Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 April 1894 — M’KINLEY TALKS. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

M’KINLEY TALKS.

Ohio's Governor Speaks In the Convention Half aVlilinneapolls. Gov. Wm. Mckinley and party were, the guests of the Minnesota State League, Wednesday night. Their .arrival was ;ho signal for a great ovation. The partv was escorted to the West Hotel by six hundred students of the State University and the University Republican Club, At night Gov. McKinley spoke in the hall where Harrison was nominated in 1892. After a brief reference to the principles enunciated by the Republican national convention of 1892, the Governor reviewed the history of tariff legislation in general. Then he took up the measure now before Congress, and discussed it as follows: The Wilson bill turns to the past; away from the present. It is for the plantation, not for the farm and the factory. As it passed the House it had for its foundation principle free raw material. Its authors argued that with free coal, free iron ore, free lead and free wool the manufacturers of the United States would be placed on an equality with the manufacturers of free tFride countries, and . we, therefore, could not only retain our own markets but control "the markets of the world.” Based upon this argument, which 1 believe to be false, they declared that with these great primary products free wei would have steady employment for ail the workingmen of the country at good wages. And so in this form the bill passed the Democratic House of Representativesand is now the dread subject of angry contention in the Democratic Senate. An examination of the bill by the Democratic membersot the finance committee of the Senate evidently convinces them that Mr. Wilson’s bill and his argument in support of the same are alike based upon false principles. So coal goes back to the tariff list, leaving free wool alone, the only product of agriculture, to support the House bill. Even Mr. Cleveland is disregarded, for in his Madison Square Garden speech, after his nomination in 189.2, he said: "We believe that the advantage of freer raw material should be accorded to our manufacturers. We propose, therefore, to stimulate our domestic industrial enterprises by freeing from duty the imported raw materials which, by the employment of labor, are used in our home manufactures, thus extending the market for their sale and permitting an increased and steady production with an allowance of abundant I have looked with some degree of care through the bill. 1 find nothing but irritation and aggravation to the great industries of the country. No interest suffers by it more severely than agriculture, and labor of all kinds seems to have been singled out as its foremost victim. Governor McKinley then continued at great length to review the Wi Ison bill, charging that a revenue tariff is the enemy of the American .workingman, and < foe to our prosperity and industrial indesaid: The administration and Congress are without compass or rudder. Before they have accomplished anything—while they are yet wrangling about wnat they will do—the people have become so dissatisfied as to burn with impatience for an opportunity to repudiate them. A general election was never before so much desired as now, and never-so much needed. The altogether too common idea that there Is in fact little difference between the two parties, and that the country will prosper equally well whichever may be in power, has been completely exploded by one year’s trial of the Democratic party. That difference has been shown to be so vast as to fill the country with astonishment. It is a greater question than who shall hold the offices. In fact, it has been demonstrated that the success of on party or the other means all the difference between national happiness and prosperity and national discontent and distress.

The eminent lawyer and author, died at New York, Wednesday, of pneumonia. Mr. Curtis was born in Watertown, Mass., in 1812. Graduated from Harvard in 1832. Was admitted to the bar at Boston in 1836 and practiced his profession in that city until 1862, when he removed to New York. Mr. Curtis was not a politician, but devoted his time to his profession and legal authorship. His writings coyer a great variety of subjects and are considered standard works.

GEORGE TICKNOR CURTIS.