The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-10-17
SPOKE TO WEST vIRGINIANs,
AND DURING A LONG SPEECH HE
REFERRED ONCE TO THE LIV-
ING ISSUE.
RODE HIS HORNY TO DEATH,
And Then Happened to Think There
Was Such Thing as the Money
Question.

i tioH u SeVeral hundred from the Lee
high district of Pennsylvania, and in
troduced them as miners, mechanics
and others representing that territory
Their greetings to Maj. Mckinley were
most cordial, and their demonstration
1 was enthusiastic
| Tyler and Wetzel counties of West
| Virginia sent greetings to Maj McKin-
ley with a delegation Of representative
citizens in a special train Of twelve
| coaches, which reached Canton about
noon. Sisterville furnished the greater
part Of the crowd, organized as the Ell
kins Invincibles, named in honor Of
Senator Elkins. The party greeted
Maj. Mckinley with cheers and hur-
rains. They were introduced by R. L.
Moore and P. A. Shannon Mai Nc
Kinley. addressing them, said:
My Fellow Citizens: There are large
number OF witnesses her today to the prom
lses which your spokesman has given as to
what West Virginia will do on the Sd day
OF November If you do as well as you
promise, assure you the people of Ohio
and my home city will be more than salts
fed ! am glad to meet and greet you in
Canton today. remember two years ago
10 have spoken for a little while, together
with your now distinguished Senator Eikins,
upon the pending questions dividing the
parties OF the country. / congratulate you
that at the end of that campaign YOU re-
corded a splendid victory for the Republican
party and added one more vote 10 the Re-
publican strength In the United States SEN
ave. trust the people of West Virginia
have not changed their minds since that
election, and that they are now, as Then, in
favor OF protective tariff, of sound money
and OF honesty in public well as private
transactions. am glad to be assured that
she means to no longer support policy that
has retarded the growth. and development of
the resources of the United States; policy
that RODS your farmers of good markets and
OF good prices, and your miners and laborers
of good wages-the reactionary and un-A Amer
lean policy of free trade. If there is a farmer
or laborer here, or one elsewhere, who may
read what l say, who doubts the truth of
this statement, beg him to contrast If he
will, first, the condition of the farmers and
laborers in this country in 1892 with that Of
the farmers and laborers Of other countries
in the world; and second, to contrast the
comparative advantages of a protective tariff
against free trade policy, and his own
condition now and during the past three
years in contrast with that of the previous
three years. Let him but examine the prices
paid for his products or for his labor in 1893,
1884 and 1885, under the threatened or actual
operation of tariff for revenue only law,
with the prices Of wages he received in 1890
1891 and 1892, under a protective tariff law;
| and II he does not find the change from the
old system to the new disastrous to him,
then we will be perfectly content for him
to sustain by his vote the present policy
and cast his lot with the party which contin-
ueS to uphold free trade. Time and again
you have heard it declared that while pro-
| lection might be good thing for New Eng
land, it is curse to the West and South.
You know better now, after having had three
years and half experience under partial
free trade. In vain did Republican speakers
and papers demonstrate against this madness,
but OF no avail, and so the people gave it a
trial. With what result? Is it not true that
partial free trade has injured us one and all?
Is it not true that partial free trade has
West Virginia? Have not the people and
the government grown steadily poorer under
its destructive operations? Have not both
producer and consumer been injured? What
of the South?
GROWTH OF THE SOUTH.
According to the statistics quoted by Gen.
James Longstreet in Republican speech at
Augusta, Ca, on the 9th day of the pres
emit month"; he said: Between 1880 and 1890
the true valuation, not the assessed valua-
ton, of real and personal property in the
South increased from 1854 100000 to SILL
534, 000, 900, gain of $500, 900 000,or 80 per
cent; while the New England and Middle
States combined gained only SS,900,00O, or an
increase of only per cent. The value of
farm property in the South in 1880 was ST.
S14, 900 600; in 1890, $3.1S20o0,ooO, gain of
81 per cent The increase in farm values
in other sections was but 30 per cent In
1860 the South had $257, 244, 900 invested in
manufacturing In 1890 she had 1858, 2SS 900,
gain of 156 per cent. While the gain of
the entire country was about 121 per cent.
The value Of the manufactured products in
the South in 1880 was $457, $4,000; in 1890,
SOL, 589, 000 a gain of 100 per cent. In 1880
the factory hands insthe South received s75,-
917, 900 in wages: in 1890, s223. lis, 600. In
1880 the South had invested in cotton manu-
featuring $21 GIG, 600; in 1890, SOL 100 OO0 and
now about $40, 900 600. In 1880 the South
had So. 100000 invested in the cotton seed oil
industry. 1t has now more than $50, DOC, 900
so invested. The railroad mileage Of the
South has been increased since 1880 more
than $4,000 miles at cost in building new
roads and in the improvement Of old ones
of over one billion dollars. In 1880 the
| 1895 it made 1,702,088 tons. In 1890 the
| South's output Of coal was 5000, 0G0 tons. At
present it is at the rate of 100000 tons
| per year.
This, my friends, all occurred after the
| so-called crime Of 1873, when the free coin
| age Of silver was suspended. No other sec
! ton of this country, no other section Of the
world, made such progress as the South
| made between 1880 and 1890, and during all
| that period we were on a gold basis, one
dollar being as good as every other dollar
and all of them equal to the best; at the
same time we were under a protective tar
| iff policy that encouraged our own develop
ment and the increase of our own manu-
| features.
DO you want to turn your backs upon
this policy, men of West Virginia? Do you
want return of that prosperity which you
SO signally enjoyed from 1880 to 1890? Cries
| of You bet we do.'D Then the way to ac-
complish that is to vote for that party
not IOT the 1HQlVlQudl-DuJ> 10 vote 10r that
party that has always stood for protective
tariff, and believes in protecting our own
as against all the world. We do not want
cheap dollar any more than we want
cheap men; we no more want free silver
than we want free trade; we want good
money and a protective tariff, and then we
want by our votes on Nov. 8, to tell the
whole world that this is government OF
law and government OF integrity and Of
unsulied honor.
Maj Mckinley In addressing the Le-
high Valley delegation devoted him
self again to the tariff until near the
-close Of his speech when he brought
in the money question and said:
We want to have a currency in this coun-
try that is Interchangeable in value and equal
to the best money in the world. We want
everybody in and out of this country to know
that we are not nation of regulators, and
that we do not mean either to cheat our
| selves by a short dollar or anybody else.
Our dollars hereafter, as now and ever since
1879. shall continue to be worth 100 cents
each in gold, and not only at home but
wherever trade goes. CHere man in the
crowd held up one of the large imitation
silver dollars, and said, There's one OF the
other kind" amid great laughter.) I take
it that this other kind is not what any of you
want. What you want is the dollar that you
have now, and the only trouble is that you
are not getting enough of them"