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«5?» • > --.r •< . ̂"v. *' '.•** SPEECH OF Gov.WM. MCKINLEY Delivered at Milwaukee, Twsday Emlig, Octohir 9,1894. Chairman Thorn introduced M&j. Mc- Klnley at 8:10 o'clock, saying: "Fellow Citizens of Milwaukee and Wisconsin: am indeed grateful for the honor of in­ troducing to you the enemy of free trade, the defender of protection, American homes and American industries, Gov. Mc- Ktnley of Ohio." (Great applause.) Governor McKinley jsaid: "Mr. Presi­ dent, Ladies and Gentlemen, and my Fel­ low Citizens: The only time until now that I have ever been permitted to look into the faces of an audience in the city of Milwaukee was in 1884, when the gifted Blaine, the beloved of all Ameri­ cans, was addressing an assembled host in you city. He was then representing the great cause of the Republican party and Its principles. That gifted statesman, that Illustrious American is gone, but the prin­ ciples which he represented then still survive. "Closer and dearer to the American peo­ ple than they have ever been since The mighty struggle for the freedom of man more speeches already made in your state to-day to great audiences. I have come to crave your indulgence for a little while if you will be patient with me. (Disturbance.) My fellow citizens, I know from my obser­ vation of the last two weeks how difficult it is, to find any hall large enough for the Republicans this year. (Applause.) If this great audience will be patient with me for a little while and bear with me, I shall endeavor to make myself heard by all of you. "In November, 1892, a Republican na­ tional administration which had been in control of the government for nearly four years c.nd which had administered the gov­ ernment with singular ability and fidelity, •t the head of which stood one of our ot this country could be trusted with that party, and had voted it repeatedly into power, at last were forced to abandon that position and publicly proclaim that the Democratic party cannot be trusted with the material interests of the country; and they declare their alliance hereafter with the national Republican party. We bid them welcome, as we bid the tens of thou­ sands and hundreds of thousands of Demo­ crats all over the country, who this year mean to ally their fortunes with the Re­ publican party for what it represents and for what it accomplishes. Bwy Industry' Injared. "What, my fellow citizens, has been the occasion for this marvelous change in the public mind? It can be answered in a eJngle sentence: The Democratic presi­ dent and the Democratic congress have been running this government for nine­ teen months, and during that time little else has been running. (Laughter and ap­ plause). Every enterprise of the people has been interfered with; every industry, every occupation, every investment has been disturbed. I care not what in­ vestment or property or. /value you name, every one have been injuriously affected since that fatal November day in 1SS2 (Applause). Labor.has been little QttfW "He (Cleveland} has become a warrior in peace. He teat a peace man in war." ! " We have everything we had in 1399 tkit year, but prosperity." greatest American presidents, Benjamin Harrison, (Great applause), was by the de­ cree of the American people voted out of power and a Democratic administration voted in. So that for nearly nineteen months the Democratic party had been in supreme control of every branch of the Federal government; and for the greater ' part of that time it has been engaged in revising the tariff. People Anxiovi to Pau Jadgment. "During this long period, while it is only nineteen months, they are the longest nine­ teen months since the war (great applause). The people have had an opportunity for sober reflection, steadied by the discipline of adversity. And as they have had little else to occupy them, they have employed most of that time in sober, serious reflec­ tion. Even congress must have observed that the people have revised their opinions and that they were not so long in revising their views as the Democratic congress and the preservation of the Union. I come to-night very much jaded from a dozen or was in revising the tariff; and that they are to-day burning with anxiety from one end of this country to the other to pass judgment upon a Democratic president and a Democratic congress. We have been at school now for nearly two years. The tuition has been free but the ultimate cost has been very great. It has been a sort of compulsory education from which nobody has been excluded (laughter), and while it has been expensive I feel that its lessons have been practicable, profitable and per­ manent. Great Revulsion of Sentiment. For, after all, one of the highest forms of education is experience, and it is the most efficient and enduring of all forms of Instruction. The people have been think­ ing, and those who have not been thinking have been feeling (laughter)--feeling the stresB of the hard times wrought by the great change. Even the eyes of blinded partisans haVe been opened, and those who hitherto have never seen any good in the Republican party, and who have repeatedly voted its policy a fraud and a robbery, and its laws the culminating atrocity of class legislation, are now ready for a re­ consideration and a change. (Ap­ plause.) Those for the most part who voted for the change, and those who voted against the change, have been re­ gretful and unhappy ever since. There probably has never been in the history of this country such a revulsion in public sentiment in so short a while as in the last two years. Beaten in almost every state in the Union in 1892, the Republican party never for a moment lowered its ban­ ner. (Applause.) It valued its principles no less in defeat than in victory, for they were hot invoked to serve in a single campaign; they were invoked because they rested upon the foundations of truth and justice, for the benefit of the American people. (Applause.) Story of Laat Year's Elections. "And so in 1893 where elections were held we resumed battle on the old lines. We appealed from the judgment of the people in 1892 to the revised judgment of the same tribunal in 1893; and in Massa­ chusetts, that great, strong, intelligent, conservative commonwealth, that had elected a Democratic governor for two suc­ cessive terms, the Democratic governor elected in 1892 was displaced, by the voice of the people of Massachusetts with a Re­ publican governor by a majority of 36,- 000. (Applause.) "In Iowa, which had a Democratic gov­ ernor, the voice of the people in 1893 reversed its former Judgment and elected Gov. Jackson by a majority of more than 38,000. (Applause.) In Ohio, which had given but little more than a thousand plurality in 1892, its people having been moved by passion and by prejudice, after a full reconsideration, gave to the Repub­ lican ticket more than 80,000 plurality. (Applause.) Then in the state of New York at a special election held in two congressional districts in that great city, Mr. Quigg, the Republican candidate, was elected by more than a thousand majority, in a district that had given President Cleveland 4,900 majority in 1S92. (Ap­ plause.) "And in the other congressional district. In the very strongholds of Democracy and of Tammany, a Democratic majority of more than 10,000 in 1892 was reduced to a Democratic plurality of less than 4,000 in 1893. (Applause.) Then we swept on to Pennsylvania. In February, 1894, a con­ gressman at large was to be elected, and that splendid Republican, that veteran in the service of his country, the author of the Homestead law, Galusha A. Grow, was nominated by the Republicans, and received the unprecedented majority of 185,000. (Ap­ plause.) Then across the country to the Pacific states Oregon's voice was heard in the same cheerful notes for the Republi­ can cause, and the Republican party. Then Vermont, early in September. andSj then almost immediately following the Pine Tree stater the state of Maine, gave to the Republican cause nearly 40,000 plurality, the like of which has never been given to that cause in that state before, (applause) aid that splendid statesman, the ex- speaker of th^ b.ouse of representatives, Mr. Reed (great applause) was elected by an increased and overwhelming majority. (Applause.) Even tike South Revolts. "Not only, my fellow-citizens, has this revulsion taken place in the North, but we see evidences of it in the South. The sugar planters of Louisiana, less than a month ago, met in convention in the city of New Orleans. It was a convention com­ posed of* men who hitherto had always a^ted with the Democratic .party--Demo­ crats by tradition, education and by cus­ tom, who had behaved that t£e industries #v employed, and when employed, at greatly reduced wages. There has been no cessa­ tion in the waste of wealth, wages and property, in all these months. Universal distress has hung over this people and the appeals to charity have never been so uni­ versal and incessant, and their necessity never so manifest, as during these months. Congress has trifled with the sacred trust confided to it by the people, has imperiled their Investments, their property and their occupation; have quarreled among them­ selves; quarreled, and then compromised, and upon their own testimony have been compromised. Everything bat Prosperity. "We have everything we had in 1892 this year but prosperity (applause and laughter) and that we bartered away for a change of administration. We have got the same money we had in 1892, we have got the same men, we have got the same manufacturing plants, we have got the same splendid skill, enterprise and genius in our people, but we have got a new man­ agement, and the people of this country haven't confidence in that management. (Applause.) And is it to be wondered at? Why they haven't had any experience In managing the government since before the war. (Loud applause.) A Lanark on Vilas. "Senator Vilas says in his speech which I had lying on the desk, delivered in the city of Madison on the 6th of September, that we never had such prosperity (laughter) from the beginning of the war as we had during the first administration of President Cleveland. Why of course we had prosperity during the first admin­ istration of President Cleveland. We were living under Republican laws, and we had a Republican senate that stood in the pathway of any proposed change by a Democratic house and a Democratic president. He boasts of the splendid sur­ plus President Cleveland turned over to President Harrison. He boasts of the credit of the government during those four years. Why bless his soul, every dollar of it was collected un­ der laws written by the Republican party. Every one of them. (Applause.) And the country knew, every business man under our flag knew, that while the senate re­ mained Republican they could not change or amend a line of those laws. (Applause.) All Mr. Cleveland did during his four years was to execute Republican law. The trouble now is there is no Republican sen­ ate, there is no Republican house, and seem to comprehend that we don't put any tariffs on things that are going out. We put our tariffs on things that come in. (Applause.) I will tell you what bis policy has done. It has put working- men out on the streets and has beggared industry all over the United States. (Ap­ plause.) But my fellow citizens, bad as their bill is, even before it had become a law under the constitution, the president having refused to sign it, every Democratic leader from Mr. Cleveland down--noW re­ member this was after the passage of the law, after eighteen months of uncertainty and distress and disquietude among the business men of the country, after the distress of the wage earners of the coun­ try, after they had passed their law, they publicly announced to the business of th? country that their law is not a set­ tlement of the question at all; that it is . .the„ beSinning; that it is the first step Jn the direction of tariff reform: that it to the entering wedge to free trade. Why. even Cleveland says the war has only Just be- fi!«»ri "gainst what? War against the in­ dustries and occupations of the people. War against whom ? Against his own fellow clticens o\er whose republic lie presides l>y the voice of the people. He has become a warrior in peace. He was a peace man iu war. (Great cheering.) Ana so while the business interests of thiB conn- try have been waiting all these months for some­ thing no matter what, so they could adjust their business to It. tliey publicly proclaim that you '\ lf n°t try to adjust your business to it for this is only the beginning and we have got an­ other session of the present congress in which we have full control of the government. Do you know how to stop this further war on our In­ dustries?" ™ A voice: "Ton bet",' People Want This War Stopped. "I 'believe the people do know how to stop any further war on these industries. 1 believe my friend is right. I think the people this country are ready to vote to-day to helptflect a Republican national house of representatives which will stop any further and deeper cuts into our Industrial life., (Cheers.! "I cannot recall" any national Contest since the war to whlcli more lmiiortance to the varied in­ terests of the American people is attached than the contest which is ou us now. If we elect a Republican bouse of representatives this rear, then after the 4th day of March nejit the Demo­ cratic president and the Democratic senate will be powerless to Inflict any further injury upon the rights, occupations, wages and Investments or the American people. The next national house of representatives. If it was Kepublican. would not be. able to bring us back where we were in 1892, but they would only stand there to pre­ vent any further mischief from the hands of this Democratic administration. If. perchance-- nnd I would have every worklngman. every busi­ ness man, every farmer, every mechanic, who honors uie with their presence here to-night, re­ member--that if by accident or misfortune we should fall to elect the house Republican, but elect it Democratic, then for two years longer or until the conclusion of Mr." Cleveland's pres- l "Xow let »ig tee trial burdens they have rolled away from the shoulder* of the American people." " I f S e n a t o r V i l a s i s ri^ht and wool has gone up in price since ii has been made free, then free trade in a tax and not the tariff." they are doing business on their own hq^c. (Laughter.) They have got no aid fpom that great conservative party that gtffded this country through war and peace for more than thirty years, and covered it with a prosperity and a glory, the like of which had never been seen before. But, my fellow citizens, they have passed a law; a tariff law such as it is (laughter). A law which nobody approves of who lives under our flag. A lair which the president of the United State de­ clared was In violation of party princi­ ples and party pledges, and which if it passed he did not see how the Democratic party could look the people of the country in the face. (Applause). And which after its passage he declared to be 'the very communism of pelf,' a law which he refused to sign. A law which he did ndt have the backbone to veto. That man of courage, that man of independence, that man of whom it is said he is better than his party. It is no won­ der that Senator Vest in Kansas City the other night quoted the Spanish proverb when he said you musth't throw dirt on the breakfast you have to eat.' (Laughter and applause.) A law, my fellow citizens, which never was considered on the Com­ mittee on Ways and Means of the house; never was deliberately considered by the Finance committee of the senate; never was considered by the Conference commit­ tee of the two houses, a law which the house of representatives only three days before its final passage voted never to accept it. And yet within three days they did accept it, ahd they did it because the agents of the Sugar trust said it was that bill or no -bill, and in all proba­ bility none. (Applause.) A law which the senior senator from New York, Mr. Hill, one of the greatest Democrats of the coun­ try, declared was in violation of every Democratic promise. He not only spoke against it, but he voted against it, and when he went back to his constituents they rewarded by giving him a nomination for governor in the great empire state. (Ap­ plause.) A law which Senator Mills of Texas (and I ordinarily disagree with him) (laughter) says has not the approval of a thousand people In the United States; and I believe him. It has no friends here. Its friends are beyond the sea (great cheer­ ing). They owe no allegiance to our gov­ ernment or fidelity to our flag. Mr. Wilaon Quibbles. "I see Mr. Wilson made his opening speech to his constituents at Charlestown, W. Va. He made it yesterday. - When he was on the other side, banqueted by the great commercial body of London, he said: "The Republicans for thirty years hav9 Jdential term, that party would have the power to carry out their threat to wage still further war upon the industries of the people, aud therefore here, in this great Industrial city of Milwaukee, with Its thousands of manufacturing establishments upon which the workinginen of this city deiiend. I beg you to send to the Na­ tional house somebody who will represent your best interests aud vote for vour prosperity (Applause.) But. my fellow citizens, they say that bad as their law is--I mean the Tariff law of 1S!)4--that It is better than the Tariff law of 18!*), which was our law. Better for what? A voice: "England." Better Only for Engfland. "Somebody says England. That' 1« right. And he wants no better testimony than the speech of Sir Albert Howlatt in introducing Mr. Wil­ son at the Chamber of Commerce banquet, when he said, 'Mr. Wilson may not have real­ ized nil of his Hspirations touching his bill but we want to assure him that its effect has been good upon England.' (Laughter ) Mills have al­ ready tieen opened In Wales and In Yorkshire and the textile industries of England have felt the stimulus of his bill. 'Better,' 1 say, fur whom? Better for any American citizen? Better for the American farmer? Better for the American worklngman? Better for the American manu­ facturer? Better for the prosperity of the whole people? There is not an interest in the Tutted states, confessedly none, that it has benefited excepting the Sugar trust and the Whisky trust. Point me to a single fire it started in any furnace of the country. Point me to a single workingman to whom it has given em­ ployment. Point me to a single factory it has started. Has it advanced anybody's wages? Havy you any such cheering news here in Mil­ waukee? Better than the law of 181)0? Why. under that law and for the two years and a half in which it was in operation every factory was running at its full capacity, every mine was running Its full force. New industries were builded up ami stimulated, old ones were re­ vived, and for those two years and a half under the operation of that law and down to the reversal of its policy by the election of 18!)2 there was not a worklngman in the I'nitsd States who wanted work who could not get It. (Applause). Not only thr.t, but he re­ ceive! better wages on the average than he bad <ver received before. Better wages than ever had Seen paid In this or any other country of the norld. How many men in this country to­ day »re receiving as good wages as they were In 18S>2? Answer me, men of Milwaukee?" Voices: "None." "None. That Is the voice that comes from every quarter of this country. How many men who were employed in 1,81)2 are idle to-day?" A voice: "Thousands nnd thousands." Story Told at Lincoln. "Yes, thousands and thousands of them, as my friend answers. I saw the other day In the city of Lincoln, at a great Republican demonstra­ tion, 300 workingmen--brlckmakers--marching In a procession, bearing this banner: "Twenty- two millions In 1MI2, not one In 1893 or 181)4.' That tell:; the story. I saw in the city of St. Louis where I spoke a week ago last night, they promised in 1S92 that If the farmers would vote 1 Democratic ticket they would have dollar wheat.' (Laughter.) They now say they Iiloulit two bushels for a do'lar. "Do you want the price of wool any lower, wool growers of Wisconsin? A Democratic wool grower In Wisconsin told utp to-dav. when I was passing through the state, that he had voted for free wool In 181)2, and he said lie had come within 5 cents of It, for he had sold his wool for <> cents, not long before. (Laughter.) Do you want the wages of labor Stay tower? voices: "No." "Well. then, vote that wtfy on the Sixth of Novemlier." Voices: "We will." Muat Have ttood Waves. "Things cheaper! My fellow citizens, nothing Is cheap to the Ameii-an people which comes from abroad that makfs an Idle man at home. (Applause.) No agricultural product that comes from Canri'a, no matter how low in price, is cheap to the America.! people, if It leaves the American product to Tot in the fields. (Ap­ plause.) No product 'hat comes from Europe is cheap. If it Cleans tHe loss of a day's work to an American workinrn. (Applause.) The dearest thing in this wide, wide world Is poverty. The old men in this ardien-e will rememlier that when things were 'lie 'lieaiiest men were the poorest; w^len the prior of products was the lowest they Were tiff1 hardest to get, because we couldn't get anything for our lalior with which to buy them. The most prosperous country in the world Is the country that pays good wages, and gets good prices. "There are Jus* two ways to maintain the American work-sl*ip for the American working- man, to preserve the American market for the American producer. One way is to put the tariff on the foreign product that competes with ouV own high enougn to discourage the foreign im­ portation, and *n'-ourage home production. (Ap­ plause.) That >1 the Republican way. The other i "Money was tierer less employed than it is toddy." "I think the people are ready :o rote today to help elect a Republican national House of Jtepresenta- tires." that on the Saturday before 700 men had been working in the tin plate factory of Messrs. Niederinghaus Bros., were turned out on the streets. Why? Because the Democratic con­ gress had reduced tile tariff on till plate so low that they could no longer control any part of this market without a reduction In wages. My fellow citizens, we have got everything we had in 1802 but good times. (Applause.) We have got the same dinner pail that we carried then, but not so much dinner in it. (Laughter.) Ah! but they say that their bill is better than ours because it reduces tariffs. Well it does reduce duties. It does cut down the tariff on nearlv everything that we import. That is true. But what does it do It for? It tells you what it does It for. It says It is done to increase the revenue. Well we need it badly enough. (Laughter.) But how can you increase the revenue by reducing duties? Did ycu ever ask yourself that question? Why, yes. in ofle way, and that Is by Increasing your purchases from abroad. If you want to produce more revenue with lower duties you must Import more foreign goods, musn't you? Take that tumbler for example. (Exhibiting a glass from the tabled The protective duty on that was CO jter cenF~fm--»«iauiple. Every $100 worth of that kind of ware XJiatjtame from Eu­ rope put Into the public 1 reasiiry jao. Now the Democratic tariff is 30 per cent. Suppose you want to put $00 of revenue into the public treas­ ury under a 30 per cent duty, how many of these glasses will you have to import? "Yon will have to lni[>ort $200 worth, won't you? One hundred dollars' worth under 80 per cent.: It makes $00. Two hundred dollars' worth under 30 per cent, duty makes $00. So If yon put the same amount Into the treasury under 30 per cent, tariff as you do under 60 per cent, you have got to Import Just twice as many of these tuijiblers. haven't you? and every tumbler you Import into this country displaces a tumbler which ought to be made and Is now mude by an American workman. (Applause.) For every additional shipload of this kind of ware you bring from Europe you displace Just that quantity that is made In the United States, don't you? And when you displace that quantity you displace the uumber of American workmen who are required to make It. don't you? And yon put more money into the public way to do It. and it will accomplish the same thing, is to reduce the wages of labor so low in this country that no other country ran manu­ facture as cheaply as we can. (laughter.) In that way we tan keep the whole world out. That is the Democratic. British, free trade, rev- enue-for-tariff. Urli-e-Cleveland-Gorman way. Now I don't know what you think aUmt it here in Milwaukee, but I would ten thousand times rather make It harder for the foreign produce to get into this country than to make it harder for the American citizeo to live in this country. (Applause.) A voice: "That Is the way we think in Milwaukee." "Then we will have s splendid Republican protective tariff patriotic victory on the 6th day of November. (Applause.) "Did It ever occur to you, my fellow citi­ zens--of course it has--that the more work there is the better the wages? That the more demand for lalxir the higher the price paid for labor, and that the less employment there ia the lower the wages of labor? That when there is one day's work and two men to do It. neither of them get as good wages as though there were two day's work and only one man to do it. Free trade gives the one "day's work to Europe, protection keeps It at hoiw for the l)enelit of our own people. (Applause.) Mr. Vllna' Political Economy. "Oh, but tliey say. they have reduced the duty. So they have. Mr. Senator Vilas (laughter) gives us a new lesson In political economy. He says that free trade really in­ creases the prices of things, lie says--a'nd I read from Ills speech of Sept. G, 1S!)4, delivered before the Democratic State convention at Milwaukee--'What dismal prophecies have the political wool growers lieen wont to give us. IIow they have vaunted the necessity of protec­ tion to secure a* price. Yet when did the price of that stable fall as under the Mc­ Kinley bill. And now, having pnssed the law of 1894, the markets testify Its advance within even a few days since the passage of the new law.' "Now, I have been taught by Democratic orators and by Democratic political economists that a tariff was a tax. and that when we took It off from an article It cliea|H>ned it: but If Senator Vilas Is light and wool litis gone ui> iu price since it has been made free, then free trade is a tux and not the inrlff. (Laughter.) There should lie a new edition of the political economy of tne Democratic party; and if that be really true that when they hare taken the tariff off wool . it sends It up in price, what becomes of their theory that free raw material cheapens tile raw material to the manufacturer nnd thus cheapens the prod­ ucts. that they might go out and capture the vrorld's markets? It Is a most remarkable statement, taking the tariff off wool sends up its price and putting the tariff on sugar sends down its price. (Laughtec.) Some Tariff Inequalities. "But what duties have they reduced for the benefit of the poor laboring men of the couitry ? You know they say these tariffs are a burden upon the American people. Now let us see what burdens they have rolled away from the shoul­ ders of the Auurican people. Thev have reduced the tariff based on the importations of last year, on leaf tobacco and Havana cigars; necessities to every household daughter!. $1,434,000. They have reduced the tariff on Illinois more than $1,232,000. We put a tariff of $2.50 upon French brandy by the law of ISttn for the benefit of the farmers of the country. They have reduced It to the distribution is stopped; and if we had twite as much money as we have got to-day, we would have to get It out by the same process. Muat Restore Confidence. "Now anybody who teaches any other doctrine. Is a false teacher. (Applause.) We have got to have something to fetch It out, nnil the only way Is to restore confidence. The only way to get that confidence back is to defeat the iMirty that destroyed that confidence. (Applause.) No part>' in this country can permanently stand in the pathway of our prosperity. It may retard our prosperity, it may check It, it may Interfere with It, as It has done and Is now doing, but no party can permanently stand in the way of the prosperity of this magnificent country, with our splendid resources, and the matchless energy of our jHHiple; and the party that Ruts in the way of that will get out of the way; Just,,as soon as the people cnu assert themstuves ill a constitutional way and change the policy of the government. (Applause.) "The Democratic party, ns at present of­ ficered. is the most remarkable party In history, it Is for anything to get |>ower: and then it is never for anything which got it power. (Langh- waB for the fn>,> ii'i'l unlimited coinage of silver When it was out of power, ami used to go.through the Idle eereinonv of passing a free coinage bill In the house when the Republlchns, had the senate and president, and then go back to their constituents aud state. "See. we were In favor of free silver, but the Republican sen­ ate and the Republican {.resident would not JMT- mit our bill to |>ass. Now they have full power In the Federal government;' power over every branch of congress: tliev have had that, power for nineteen months, and yon haven't heard about the free and unlimited coinage if silver. They have given to silver the hardest blow It ever teeelved. Tpola of the Worst Trust*. "They posed in the campaign of 185)2 as the enemies of the trusts. 1'oon their own confes­ sion they have been the willing tools of the worst trusts In the 1'nlted States. Thev declared In 1892 that they were the greatest friends labor ever had; nnd since they have been in power by their Industrial policy they have dealt to lalw the deadliest blow it ever received. (Ap­ plause.) "But, my fellow citizens, what else could vou have expected from a party put in power by a lot of differing forces? Why. who voted for Mr. Cleveland anil a Democratic congress? A voice: "I did." "You won't do it any more. Why. who voted for him? The free silver men voted for him. The single standard men voted for him. The double standard men voted for him. and the golilbugs --as they are sometimes called on Wall street--voted for him. The men who were opixiscd to it, and those who believed that the government should Issue all the currency of the country,' voted for hiiii. The single tax man. the disciple of Henry (Jeorge. voted for him: and the people op|s>scd to all such vagaries voted for him. The Democratic protectionists voted for hitn, liecause lie illdn't believe that the party would destroy 1he Industries of the country, anil the Democratic free trader voted for liini because he believed the party would demolish all the custom houses of the eonntrv. The Democratic |ienslnner voted for liiin, atid those who don't believe much in |>eiisious voted for him. Everybody who was dissatisfied voted for hi in ami for a Democratic congress, and everybody who thus voted has been dissatisfied ever since. (Laughter and applause.) A Word for the Old Soldier. "And now. my fellow citizens, tired as I am. I want to call your attention Just for a moment to.another subject. I do not like the treatment of the soldiers of this country by this ad­ ministration. I never have advocated excessive pensions, but 1 believe that any man who served his country and was disabled In its serv­ ice, is cut it led to receive a pension from the government which he helped to save. (Great applause.) 1 do not believe, either, that when 1SS4. 1N.S.1. lSSti. 1887, 1888. 188!). 185)0. a half million men gar* t*»t» lives to pre­ serve the republic: and it Is our business, id the lsnpage of the lamented Lincoln, to bind np i ,iW.ou 8.1,nt ' f" J' that their widows an<! their orphans, and those who have survived tne great strug^l^. should l>e cared for from % bounteous treasury of the eovernmeot. (AD- p ause.) What we need in this country is a re­ vival of patriotism. God grant that it may come, anu come to stay. I thank you And bid you good night." fGrent cheering.) THE TARIFF AND BARLEY. What th© Democrats Have Done to In­ vite Foreign Competition with the Home Product. The duty on barley prior to the enact­ ment of the Mckinley law was 10 cents a bushel. I'nder that duty, which was not rega.-dod as in any wise protective, there wore imported to the United States from Canada the following quantities of barley, with the value added: Year cuiling June 30--Bushels. Value - 8,5»3,m>2 »5.!>i;>.«r> !),!*St.87(> 6,r>U< ).S27 io.uu.io7 7.17.>.:«)7 - 10.351.85)5 6,170,660 10,445.751 7,812 814 11.365.881 7,721)475 11.3«'7.052 5,627.377 A striking illustration of the influence of a projective duty iu reducing imports can be SIHMI in the following table, show­ ing the importations of barley for three years immediately-after the passage of McKinley law, which placed a duty of SO cents a bushel on that article: Bushels. Value. ?3,?-!l,189 3.144.VU8 , 1,591,305 • 1,1)«U,701 . 921,301 Kight here we find an example of a re­ duction of the importation of Canadian barley to the amount of bushels in one year, the direct result of a duty which was practically prohibitive. The Democratic tariff law of this year cuts the hurley duty in two. reducing it to 30 per cent, ad valorem, which is equal to a de< l ease of nearly ."VI per cent. The barley product of the United States i;i IS}).", was <>9.800,00., bushels. \\ isconsin is one of the great barlev states of the union, and last year stood third in production, the first being Cali­ fornia with 17.000,000 bushels. Iowa with 11,000,000 bushels and Wisconsin with !l,41.»,000 bushels, according to the re- jx>rts of the assessors, and 11,024,000 bushels based upon the reports of the commercial agencies. There are some heavy barley counties in this state. In 1S!K> Dodge county pro­ duced l.<U.t,!107 bushels; Fond du I^ac followed with 1.237,402 bushels. The remaining counties producing over 300,- 000 bushels are as follows: Calumet .. Columbia . Dane Jefl'erson ,.. Ozaukee .s. ltoek ...... Sheboygan . Walworth . Washington . Waukesha .. It will bP 44S.302 30O.28T 352.439 348,072 343.457 318.2(a) 682,398 383.2«5 685,051 497,388 „ „ these statistics that any dut# which affects the price of barley is off special importance to Wis­ consin fnriiM'r.s. It is a plain matter of fact that uijder a decreased duty of more than 50 pet* cent, the importation of that article will be greatly stimulated, and the inevitable result will be a decline of prices. The Wisconsin barley crop of last year was valued at nearly $0,000,000. and a reduction of only 10 cents a bushel in the price in consequence of inviting competition with Canada will incur a loss of St500,000 a year to the barley growers of this state. The Canadian farmers are loudly re­ joicing over the passage of the Demo­ cratic tariff law. To' them it means bet­ ter times in barley raising. It gives them the American market for their product; and our farmers will find a hard e\j»eri- ence in contending with Canadian compe­ tition. Wisconsin consumes but little more than half of the home product, the local consumption in 1SD3 being 0,350,000 bushels. Tlusre can be nor doubt as to the evil effects of the new tariff law as it re­ gards barley. In 1S!)0, when there was a duty of 10 cents a bushel. Canada sent to our markets over 11,000.000 bushels of barley, a quantity equal to the entire product of the state of Wisconsin in any one year. In 1ND3 the imports reached only 1 ,',1150,7151 bushels. This piece of history plainly indicates what will bo the sure result of the barley schedule of the present tariff law. That it will be hurt­ ful to the barley growers of the coun­ try is entirely beyond question. Money Value of Hands and.Fingers An engineering journal has collated some interesting statistics from the ta­ bles of a tiermiin miners* iusurance com­ pany. If a man loses both hands he is registered as entailing 100 per cent loss. In other words, he has been deprived of the ability to earn a livelihood. The loss of the right hand depreciates the value of an individual as a worker 70 to 80 per cent., while the lo38 of the left hand leaves him with only <50 to 70 per cent. of his original earning capacity. The thumb is taken as playing a iKirt equal to 20 to 30 as a bread winner; the farst linger of the right hand is put at 14 to 18 per'cent.; that of the left hand at from S to 13.5 per cent., and the middle finger of either hand is worth from 10 to 16 per cent. The value of the third finger is put down as from 7 to !> per cent., while that of the little finger is estimated at 5) to 12 per cent. These values may appear arbitrary, but it is explained that , m the apparent inconsistency iu the rating To a corner i hey bavo saved for him beside tbe JIM ROOT'S RIDE. fAmona the many deeds of bravery dont dofk tag tee te rible forest, fires In Wisconsin ant Minnesota, none attracted wider attention tr received moie enconiam than (be action W James Boot, engineer of one of the trains carr*. ing refugees ftom Hinckley.] WHEN tin angel blows Ufet trumpet andtheSng^ amen: unrolls, XBQ the •> oice of Gcd to calling nil the man*, scatte ed souls, Here's a man who'll lead jf phalanx up tbe elled (.olden street To a corcer they have saveS for bim beside UK mercy Beat; Fo* tile angeU bate a cowaift and they lote agrltt#. man me Br or. And thev- know Jim BooCfc ; • hero on the strictly gritty p.an. | j. It was early in September, and tbe earth «M ' f just as dry - j -j; As a lump of nank and hotter than an UDW' Con.o sky. I- f' There had beeu no rain since April and it nee but a ii;atc.li To eoRtilf the northern district, set it barnink like a thatch; j 4 And the people did not wonder when the *mok» began to rise r Till a pall bung low and darkly, shutting Mik 1 the summer skies. •• *- Jim was^running on the Limited,, and when Tjere were tit ories of the dangers which nnnin^ only partial truth. i But the baud that hold the throttle waa to "i , hardy one and true. And though hell was on hiB orders, Jim wttt' • y" l>ounu to tHke her thro jgh : "--H*. t He coutrolleil the lives of many and he knew -i that all iiis nerve Would bo needed when he beaded for thehsdee 'found the curve. They had trade tbe run to Miller ere the tin 10 began to scorob -- Ere the people paw the waving of that might*. flaming torch; *«»-*• "Bntl'll run her through to Hinckley," thought the little engineer, "Where I'll wire in for ordsrs--it is not too fax irom here And he yelled to Jack McGowan, wtK> was on the other side, ' "Crow-i the < oal and keep her going,Tor I meeMl *" to lei, her slide!' All tbe horrors told by Dante, all tbe plctortll by l/ore Aie im^ierffitly suggestive of that blazingrigMfc" For ti e universe seemed flaming and th} afe would fairly seethe Till t^ie people iu tne coaches found it difficult to breathe. W hile the entrance into Hinckley seemed th« inner gate of bell. With the devils imx's disDortina on ths dIh tieas as th?y fell. To have paserd bey nd tfce station wonld haw meant the de.ith of all; To ha^e froled around for orders from sotne fel­ lows in St. Paul Wovld have been the hight of folly, and whea people who had run ' • For tbe tiain were sately sheltered from tbe fiend the tight begun; And, reversing, Jim moved backward throoA i he awful, blttzluu' ruin To a place where he could harbor all the peoofe n-- on the train. >[* 1 here were flames above, around them, under­ neath-- no band could paint All the terrors of that moment, which msda strong men droop and fniut. Every car was like an oven; coaches blistered in the heat; PaneL of t,lass began to shrivel, and to make "•* hour c, tni lete. Tongi es of flume 1 rept through the windows at the train beguu to burn And a strange and deathlike whiteness crept o'er faces drawn and stern. But Jim Root was on the engine and had naught to bt<r the flame, Though lis hand was on the throttle and he stuck thei-e just the *ame. ,> As he ba-.-ke 1 her 111 rough tbe horror, with t-kunk 1 ake six milea away. \ He had little hope of living to recall that fear­ ful day ; But the engineer was plucky, aud with Jack MfGowau tbere He was g od for any duty far he had a life to •{are When his hand began to bllste why, the oue was strong. And wbeu both were singed and broiling thev did duty right along; Wheu his overalls were smoking, there was liardy. laithml Ja k, Wh > was standing with a bucket, pouring water down his tack. Once or twice Jim almost fainted, once or twice fell <>1T his seat. But he 1 alliea like a hero as he fought away tba N beit. And he saved a train of people, just for commoa duty's t>ako-- Held tbe throttle, cool and gritty. •<» thav reached the tittle lake. Till tha hundreds went in safety from tl» chaired ill-fated train. And he never gave a whimper in his agony at pain, Never murmured--no, not even when his fear­ ful ride was o'er And he sank, a'l burned and nerveless, cn tlaa blackened, burning floor. They will tell you of the heroes who left nog:od deed undone; They say that u 1 the honor should not go to * merely one ; But whatever men accomplished tor the grate­ ful ones to tel.. Whsn in tuture years thi y speak of all the hor­ rors of that bell, It wss J"in>, who, sticking bravely in the glaring face of death, Saved three hundrel human beings train the all destroying breath. When the day of judgment cometh and tba firmament unrolls, And the vuicj of ood is calling all the many si attered tiouli. There s a man who'll lead a phalanx np tha jewelled, go.den stieet. "1 believe the people do know how to stop any urther war on American industries." the soldier has onoe lieen put upon the pension roll of the government that lie should IM> SUB-, pended from that roll uutll lie has hud the fullest Investigation, taken in open broad day­ light, with the pensioner having the privilege to meet his accuser face to face, and the wlt- n?Kses who appear against him; and then if, niKin a full hearing. It turns out that that soldier Is unworthy to lie on that roll then the patriotic sentiment of the ]>eople, and the patriotic sentiment of every loval soldier, would lie and he ought to he displaced from that roll of honor. (Applause.) But my objec­ tion Is to having the presumption of fraud put upon these brave men. Iiet the government prove that they are unworthy, and not simply put thein off upon a presumption that tlieV have committed a fraud. 1 have got tired of that sentiment which Is sometimes Indulged in that the soldiers of the republic enlisted for ey and for pension. There Is not a soldier fore me to-night who, when he enlisted, ever thought of a pension." A voice: Never." "Many of tliem didn't know anything about pensions, and tliey didn't care. Their great care was for the preservation of the freest govern­ ment 011 earth, and keeping sacreil the honor of the flag. (Applause.) They entered the service from the purest and highest motives of *patrM>t- Ism, not for the paltry pittance paid them; HAt for fame nor jiopular applause, for- their serr> Ices, however valuable, were not to he berahle4 abroad. They entered the service moved by the $1.80. (laughter.) '1 hey have reiluced tbe tariff j highest sense of love of country, that no harm on laces and embroideries, bawl upon the lm- might coine to the country. I remember in 18a">. portatlons of last year, $ 1.587.000; on silk I 'wheh that splendid ariny, that great volunteer is occasioned by tho differences in the trades, followed by the injured ones. Win ;re Widows Need Help to Marry According to a vernacular paper in In­ dia, a movement in aid of the remarriage of widows among Mussulmen was start­ ed two or three years ago in Kalanam, in the Gurdaspur district. The Mahom­ etan religion does not prohibit the re­ marriage of widows, but long residence in India tpnd contact with the Hindu has made many Mahometans look down upon remarriage of widows. Considerable opposition was nt first shown, but it has been overcome. A widow remarriage association has l)een formed, and publishes a flourishing week­ ly paper which disseminates news aud information on the objects of the society. Over eighty widows have been remarried within the "last three years, and the fund, started to aid destitute widows on their remarriage exceeds 20,000 rupees.--Lon­ don Daily News. Tons of Silver In an Altar. A dispatch from Mexico announces that the erection of the magnificent can­ opy over the high altar of Our Lady in the shrine of iinadalupe has been com­ pleted. The pfllars me cy seat; For t fce angels bate a coward, and they love a gritty man. An.l they know that Jim's a hero on the strictly gr.tty plan. goods, plushes, velvets, etc.. $2,720,000. NOTT here is a tioom for the poor man: (in artificial flowers and ostrich feathers. $'Ji>5.000; on paint­ ings and statuary, $4:12.000. The poor of tills country, the plain people of this country, the Industrial classes of this country can Import their paintings and statuary free (laughter); that being an article of necessity, hut they must pay a tariff on sugar, which Is an article of luxury. On pearl buttons, $224,000; on plain and cut glass. ¥215,000; on opium for smoking, $400,000. and ou Jewelry, $7t5.000. What cheer that will brine to the masses of our country- army. the grandest that ever trod the earth, that fought In a cause as noble as any for which mankind ever eugaged. A Debt That Can Sever Be Paid. "I remember when that splendid army of Grant, of Sherman, of Sheridan. Thomas and Ix>gan (great applause) passed down Pennsylvania av­ enue. Stretched across the great marble capitol was an Inscription in letters Isrfte enough to be r<ad by every passing soldier, and these were the words of the inscription: "There Is one debt which this government can never pay. and that Her Grace, •A D Englishwoman of rank, a Duchess, while kind-hearted in the main, was careless about many mat­ ters which affected the happiness of others, particularly the tradespeople whom she patronised. She was apt. to forget to pay her bills until annoy­ ance and sometimes distress resulted. A. milliner, whose large bill had been repeatedly ignored by the Duchess, at last determined to send her little girl, a pretty child of tea years, to beg for the mouey which was so much needed. "lie sure to say your grace* , to the Duchess," said the anxious mother; and tbe child gravely promised to re­ member, When, after long waiting, she was ushered into the .Duchess' presence, . - , to support it are each . jjttie £jri dropped alow courtesy, I »u.l the., folding her Lands and cfci. each pillar is three feet ami the height i ing her eyes, she said softly. -'For one men, to be told that the tariff has lieen reduced ' Is the debt it owes tbe men who saved this got a free list of $110.- their free list consist? on laces, silks and velvets, on paintings, ostrich feathers and opium for smoking. (Laughter.) Our duty was so high on opium for smoking as practically to prohibit It. (Applause!) We thought that was a good thing to do. We put everything on the free list which we did not produce and did not propose to produce. We tariffed everything that we did produce and pro­ posed to produce, so as to help the American people. (Applause.) They have got of f4t.000.000. We have 000,000. Of what does $18,000,000 of It Is on the farmer's wool, nearly $3,000,000 more of it upon the farmer's agri­ cultural products. Dearly $10,000,000 of It Is on the lumlier of the iumberman, and $2,000,000 and more of It on manufactured products. Tbe remainder is on a variety of articles. This, then. Is their vaunted fr<*> list; and what I have read you is a portion of their boasted reduction of duty noon foreien proline's. "Soifle people th./tght the trouble In the country to-day was fie money in the country. Every dollar we hiiv^ got In the United States to-day Is good, whether gold, silver or paper money; and the bauk," are full of money. Money was never less employed than it is to-day. 'Our embarrassmen" Is not with the nation.' (Applause.) That was true then; it Is true now. That patriotic sentiment must never be amended or abridged. Talk about the soldiers of the republic looting the treasury! Why, we wouldn't have had a treasury, or a government, or a flag. If It hadn't been for them. (Great applause.) You know the stuff of which the Wisconsin soldiers were made. I know the metal of which my comrades were made. I recall that free list which typifies the volupteer soldier of the re­ public. I reujember tlx1;; Incident of the Con­ necticut regiment when the colonel one day con­ vened the regiment at his headipiartrs. and ID its presence delivered to the color-bearer of the regiment the colors he was thereafter to carry, this 'starry banner of the free'; and as he de­ livered the flag to the color-sergeant he said to him; 'Color-beurer. take this flag. Fight for It: yes. die for It; but never surrender it Into the hands of the enemy." (Applause.) ; And that young eolor-liearer, only 18 years of age, with the red wine of early manhood mantling his cheeks, and takiag the flag Into his hands, said: •Colonel. I'll bring this flag haclf to „ you In honor or. I will report to God the reason whv.' (Applause.) The next day his regiment went Into battle. That young color-bearer fell, stricken with death; but he fell with the fla; church edifice will not be completed for her wistful gaze on the Duchess, that nearly two years ret the present rate of Jight-hearted person Hushed very red, progress. When finished the shrine ot : an(j without delav made out a check r»r«..ar«.ar to the mnhner. the world. The soli.l silver altar railing | The little girl, happy in the belief weighs twenty-six tons, nnd many mill­ ions of dollars are in other ways repre­ sented in this palatial palace of worship. A Queer Notion. Th® collection of old bottles is not a new diversion by any moans, but the transformation of these into the walls of a house is. A Dublin gentleman of means appears to be employing his spare time and cash in accumulating egg- shaped soda water bottles. As they ar­ rive. day by day, and are shot into his garden, he has them cemented side by side into a wall, the result from the out­ side reminding one of a colossal bottle emporium. • Aids to Speed. that she bad done the errand exactly as she bad been told, depart', d joy­ fully; but the quick-witted Ducnesa knew that the lesson she had received had never been intended, and feli ite reproof all the more. heen nnttincr im , ! treasury, but you do It nt the expense of yo.ir 1 ter of money we havi*, or the v. ? defenses to keep you* . osvn labor. (Applause.) Y011 put more money we have got. but hof to get It . , Droauots and tn« nrr>r.n/»t<« nf nth™ • •-- 'stlon among the people. To get it Into circn- 1 It the best lie had, the best which any man has. products and the products of other nations out. The Democratic party is now en­ gaged in tearing down those defenses." That was his London speech. His Charles- town, W. Va., speech he has amended so it reads according to the newspapers of to­ day: "The Republican party have been for thirty years building up defenses. The Democratic party is now engaged in tear­ ing them down--not to let your pro­ ducts in, as he said in London--'but to let our products out.' (Laughter.) Why my distinguished friend don't into the public treasury, because you employ foreign labor to make your glassware; but while you are doing that your own Workmen are idle upon the streets. Unpartriotic and Inamerleaa. "I am against that policy. (Great applause.) It Is neither patriotic nor American. But they say It will give you things a little cheaper. (Laughter.) Aren't things cheap enough now? Does the merchant want the price of what he 6ells over his counter reduced still loser? Does the farmer want the products of bil^farm re­ duced In price still lower)." A voice: "No." "JJa- tba/ an quite lew eoongh. Yoa know flth the charac with death: but he fell with the flag about ^Hrm-^'ci^wLre incrt^ olume of money , hlui. bathed In his own blood. He didn't bring I pounds, lt_ IS .1 not Hi I ».<st NUiie llHrtJse out Into circe- I It back. He couldn't bring It back, Hut he gave of speed IS ilUC n'ss to improvement in . It Into clrcu- lit the best lie had, the best which any man has. horseflesh than ill racing appliances, lation among jhe i people i we must have some- ^ 11 'applause) and a lowered record menus simply better tracks or better sulkies it goes for Love in a Horse Trade. Tbere was a marriage booked for last Thursday night, less ' than twenty miles from Harmony Grove. On the Wednesday bejore, the would- be groom sent the following message to his finance: '•1 am on a horse trade. How If it is true, as reported. that~\t^e WOUld it fluit J"0tt to put off the mar» sulky in which "AIL* was driven heW riage until X can inakft the trade?" great mile* at ( o.umbus was made of 1 Sorely disappointed but Pot hope- thing to sell which soui-body wants, and which that somebody is able to pay for; and no mat­ ter what we have got to sell. If we can find nobody who wants It who can pay for it, we have got to keep it: nnd if we keep It over and on hand we lose In whole or In part what it costs us to produce it; and as soon as w« have got a great quantity on hand we won't make any more of the same thing; and if we don't make any more of It. we won't employ any labor to help us make it; and If we don't employ labor to help us pake It, we won't pay wages: and if we don't pay wages, wages wlU b* stopped and one great factor in the God above him knew the reason why. "So nigh to gTandour Is our dust, So near to God is man. When duty whispers low, "Thou most,' The youth replies. "I can.' "When Abraham Lincoln (aonlanse), that mag­ nificent representative of American citizenship, one of the grandest men in human history, he who spoke the words that proclaimed lilierty, lie who Issued the decree that all men should l>e free--Abraham Lincoln, snatched as he was l>y a bravo from the theater of fame--when he said 'come/ men responded '1 can and I will;' and less, she sent hitu the follow.mes­ sage: "If you are certain the horse you ^ are trying to trade for is not oioou- something. <but it does not represent its ' ©ye(l« g°t the iuwpas, or a Slutup- faee value.-^-N'ew York World. j sucker, and will work well to a road cart, and singlefoot under the sad wait: but oh! a moment; 1 am Ti . .. . .' . , . ! cart, and ainglefoot i It is said that, owing to the close in- | r i lurrying of tho ltothsrhitds, thoro is , ^ COdTMV 1 Wi 1 one of the rising generation of the ' dearest, don't waste a --It term no ono family who is capable of succeeding to the dying toi the happy time when I can 'na1l.ia7t>.lueliit °itlie vasL weu.iti; con- I call you mine to have aud keep." trolled by the house, whose total fortune a. is over $2,000,000,000 Atlanta Loo&titutiou, V