The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-14
TO PENNSYLVANIANS.
Benefits of Protective Tariff Dis
cussed by the Major.

cussed by the Major.
In responding to greetings of the Lehigh
valley delegation of Pennsylvanians. Major
Mckinley said:
''Mr. Brumm and my Fellow-citizens-
You have greatly honored me in having
journeyed SO long a distance to bring as
surances of your good will. 1 do not take
this call as in any sense personal to my
self, but rather tribute to the cause
which for the moment ] stand and to the
great principles the Republican party up
holds in the pending political contest 1t
gives me pleasure to meet my old friend
your spokesman, with whom 1 served fo.-
years in the national House of Representa-
tives. 1t also gives me pleasure to meet
and welcome you to my home and to say
that L appreciate most highly your visit
and the encouraging message which you
bring. 1t was scarcely necessary to advise
me that the people of the anthracite re-
gions are in favor of d protective tariff
have long known and appreciated that fact
and sympathize with you in that sentiment
1 believe in that great American doctrine
which lies at the foundation of the law of
self-preservation. 1 believe it the highest
duty of this government to encourage its
own people and to pass such laws will
give to them them the largest opportunity to
of wages and the greatest encouragement
to their skill and their labor
I'VE have in this country more free trade
but it is free trade among ourselves. tGreat
applause.) With forty-five States and sew
enty millions of people we are constantly
Vylng with each other in every section
of our common country for the promotion
of the highest interests of our respective
populations. We believe in free trade in
the United States in the same sense that
we believe in the equal and reciprocal OBJ
legations which belong to every family
We are only a great national family We
trade with each other with absolute free
dom and without restraint ana engage in
free and unresentful rivalry in all the oc-
cupat1ons, empioyments and industries of
our people. The triumph OF one section
is the triumph of the other, all working
together to the general good.
When we have free trade with other
countries it should be In those products
which we cannot produce ourselves and
which We must have and in exchange for
the products that we make and
upon those foreign. products that compete
with American products, sufficient not only
to supply enough revenue for the uses of
the government, but sufficient to protect
the American people in their own occupa-
tions against the products of the cheaper
and underbid labor of the world That
seems to me 70 be the dictate of an en-
lightened patriotism and it is certainly one
of the great fundamental doctrines of the
Republican party Why shouldn't it be So
my fellow-citizens? We are one Nation We
have one Constitution. one flag; have
a; common destiny. The other nations of
the world have their separate and inde-
pendent political organization for the pur-
pose OF working out for themselves the
highest destiny possible. They owe no al
legiance to this government: they contrib
ute nothing to it's support either in war or
in peace; and if they want to come into
ple we say to them you can do it upon
condition that tariff shall be put upon
your products and that tariff will go to-
wards sustaining this government and at
the same time defense to our own labor
and nd, producers Tremendous applause)
THAT is the whole doctrine of the tariff
III we ever needed 1t. we need 1t now. We
need it for the federal treasury. Tor that
is in a condition of deficiency. We need
it for the people of this country for they
like the treasury are generally in a con-
dtion of deficiency. (Applause) Now
treasury and stop debts and deficiencies
and bonds. / take it everybody would say
matter what political party they belonged
to in the past i take it that whatever poll
icy will encourage our own people to dig
coal to manufacture products. to employ
labor is the policy that ought to commend
itself to every patriotic citizen, and if a
tariff will do these things, the tariff surely
is what by our votes. three weeks from
to-day, we ought to sustain. .(Applause)
.'Pennsylvania has always been a protec-
ton State. James Buchanan. a Democrat.
when he was President of the United
States gave some very good advice which
Is applicable to the present situation. He
said: No statesman would advise that we
should go on increasing the national debt
to meet the ordinary expenses of the gov
ernment Thls would be a rrinous 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 having
contracted a large debt in time of peace
1t is our true policy to increase our reve-
nue. so as TO equal expenditures 1t
would be ruinous to continue to borrow
That is the position Of the Republican par
ty to-day
Mr.. Randall. a Democrat of great dis
tinction. d man of wonderful power who
was always for Pennsylvania and for the
worEingmen of Pennsylvania. declared in
1881 in the last speech that he made i'm
the Congress of the United States in opDo-
sition TO the Mills bill: If q farmer ceases
to buy the product of the manufacturer.
he viii certainly cease to sell them but
must sell his products in the market where
he buys what he consumes himself Sup
pose last year we had manufactured a
thousand millions worth less than we did
and had gone abroad for these products
expecting to pay for them with agricul-