The Monitor-register., 1896-10-16
Mckinley Talks On Protection.

H REQUISITES OF NATIONAL PROS
PERITY.
In responding to the greetings of ex-
congressman Brumm. who spoke for the
Lehigh Valley delegation, who visited
Canton on Tuesday. Major Mckinley
said:-
ut was scarcely necessary to ad wise
that the people of the anthracite regions
are In favor of q protective tariff. have
long known and appreciated that fact
and sympathize with you in that senti-
msnt. l believe in that great American
doctrine which lies at the foundation Of
the law of self.preservation. 1 believe
it the duty of this Government to en-
courage its own people and to pass such
law as will give to them the largest OPP
portunity to improve their condition, the
highest scale of wages and the greatest
encouragement to their skill and their
labor.
I eve have in this country more free
trade than in any other country of the
world, but it is free trade among our
selves. Great ~applause.) With forty
five States and 10000. 600 people we are
constantly vieing with each other in
every section Of our common country
for the promotion Of the highest interests
OF our respective populations. We be-
lieve in free trade in the United States in
the same sense that we believe in the
equal and reciprocal obligations which
belong to every family.
I'VE are only a great national family.
We trade with each other with absolute
freedom and without restraint and en-
gage in free and unresentful rivalry in all
the occupations, employments and in.
dustries of our people. The triumphs
OF one section is the triumph of the other,
all working together for the general good
"When we have fres trade with othel
countries it should be in those products
which we cannot prod uce ourselves and
which we must have, and in exchange
for which those countries will take The
products that we make and grow; anG
we should put q duty upon these foreign
products that compete with American
products, sufficient not only to supply
enough ven for the uses of the
Government, but sufficient to protect thu
American people in their own occupa-
tions against the products of the cheaper
and underpaid labor of the world. Tha,
seems to me to be the dictate of an en-
lightened patriotism, and it is certainly
one of the creates { fundamental doc
trines of the Republican party.
NEED OF PROTECTION.
Sand why should not it be 80, my fell
low-citizens? We are one nation, We
have one Constitution, one frg, We have
a common destiny. The other nations Of
the world have their seperate and indie.
pendent political organizations for the
purpose of working out for themselvei
the highest destiny possible. They owe
no allegiance to this Government, they
contribute nothing to It's support. ethel
in wal or in peace, and if they want tt
come into this country and compets
with our people we say to them, you Gal
do so upon condition that q tariff shall
be put upon your products and that tariff
will go toward sustaining this Govern
ment and at the same time will be
defense to your OWE labor and producers
tremendous ~applause.)
"That is the whole doctrine Of thu
tariff. II we ever needed it, we need !
now. We need it for the Federal Treas
ury, for that is in q condition Of def
oienoy. We need it for the people Of thii
country, for they, like the Treasury, ar
generally in a condition of deficiency
(Applause.)
snow, whatever will put money int
the public Treasury and stop debts AMI
deficiencies and bonds, I take it every
body would say would be a wise and pa
triotic thing, no matter what political
party they have belonged to in the past
81 take it that, whatever policy viii
encourage our own people to dig coal
to manufacture products. to emplo.
labor, is the policy that ought to com
mend itself to every patriotic Citizen, ant
if a tariff will do those things, the tariff
surely is what, by u votes three weak
from today, we ought to sustain. Gap
plause.)
B~UCHANAN's GOOD ADVICE.
"James Buchanan, q Democrat, whei
he was President of the United States
gave some very good advice which i
applicable to the present situation. HI
said:-
"tNo statesman would advise that W,
should 60 on increasing the nation al deb
to meet the ordinary expenses Of th'
Government. This would be q ruinou
} policy. In case of war, our credit mus
be our chief resource, at least for thu
first year, and this would be great!
impaired by having contracted a largs
debt in time of peace. 1t is our true pol
. icy to increase our revenue 80 as to equal
our expenditures. 1t would be FuinouI
to continue to borrow
"That is the position of the Republi
!. can party to-day. MI. Randall, q Demo
crat of great distinction, q man of won
derful power, who was always for Penn
sylvania and the people of Pennsylvania
J. and for the w~orkingmen of Pennsylvania
declared in 1887, in the last speech tina
he made in the Congress of the Unitet
States in opposition to the Mills BILL
"tIf the farmer ceases to buy tn,
product of the manufacturers. he viii
certainly cease to sell them, but must sci
/, his products in the market, where be buy
what he consumes himself. Supposs
last year we had manufactured 81, 600,
600, 600 worth less than we did, and had
gone abroad for these products, expecting
> to pay for them with agricultural pro
ducts, could 81, 900. 600. 900 worth more o.
agricultural products have been solo
abroad at the price which product,
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 $500, coo, 900 worth OF
even 100000. 600 worth more Of our agri
cultural products than she did take? The
mere statement of the proposition ii
enough to disclose the error on which 1t
| is founded, and shows the importance Of
| uniting manufactures with agriculture.
81 take it that on the matter Of the
tariff Won need no Int IL II