The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-09-24


KinIey today were from the natural
gas districts Of Ohio and Indiana
The first visitors were from Wood
county and Bowling Green, Ohio. They
arrived about 2:30. The delegation was
composed of a First Voters club of
Bowling Green, parts of the various
Republican clubs of the country, and
the Woman's Mckinley and Hobart
club. The members of the latter organ
ization wore white Tam O'Shanter
caps. The whole delegation numbered
600. A. S. Parker was spokesman.
In response to mis- remarks, Major
Mckinley said:
II am very glad to meet, at my home,
this representative delegation from
Wood county. I am especially glad TO
make suitable recognition of the wo-
men who have honored me with their
presence today. (Cheers.) The pres
ence Of this body of young men who
are to vote for the first time next No
yember, is to me an inspiring sight,
and that. you are soon to enjoy the
privilege of citizenship must be TO all
of you an inspiring thought l wonder
whether you fully appreciate
THE PRIVILEGE AND HONOR
which you are so soon to have? I fear,
some times, that few of us estimate
suffrage at it's true worth. It clothes
us with sovereignty. 1t is guarantee
to our liberties and institutions. and
is our surest safety 1t is indeed a
priceless inheritance, and should be
valued as such by every young man.
1t should never, no never, be thrown
ny,d CHI
represent public dishonor. Great APP
piause.) / recall, young men, my first
vote. With what a thrill Of pride l ex-
erciSed, for the first time, the full
prerogative of citizenship! In the crisis
of war; on the very field of conflict,
nv first vote was cast for Abraham
Lincoln. (Great eheering.) 1t is to me
a priceless memory You, gentlemen:
did not have that privilege; but it hav-
ing been denied you, there will be some
satisfaction to you to vote for the party
of Lincoln, which rallied the young
men of the country around the banner
of liberty, union and national honor be-
tween 1850 and 1865 (applause), and
now summons you under the same glor-
ious banner. {Renewed applause.) 1t
is seldom given to the first voters of
this country to start in where so much
Is involved, and where so many inter
ests are at stake. It is, too. where old
rarity divisions count for little, when
men of all parties are united in the
common object to
SAVE THE COUNTRY FROM DIS
HONOR
and its currency from degradation.
CCheers.)
My fellow citizens, I ventured, a
few weeks ago, to suggest in a public
speech that | made. that it would be
better to open the mills than to open
the minis. Great cheers and cries of
That right.') see that some of our
political adversaries criticise the state
nent, saying that it is putting the
cart before the horse They seem to
think that the way to open up the
wooden mills. for example, is to start a
ya.d-stick factory. Great laughter
and applause.) They forget that you
must make cloth before you can weave
it (applause), and that the weaver
must be employed before the yard
stick is required (applause); but they
say the yard stick is too long. / an
swer. if you II AXE a yard-stick nine
teen inches instead of thirty-six inches,
its present length, you will not increase
the output of cloth or its value or give
an additional days labor to the Amer
lean weaver. Nor viii a 53-cent dollar
increase industrial enterprises, add to
the actual earnings of anybody or en-
nance the real value of anything.
lGreat applause.) 1t will
WRONG LABOR AND WRECK VAL
UES
and has done so wherever it has been
used. More cloth might require more
yardsticks, Qaughter), but more yard
sticks or shorter ones will not create
a demand for more cloth. CRenewed
laughter and cries of Good, good;'')
nor will short dollars from wide open
minis, free to all the world, increase
cur factories. (Applause.) More factor
les at work viii find work for the good
dollars now in their hiding places and
find employment for the good men now
idle at their homes. tremendous cheer
ing.l Industry must come first. La
Dor precedes all else. 1t is the founda-
ton Of wealth: it is the creator of all
wealth. (Applause.) Its active employ
mint puts money in circulation and
sends it coursing through every artery
of trade. Great applause) The minis
don't distribute it in that way Start
the factories in full blast, and the
money will flow from bank and vault.
The lender will seek the borrower, not
as now. the borrower the lender. Great
cheering.) Start the factories and put
all our machinery in operation, and
there will not be an idle man in the
country who is willing to work (Ap-
plause.l
PLENTY AND PROSPERITY
will return to us again. and do not for
get, men and women of Wood county.
that you cannot coin prosperity. Great
cheering.l They come through labor
and confidence, skill and enterprise. and.
nonesty-and they will come no other
way" Great cheering)
The second and last delegation today
came from Muncie, Ind. Four bands OF
music accompanied the Indiana deiega-
ton.
The spokesman of the Indiana delega-
ton was A. e. Needham, who made an
earnest address,. In response, Major Nc
<indey said:
1T is needless for me to say that I
am greatly honored TO receive this call
Ircrn my fellow citizens of Muncie.
Il must congratulate this assemblaee
Of lndfanaIis upon the selection of their
spokesman, who has delivered before me
SO able and eloquent and telling a
speech. (Applause.) He has said that
sit is understood / am an American
That is altogether true (Applauseo I
believe in America for Americans-na-
tive born and naturalized (Cries' Of
''Good-'.) l believe in the American
pay roll daughter and applause), and
/ do not believe in diminishing that pay
-.o11 bx giving work 10 anvhodv else