The record-union., 1896-10-17
A Delegation of Wage-Earners From
the State Of Maryland.
Hon. s. p. Sheerin, Secretary of the
Democratic National Committee,
and for a Great Number of Years
Secretary of the Indiana Executive
Committee, Bolts the Bryan and
SeWall Ticket.

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Farmers Patriotic League of Maryland
to the number of 800 called on Secre-
| tary Carlisle to-day at the treasury to
invite him to address them in Balti-
more at his convenience. The Secre-
tary received the delegation on the
south steps of the treasury, where H.
X. l.. Johnson, the leader of the dele
| cation, made an address in which he
| said they We're Cleveland and Carlisle
| Democrats, who proposed to vote for
| Mckinley as the representative of hon.
| est money Postmaster Warfield of
| Baltimore accompanied the delegation.
Secretary Carlisle mounted a chair,
and as he did so some one called out,
| Tell the TRUTH
| He promptly answered, Il will try to
do So Then he said:
"Gentlemen, l am very much obliged
to you for this visit, and very sorry that
1t is not in my power to comply with
| the request which you have come here
to make. The reasons why 1 am not
! able to do SO l think are tolerably well
Understood by the public. My business
| has been SO arranged as to permit me
| to make a few speeches in my own
| State but under the circumstances it
| would not be possible for me to go else
where. l cannot accept your invitation
| to go to Baltimore, but one or two
| things have been suggested by the ad-
| dress just made about which l would
Ike to say a very few words to you
while you are here
If there is laboringman in the
| United States who really believes that
the money he is receiving for his wages
is too good for him; that it is buying
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himself and his family, or that it is
Paying rent for better house than he
and his family ought to live In, it is
| his duty to vote for the free and unlim-
| tied coinage of silver at the ratio of
1G to 1. (Cheers)
IF there is any laboringman in the
United States who has saved money
out of his earnings and deposited it in
a savings bank or building association,
| or paid it on a policy of insurance for
| the benefit of his family, and who
wishes it paid back to him in cur
rency worth about half as much as the
| money he paid out, he also ought to
vote for the free and unlimited COMA ge
| Of silver, for that will give him exactly
| what ne wants.
| 'On the other hand, every man in the
| United States, whether he works for
| wages or not, who wants to preserve
| the value of what he has already ac-
| cunlulated and to insure the value of
what he may hereafter receive, ought to
| vote against the free and unlimited
| coinage of silver, and for the mainte-
| nance of a sound and stable currency
IN this country. (Applause.)
| While every man who works for
! wages and receives fixed compensation
| for his services must be deeply inter-
| ested In the result of the pending con-
| test, those men who work for railroad
| companies and other transportation
| companies, many of whom reside in your
city and some of whom are perhaps here,
| have special interest in the question
| involved, because their employers are
| confronted by a situation which makes
it impossible to so increase wages as to
compensate tor the diminished purchas-
| ing power Of the money in which wages
| must be paid, if the policy of free coin
age of silver at 16 to is adopted. These
| companies cannot increase wages un-
| less they can increase the receipts from
| their business; they cannot increase the
| receipts from their business unless they
| can increase the charges for carrying
| freight and passengers and if they
| should attempt to increase the charges
| for carrying freight and passengers, it
| is safe to say that the very men, the
very people who are now most clamOr-
Gus for the free coinage of silver would
be the first to protest against it and to
| demand legislation to prohibit it in all
cases where such legislation does not al
| ready exist. (Applause)
The man, therefore, who works for a
transportation company would find him
self the helpless victim Of policy which
diminished the purchasing power of his
wages about one-half and compelled
| him to work on and on for the same
| number of dollars he received before,
| thus destroying all hope of Improvement
! Of his condition.
But, gentlemen, the laboring men
have their fate in their own hands They
have the power to protect wages against
depreciation, and to protect their coun-
| try against financial disturbances and
ruin, and if they are as intelligent and
| patriotic, as | believe them to be, they
will so exercise their power that no reck-
| less agitator will hereafter dare to ap-
| rroach them in behalf of his wild and
revolutionary scheme of finance and
| civil Government (Applause)
Now, gentlemen, thank you again
| for this visit, and I tender to each and
| every one of you my best wishes for his
| prosperity in whatever calling he may
| hereafter be engaged"
| Then the Secretary retired amid ap-
| plause.
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