Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 August 1893 — GOVERNOR M’KINLEY’S VIEWS. [ARTICLE]

GOVERNOR M’KINLEY’S VIEWS.

Attribute* the Present Condition to Threatened Tariff Chance*. Governor McKinley addressed an audience of 10,000 people, Saturday, at the annual harvest picnic of the Erie County Agrlculrural Society at Linwood Park, Vermillion. Hisspeech dealt largely with the present financial and business conditions. He pointed out that the business of the country rested upon credit, faith in one another, faith in the industries of the country, faith in the destinies of the Republic, and .when every man has lost faith, then paralyses follows. What we want now was level-headedness. Jlut as unfortunate as our situation was to-day, it would have been worse if instead of hav*ng National bank money, we had State bank money. Continuing he said: It is not important that we find somebody to blame for our present financial distrust, but it is of paramount Importance that we find some way ont. There fs nothing so sensitive in this world as capital and trade and commerce, and business men everywhere are sure to discount their fears of the future. Whatever influence the Sherman law, so-called, may have upon the present condition, it is by no means the chief cause of our troubles. The great clause is elsewhere found, and those who cannot discover ft are Iblinded by partisanship. Manufacturers are not going to. produce for the future l when their products made undtr present conditions may have to con pote .with, like products made under othei ant different conditions. Manufacturers are not go-

ing to produce for the. future and pay pro-' tective tariff wages, when their products may have to compete with like products under free trade wages. Let me tel! what would be the cure—an authortitative declaration of Congress, approved by the President, that the threatened changes will not take place; that they did not mean it, or if they meant it they have discovered that they were wrong. If they will do that the fears of the business world will be quieted and the business world will resume its normal condition.