Omaha daily bee., 1896-10-04

| 10. In the World of Whirring Wheels.
! go. Hunting Rogue Elephant.
Party Leaders OF Other Days.
summed up in single sentence: Prices all
along the line have declined" and with them
the prosperity and comfort of the people
have also declined. In 1894 Dun's review OF
| trade reported % per cent decline on iron
and steel 81 per cent on wool, and IL per
cent on cotton. 1t might have been sup
posed that bottom prices we've then reached,
but on March IA, 1896, the same excellent
nonpartisan review, one of the standard
authorities, made this report on the con-
dtion of the trade of the country, and |
cannot see that 1t has greatly changed from
that time to this, and certainly there is
little Improvement or advance in prices
generally.
As prices about February 81 were on
the whole the lowest ever known In this
country, considerable space is given in this
work to a comparison of quotations in
this most important branch of manufac-
lures and then follows lengthy table, of
which | need only say that it apparently
and abundantly sustans it's assertions
and shows a most deplorable condition
of all kinds of business. AS a legitimate
result we never knew so many failures as
in 1880
We had hoped that things would take
a turn for the better, but they have not,
although | am sure that such is the wish
of the American people today and the
earnest and sincere aim of the republican
party. But such "A condition seems i'm
possible under our present revenue legis-
lation. l will not pursue the Distress
ing record further. Never has business been
poorer; never has the industrial progress
of the country been so retarded as dur
ing the low tariff or no tariff years of
1894 &c, in all our history. And the gov
ernment has Jared little better because
the treasury reports have recorded
monthly deficiencies and additions to the
public debt. and the deficiency still con-
tinues. VIII any one say in the presence
of such facts that the revenue legislation
of the country must remain unchanged,
that it is not the plain and palpable duty
of the government to provide adequate
revenue for the public treasury and pro-
tect American labor against the cheaper
labor of the old world?
NEED OF MORE REVENUE.
Government expenditures must not ex-
ceed government receipts. The creation
of a public debt in a time of peace is only
justified in sustaining the credit of the
government and the public honor, but 1t
should not be continued a moment longer
than the congress, whose duty it is to
raise the revenue, shall make provision
to supply it. No one has suffered more
under these conditions than the farmers
of the United States. They have lost
much by diminished home market and
have suffered in the foreign market by
the repeal of the reciprocity provisions
of the tariff law of 1890. The foreign mar
ket opened by reciprocity during the ad-
ministration of President Harrison must
be reopcned and the home market must
be improved and preserved for the Ameri-
can farmer, while the American workshop
must be opened to the American working
man.
No patriotic citizen should object to re-
gaining and then holding our proud rank
of the greatest manufacturing, mining
and farming nation of the world. With
me the necessity of the restoration of "A
judcous and wise American tariff policy
is a firm conviction second to nothing in
Importance except the preservation of
order and law which we must have, of
justice and domestic tranquility and the
preservation of our credit, our currency
and our national honor. Great applause)
My fellow citizens, we must defeat by
decisive ajoritics every scheme for the
debasement of our currency, whether it
be free silver or irredeemable paper
money; but while we do this must also
defeat the destructive and dangerous
menace of free trade We have lost enough
already in the reduced wages of our labor
and we do not propose to be cheated
further by being paid in debased dollars.
Let us effectually dispose of both and re-
store to the country the great business
which is naturally and properly
ours to possess and enjoy. / am glad, my
fellow citizens, to meet all of you here to-
day / am glad to meet my friends from
Pennsylvania and my old friends from
Athens county, Ohio. What you want
they want, and what all of us want in
this country is the restoration of public
that Will set the wheels of in
dustry in motion and give employment to
every man in the land. Great cheering
and cries of "Hurrah for McKinley,'O
WHEELMEN FROM BUFFALO.
The Buffalo contingent Of wheelmen called
at the Mckinley home. They had with them
three homing pigeons which Mrs. Mckinley
released with the following message:
CANTON, o., oct. 3-The Wheelmen's |
and Hobart club of Buffalo, N.
Y, arrived this morning and request me to |
send greetings to their friends at home, in |
which / beg to join.
WILLIAM MKINLEY.
Major Mckinley shortly after 10 o'clock |
the employees OF the Standard |
company of Pittsburg. +. J. |
Tarrance made the Introductory address |
and presented 10 Major Mckinley splendid |
porcelain bath tub. one OF the company's
products.
In the course of his address to the Stand |
ard Manufacturing company's delegation |
rom Pittsburg. Major Mckinley said: Il
I'M glad to note that in the audience before |
ne today are men who hitherto have be-
onged to other political organizations Dem
,crats as well as republicans are interested
n the welfare and prosperity of our com
non country. We cannot have suffering
among US; we cannot have depression, We
,annot have idleness without all portions of .
our population feeling it, no natter 10 what