The herald., 1896-08-25

Gus as you were prior to 1893. Cries of
you are right; we have not;'') and that
the past three years have been years of
unsteady and irregular employment, re-
duced wages, less work and less pay.
(Cries of "Yes.'D
My fellow citizens, the people in 1892
were busy at work and gave little at
tention to politics. They will not be so
Indifferent again. applause and cries
of You are right;they won't.'D They
have more time this year Qaughter)
than they had four years ago and are
giving earnest attention and active
work to the national contest which is
engaging the country. We are growing
more and more to recognize the great
necessity of every citizen giving per-
sona1 and serious thought to his polit-
ical duties. Business men, workingmea
and the people generally are coming to
realize that business and politics are
closely related, and that bad politics
means bad business and that politics
cannot be neglected without endanger-
ing our occupations, our earnings and
our labor.
We have had some distressing expe-
taught us if we do not keep our business
our business will not keep us. Great
cheering) And if somebody else does
our work we will have no work to do
at home. (Applause.) The people are
settled in one purpose this year; they
will not tolerate the surrender of any
more of this business and will as quick
ly as possible recover what they have
already lost. They know how they have
lost it; they know how to get it back
and they mean to do it. tremendous
applause and cries of "Hurrah for Nc
Kinley.")
Another growing sentiment among
the people is that much as they are at
tached to other party associations and
hard as it is to leave their old relations.
they would rather break with their
party than to break up their business;
parties are not son strong as business
ties and the good of the country is more
to be desired than the success of any
political party. Men will no longer fol-
low party when it leads away from busi-
ness success and prosperity; when it's
policies cripple our industries and the
earning power of labor. They will not
follow party whose policies imperil our
financial integrity and the honor of the
country. Great applause)
We are learning another thing my fell
low citizens; indeed we know it already,
thaa no matter what kind of money we
have, we cannot get it unless we have
work. (Cries of you are right.
majorO Whether it is poor money or
whether 1t is good money, whether it is
gold or whether it is silver we cannot
get one dollar of it unless we have en-
ployment for our hands and our heads.
Enthusiastic cheering and waving of
hats and handkerchiefs.) And we know
another thing, that when we have work
we have honest dollars with the most
purchasing power-dollars which will
not depreciate in our hands over night
but which are good every day and every
year and everywhere. (Cries of "Hur-
rah for McKinley.")
| We will not help labor by reducing the
| value of the money in which labor is
paid. The way to help labor is to pro-
vide it with steady work and good wages
and then have those good wages ALWAYS
paid in good money-money as sound as
the government and unsullied as this
nag. (Points to the American hag.)
tremendous cheers and applause.)
thank you, my fellow citizens for
| thls call and for the warm messages
brought to me by your spokesman; and
be assured it will afford me pleasure to
meet and greet any one of my old friends
for l can never forget, and 1 would not
forget the unwavering kindness and
support 1 have always had at your
hands. Great cheering.)