The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-10-02
ALL ARE HOME FOLKS
hv Irrage John C. Miller.
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by Judge John c. Miller. Major Nc
Kfnley responding as follows:
"Mr. Chairman, Judge Miller and my
feM5w-citizens: 1t gives me great pleas
ure to meet at my home today tae repre-
sentative citizens of Springfield. l would
not undertake to enumerate the clubs
| present here, lest / might omit some oi
chem, but all of them are welcome
have long since known that there was
nothing small about the people OF Spring
field and Clark county.
SPRINGFTEID'S GREAT ONES
81 never stand before a Springfield
audience without having come unbidden
20 my lips some of the precious names
associated with that enterprfsSDg city
| Shellabarger was not only distinguish
| ed lawyer, but an eminent statesman;
end that dear old citizen, Judge White
whose learning enriched the judiciary OF
| the state-names like those come to me
when / see a Springfield audience. It is
1 not given to many cities to have fur
nfslbed, as yours has, as distinguished a
| soldier and as valued a statesman as
| the ex-speaker of the national house of
representatives, J. Warren Keifer- Nor
| is vt given to many cities to have fur
niahed, as yours has, the splendid bust
ness man and distinguished executive,
| the present governor of Ohio, Asa Bush
nell.
THE REAPING MACHINE MEN.
"Mr. Cyrus H. Mccormick of Chicago,
who is at the head of one of tine great
Harvesting machine companies, with
the strength and integrity of which the
| country is familiar, recently wrote az
follows: We have never before been
60 at a loss TO lazy out our plans and
work for the next season as We are a..
this time. If we Thought that the coun-
try would go for the uufimit coinage
of silver, we would not wish to run our
shops for more dian one-l1alf their capa-
city
I'VE have, in that statement, my fel-
low-citiZens, a description of our bust
ness trouble and IT teaches a strikins .
lesson which must impress every think
ing man. The manufacturer does no.
know how to plan fer the next years
business because Of the financial uncer-
tainty created by the attitude of one of
the great political parties of tine coun-
try, in combination with two other par
ties. If free silver is to be fnaugu~atea
In this country it will change all values,
disarrange the relation of labor TO pro-
duction, of raw material TO the finished
product, and uisettle all conditions OF
existing business and prosperity.
AND WHILE THEY PAUSE.
This uncertainty makes every bust
ness man pause; makes every business
enterprise halt; and vile they pause and
hTaDt, the home of every worktngman is
filed with despair Capital hesitateSs to
invest, because il sees danger ahead and
is unable to count with certainty upon
either the safety of IT'S principal or tn,
return of profits; and while capital waits
outside the factory, the machinery
within is silent, labor is unemployed ana
poverty presides about the tiresGdas OF
thu men who toll. I do not know how
many hands the great firm of Cyrus H.
Mccormick & Go. employ, but many
thousands. am sure, but when he states
that if we have free coinage of SILVER.
he would not run the shops with more
than half. the labor now employed, 1 as
sumo that what would be true in the
case of his harvesting machine COM
pany OF Chicago would be true of every
srvesting machine company in Spring
Held and throughout the country
TAKE YOUR OWN CITY"
Take your own city, which has here.
totore been one of the busiest centers
in the manufacture of agricultural i'm
EieTne1rts, employing 5.00e laborers. or
once did Great applause and laugh
terO To clIt that employment in two
would be not only a. calamity TO labor,
but would be a calamity to every inter
. eff IN osfv
your country. Your business fairly illus
trates the close relation between the
manufacturer and the agricultural pro-
Queer. When you are prosperous. the
farmer is prosperous. When the farm
err is prosperous. you have your mos.
profitable trade. If your pay-rolls
should be reduced oue-aalf. the effect
wcuid be injurfousGy felt by every far
noer in your county and the INJURY thus
inflicted upon the farmer would affect
the machine works. because your Gus
toners, who are farmers would euffer
epbtuainSrtoln gseaSondffi kfflR som EFT
from the diminished labor YOU would
Employ. in the loss OF a part OF their
market. Isn't that true. my fellow
citizens. OF Springfield. Cries Of: 'Yes.O
WHEN ONES OUT. ALLS OUT.
business Of every character is so in |
terwoven. so independent and interie- |
pendent upon every other business that |
TO hurt one is 70 hurt the other. In
1892. people used 10 think that you could /
hunt the MANUFACTURES and clip te rest
OF mankind We labor under no such
deluston now Demand y waet makes /
business activity. The sickle and the
fan would stiu be IN use but for the /
pressing demand OF the great grain /
fields. OF America You make agricul-
turs1 implements because the farmer /.
needs them, but when he does not want 4
them y7ol VII not make them and when !
he wants fewer OF them you will not /
make so manly, and when that time /
comes and you diminish your OUTPUT. |
yea do not requsre 50 much labor. ana /
thai Is what makes poverty and idle
ness.
MUST HAVE STABILITY.
My fellow-citizens. We must have sta /
bilsIy IN values and confidence in ration +
al and individual integrity before W.
can have Teaa and perms neut prosperity. /
We must have conf dencs mat our reve> I
hue legislation viii supply edequs Il /
'lsonsy for the pubic treasury ana pro- /
tect American labor and American IL /
ter'estS n every part Of the country Al I
eIldrTa Hamilton once sad: There e
ses@ceiy any point in the economy Of /
rational affairs q greater moment than i
the Uniform p7eservSa non Of he 5at~isl- I
SIC vSl"a & ne ulensy uait. On ms .
Ire security and steady value OF prop
er5y essentially depend
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