The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1901-10-08
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RECIPROCITY.
McKiniey's Great Doctrines the
Subject of Attack.
BELITTLING HIS STATESMANSHIP

The Duty of the Voters of Ohio to
| support at the Polls the Principles
| of the Great Buckeye Leader.
Before a mighty wave of love and
| reverence which swept over the coun-
| try and centered about the mortal re-
mains of William Mckinley, his ira,
| ducers sought safety in the dark re-
| cesses of oblivion. But their crimes
| against him while living have not been
| avenged. they abused and maligned
| him in the most wicked and malicious
manner, and then. in the shadow of
death, sought, with the face of the
| sneaking hypocrite, to make amends
for their grievous offenses. But such
crimes are objectionable and utterly
without parallel. 1t remains for the
friends and supporters of the martyr
president to wipe out and efface every
trace of the crimes which were COM
mitted against him during his life.
William Mckinley has passed from
earth, and he will be reverenced as a
great and good man by the people he
served so faithfully and so well. His
life was pure and upright; but his
work, his judgment as a statesman, is
still assailed, and will be, by the same
enemies who fought him with the fe-
rocity of bloodhounds during life.
These enemies have turned from an at
tack upon the man to a general as
sault upon his deeds; they will at
tempt to show, by every species of ly-
ing, hypocrisy and Misrepresentation
that while he was a good and we'll
meaning man, yet "he erred in vision
and stumbled in judgment" They will
try, as they did with Abraham Lin
coin, to show that Mckinley did not
attain the status of a great statesman
and will attempt to nullify his work
and underestimate him in the eyes oi
, posterity.
l 1t therefore becomes the duty of the
people who profited by his work, who
have shared in the general prosperity
which his craftsmanship and honesty
secured for the whole country, to stast
hy his record and defend it against at
tacks of the common enemy. 1t is the
: duty of all good citizens, all patriots
to manifest their loyalty to the grea
| leader and to secure for him a proper
and just degree of respect and homo
and a high rank among American
statesmen. Honor to whom homo
\ is due"
Thetwo chief grounds of attack upol
| the work of President Mckinley wer
in respect to the so-called imperialism
and the tariff. And no sooner had hi
remains been consigned to the tom
than the attacks against him broke on
with fresh virulence. Even in tn
shadow Of death the enemies of ou
protective system, of which McKinle
was the greatest exponent, are quotin
his last speech and attempting t
show, by reference to his remarks o
reciprocity, that he wavered from hi
- firm ground on the protective princi
Is pie and was leaning toward free trade
J. This is deep insult to the man VIII
y had given the best efforts of his lif
N to maintain unimpaired the true prir
s. ciples of protection. 1t is a gross ibt
n upon the memory of the late presider
,f to say that he deviated an iota froI
70 his well-defined principles upon tn
subject of protection. Reciprocity
the child of protection; it is called int
VI being by the development of the pre-
tective principle-an instrument
1s give protection a wider and more bel
IN eficial effect in practice. Reciprocit.
is as enunciated by Blaine and ably e.
ly pounded and applied by Mckinley,
ID no way limits the application of ii
/; protective principle. By reciprocal +,
lations with other nations we eXchanE
products to a mutual advantage, whi
vi still maintaining the fullest degree
W protection to our home industries.
ne But the enemies of protection,
which Mckinley was the greatest ar
n most successful champion, will NAL
,aI every effort to overthrow the NIGH
of industrial power of this country, n
be only for the purpose of destroyiI
81 protection itself, but for the furth
purpose of belittling the work of NJ
Kinley. For this reason, if for no OF
oy er, the friends of Mckinley and pr
m lection should rally to the support
is. the important principle upon whi'
m has been founded the true greatness
IRE this country.
is The private life and character of NJ
ill Kinley are safe from attack, but b
-. work will be the subject of the mo
bitter and malignant controversy, al
all those who love and reverence t
III man should rally in firm and unit
ne support of his principles and of t,
Hi great work which he accomplished
;ed his country.
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