The Republican journal., 1896-09-03
Mckinley to the Farmers.
Protection Will Set Mills Going and Create
mand for Farm Products.

mand for Farm Products.
Major Mckinley made two notable
speeches at his home in Canton, Ohio,
Aug. oath. A thousand workmen from
the IS potteries of East Liverpool, O.,
travelled 10 miles that morning to call on
Major Mckinley, and were reinforced en-
route to three times that number. W. B.
Blake, pottery bench worker and an elo-
quent talker, spoke for the delegation.
He said:
"Under the Wilson German compro-
mise, which opened up the flood gates Of
our ports to foreign production, nine mil
lions of dollars worth of crockery have
been imported. Every dollars worth or
large percentage could and would have
been made in America under your pro
tective policy. Instead, our factories
have been limp and helpless. Under these
unhappy conditions the artisans have
been thrown out of employment, have had
to put up with an inordinate amount of
discontinue, scarcely capable of keeping
their heads above water.
1.-THE potters want to see prosperous
times again. and to this end they will
vote for sound money, protective policy
and William Mckinley. Your peerless
record in Congress, your ardent devotion
for the cause of protection, your love for
everything American, your principles,
which have never been vacillating nor am
biguous, your life itself, which has been
an open book in which is written in let
tiers of gold the faithful performance of
every duty, have ali endeared you to the
hearts of this delegation.
Major Mckinley's reply was worthy of
the occasion, and showed a complete
knowledge of the pottery business, which
was built up under Republican and de
stroyed under Democratic rule. In clos
ing he said:
MEN will no longer follow party when
it leads away from business success and
prosperity; when its policies cripple our
industries aud the earning power of labor.
They will not follow party whose poll
cies imperi our financial integrity and the
honor of the country. Great applause,
''We are learning and, my friends, we
indeed know already, that no matter
what kind of money we have We cannot
get it until we have work. (Cries of You
are right, Maior.') Whether it is poor
money or good money, whether gold, or
hetheI it is silver. we cannot get one
dollar of it unless we have employment
for our hands and heads. Enthusiastic
cheering and waving of hands.) And we
know another thing, that when we have
work we would rather have our pay in
good honest money with the most pur-
chasing power-dollars which will not de-
preciate in our hands over night, but
which will be good every day and every
year and everywhere. (Renewed cheer
ing and cries of 'Hurrah for McKinleyD
We cannot help labor by reducing the
value of the money in which labor is paid
The way to help labor is to provide it
with steady work and good wages always
paid in good money, money as sound as
the Government and as unsulled as this
flag tremendous cheering and APP
plause.)
About p. m. a party of seven carloads
of Knox county farmers reached Canton
by a special Pennsylvania train. They
had the Centerburg, o., Cornet Band
with them, and no more enthusiastic
delegation has reached Canton than they.
They marched the mile from the station
to the Mckinley home in good form. A
local farmer headed the parade with
load of new mown hay, They were a
sturdy looking set of men, and cheer after
cheer went up as their chairman appeared
on the veranda, with Maj. Mckinley. Mr..
H. D. Critchtield Of Mount Vernon, a son
of Knox county farmer, made a neat
presentation speech. Maj. Mckinley's
response was repeatedly interrupted with
applause, and it was quite long Nj.
Mckinley said:
'Mr, Critchfeld and My Fellow Citi-
zens 1t gives me very great pleasure to
meet and greet the citizens of Knox Coun-
~ in the city of Canton and at my own
home. / am glad to welcome my old
comrades of the Grand Army, my fellow
citizens who are engaged in agricultural
industries and my fellow citizens OF all oc-
equations who are assembled this morn
ing. Your meeting demonstrates that
you have keen interest in the public
questions which are now engaging the
people of the United States and that you
want this year, as you have always want
ed in the past, to vote for those principles
and those policies which will achieve the
greatest good aud the highest welfare to
the country.
81 am glad especially to meet the farm
ers Of Knox county, for the farmers of the
United States are the most conservative
force in our citizenship and in our civil
cation (applause)-a force that has always
stood for good government, for country,
for liberty and for honesty. (Greas APP
plause.) Whatever the farmer is suffer
ing to-day is because his competitors
have increased in numbers and because
his best customers are out of work. CAP
plause and cries of You are right
do not know that we can decrease the
number of your competitors, but, with
the adoption of a true American pro-
tective policy, we can set your best Gus
toners to work. tremendous applause
We have suffered in our foreign trade and
we have suffered in our domestic trade
The farmers have suffered in their export
trade and they have likewise suffered in
the home market.
'Under the Republican tariff law of
1890 we imported in 1898 over Ill 900, 600
pounds of WOOL valued at over S13, 000,-
900. In 1885, under the Democratic tariff
law we imported 24S, 600, 600 pounds of
wool, valued at S3}3, 800, 900. Nearly 500
O00, 600 worth more OF wool was imported
under the Democratic tariff law than I'M
der the Republican tariff law in 1894. The
imports of wooden goods in 1894 amounted
to S16, 800, 900, and in 1895 to S57, 494, 600.
''From the reports of the Treasury De
partment at Washington we find that
there were Al, 273, 900 sheep in the United
States in 1892, valued at S125, 900, 900. On
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