The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1896-10-02
PILGRIMS TO CANTON.
Major Mckinley speaks About Labor and
Capital and Glass Prejudice.

Major Mckinley Speaks About Labor and
Capital and Glass Prejudice.
CANTON, Ohio. Sept. ga special
train bearing several hundred COM
mercial travellers from Peoria, Ill,
anu vicinity reached here at o o'clock
this morning. The men were uni
formed in light colored linen busters
and black silk hats and each carried a
large bunch of red, white and blue
plumes. They went direct to the Nc
Kinley residence where they were
presented by j. v. Graft, Cougressman
OF the Fourteenth Illinois district
Major Mckinley responded in part
as follows: More than 120 years
have passed since the government
was founded and in every trial of our
history we have demonstrated our ca
pacity for self government and shown
tc all mankind the use aud udvanta-
ges of the great republic. Now and
then in our popular elections we ma v
have been swayed by passion, or
moved by the demagogue from our
moorings, but the American people
are not fooled but once on a subject,
for once deceived they never follow
the deceiver the second time.
II have known and SO have you
times in our history when the IN jor-
ity Of the people were made to believe
that certain policies would serve their
best Interests and when it transpired
that they did not, they turned upon
the party which deceived them an
turned it out of power. And they
will do it again. The Judgment Of
the people is swift and terrible
against those who fnislead and delude
them. The people are never lei
astray by deceit or misrepresentation
when they investigate for them
selves. This they are doing
this year in a marked degree.
1t is of NO avail that party lead
ers appeal to passion when the
people are alive to their own and the
public interests 1t will not do to say
TO the men who are poor in this
worlds goods: You must get off ny
yourselves, fol m class of your own,
your interests are opposed to those
who employ you That is not enough
this year. The workingman asks:
What good will that do me, how will
that better my condition, how will
that bring bread to nay family and
cheer TO my children? How will [ be
benefited by despolllng my employer?
Will 1t give me more employment and
better wages to strike those down
whose money is invested in produc-
tive enterprises, who give me work
and wages?'
-Four years ago it was said that
manufacturers were making too much
money. You remember it. But it
cannot be said now. And that the
'robber tariff which was enriching
him must be torn up. root and branch,
to the end that he should lie deprived
of what some people were pleased to
call 'ill-gotten profits The country
seemed to share in the suggestion and
the trial was entered upon with what
result every manufacturer, COM
man, travelling man or work.
ingman best knows. 1t has been dis
covered to our hurt and sorrow that
you cannot injure tn. manufacturer
without injuring the laborer
ut has been found. too, that you
injure the manufacturer with
out injuring the whole business of the
country. You may close the shops by
adverse tariffs because yon imagine
the manufacturer is making too much,
but with that done you close the door
Of employment in the face of the
laborer whose only capital is his la Dor.
You cannot punish the one without
furnishing the other, and our policy
would not infiict the slightest injury
upon either. In such case, getting
off together does not do either any
good.
''Arraying labor against capital is
} public calamity and an irrepara Bile
injury to both. Glass appeals are dis
honest and dishonorable They cal
;ulate to separate both when they
should be united. Our economic in
,erests are common and indivisible.
"Gentlemen, and 1 speak to my
everywhere, if you have
lot yourselves been among the most
fortunate. l pray you think of your
boys and girls and place no obstacles
n their pathway to the realization of
very lofty and honorable ambition
which they may have. 1 pray God
hat the burdens of classes may never
De imposed upon American manhood |
md American womanhood