The record-union., 1896-09-18

| old comrade said to me few days ago,
The distance seems to be getting
greater with each succeeding year.
daughter and applause)
According to a census recently taken
by newspaper in New York, it ap-
pears that in July. 1892, 577 employers
to la, ,231 hands. How was it in July,
1896? (Cries of Not so good.O The
| same employers gave work to 7S,7OO
hands. Thiry-fiVe thousand five hum
| dred and thirty-one men who had been
| employed in 1892 were thrown out of
| employment in 1896 and put in a state
Of idleness, resulting in a loss of more
than 30 per cent. to labor. In July, 1892,
| the wages paid to the H. 81 hands
amounted to $3,927 900. In July, 1896,
the earnings of the 1890 hands
amounted to 81, ,469, ,712, loss to labor
in a single month in those establish
ments of 1,457 ,OO0 or 40 per cent CA
voice, Pennsylvania knows IT'D Yes,
and Pennsylvania, like all the rest of
the country, will vote this year with
that knowledge. (Cries of Right,
right'O In 1892 the monthly average
CT wages paid in these establishments
were S34 80; and in 1896 only $31.
My countrymen, l am one of those
Americans who believe that the Ameri-
can workshop should be protected as far
as possible from the foreign workshop,
to the end that American workingmen
may be constantly employed, and SO
| protected, too, as to be employed at
American wages. tremendous cheer
| ing and cries of whats the matter
with Mckinley? He's all right!'') Nor
do l want products cheaoened at the
expense of American manhood. (Ap-
| pl9use.) Nor do think that it is econ
omy to buy goods cheaply abroad, if
/ thereby it enfOrces idleness at home.
CReneWed applause.) Such goods are
the dearest that the American people
can buy. (Cries of Right you are, Ma
jor.'D
James G. Blaine (applause) that gift
ed statesman, in 1854 spoke words of
| wisdom which seem singularly applica-
! bic to our present situation and the
| present hour. He said: "A policy that
would abandon the field of home trade
must prove disastrous to the mechanics
and workingmen of the United States.
| Wages are unjustly reduced when an
| industrious man is not able by his
| earnings to live in comfort educate his
| cb1lren and save a sufficient amount for
| the necessities of age. The reduction of
! wages inevitably consequent upon the
/ throwing of our home market open to
| the world would deprive the working
men Of the United States Of the power to
do this. 1t would prove a great calam-
lty to our country 1t would produce a
conflict between the poor and the rich,
and in the sorrowful degradation Of la
Dor would plant the seeds of public dam
GER
The Republican party has steadily
| aimed to maintain just relations be-
tween capital and labor, guarding with
/ care the rights of each. A conflict be-
tween the two has always led in the
! past, and will always lead in the fu-
ture, TO the injury Of both. (Applause }
! Labor is Indispensable to the creation
and profitable use of capital, and capi-
| tai increases the efficiency of labor.
| Whoever arrays the one against the
ether is IN enemy of both, (Applause. }
| That policy is wisest and best which
! harmoniZes the two on the basis of alb
solute justice. The Republican party
| has protected the free labor of America
so that its compensation is larger than
it realized in any other country. Great
applause and cries of "Hurrah for Nc
| kinley'O
But, my cOuntrymen, as if the busi-
! ness conditions were not bad enough
| and hard enough to bear we have thrust
| upon US at this most critical time a
proposition to debase the currency of
the nation and to undermine the public
credit We know what partial free trade
! has done for the labor of the United
! States. 1t has diminished it's employ
| 1nent and earnings. We do not propose
I now to inaugurate a currency system
/ that will cheat labor in its pay. The
laboring men of this country, whenever
| they give one days work to their en-
| plOyer, want to be paid in full dollars
| good everywhere in the world. (Great
| cheering and cries of "McKinley's all
rght.O We want in this country good
work, good wages and good money
| (Applause) We want to continue our
| good Government with it's generous
privileges and matchless opportunities
and want it to be Government where
| law is supreme all over (cheers) and for
the equal benefit of ALL (Renewed cheer
! ing)
| My fellow citizens, 1t is gratifying to
| me to be assured by your spokesman
ard my old contradict Will be inspiring
to the whole country-that the voice OF
labor here to-day declares that no party
which degrades the honor of the nation
no party which stands opposed to law
and order, or which seeks to array the
masses against the classes, shall re-
ceive its vote and support. (Great cheer
ing and cries of That's right" and
| ''Burrah for McKinleyi'O
| Golden words are those which will
strike a chord Of sympathy in every
American home where virtue dwelIs and
truth abides (Applause) We have this
year resting upon us as citizens a grave
responsibility. The country has never
failed or faltered in the past to NEE,
every crisis. 1t will not falter or fai
now to uphold the dignity and inde-
pendence of labor and the honor and
stability of the Government, that it may
still further exalt the American name
| Npplause)
| II thank you over and over again foI
this call and for the patriotic sentiments
which have been so eloquently express
| ed by your spokesman. To have the
| hearty support of the workingmen is
indeed an honor for which / thank you
in the name of the cause which I repre-
sent, and is another evidence of the
wisdom and strength of free govern
| mont. May God bring to you and tC
| your homes cheer and contentment.'
Great applause)
Major Mckinley's mail was excep-
tionally heavy this morning Besides
the usual large number of letters con-
| tanning expressions of best wishes, as
| surances of support and congratula-