The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-28
SPEECHES BY AI'KINLEY.
Addresses Delivered by the Repub-
lican Nominee Saturday.


Mckinley to visiting delegations Saturday
were the following.
My Fellow-citlzens-I am highly hon
ored by this call from the workingmen OF
the great Jones-Laughin establishment of
the city of Pittsburg. Great applause)
bid you warm and generous welcome to my
home (Renewed applause( You are pres
ent in such vast numbers this morning be-
cause in a few weeks you Will be called
upon to give expression TO your lndlVldual
opinions upon public questions at the polls:
You are here because you are deeply and
personally interested in the right settle
ment Of those questions. (Applause and
cries of And in you for President!)
Mr.. Lincoln once SAID that the question
of the tariff was a question of national
housekeeping; that we must have a tariff
which would supply the meal tub of the
government and not interfere with the
meal tub of the people. The meal tub of
the government has been very low for the
past three years (cries of That's right!o,
and the meal tub Fl 1ee eope hop aise
and renewed cries of That's right!)
NOW. what we want in this country,
whether be Democrats or republicans,
is such a tariff policy that Will secure to
the federal treasury ample revenue to run
the government and protect American la
bor and American workingmen from the
competition of the cheaper labor of other
lands. Great cheering and cries of 'Hur-
this audience, / care not what may be his
nationality, 1 care not what his party affil-
iations who does not know that this coun-
try has enjoyed throughout its history the
highest and largest prosperity when we
were living under an American protective
tariff system Great applause and cries
Of Right you are!) There never was such
great prosperity in this country as there
was from 1880 to 1892 (cries of That's SOD,
and we had then a protective tariff which
defended American wages, American mar
kets from foreign competition, AND we had
at the same time a monetary system which
gave TO this country the best money known
in the world. Great applause)
II am proud of the State of Pennsylvania
because that glorious State has always led
on this great doctrine of a protective tariff
for the American people; 2Appiause and a
where stated that in 1884 the value of build
ings alone erected in the city of Pittsburg
erected amounted in value to 81, S3l GOO and
in iSS6 ii amounted to $2,2s2, 600. The value
of the buildings put up in 1SS9-that was
after the presidential election of 1SSS-was
Sc, S45, 500. (Applause.) This is the high
Pittsburg This was when the protective
tariff system was in full force, and l sub.
i've of party, to produce similar conditions
in this country. We must get back to that
plane of prosperity from which we ran
My fellow-citizens, I make no personal
appeal to you. ] make no appeal for mere
party's sake in this contest This is gov
eminent of the people Every man has an
equal right with every other man, but l
appeal to you in the interest of your own
work in the interest of your own wages,
in the interest of your own families and
your own households to cast your vote for
will best subserve those great interests.
tremendous applause and cries of We
Will Not only t DO o. we S want + protective
sound money. Great cheering and cries of
That's the stuff.D When labor is paid it
must insist upon being paid in dollars
worth 100 cents every day and everywhere.
(Applause and cries of GOOD. good La
hor loses more by a deprecated currency
than any other part of our popula ton
(Cries Of That's right.) The men who have
money keep their fingers on the financial
pulse. They know what is the best money
and they know what is the poorest money;
and they always pay out the poorest that
Kind is that when we have poor money
that poor money lodges in the hands of the
Poor men Of the country, and when the
crash comes they suffer the loss. applause
and cries of That's right.D
And now, my felloW-citizens, as dele
cations are coming to-day and many of
them, you must be content with this short
and broken speech. | appreciate your call
more than ! can find words to tell you,
establishments in the United
Subsequently, fifty years old; and the
could be written that you have enjoyed as
workingmen and they have enjoyed as en-
ployers the highest prosperity when we
have had judicious tariff and sound dol
lars fGreat cheering)
To a delegation representing various in
dustries in Pennsylvania, Mr. Mckinley
said
For you seem to be all here to-day
daughter and applauseD Those who are
not in this audience were in a previous
one, and those who are not here now CT
were not then are to be here later in the
day. loud laughter and APPLAUSE
bid you all warm and hearty welcome. [
am glad to meet the miners. the steel work
ers and other representatives of the ioco-
works tappIauS2) of the
Spang-Chalfant Company and the Crescent
steel works (applause), and all the rest of
you who have honorcd me with your pres
tn-6I .
bridge works yelled out: Don't forget the
bridge works" amid laughter and ap-
plause.) And the bridge works. tRenewed
aEr4auSe) | am very proud OF the STATE
of Pennsylvania, proud of her workshops,
Of her workingmen, her farms, tcr mines
and ner Republican majorities.
II have known Pennsylvania people for
many, many years, and / have known the
workngmen OF Pennsy lvania. L remember
the first Congress in which l served TO
have received a large delegation OF Y. TX
ingmen and miners from the State OF fenn>
test against the passage of what was known
as the Wood tariff bill / remember to have
met representatives of labor from your
State who came TO protest against the
passage of what was known inc Mo-
rison horizontal tariff bill; and later on /
the passage of what was known a. the
Mills bill. Happily were able to defeat
every one of these bills. because We be-
lieved they were opposed TO the best in
ferests of American labor and American de-
We were not able TO defeat :he
Wilson tariff bill. and you have been suffer-
ing ever since as result thereof.
Now. / don't care what may be your