The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-10-02
Talks About the 90 Cent Dol
lar and Dishonor.
HE QUOTES MCCORMICK
Reads What the Big Harvester
Manufacturer Says.
Tile Would Run Half Time If
Silver Triumphed.

Canton. o..Oct- 2.-To the delegation
which called on him yesterday. Major
Mckinley said:
Mr. Chairman. Judge Miller and
My Fellow Citizens. 1t gives me ex-
IRENE pleasure to meet at my home to-
day the representative citizens Of
Springfield and Clark county. would
not undertake to enumerate the clubs
present lest might omit some of them,
but all Of them are welcome. I have
long known that there was nothing
small about the people Of Springfield
and Clark county and / never stand
before a Springfield audience without
having come unbidden to my life
some OF the precious names associated
with that enterprising city-Shella bar
ger was not only q distinguished law
yer but an eminent statesman. and
that dear old citizen Judge White.
whose learning enrlches the judiciary
Of the state. names like those come to
me whenever see a Springfield au-
dience- lit is net given to many cities
To have furnished ais your city has al
distinguished 8. soldier and as valued
statesman as the ex-speaker af the
national house Of representatives, J.
Warren Keller, (Applause) nor ia it
given 70 many cities to have fur
n-shed as yours has. that splendid ideal
business man and distinguished exc
cutive. the present governor Of Ohio.
Asa s. Bushnell.
MI Cyrus Mccormick Of Chicago,
who is at the head of one OF the great
harvesting machine companies, the
strength and integrity OF which the
country is familiar with, recent
iy wrote as follows. We have
never before been SO at
loss to lay out our plans and
work for the next season as we are at
this time. If we thought that the
country would go for the unlimited
coinage of silver, we would not wish
to run our shops for more than one
half their capacity
we have in that statement. my fell
low citizens. a description Of our busi-
ness trouble and il teaches a striking
lesson which must impress every think
ing man. The manufacturer does not
know how to plan for next years bust
ness because Of the financial uncer-
taiNty created by one Of the great pO-
IHcai paties of the country in combi-
nation with two other parties III free
silver is to be inaugurated in this coun-
try it viii change all values. diaarrange
the relation of labor to pro-
finished product and unsettle all
conditions OF existing business and
prosperity. This uncertainty makes
every business man pause; makes
every business enterprise halt and
and while they pause and halt.
the home Of every workingman is
filed with despair. Capital hesitates
to invest because it sees danger ahead
and is unable TO count with certainty
upon either the safety Of its principal
or the return Of profits and while capi-
tai waits outside the factory and the
machinery within is silent labor IS I'M
employed and poverty presides about
the dresides of the men who toll do
not know how many hands the great
firm of Cyrus II. Mccormick & Co,
employ, but many thousands am sure,
but when he states that If we have
free coinage Of silver, he would not run
their shops with more than one-half
the labor now employed. assume
that what would be true in the case Of
che harvesting machine company OF
vesting machine concern ia Springfield
and throughout the country.
Take your own city. which has here
tofore been one eff the busiest centers in
the manufacture OF agricultural nipple
ments, employing 50.9e0 laborers OF
e.
cut that elnplo- ment in two would be
not only a calamity to Ia Dor. but would
pc & calamity to every interest in YOUR
city and to every farmer in your couu-
~ Your business relations are close
between the farmer and the manufac-
turer. When you are prosperous the
farmer is prosperous When the farmer
IS prosperous you have your most pro-
ntable trade II your pay roll should
be reduced one-half its effect would be
injuriously felt by every farmer in your
county, and the injury thus inflicted
would affect the machine works be-
cause your customers who are farmers
would suffer from the diminished labor
you would employ in the loss OF a part
OF their home market Isn't thar true.
my relloW citizens OF SprIng6eld2 (Cries
of 'Yes-3 Business of every character
is so interviewer. SO dependent and in
terdependent upon every other business /
that hurt to one Is hurt TO the other.
In 1892 people used to think that
you could hurt the manufacture and
help the rest Of mankind. They labor
under no such decisions now. Demand
As what makes business activity. The
sickle and the Nail would still DE In use
but for the pressing demand Of the
great grain fields cf America You make
agricultural implements because the
farmer wants them. but when he does
not want them you viii not make them.
And when you diminish your output
you do not require SO much labor ana
that is what makes poverty and idle
ness -A4 A@A-1W 1ALAAGAAsf we must
have stability Ia values and confidence
in national and individual integrity be-
fore we can have real and permanent
prosperity. We must have confidence
that our revenue legislation win sup
ply adequate money for the public
treasury and protect American labor
and American interests In every part
Of the country.
Alexander Hamilton once said:
There is scarcely any point In the econ
CrlT CT national alIRfrs Of aTas ter mo-
ment than the Uniform preservation OF
the intrinsic value Of the money unit
on this the security and steady value
Of property essentially depend We