The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1896-10-15
Employees of the Pennsylvania
Railroad Visit Maj, Nc
Kinley's Home.
RECEIVE A HEARTY WELCOME.
The Majors Speech Arouses En-
thusiasm and is Loudly
hppIauded.

Ninlcy spoke as follows:
There are represented i'll the dele
cations this afternoon men i'll the employ
of the great PENNSYLVANIA railroad COM
pany and workingmpn and citizens from
The city of MckccspOrt. Pa. | remem-
her with special pleasure the visit |
made to that city two years ago today
TT the celebration of its Tooth anniver-
Sary. | remember to have had brought
to my attention then the very remark
able progress. industrial and otherwise,
which had been made by that enterpris-
iug city in the first 100 years of its eN-
iStrncc | did not find everybody so well
employed then as they had been during
the previous two years, but | found
great industries giving employment to
thousands of workingmcn which had
been built n under the Republican pol
icy that had uninterrupted existence for
more than Il third of Il century. Great
appauSro
II was glad to note among other things
in connection with that city the establish
mcNt of Il tinplatr works. one of the hrSt
if not the first, ever established III the
uitpd States. giving employment to
hundreds ot men and Of hundreds more
i'm other parts of the country, and the
mon. to whom this country is indebted
probably rs much to aS any other one for
the establishment of that industry, Is w.
{. CrouCmeypr of your city. lGreat ap-
plaUsc)
Prosperity of 1892.
81 am glad to meet and to greet the
citizens of MckecSpOrt and wish for 1t Il
return of that splendid prosperity which
Ii enjoyed four years ago. llrem"n-
duuS applauSeD | am also glad to meet
80 many of the men employed in the gen
vral Offices of the Pennsylvania lines west
oi Pitt>hurg. here at my home. for |
have long known much of their efficiency
and fidelity. tApplausrJ Considering
that they arc hut frail human beings like
the rest of mankind nothing could SurpaSS
the wonderful Perfection. completeness
ana safety of the system of railway man
Hyrmrnt and operation which dStin-
GuiShuS this country above all others and
This road among the most conspicuous
al any in the country. tGrcat applauSe.D
In itS advancement you have achieved
results that even in my boyhood would
have been considered magical.
You have practically eliminated dis
lance. subdued nature, and brought into
contact the uttcrm0st ends of the world.
All with Il skill. celebrity and modest
pride that does YOU infinite credit. But
busy business men that you are. | am
glad to see that YOU have not lost your
interest in public affairs and are deter
mined to do all You can for wise and
honest conduct. Indeed. | do not think
that there was ever Il time in the history
If our country when so many men were
interested in the rightful settlement of
public questions as this year. And no
class of your people are so much interest
rl in their righteous settlement as the
men who work for wages and salaries.
Wireat appaluse and cries of You are
all right Your zeal is more commenda-
able and | thank you for it.
Laugh at Coercion.
at has pleased me very much 70 OBJ
serve that all along the line of the rail
ways of this country the employees are
organizing. and | thank them Cor it.
tApplauSr and cries of I'VE don't heed
1hankS."J But | want to give You one
piece of advice. Don't use these great
organizations to coerre your employers
~ vote the same ticket that YOU do.
Tremendous cheers and laughter last
ing several minuteS.) And | also warn
You against any attempt to coerce the
officers of your company into voting the
Republican ticket. Qpnewed cheers and
laughter and cries of 'Hurrah for Nc
Kinley.O
NO body of men in the country ;,as
greater interest i'll the prosperity of the
United States. which they always do so
much to create and promote. than the
VAST I'll NY VI llItil Ill our NblINltI / Ill
railroad services. No enterprises feel
depression more quickly than the rail
roads-thoso grand arteries of commerce
and civilization. which have united de-
veloped and transformed the globe
(CrieS That's right.0 No agency more
accurately registers the business Of the
country than the railroads. and there is
none which has SO miraculOusly ad-
vanced it. They connect the far West
I'll,
North with the distant South. and con-
Stantly traverse every Intervening part
of our common country.
Railroads as Barometers.
Railroads measure by their traffic
and their tonnage the business cOnd-
tons of the cities. villages. counties and
states through which they pass. They
are unfailing barOmpterS of every bust
ness change and have never vet failed
to meet every demand upon them. how
ever sudden perpleXing. or great. They
are constantly increasing their facilities.
their efficiency. and capacity. and in the
sharp competition of legitimate business
rivalry they have constantly. of their
own free vOlitiOn. steadily reduced the
rates for both freight and passenger
traffic.
They not only register the domestic
liNut VI Ilt Nbuhllh, bul " Il very
large degree the foreign trade, for with
out their enterprise and liberality the
farmer would be deprived of any parti-
cpatiOn i'll distant markets and the mer.
chants unable to offer their goods at
prices within the means of any of their
customers. Whatever wrongs they Lave
perpetrated. and in system so great
and extensive doubtless there have been
some. in spite of their efforts to prevent
Il,
their purpose to prevent it. they are
now and always have been common car.
rierS and | believe that almost without
exception the aim of their managers is
To oblige and not impose upon the nub
lie.
NO department of human industry in
the United States has made greater ad.
vancement in the last thirty years than
that which you represent In 1865 thf
number of miles of railroad in operatior
in this country was Boost In 1887
100000. and in 1893, 1TS,00O miles. but
| believe we have not been building
many, if any, miles of railroad, since
then. We have. at any rate, fully one
half of the railroads in the world.
Exceeds England's Traffic.
"The traffic of our railroads is cate,
than that of any other country A sin
gle example will suffice to illustrate this
England is our ackIOWleuSeu com etltOr
and its foreign trade is the greatest OF
any country in the world The vesse
tonnage entered and cleared in the for
pign trade OF London during 1890 wa.
Is. 1870. 100 tons, and of Liverpool 1921,
800 tons, total for these two grea
shipping ports of "A, 442,5S6 tons. Tn,
aggregate traffic on our railroads i'm oul
domestic trade for 1891 was 704, 39S. 400
or more than twenty-nine times as great
For what, therefore, should we chiefly
cOntendI The advanc; ment and protec
tion of this domestic traffic or its pra !.
teal abandonment, or neglect, at least
in the effort to share England's oceaI
traffic Whenever the property of th
toll h1 L., Z Il.