River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1896-10-29
NO COERCION.
Mckinley Says Position of Employer ana
Employe Is One of Cohesion.

Ianton, u, Oct. 20.-Saturday's Wis
'tors again broke the record In long dis
lance parties and variety of delegations.
business men and farmers came from
New York; farmers, railroad men and
working mer called by thousands from
Missouri, Iowa and Kansas. There
were school teachers, sienographers.
hon, steel and tin workers, veterans,
young women and old women. Maj. Nc
kinley made IL speeches to twice az
many delegations and paid particular
attention to the democratic charges of
republican coercion of working men,
when he said in his address in the even
ing TO the british Isles American club
of Cleveland: "They talk about coer-
cion-the coercion of employees by EN-
?loyer. They mistake the spirit of this
campaign. 1t is not coercion, but II 10
oohesion-cohesion between employees
and employers; made stronger by a
common interest and common expert
ence."
Again he referred to the coercion
charges in his address TO an audience of
railway employees from Horton. Kan.
Eldon, Ia, Trenton, Mo-, and Fort
Wayne, Ind. He said:
They say coercion is going on. The only
coercion that is operating IN the United
States to-day is that of reason, conscience
and experience. This is the mighty force
that leads but never drives, and all this
tax about coercion comes from a source
that four years ago deceived YOU.
coercion! Why. you would have TO
coerce men from thinking, reading ana
feeling to keep them away from the cause
frNr DtR1
fou would have to make them insensible
to what they have experienced in their
own lives under this policy.
You destroy business when you destroy
confidence. and you destroy confidence
when you defiantly propose to pay OFF
nebts, public and private, In deprecated
currency. We must get back TO that poll
Icy OF confidence confidence in each other.
confidence Ia the future, confidence I'm QUE
eountry-and spurn that doctrine that
would array class against class. the rich
against the poor OF employees against en-
ployers. When you support such doctrines
then there is chaos and business paraly-
sis. ! would rather teach the doctrine OF
thu common brotherhood of man.
I'VE are all equal, equal under the law,
equal In privilege beneath that starry ban
ner OF the free; equal In possibilities and
equal in opportunity. II the older men in
this audience have not realized all they
hoped for in their own lives, they have boys
ami girls for whom they want to realize
them In the future beg you not to shut
The door of opportunity in their young
faces. Encourage their ambitions; inspire
them to struggle to the front. Under our
form OF government they can get the high
est title which II Is possible to achieve. that
o being an American. You are proud of
your states, and you justly have right
to be proud of them: but you are prouder
still to be citizens of the greatest govern
ment in the world.
Maj. Mckinley also took as the theme
for his address to delegation of lum-
bermen from Chicago the necessity of
a restoration of confidence.
To a delegation from Lebanon, Read
ing, Berks county, Schulykill county
and contiguous territory in Pennsylva-
mia. Maj. Mckinley said:
'"The heart of the American people is al
ways right You can safely submit any
great public question with confidence to tho
American people. Mr.. Lincoln once sail
that there was no safer tribunal on earth
than the American people, and If the Al
mighty Ruler of the universe was on our
side, or on your side.' that side would sure
ly prevail. The aspiration of the Amer
lean people is for advancement. for adj
vancement IN the march of progress to-
wards the realization of the highest des-
tiny for this, the freest government of the
earth. What our people want is an OPP
portunity to develop the great resources
which God has given US, an opportunity to
work out high and glorious destiny. not
only for ourselves. but for all mankind,
for the higher the destiny we achieve for
ourselves the better, and the more we
benefit all the races of mankind. Now. II
occurs to me that before the people of this
country can be expected to have confidence
In that wing of the democratic party that
is now in control of its organization, before
we can be expected to entrust II with furth-
err power or control of the government,
and accept its promise that with free sill
yer will come better times TO all of US
that before we Go that, IL seems to me- the
democratic party ought to make good the
loss IL has entailed upon us In the last
three years and half. They can hardly
expect us to have confidence in their pres
ent prescription when the prescription
which they gave US in 1892 and which they
insisted was the cure for all oSir troubles,
was so complete failure. They now say
the present prescription, entirely different
from the old one, will correct all our diff
culties-and 1t does seem to me that they
are asking a great deal of confidence from
the American people. We cannot very
well forget the former deception, for the
people were deceived. Their policy not
only injured the people of this country in
their occupations, not only injured the
great manufacturing and mining and farm
Ing Industries of the country, but 1t al
most wrecked the public treasury"
Other delegationsa addressed were farm
ers and business men from Allen and
Henry counties in Ohio, body of New
Workers representing the towns of Ell
mira, Corning, Bath, Hornellsville, Gu
ba and jamestown, Railroad Mems
Sound Money club of Missouri, colored
workingmen from Pittsburgh, so wom-
en- stenographers from Akron, o.; en-
ployes of the Toledo 6 Hooking Valley
and Toledo & Ann Arbor Railway CON-
panies, iron and steel workers and tin
plate mill employees from Cambridge.
o.; school-teachers attending the
Northeastern Ohio Teachers institute
at Cleveland.