Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 November 1893 — AT THE HUB. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

AT THE HUB.

Gov. McKinley and Other* Address the Home Market Club. At Boston, Mass.. Friday evening, twelve hundred Republicans gathered for a love feast. Gov. McKinley, Ex-Speaker Reed, Gov.-Elect Greenhaige, Gov. Fuller of Vermont, ex-Senator Hoar, and many distinguished men were present. Senator Hoar made the opening address and was followed by Gov. Greenhaige. Gov. McKinley was then received with great applause. He said: This year in Massachusetts, as in Ohio, politics was business and business was politics, and unitedly triumphed. It was discovered that business rests upon confidence and certainty, and industry is only the agency to supply the wants of mankind. The manufacturer makes cloth because the merchant wants it and can give ample security for payment, and the merchant wants it because his customers want it and are able to pay him for his investment with profit. If the great consuming classes are cut off in their income and wages the merchant’s sales decline and when they decline the demand for labor declines, and the workman’s wages decline. If capital cannot get a profit out of its investment it will not work and if capital does not work labor is idle. Capital must have faith in the future. It must be able to calculate on the future. The too common expression that tariff could not affect business is little heard of now. Free trade or a revenue tariff is the remedy offered by those who differ from us on this question. More foreign go'>ds and more easily to be obtained is the prescription offered by our political opponents as sure to reopen our idle mills. Will it help? Will it do it? Free trade can not increase our production at home. It’s whole aim is to increase foreign importations, which increase must of necessity diminish like domestic production. Is there anybody any longer in doubt about the real trouble in the country today? The President of the United States, in his August message, announced a great fact. Ho said: Tt may be true that the embarrassment from which the business of this country is suffering arises as much from the evils apprehended as from those actually existing.’ This is true. Remove the apprehension of the threatened tariff legislation; remove the scare of the promised free trade bill; remove the fear which has settled upon every business interest and confidence will return. What would be more welcome to the business interests of the country, to the wage workers of the country and every true American interest than assurances that this Congress would abjourn without meddling with our industrial legislation? The free trade Congress is a fearful menace to the industrial interests of. the country. Business is now waiting on the uncertainty of the Congress soon to convene, or, to be more exact, upon the certainty of unfriendly legislation when it does convene, and, while business is waiting, the laborer Is waiting outside, with nothing to do. I sound the note of warning here to-night. I wish it would reach every corner of the country—that every reduction of the tariff will be followed by a reduction of wages; that every cut in the tariff rates will be followed by a cut in the wage rates, The effect of the proposed tariff legislation, whether intended or not, is an unerring blow at labor which will be instantly felt in the home of every operative in the United States. Ex-Speaker Reed. Congressman Cousins, of lowa, and others also made addresses. A dozen saloon keepers at Fort Wayne have been fined for keeping their places open on Sunday. The Seymour Democrat says that hunters are having unusually bad luck. Game ds very scarce.

THE DEPOSED HAWAIIAM QUEN’S RESIDENCE.