight years
in the house and on the ways and means
committee. Then he was out of congress
four years. when he was elected to the
senate. and last January he was reelected
10 his fifth consecutive term in the United
States senate. He has been twenty-five
years a member of the finance committee
OF the senate. twenty years a member of
the committee on appropriations and six
was made chairman by President Harri-
son Of the American delegation 10 the
Brussels international conference In 1897
firmly believes that international hi-metal-
lism may be accomplished
"A Republican president of the United
States and Republican congress putting
the great power Of this nation affirmative
ly back of silver. could in my Judgment
unite with Germany and France, already
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national bi-metaIlism: and If the world
ever gets back to bi-met allism it will never
leave IL again
The times in America and public inter-
est in this republic never before demanded
greater. stronger. broader man for pres
ident than these times demand now The
best and greatest statesman we have got
hroadest and strongest on all the issues
is the man we should nominate. In the
East the impression Is becoming general
that a broader man. one better equipped
on all the issues than Gov. Mckinley.
should be chosen.
Needs Government Aid.
I'm my Judgment the greatest insurance
OF party success and the greatest insurance
for the return of prosperity lies in the
nomination Of a Western candidate The
unsettled problems In our government are
Western, The older states, from New En-
finished communities. The general govern
ment does net mean much to them West
OF the Mississippi river TO the Pacific coast
the general government means much
Every new state in the West has It's great
problems of domestic prosperity largely to
settle and the general governments aid
is necessary to the DEVELOPMENT of every
Western state.
Take the great question Of irrigation.
Two-fifths OF the area of the United States
Is arid. Water would make the most of il
into I rich soil and cover II with happy
homes. The general government alone has
the power and the means TO take this great
question up and settle II on some great and
comprehensive plan. The Improvement of
your waterways the building of canals
like the Lake Washington canal, the build
Ing Of ship yards on Lake Washington and
Puget sound and the Pacific coast are all
problems OF expectation to YOU and very
possible 10 Won OF fultllment. The Puget
sound country and She Oregon country
ought to be the great ship building nor
iions OF our republic You have every
thing necessary To It. In the revival Of
American shipping this ore thing alone
Tn the multiplication Of ship yards should
bring great fortunes 20 your country.
\ Western Mans >ympathies.
Your state, Ike every other new one
has its public works hardly begun and far
from completion. You are Interested in the
Nicaragua canal With water route Ina9
miles shorter 10 the East you could send
many things that YOU raise TO the markets
~ the East and tho world that are supos-
shle for you % transport now man
Ike Allison. Who Ives on she hanks Of the
Mississippi river. who has led in the work
OF congress In bringing the sea up tn, Ms
siSSippi - the borders NJ Iowa and who
fasors making II 50 that the largest sh4rs
csn come un there, ami who is in syrnaa-
NV wfh the Nicaragua canal and whc In
fefs'ants Western needs and ambitions
anf - n thorough sympathy with them. is
iHe mar of all Others for Western peonle
% support ioe president"
cen. Cllrkson and his Marty leave This
morning far S0okaHe. where they sfn say
one dsv only. and VII can al other cites
from there on she way 30 st. paul and
back "a Iowa
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