The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-13
WORK MAKES MONEY
FREE SILVER COINAGE WOULD BEN
EFT NONE BUT MINE OWNERS.
Mckinley Again Shows that Bryan's
Financial Theory Is a Lure to
Catch Unwary ToiIers.
BUT ONE WAY TO GET MONEY
1T MUST ALL BE EARNED BY TOII
IN ONE FORM OR ANOTHER.
If the Mints Coined All the Silver in
the World No One Co aid Get Any
of 1t without Work.
SPEECH TO PENNSYLVANIANS
ON BENEFITS OF A PROTECTIVE
TARIFF AND HONEST DOLLARS.
Democratic Sound-MOncy DemOnstra-
ton at Detroit-Addresses by
Palmer and Buckner.
If the Mints Coined All the Silver in
the World No One Co nd Get Any
of 1t Without Work.
SPEECH TO PENNSYLVANIANS
ON BENEFITS OF A PROTECTIVE
TARIFF AND HONEST DOLLARS.
Democratic Sound-MOncy DemOnstra.
ton Mt Observation-Disclosures by
Palmer and Buckner.


train Of eleven coaches, which reached here
shortly before 1 o'clock. The party came
from Roscoe and the Monongahela valley
of Pennsylvania, and was made up of citi-
Zens representing the various interests of
that locality. They were very enthusiastic
and organized into marching clubs. mostly
uniformed. Several bands and a colored
glee club furnished music. Owing to rain,
the delegation was taken to the Tabernacle,
where Major Mckinley responded to the
Introductory address of the venerable
George V. Lawrence, ex-member of Con-
gress and an octogenarian. Mr.. McKinley's
speech follows:
Mr.. Lawrence and my Fellow citizens
1t gives me sincere pleasure to met at my
heme citizens, of Fayette; Washington and
Westmoreland counties, Pennsylvania, and
make acknowledgment of their friendly
visit 1t has been source of pleasure to
me to meet my old friend and colleague in
the National House of Representative
your venerable spokesman, Mr. Lawrence.
I always found him voting for right things
and for the supremacy of Republican prin-
ciples and their embodiment into public
law. Western Pennsylvania is filled with
listers the birthplace of that splendid parlia-
mentarian and gifted statesman and great
very gratifying to me to receive from the
hands of the Fayette Club this beautiful
cane, made of the wood from Mr.. Blaines
home, in which ne was born at Browns
vile. and assure you that it shall always
be preserved and kept in my family as a
precious souvenir.
You are fortunate, too in having at one
time among your citizens of Fayette
Gallatin, who became the first Secretary of
the Treasury under Thomas Jefferson in
1901. and who filled that great Office for
of our country as one of the greatest sec
retaries we ever had. ranking with Alex
your Legislature from Fayette county a
member of the national House of Repre-
sentatives from western Pennsylvania, for
a brief period in the Senate of the United
States, and was then called to fill the
great Office of Secretary of the Treasury.
1t is said that the first resolution he in
troduced as Congressman in the national
House of Representatives was a resolution
inquiring about the condition of the treas
this time. He was distinguished for hav-
ing always insisted that the revenues of
the government should be adequate at all
times to meet the public expenditures; and
one of the greatest monuments that he left
is that during his administration as Sec
retary or the treasury he reduced the ma
tional debt from $50 900 600 in 1902 to about
When be made m his repor m s pperd ofast cast
this wonderful reduction of the public debt
had gone on without resorting to internal
taxation. either direct or indirect, but that
this vast sum of money was provided for
by duties upon imports.
PRESENT CONDITIONS
This bit of history suggests the con-
dition of our own treasury and the condi-
tion of our own people. For three years
and half the government has been bor-
rowing money to live upon and the people
have been doing likewise very largely. We
want, my fellow-citizens, somehow to stop
that, both as to government and people
We may not be able to do it at once When
we are sick it takes a long time to recover
our normal vitality. But there ought to be
no question that there rests upon the
American people and those in charge of
right speedily, which would first provide
enough money to run the government of
the United States. We ought not to resort
to the issuing of bonds in time of peace
except to preserve the credit and honor of
the government
That opens up the question as to what
policy will save US from that "a voice.
A protective policy.) / adopt the sugges-
ton: | do not know Of anything that Will
proud fact in American history that in all
the years. at least for the most part, under
have always had ample revenues to conduct
the expenses of the government. Now that
policy wisely and judciously applied in
important acts for the people to perform
They canot perform It, however, without
administration. The only power that can
make a protective tariff Congress resides
in the American people and the only power
that can make protective tariff admins
tration resides in the American people By
your ballots three weeks from tomorrow
zens in every part of the country. will de-
termine whether or not that policy shall
prevail for the next four years. What will
your answer be. men of Pennsylyania2
(Cries of Mckinley and protection )
MY fellow-citizens. / am in favor of that
policy for another reason-because while IL
provides adequate revenue for the govern
ment. it encourages the Industries and oc-
cupatfons of the American people Your
old valley, too. which your spokesman has
referred to so eloquently, as far back as in
the days of Henry Clay, was pointed to
protective tariff. All this splendid and re-
markable development has been the result
first, as Mr. Lawrence has said. of the
blessings of Providence, and then bv that
policy which has encoura ged the energy and
activity and genius and skill of the Ameri-
can people TO develop these great treas
ures Of wealth which nature has so bounti-
fully provided.
NO FREE SILVER.
There is a notion in some quarters that
what we need to bring about prosperity
is free silver. / do not believe it would
be any freer under free coinage to YOU
than it is now. There would be Just one
way for the workingman to get it, and
that would be to earn 1t. There would
be just one way for the farmer to get it.
and that would be to sell his products
There would be just one way for the mer-
chant to get 1.-THE good old-fashioned
way-which would be to sell his goods over
his counter and give something for the
money. That is the only way you could
get Ii IL we coined all the silver of the
that money does not make work? Work
makes money. There Is Just much mon
ey in this country to-day as there was
from 1870 to 1890 and more: but what is
work.) Yes. no work. It is work that