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Show THE KLOULENT MAJOR. McKinley Opens the Campaign in the Buckeye State With an Elaborate and Telling 8peech. ISSUES ARE CLEARLY DEHSED His Position on the Silver Question Without Reserve The Tariff. Reciprocity. Reci-procity. Sugfir Bounty, Etc-. Niles, Ohio, Aug. 22. The republican republi-can state campaign opened here todr.y with a great demonstration, over 30,001) people being in town. There was a greet parade and industrial display this afternoon, closing with an elaborate address by Major McKinley. lie said: "This will bs an unusually interesting interest-ing campaign because of the importance impor-tance to the state and country of the results in November. It is fortunate that the issues are clearly defined, that no misunderstanding or evasion can arise. The democratic platform declares de-clares for the free and unlimited coinage coin-age of the silver of the world. The republican re-publican platform stands in opposition to anything short of a full and complete com-plete dollar, and approves the legislation legisla-tion of the last congress which is a mighty bulwark for the protection of silvf r. "The free coinage demanded by the democratic- platform means that all the ilver of the world can be brought to the mints of the United States and coined at the expense of the government; that the United States mints must receive 412J grains of silver worth 80 cents the world over and coined therefor silver dollars which by the fiat of the governments govern-ments are to circulate among the people as a full dollar. "It does not take a very wise man to see that this short dollar will become in time the exclusive circulating medium of the country. Cold will be taken from the circulation and hoarded, and the elTect will be that the circulating medium will be reduced to the extent of the gold now circulating and we will be compelled to do the business of the country with the silver dollar exclusively. "'We nave not Deen aoie to secure an international ratio which all nations of the world would adopt, and with the free coinage of silver the United States would be still further removed from any international agreement. The nations na-tions which are on a silver basis alone are the poorest nations of the world and are in constant financial disturbance disturb-ance and monetary disorder. This he said had been pointed out by ex President Cleveland and Governor Campbell even had declared that he had doubts about the wisdom of free coinage. "Under the present condition," condi-tion," he continued, "the country can not afford to chance it. If there is to be any profit in the coinage of silver, it should go to tha - government, as It has ever since the Bland-Allison act. This new declaration would give the profit to the silver producer and no class of people would suffer so much from the bO cents dollar as the wage earner and the agriculturalist. "1 am in favor of a double standard, but not of the free and unlimited coinage, coin-age, until the nations of the world join us in guaranteeing free silver, a status which their laws now accord to gold. Speaking of the tariff Major McKinley Mc-Kinley said. A revenue tariff such as the democratic party advocate can benefit and encourage aud build up no domestic Industry." He declared it did not encourage labor save in foreign countries; that it supplies work for foreign labor and takes it from American Ameri-can labor. It was well conceived to benefit every other nation but this. He said a revenue tariff fails to supply sup-ply the revenue wants of the government. govern-ment. The failure of the government to secure sullicieut revenue would result re-sult in direct taxation. Not alone would this result, the speaker declared, but the industries of this country would be destroyed and laborers forced to farm and beceine the farmers competitors. "A protective tariff which keeps the treasury full of money builds up the industries of this country and furnishes employment for labor aud at better wages than can be secured anywhere else or under any other system. Under the protective tariff the public debt has been reduced nearly two-thirds and the state's debts have also been reduced. McKinley refuted the statement that the protective tariff increased mortgages. mort-gages. It bad nothing whatever to do with the question more than that the protective system preserves home market mar-ket for the people at home. The reciprocity reci-procity provision, Major McKinley said, in uo way encroaches upon the protective pro-tective principle nor can in any way destroy or undermine the protective tariff. The speaker declared that the statement state-ment that the sugar bounty was more of a burden to some than the tax was uutnie. The bounty will encourage tho production of sugar here instead of destroying the industry. The tin-plate tax was defended. He said there is much criticism about the duty on tin-plate and fully as much misrepresentation as criticism. In closing McKinley laid: "What will the democratic party do on tha silver question. The vast majority of the party is in favor of a debased dollar. Will they register their will or that of Cleveland. We must wait. In the meantime let Ohio record her verdict ver-dict against the degradation of American Ameri-can labor and the debasement of the American oollar." |
