The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-10-25
0EN CLARK CARR, the dhing rushed Illinois orator.
q dressed the immense gathering Amory hall evening.

became president. the $50. ooo.o 600 being now
In the treasury.
AT that time he spoke OF the fact that
the United states was manufacturing
81 100 10000 a year. or as much as Great
Britain. the people then thought that was
wonderful. In thirty-slx years the United
states had advanced to point where her
Ns 900. oooeg two and a half times as much
as Great Britain and more than France
Germany aud Great Britain combined. IL
agriculture. mining and transportation
interests we're included the increase would
be Infinitely greater. The people of the
United States today gained and added 70
ita wealth every day sum equal TO 3D.
eoooo. or twice. as much as the govern
ment paid for the Philippine islands.
Prosperity Not Constant.
The country had not had a continuous
run of prosperity for thifty-one years for
the reason that two Democratic admins,
trations had been sandwiched in by acct
dent, and whenever the Democrats were
IN power the wealth " the country while
~ DID not decrease. Increased In SO small
4 measure as TO be hardly worth mem
ticning
The very name Of Democracy had al
ways proven a blight on the country es-
pecialiy the fear Of Democratic admin
lstration. That fear today was stopping
merchants In Seattle from ordering goods
and many 81 them were holding OF until
after election 60 make sure % McKinloys
election. which would mean A continue
ton OF prosperity. before ordering Demo
cratic success means blight on the
country.
Why even the salmon dent come 40
here ~ quantities a. great as when the
Republicans are IN power" declared Cen.
Carr
Tnere had been years % prosperity and
years of failure. when he went abroad
IN 1883 there was a menace 81 Democracy
which Was fsllaweh by comparatively
hard times Tie stayed away three YEARS.
Thew had heen a bill tutfetartst In con-
n Q
was known as the Fernando weed 0r
frcs-frate hili Then came the Morrison
snd the NILS hisls. but William NeSin-
ley fought th@r Al With an Intelligence
ana esrnestness that secsred their de-
feat Tecre we're due TO tho personal
efforts ~ Mr. Mckiniey. who stood FIRST
labercr We was qaaiifea hy nature ana
training for grvat leader, He entered
into the study OF the tariff question BY
going into stores and factories and Tor
years famiilaYtainx himself with every de-
tail ~ trade ami commerce. including
railroads coal and iron miucS. and stui-
ted all these questions until he was
the esst-informed man uncn every branch
% industry in every section ~ the county
living tnsay Hts great tariff bin was
the result ~ these years ~ labor. Mo
Kinieys hi WAS opposed hy all foreign
nations but Il PASSED congress neverthe-
less and there never WAS a measure
thar SO carefully guarded and protected
every branch Of American industry as
AID the Mckinley tariff hffi The pinEiev
eili % tcsiAv was only modification %
the Mckinley hsil, ard that uassed
through Mr.. Mckinlcys hands Sefore Il
became law.
Beginniag of the Eclipse.
Gen Carr came hack from abroad IN
1850. during she campaign of Harrison
and Cleveland At that time there Was
prosperity on every hand Everybody
had work. snd factories we're running fuli
time. The Bryan people today are claim
ing that the strikes IN Pennsylvania are
ahe best indications 81 hard times.
rDid you ever hear OF any one strlk-