The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-10-27
ghe aqlieha gaiy eagle guesday aHorine eober 27 1886

Union, because one week from tomor-
row you will perform the supreme and
most sacred duty of American citizen
ship. There is one glory Of which we
can boast and no other nation can, and
that is thar ours Is a government Of the
people, and Of all the people. and not a
part Of the people. The vote of one man.
no matter what may be his occupation,
no matter what may be his surround
ings, whether they be humble, or ex-
allied, counts just as much on that su-
preIne day as the vote Of any other man.
1t is our proud boast, too. that every
man owns his own vote. II is his price
less privilege which no man or conoina-
ton has q right to assail or question.
want the people of this country. this
year and In all the years of the future.
each for himself and family. to cast his
ballot so as to subserye his own highest
and best interests.
why, there Is almost panic among
some people Of this country. because en-
ployes and employers are marching IN
der the same flags; as though there were
something un-American about frater-
I,ity between the men who employ labor
and the labor they employ. Why.
liiciC u HO uIilUu any tAdi
be stronger than the union between labor
and capital The one cannot get on
without the other. and labor. thank God,
is at the foundation Of all the wealth
and prosperity beneath our flag. Capt.
tai won't run a railroad without profit
any more than a conductor will run his
train without pay. What we want in
this country is a restoration OF that con-
ftdtnce that will give to capital profit
and nave it make liberal investments
and employ labor at liberal American
wages. Whatever policy Will do that
should be the policy Of the American
PEOPLE fer all time to come. Will a
policy do tha, that encourages the for
eign workshops against the home work.
shop? (Cries Of MOI VIII a policy
do that that has American goods manu-
featured in England rather than in the
United States? cloud shouts Of mo,
no. rcver.'D
mo, / answer, forever, no. There is
just one thing will do 1t. and that is to
protect every industry in this country
from ruin. Stop competition from
abroad and give our producers this
splendid home market and our wage
earners this magnificent wage center.
The: we want to open up. by reciprocity
provisions. a foreign market for our
surplus products of agriculture and
manufacture. and when we have done
that we have put every man to work In
this country; and when every man Is at
work, every home and family In the
land is happy. When every factory and
man is at work In this country. then
railroads have plenty to do. but when
they are dun and silent, the railroads
have little to do. The men standing
around and about me today know better
than I can tell. how much they have
suffered from a policy that has stricken
down enterprise and industry and trans
mitted our work beyond the seas to be
done beneath another flag. -.
MY fellow citizens, We want to vote, ~
we believe in the policy. we want 40 vote
TO restore industry. We want further 70
have IL understood by all mankind that TN
is not nation Of regulators, that We De
heve IN paying our debts In good, round,
honest doliars-not only our public debts.
but our private ones, too; not only paying
one body Of our people In good money, but
all Glasses OF people in the same money,
and all OF 1t nnquesttoned and undeprecia,-
ing forever. This the kind Of money We
have today-gold, silver and paper, ali
alike equal, and II worth one hundred cents
to the dollar everywhere; and fhats what
we propose to continue. There Is no man
VINO IOE ItfoauC.lls tAot 40 49,
reject the suggestion that you can enrich
anybody by debasing the dollar, or that
you can make anybody under the sun bet
ter off by coming piece OF metal that Is
worth only fifty-two cents everywhere in
the world, and then try to fool one another
by calling 1t dollar. If there Is anything
in this world that ought to be unquestion.
ed and above suspicion 1t is the money or
the country. We want no false weights
we want no false balances; we want no
false measures of value to cheat the un-
wary, and let me tell you that those who
suffer most from q poor currency are al
ways and inevitably the men who toll.
There Is not man In this audience who
was drawing wages prior to 1859. that does
not remember that he was paid in the poor
est dollar that would pass current, ana
when he got II at night II may have been
good, but before morning came the bank
was broken and the money lost. We have
had no such experience in the last thirty
years, for every dollar in this country Is
good; as good as the government and as
untarn;shed as our flag; every dollar rep
resentlng one hundred cents and good not
only among our own people but wherever
trade gees. in every mart and in every mar
ket place of the world. "a voice: Who
made it?C It was made by the Republi-
can party. But let me say. while 1t was
made by the Republican party the admin
istration OF Grover Cleveland has main
tained II all gold. every dollar as good as
gold Then, my fellow-citzene. another
thing we want in this country: We want
public peace and tranquility; and we want
to teach q respect for laws; reverence for
our free institutions, the granceSt and the
best beneath the sun.