The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-15
TO RAILWAY EMPLOYEES.
Mckinley Tells Why They Are Inter-
ested in the COuntry's Welfare.

Mckinley Tells Why They Are Inter-
ested in the COuntry's Welfare.
The Cleveland Street-railway Employees
Mckinley Club was presented to the Re-
publican nominee this morning. In re-
spending to the greeting of the clubs
spokesman Mr.. Mckinley said:
My Fellow-citizens-I cannot conceal
employees of the Cleveland Street-railway
Company, that have done me the honor, to
pay me this visit. You are here to-day be-
cause you are interested in the country Ia
which you live and the country which you
love. You are here because the contest
that is now less than three wekes away
from it's conclusion will settle. l trust, for
all time. a number of important and funda-
mental questions. / take 1T that you are in
terested in these questions being settled on
the side of right and justice, and to the
o nPn tha d thinq glo fga+ OF vs the will fe lnitla is t Gne
this is a government under law and by
law. and that this is a government of nom
or and integrity; that it would spurn to
repudiate any of it's obligations, public or
private; that it would spurn to establish
a currency that was not good and sound in
all commercial transactions in every part
of the world. Then we will settle another
thing this yearI-and that is whether we
or free trade in the United States. or
whether we will discontinue it. We have
had nearly four years of experience under
1t, and we know something of it's results.
We have had nearly four years of unpre-
cedented business depression and business
disorder, the hardest times within the rec
election of the men who stand about me
to-day. Now. / believe that policy ought
to be reversed. / think we ought to go
back to the protective policy, under which,
for a third of a century of our national
life; aye, for much longer than a third of
a century, for, commencing with the be-
ginning of the government, we were living
under that policy; and when we have lived
under it the people have always been pros
porous and the homes of the American cit
liens happy; ard the treasury of the
United States, instead of being deficient,
had a surplus and had plenty of money to
meet all of it's daily expenses.
You are interested in the prosperity of
the country. You cannot be protected. by
tariff personally and directly. but you get
your protection in the general prosperity OF
the country. The more business that is
done in the city OF Cleveland. in the mills
and the shops, the factories and the stores
and on the lakes, the more business you
people have to do; and the mora business
the railroads have to do the more en-
ployes they must have, and the more bus
mess they do the better the wages will
be. You have it in your power his year
by your ballots to help restore that policy.
L am glad to meet and greet You here
to-day. l am glad to know that this large
body of street-railroad employees is enrolled
in the ranks of the Republican party for
a sound government, a sound dollar and a
sound protective tariff. | thank you and
bid you good afternoon"
Three rOuSing cheers were then given for
'the next President of the United States.'