The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1896-09-11
|M'KINLEY AND TARIFF
HE ADDRESSES VISITING
PENNSYLVANlANS.
He Lauds Protection-The Chicago Con-
vention Policies Observation-Disclosures That
the Peep VIII Not Have Free Trade
and Free Silver.

AGl IOltCleS ln8I
the Peep win Not Have Free Trade
and Free silver.
CANTON, Ohio, lAug. 24.-Two thou.
sand farmers, mechanics and other cit
liens OF Newcastle, El.ood and other
parts OF Lawrence county, Pennsylva-
MIA, came here in special trains to-day
to call on Major Mckinley. When
they had paraded to the Mckinley
home, 5000 people crowded over the
around about Then it rained, but
bands played, thousands cheered, can
mons doomed and steam calliopes
added their noises. The people stood
through the rain for an hour, waved
their banners and beat their tin he'll
NETS They carried Inscriptions: 1--WE
times" 1--WE want the furnaces and
factories started, not the rich mems
silver mines;" Honest money and a
chance to earn it," The presentation
was made by ex-Congressman Oscar
L. jackson.
When Major Mckinley mounted a
chair on his stoop to respond to the
sentiments Of Colonel Jackson, cali
opes, cannon, bands and mvraids OF
human voices repeated their first ova-
ton. He said: II note with great
satisfactlon the message which your
eloquent spokesman brings to me, that
the people of Pennsylvania have lost
none of their devotion to the great
principles of the Republican party and
that this year they will give to
the Republican national ticket
IN unrlyaled Republican majority.
[Cries Of 1--WE will do that all right y
Nor am l surprised, my fellow citi-
Gems, hat this is so. We nave had
three years Of bitter experience under
n policy which the Republican party
has always opposed and there has been
nothing in that experience to win US
to that policy, but everything to in
crease our devotion to the old policy
of protection which stands opposed
tolt.
My fellow citizens, the earnest
thought Of the people this year is di-
rected to the present condition of the
country and how best to improve it.
This is the thought Of every mind and
is the prayer of every soul. Nobody
is satisfied with u unfortunate bus
mess condition and the great body of
the people want and mean to have a
change. What shall be the change?
Shall it be the continuance of the pres
ent Democratic party under another
leadership-a leadership advocating
all the policies of the Democratic
party which have been injurious to
the American people and rejecting all
which are good, wholesome aud pa
friOti,. AVID u,hioh Ior W, ra,o:rol w.
approval of the people Of the country?
The wing Of the Democratic party
which controlled the Chicago conven-
ton is just as much IN favor of free
trade as the wing of the Democratic
party in control of the national ad-
ministration. Most of those prominent
IN that convention were conspicuous
leaders in the assault upon our indus
tries and labor made by the Fifty-third
Congress. They are devoted to this
un-American and destructive policy
and were chiefly instrumental in put
ting on the statute books tariff legis-
lation which has destroyed American
manufacturing, chec;;ed our foreign
trade and reduced the demand for the
labor OF American workingmen. 1t
stands opposed to reciprocity, too, the
splendid results of which were so sig
nally manifest during the admins
tration Of President Harrison.
THE people of this country have
condemned the policies Of this party
in these particulars in every election
since 1892. They are only waiting
now for a chance to register again,
and all along the line, unitedly their
opposition to this free trade heresv in
the general election next November.
II there was, therefore, but one
question-that of protection against
free trade = we have it Just
as sharply drawn and as distinct
lively presented through the Chicago
convention wing of the Democratic
party as we had it through the united
party in 1892, and a triumph this year
for the Chicago platform would be a
signal victory for Tree trade and for
the continuance of free trade legisla-
ton, which has already resulted so
disastrously to the American people
and entailed upon the government de-
ficlent revenues, upon the people
diminished trade abroad and starva-
ton wages at home.
"This wing Of the Democratic party
believes not only In free trade, but it
believes in free silver at a ratio of 1G
to l. (Cries OF Down with free sill
very Having diminished our bust
ness they now seek to diminish the
value Of our money. Having cut
wages in two, they want to cut the
money in which wages r paid in
two, and we will not have either the
one or the other. The other wing OF
the Democra tic party is periodically
striving for the public honor and is
opposed to free silver because it be-
lieves that such a policy would disturb
: existing values, contract the currency
= OF the country by depriving us of the