The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1896-10-03
ONLY A FEW ARRIVED
THE RAIN KEPT SEVERAL DELE
CATIONS FROM CANTON.
Republican Standard Hearer We'll
coined the Railway Men
and Others.

Canton. Ohio Sept. z9.-Rain has been
falling since early morning. and demons
trations on the Mckinley lawn were en-
tIrely out of the question. Four of the
visits announced were postponed. Sol
diers from the home at Sandusky and
residents of the vicinity arrived in a spe-
eial train of seven coaches soon after
nocn. They were taken TO the taber-
nacle, where Mckinley met them. Adj
dresses were made by Sergeant Hopkins
on behalf of the soldiers and by l.. w.
Hun on behalf of the citizens.
special train Of 10 coaches brought
the second delegation. 1t started from
Walkerton, Ind. and picked up railroad
men, farmers, mechanics and citizens in
general between that point and Chicago
Junction, Ohio. The delegation was pre-
scented by Judge w. L. Penfeld of Au-
burn, Ind.
The Majors Address.
In Major McKinley's address to the cit
liens of Indiana he said in part:
Il am glad to welcome the farmers and
the employees of the Baltimore & Ohio
Railroad company, and the citizens gem
orally who have honored me with this
call today. The farmers of this country
must appreciate and will appreciate, II
they do not already, that we can not in
crease their markets or decrease their
competition. either at home or abroad,
That we can not cut down the COM
petition which they have in India and
Russia and the Argentine Republic, or
in the consumption at home of their prod
Hcts, by cutting down the value of the
currency of the United States. The only
way the farmers can be benefited is
through a larger consuming class. The
mines will not furnish the farmers with
more consumers. He has the most profit
able market for what he produces at
home, and not abroad He is met at the
markets of the world with the products
OF other lands beyond the sea. The only
market he rely on every day of the
year is the American market. and what
he wants to know is how &c make that
market the best. He can not do 1t by
closing the mills, putting out the fires
Fof our furnaces and taking business away
from the great railroad lines of the cOun-
try. He can only improve the American
market by favoring a policy that will put
every man TO work who lives beneath our
flag, and put them at work at living
wages.
THE railroads of the country make
business. They consume 50.00O0O0 tons of
coal year. That is what you engineers
burn every u months. What does that
do? 1t gives you employment while you
are burning it. 1t gives the thousands of
miners employment while they are dig
ging it. That is the kind OF a policy we
advocate-let everybody help everybody
else. l see that the rail- Dad train service
has four distinct organizations. am
Informed that each of these organizations
has department of insurance, mutual in
its character, and conducted and admin
istered by men of their respective or
ganizations.
THE highest tribute TO their business
capacity and honesty is found in the fact
that not one dollar has been lost OIL
souandered. The train men have paid out
nearly $500 600; the fremen nearly $4,000
Geo. the conductors nearly 1000 0O0, while
the engineers, which, 1 believe, is the
oldest organization. have paid out nearly
5000 600. The railroad men. too, are in
vestors and stockholders in loan aSsocia
items, and have money in savings banks
E. or did have What deep interest, there
fore these railroad men have in the
rightful settlement OF the money ques
tion. Not only are they interested il
preserving the integrity of their savings
for their old age or disqualification, anC
their insurance to their families in cast
of accident or death, but they are in
terested in their present and future
wages. / do not believe that the railroad
men of this country will ever consen
to have their savings cut in two, or theil
insurance money paid at the rate of 81
cents on the dollar. Nor will they b'
satisfied to receive their wages in any
thing but a currency which shall b'
worth a full 100 cents"