The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-09-30
RAIN PUT OUTDOOR DEMONsTRA-
TIONs AT CANTON OUT. OF THE
4., -a.- QUESTION.
TWO DELEGATIONS CALLED.
FOUR OF THE VISITS PLANNED
FOR THE DAY WE'RE POST
$50 ,P0NED.
MINIS CANNOT MAKE MARKETS.
Farmers and WOrkingmen, to Me-
KinIey's Mind, Cannot Profit
by Cheap Silver Dollars.

CANTON, O.. Sept 29-Rain fell in
cessantly today, and demonstrations
on the Mckinley lawn were entirely
out of the question. Four of the visits
announced were postponed The SOL
diers from the home at Sandusky and
residents of the vicinity arriyed Ia
special train of seven coaches Sc on
after noon. They We're taken to the
Tabernacle, where Maj. Mckinley met
them Addresses were made by Ser
geant Hopkins, on beho.lf Of the sol
diers, and l.. w. Hull, OH behalf of
the citizens.
A special train OF ten cars thought
the second delegation of The day. 1t
started from Walkerton, Ind. and
picked up railroad men in all branches
of the work, farmers, mechanics and
citizens in general between that point
and Chicago Junction, o. The 1elega-
ton was presented by Judge W. l..
Penfeld, of Auburn, Ind. Maj. Nc
Kinley said:
The farmers Of this country must appreci-
ate and will appreciate, If they do not al
ready, that we cannot increase their markets
or decrease their competition either at home
or abroad by destroying the credit of the
country (applause); that we cannot cut down
the competition which they have in India
and Russia and the Argentine Republic, or
increase consumption at home of their prod
ucts by cutting down the value Of the cur
reney Of the United States. The only way
the farmers be benefited is through
larger consuming class. (Applause.) The
minis will not furnish the farmer with more
consumers He has the most profitable mar
ket for what he produces at home, and not
abroad. (Applause.) He is not in the mar
kets of the world by the products OF other
lands beyond the sea. The only market ne
can rely upon every day of the year is the
American market, and what he wants to know
Is how to make the American market the
best He cannot do it by closing our mills.
(Cheers.) He cannot do it by putting out
the fires of our furnaces (Renewed cheerlng0
He cannot do it by taking business away
from the great railroad lines OF the country.
He can only improve the American market by
favoring policy which puts every man at
work who lives beneath our flag, and puts
him at work at living wages. (Great APP
plause) Not at the wage scale of some other
nation Of the world. but the American wage
scale. the best in the world. Great applause.)
You cannot improve our market by de-
stroying the credit Of the country, for the
credit of the country lies at the foundation
of capital and prosperity. The moment you
have destroyed the credit Of the country you
have taken away from the manufacturer the
ability to get more money with which to
conduct his business, and when he cannot
conduct his business he cannot employ men,
and when he does not employ men he does
not pay wages, and when men do not receive
wages they have no wages to spend, and when
they have no wages to spend they make poor
customers. Great applause.) The farmer
can no more increase the value OF his wheat
by diminishing the value Of the American
dollar than he can increase the quantity of
his hay by diminishing the hay wagons on
which he hauls 1t. tremendous cheering)
The railroads of the country make business.
They consume $4,000, 600 tons Of coal year.
That is what you engineers burn every twelve
months. What does that do? tCries. 1t
gives US work. Yes, 1t gives you employ
ment while you are burning it. It gives
thousands of miners employment while they
are digging it. That is the kind Of policy
we advocate-let everybody help everybody
else. Great applause.)
/ see that the railroad train service has
four distinct organizations, probably more
that of the engineers. dremen, trainmen and
organizations auxiliary thereto among the
switchmen ard telegraphers. | am informed
that each Of these has a department of insur-
ance, mutual in its character, and conducted
and administered by men of their respective
organizations. Am I right? The highest
tribute to their business capacity and hon
esty Is found In the fact that not 81 has
been lost or squandered. The trainmen have
paid out nearly So SOC, 900. The fremen have
paid out nearly 81, 00o, 900. The conductors
have paid out insurance amounting to nearly
81, 500, 900, while the engineers, who have, l
believe, the oldest organization, have paid out
nearly 100000. The railroad men. too, are
investors and stockholders in loan associa-
tons, and have savings In savings banks, or
did have (Great applause and laughter.)
What a deep interest, therefore. the railroad
men have in the rightful settlement of the
ested in preserving the integrity of their
savings for their old age or disqualification
and their Insurance to their families in case
Of accident or death, but they are interested
believe that the railroad men Of this
country will ever consent to having their
savings cut In two or their insurance money
paid at the rate OF 81 cents on the dollar.
Nor will they be satisfied to receive their
wages in anything but currency which shall
be worth full 100 cents.
They are talking about the creditors OF this
country. They are against them. Who are the
creditors OF this country? They are the men
who labor in this country Tremendous
toaS the Of tns
Aside from what Is due them upon
investments and savings, their current
wages make them the largest creditor class
In the United States. The employers of this
country owe their employees every thirty
days. in good times (cries of mot now,
thought more than the bonded debt of the
United States. Nearly $500 100000 is paid to
the railroad employees alone. Does the rail-
way employe propose to aid any party to
exact legislation which will cut his pay roll
from 25 to so per cent in the name Of a cheap
dollar? loud cries OF mo, no')
l have seen it stated somewhere that of
the employees in the United States about 81
per cent of them are voters. cannot be
mistaken when express the belief that these
men will not cast their votes in favor of
debased currency and the reputation Of pub
lie or private obligations.
1t has been stated by some of the leaders
Of the Democratic party that free coinage
Of silver would raise the price Of silver from
IS cents an ounce, the present market r7-.ce,
to st.29 an ounce or, in other words, make
SO cents worth Of silver actually worth one
hundred cents. / do not believe 1t. Do youe
tCries Of mo. of course we don'tpDI do
not believe that the free coinage Of the silver
product of the world with the fat of the
government of the United States could make
a thing worth 5S cents worth hundred cents
Great applause and cries of "Nov') Such a
proposition Is contradicted by reason and ex-
perience and opposed to common sense and
the plain principles Of old-fashioned honesty
I thank you for this call and for the as
surances you have given me of your support
to the great principles which by the favor
of great political party I stand for at this
moment am glad to know that the great
state Of Indiana, the state Of Harrison great
applause) and Morton renewed applause),
will stand this year, as 1t has stood in ali
the years OF the past, for the country and the
country's honor and for policy that will
give to the American people the largest pros