Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1896-10-27


and avoid It. We have experienced only
calamity by following false teachers. We
do not propose to experlvrre another and
even greater calamity by following the same
teaehers, loud cheers) We have already
trade. n policy the result Of which your
eloquent spokesman has so htly applied,
policy that has brought distress to our
wortingmen and extinguished the fires In
many furnaces. This has been your eN-
pericnco for the past three aud half years
IL is proposed now as though we had not
suffered enough from that fatal hcresy. that
somehow or other people can get rich by
wages, reduced employment AMI now they
want to reduce the value Of the money n
which they are paid so that we are sur
fcring In both directions.
MONEY TO PAY OFF DEBTS
what we want in the United states Is
stable tariff law that will raise enough
the government that will obviate the neces-
sity Of borrowing and lay up q surplus to
eminent OF the United States paid off It's
entire debt. II was Ss5,0CO,OCo In iS0l and the
R %a sa GGga after ere H' aS 1 pu
suing a protective policy FOR thirty-uNc
S s same 6ysr SSo aoaf rS ws M 10 6 we paid
OFF more than two-thrds Of our great war
debt, reaching more than 2COJ00CtO and
II our prosperity had not occn interrupted
and the republican policy rot abandoned,
we would have wiped out all of 1t by today.
Now, what we want to do Is to get back
to that good. American. protective policy
that stands for the American people and
American development against the whole
world besides. Then we want to pursue
sound financial system and have every dol
lar In this country sound as the govern
ncnt itself and as unqucstioncd in its In
tegrity as the flag that waves above us.
We want public honor kept inviolate. We
want TO teach and practice reverence Tor
public law, respect for our incorruptlbe
Judiciary: love Of our free Institutions; love
for our flag and zeal for public and private
honor. Let that be the shield OF exalted
American citizenship. cloud cheets)
Following the New Jersey delegation came
the employees OF the Erie railway east and
west Three trains were run for their trans
porta.lon. One from the east, started at
Meadville. Pa, consisted OF thirteen cars
Two from the west, the first OF which started
from Chicago. consisted OF fourteen coaches
each. They reached the Mckinley home
soon after IL o'clock and completely filled
the yard that It impossible to reach
them from the porch and the speaking was
done from the table on the lawn. Mr.. Nc
Kinley endeavored to shake hands with all
these visitors and the result was one of the
greatest Jams Of the campaign. The dele
CATION was introduced by Locomotive Engl-
neer George Menish OF North Judson. o.
Major Mckinley in the course OF his re-
spouse. said
I am glad to note among your number
your wives and families. The women of
this country are quite as much interested
I'm the rightfu settlement of political ques-
tions as the men. They are quite as much
interested In good times, good laws. good
morals and unsulied patriotism as the men
of the country are and II ~ pleasure to
me TO note that In all the months of this
exciting and interesting campaign the
women OF the United States have mani
Tested profound interest.
EVERY VOTER FREE.
1t is our proud boast, too. that every
man owns his own vote II is a priceless
privilege which no man or combination has
n right to assail or question. / want the
people of this country, this year. as in
all the years of the past, each for him
self and family, to cast his ballot so as
TO subscrve his own highest and best in
forests. Why. there IL almost panic
among some people OF this country because
employees and employers are marching
under the same flags, as though there was
something un-Amcrican about fraternity
between the men who employ labor and the
labor they employ. Why there Is no union
anywhere that should be stronger than the
union between labor and capital. The one
cannot get on without the other and labor,
thanl; God, Is ut the foundation of all the
wealth and prosperity beneath our flag.
capital won't run n railroad without profit
any more than a conductors will run his
train without pay. Capital will no more
work without profit than an engineer
VIII run hts engine without pay. What we
want in this country IL a restoration OF
that confidence that win give to capital
profit and have IL make liberal Investments
ana employ labor at liberal American
wages. Whatever policy will do that should
be the policy of the American people Tor
:, There is no man who thinks for a
moment that will not reject the sugges-
lion that you enrich anybody by dcbnsiug
the dollar, or that you can make anybody
under the sun better OF ny coming a piece
OF metal that Is worth only SO cents oVarv-
.whcrc IN the world and then try to fool
ono another by calling II a dollar If there
Is anything in this world that ought to
DC nGquestioned and above suspicion IL is
the money of the country. We want no
raise weights; we want no false balances:
we want no false measures of value to
cheat the unwary, and let me tell YOU that
those who suffer most from poor cur
rency are always and inevitably the men
WHO toii. There Is not man in this audi
ence VINO was drawing wages prior to 1869
that does not remember that ne was al
ways paid In the poorest dollar that would
pass current, and when he got II at night
II may nave been good, nut before morn
ing came the bank was broke and the
money lost. We have had no such ex-
perience In the last thirty years, for every
dollar In this country Is good: MS good as
inc government, and as untaTnished as our
ma every dollar representing 100 cents,
uuu good not only among our people but
Wherever trade goes, In every market place
1I me world "a voice: who made it?")
u was made by the republican party Rut
LET me say. while 1t was made by The re-
publican party, the administration of
Grover Cleveland has maintained IL ali
GOOD, every dollar as good as gold
1hen my fellow citizens another thing
we want IN TINS country. We want public
be1Ce ana tranquility, and we want to
teash q respect for laws; reverence for our
ircc institutions, the grandest and the best
beneath the SUM-
me next delegation addressed by Major
mckinley was composed of twenty-six rem
resentatives OF the Railway Mems Non
partisan Sound Money League of New Eng
land, in which all branches of railroad worl,
were represented. Major Mckinley re-
eeiVed the party in his library. where an
informal Introductory address was made Inv
Alexander Robertson of Boston The mem
bers OF the delegation were AFTERWARDS pre-
scented to Mrs. Mckinley, and later took n
drive about the city. They came in n
speclal car, attached to a regular train
mr mckinley $ remarks In the library were
very brief In the course on them. he said :.
rms ID year when the fires of patriot
Ism are burning in our hearts and the flow
erS OF patriotism are blooming over the
garden walls OF politics. We have mucb
at stake this year in the soundness of orr
currency and the integrity of the nation
and value highly the support and assist
ance OF the railroad men OF the United
States"
Powderly Pleads for sound Monex
SIOUX CITY, Oct. 2G.-(Speclal Telegram
The last republican rally of this CITY WAS
held tonight, when parade of the clubs n,
me city was given In honor OF the presence
mere OF ex-Master Workman PowderIy He
spoke at republican headquarters this even.
ing 10 large audience. He declared his
conviction that Mckinley would be eIectad