The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-04

vania and State of Ohio. Whatever In
juriously or benehcially affects the people
of Pennsylvania alike affects the people of
Ohio, and 1 could not but be struck by
the similarity of the messages which have
to the condition of the people in those two
grAat States. How similar they We're. 1t
is the cry of distress going up from every
part of our common country.
What men want is business activity.
What laboring men want is work. We
and a half that cannot increase the
output of the mines or the wages of the
miner by decreasing manufacturing in the
United States. We have discovered that
less American coal is required if we do any
part of our work in Europe rather than in
which will give the largest development to
every American interest; that gives the
widest opportunity to every American citi-
zen; that gives the most work and best
wages to every American laborer, and Sc
cures 10 our people the highest possible
prosperity in all their occupa tions.
II cannot but appreciate most highly this
visit, made at such inconvenience and from
so great a distance to my home The mes
sage which you bring me of your regard
and good will l will always remember and
cherish. 1t is with peculiar pleasure that
of the great commonwealth of Pennsylva-
MIA. Coming, as you do, from city of
great rolling mills and manufactures hav-
ing product in value of more than S12-
600 900 annually, when your establishments
are all running full time. and from one
of the greatest manufacturing States of the
country. | need hardly be told of the deep
and profound interest which you have in
the rightful settlement of the issues pre
senfed in this campaign. Both of the lead
ing issues are of sufficient Importance to
your Industrial life and prosperity to com
mand your unremitting labor and effort
Nor need I remind you that the issue which
involves the restoration of our protective
policy. unhappily and unwarrantedly
four years ago, is to be settled this year
as well as that other issue of continuing a
safe monetary system, resting on the
best money of the world and guarantee
ing to our people the use of all the forms
of money now in circulation TO be of equal
value and purchasing power. The mistake
OF 1892 needs no elaboration. 1t has been
felt and realized in every section of our
first time since it was made that the whole
people have had chance to correct it.
obo and W they DO my Of v VIII III
elect McKinley!' followed by tremendous
cheering.)
PRICES HAVE DECLINED.
For three years past the trade reviews
of business. manufacturing. agricultural
and mercantile at the end of each quarter
of the year, could be readily summed up
in a single sentence: Prices all along the
line have declined And with. that the
hope and comfort Of the American people
have also declined. In 1895 Dun's review of
trade reported % per cent. decline on iron
and steel, 81 per cent on wool and II per
cent on cotton. 1t might have been sup
posed 5hat the bottom prices. were then
excellent nonpartsan review made this re-
port OF the condition of the trade of the
country. and [ cannot see that it has great
tainly there. is little Improvement ad-
vance IN prices generally. Prices about
rep. Il were on the whole the lowest ever
known in this country. Considerable space
IS given this week to comparison of quo
tations in most important branches of man
ufactures, and then follows a lengthy table,
OF which / need only say that it appar-
entity and abundantly sustains it's asser-
tons and shows "a most deplorable condi-
ton of all kinds of business. AS a legiti-
mate result we never knew SO many fail
ures as in 1895. We had hoped that things
would take a turn for the better, but they
nave not, although i am sure that such is
the wish of the American people to-day,
and the earnest and sincere aim of the Re
pulican party. But such condition seems
impossible under our present revenue legis-
Il viii not pursue the distressing record
further. Never has business been poorer;
never has industrial distress been greater;
never have the enterprises and progress of
the country been SO retarded as during the
low tariff, or no tariff years of 1s94-'96 in
all our hitory. And the government has
Jared little better because the treasury
ports have recorded a monthly deficiency
and addition to the public debt and the de-
nc1ency still continues. Will any one say in
the presence of such facts that the revenue
legislation of the country must remain
unchanged, that it is not the plain ana pal
pable duty of the government to provide
adequate revenue for the public treasury
and protect American labor against the
cheaper labor of the old world? Govern
ment expeditures must not exceed govern
ment receipts. The creation of public
debt in time of peace is only justified in
sustaining the credit of the government
and the public honor. but it should not be
continued moment longer than the Con-
gress whose duty it is to raise the revenue,
shall make provision to supply it.
No one has suffered more under these
conditions Is, than the farmers of the United
ished home market and have suffered in
the foreign market by the repeal of the
reciprocity provisions of the tariff law Of
1890 The foreign market opened by reci-
procity during the administration of Pres
ident Harrison must be reopened and the
home market must be improved and pre-
served for the American farmer, while the
American workshop must be opened to the
izen should object to regaining and !,Id-
ing our proud rank of the greatest man
the world. With me. the necessity of a
restoration of judicious and wise Amer
lean tariff policy is firn' conviction, sec
ond to nothing in importance, eXcept the
preservation of law and order. which we
must have. of justice and domestic tran
quillity and the preservation of our CROFT,
o. our currency and our national Eoaor.
NV fellow-citizens. we must defeat by
decisive majorities every scheme for the
debasement of our currency, whether it be
free silver or irredeenable paper money;
the destructive and dangerous menace of
free trade. We have lost enough already
in the reduced wages or our labor, ana we
do not propose to be cheated further by
being paid in debased dollars. Let eff
fectually dispose of both and restore to the
country the great business prosperity
which is naturally ours to possess and en-
joy.
Il am glad, my fellow-ctizens. to meet
all of you to-day. | glad to meet
my friends from PENNSYLVANIA and my old
friends from Athens county. Ohio. What
you want they want, and what all of Us
want in this country is the restoration of
public confidence that will set the wheels
of industry in motion and give employment
to every man in the land Great cheer
ing and cries of ''Hurrah for Mckinley
FULL OF ENTHUSIASM.