Mckinley's Latest

üov. SJcKinley spoke at the Xejraska Chautauqua last week to over 10,000 people last week and made une oí liis best speeches. Paying attention to the democratie platform riddted it eömipletely witH hte Htrang afgvufniente. After h-owing lUat this last demiocratic platiunn was a broader recognltión oí Iree traile tlïan any otber in the past, he . Inui'il as iollows: ■■'L'lii' flemocrate," said Gqv. MtKiuley, f'denonince ropulilkan proteclioü as íraud aud robbery,, and declare ooiDgresa haa 110 eonstitutioual lover 'to enïorct; Mild tolieut tarifi dues prábeetive In tiieir nature. ïlie caustitutionality oi a proteetive tarilí has not been aeriouisly questioned iu mure tiiau a liundred years. podicy was reoogmzea m the second aot ever paased by the congres OÍ the United States, whicli dril it tu íí 'for the support oí the government, íor the discharge of debts if the United Stiltes, and for the encouragement and protection oí manuiacturcr.' "Il a prolcL'üve pollcy la in violatiodi of any con-stitution it is not tliat of the United Stáítas, but ui the eunKtitution ui' the confedérate stad -s, Potasiblj' ttoat ■ li.it tliey mean. Happily fur us, jh'owever, we don't reoognipe that instrument, and are uut operating under it. "Free trade givcs to the foreign producer equal privileges -vitlv us. It dostroys out factorics or reduces our labor to tlie levtl of theirs. We baarnat h.ave free trade in this country without free trade conditioas. To introduce them liere avüI bring widespread diw-ontent, revulutiouize .valuies.aud will take trom the people ivho vork íor a living hieart, hope and ■bloane. "The protectivc tariff, on the other 'uuul, theapens every nianufaeturcd product, not by cheapening labor, but y securing írom labor its highest efliceney. Sutetantially everything wliich proteetion directly affects nas been ieduced in price except labor . "Under the new tariff old indus'.ries have been Ktimulattd and many acw ones 'bave been started, and it is a tact well establMued by reports iponi all ooumtriee, that at this time, wiiile depresión and anxlety exist all over the world there is prSepeflty in tune United States alone. "Ti-ied by any test, measured by any standard, we tead all the rest of th world. Proteetion has vindicated rWeli. It eannot bc helped by ulogy or hurt .by defamation. It (has worked out its own demonstratiau and presenta in the sight of the whole world its inatchless trophica. ",Our own experience shows that it ia best for our citizensliip and our civilization, and opens up a higlier and üetter d"stiny for pur people. The lay of repeutawe will come wlicn we ÍLa"ve r.ade a -liangc "