The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-11-11
PROTECTIONISTS SPEAK
DINGLEY, DOLLIVER AND OTHERS AT
HOME MARKET CLUB BANQUET.
Letter of Regret from Senator Mark
Hanna-Remarks of the Author
of the New Tariff Law.

BOSTON, Nov. 1O.-The annual dinner of
the Home Market Club was held at Me-
chanics' Hall tonight. Fully ten thousand
persons attended. The most distinguished
guests were Representatives Nelson A.
Dingley of Maine; Charles A. Russell of
Connecticut, and Jonathan p. Dolliver, of
Iowa, and Senator Henry Cabot Lodge.
Senator Hanna sent a letter Of regret, after
the reading of which three cheers were
given for him.
Congressman Dingley, in his address, said:
"a great many people in this country are
wiser than they were five years ago. Some
who study maxims rather than markets
deny that there has been restoration of
confidence or any revival of business. Others
who are not entirely blind to facts admit
the improvement, but insist that it comes
in spite of protection, from what they call
natural causes Still others, like Bryan,
contend that the Improvement is only tenn
porary because of a short crop of wheat
abroad, and that business will presently
grow worse unless We have 10 to l free
silver on our hook / leave our free-trade
friends to reconcile their anatagonistlc eX-
plantations of the failure of their thories,
simply remarking that the common sense
of the people concludes that the reported
coincidence between luo PIOtcS|iNO PoAASS
and prosperity and between the overthrow
of that policy and adversely established the
relation of cause and effect.
''I know that some of our free-Tade
friends claim to see in the result of the re-
cent elections evidence of popular dissat-
isfaction with Mr.. Mckinley and the pro-
tective tariff Whenever it is considered
that a falling off of the aggregate vote has
always been an inevitable result OF the re-
taxation from intense strain, ana that IN
every State in which an election Was neld
the Democratic managers carefully aVolded
the tariff issue and gained their only vic
tory in a protective State through an dp-
surd attempt to run two KepupIicah ,s.l can-
didates for mayor OF New York city, While
the Republicans captured a protection
United States senator in Maryland, hereto
fore arrayed against protectlon, IL Is I5[- olIl-
claimed that the result OF the recent elec-
tions gives any support to the claim that II
shows popular dissatisfaction with the
successful administration Of President Nc
Kinley or with the new protective tariff.
Senator Henry Cabot Lodge was the next
speaker, and was followed by Congressman
Russell Of Connecticut and Dolliver OF
Iowa.
have Just been held we have suffered some
apparent discouragements, but there is
nothing in the returns from any State TO.
indicate that the people nave any regret
for the vote cast in 1S96-a vote which put
to rest the most reckless and dangerous
popular agitation in the history of the
United States. No State which cast its
future to reverse that decision if the same
issue is presented. And with Republicans
everywhere I rejoice that in the midst OF
the party troubles that invariably follow
change of administration that great party
leader who organized the victory OF 1896 has
Vanquished the hordeS of slander and per-
sonal abuse that have followed him from
the day he announced the election of Will
liam Mckinley President of the United
States"
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