The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1896-08-29
MexINLEY TALks nc NEGROES
Encourages and ApPlauds Their Prog.
ress Prosperity Is the Fruit
of Labor.

Major Mckinley recently addressed a
visiting delegation of Afro Americans.
In part he said:
"Mr. Smith and My Fellow Citizens:
1t gives me extreme pleasure to meet
and greet this company of rifles and my
colored fellow citizens of the city of
Cleveland and of northern Ohio, and l
rejoice to learn from your eloquent
spokesman that Jour race this year, as
in all the years of the past, stands faith.
fully to the Republican cause, which !
believe is the cause of our country.
(Applause) l do not forget-no man
can forget-that, whether in war or in
peace, the race which you represent
never turned its back on the glorious
old stars and stripes. Great applause
and cries of "IIurrah for McKinley.")
When that great civil war commenced,
no man could tell what the outcome
would be in regard to its effect upon
your race. There were those who be.
lieVed that it must result in the aboli-
ton of human slavery. There were
those who believed otherwise. The re-
suit was the immortal proclamation of
emancipation by the best friend you
ever had, Abraham Lincoln, whose
name you will cherish and revere for
ever and forever more. Tremendous
cheering)
james &. Blaine once said that the
first instinct Of an American was equal
ity-equality of privilege, equality in
political power That sentiment long
ago found expression in the cOnstitu-
ton of the United States, and the peo-
pie of this country placed in that great
instrument, where it had never been
before, and where, under God, it shall
ever remain, civil and political equality
to every citizen everywhere beneath the
flag. (Applause.)
II congratulate you, gentlemen, upon
the splendid progress that your race
has made since emancipation. You
have done better, you have advanced
more rapidly, than it was believed pos
sible at that time. You have improved
greatly the educational advantages
which you have had. Your people
everywhere, north and south, are &C.
cumulating property, and today you
stand among the most conservative of
the citizens of this great republic. Gap.
plause.) congratulate you from the
bottom of my heart upon the advance
ment you have already made, and /
sincerely wish for you and your race,
fellow citizens of common country,
the realization of your hopes and your
prayers. Great cheering)
"My countrymen, the most un- Amer
lean of all appeals observable in this
campaign is the one which seeks to ar
ray labor against capital, employer
against employed. (Applause.) 1t is
most unpatriotic and is fraught with
the greatest peril to all concerned. We
are all political equals here-equal in
privilege and opportunity, dependent
upon each other, and the prosperity of
one is the prosperity of the other
Great cheering) 1t is as Mr.. Lincoln
said to the committee from the Work
ingmen's Association of the campaign
of 1854:
"'Prosperity is the fruit of labor
Prosperity is desirable; it is a positive
| o,Ood RI tho world Wifbal sOuon shOuId
be rich, as it shows that others may be,
come rich. and hence is just encourage,
ment to industry and enterprise. Let
no man who is homeless pull down the
house of another, but let him work dill,
Eigently and build one for himself, thus
by example assuring that his own shall
be safe from violence when built"