The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1896-09-30
BRYAN and M'EINLEY BUSY
Still Making Campaign Speeches tC
Enthusiastic Admirers.
MKINLEY TO THE RAILROADGRS,
Bryan Speaks at Jersey City and at Tam
many Hall, New York, But owing to
Physical Collapse is Unable to
Make other Speeches.

tirely out of the question Four Of the
visits announced were postponed. The
soldiers from the home at Sandusky and
residents of the vicinity arrived in a special
train of seven coaches soon after noon.
They were taken to the Tabernacle where
Major Mckinley met them. Addresses
We're made by Sergeant Hopkins on be-
half Of the soldiers, and by L. w, Hull on
behalf of citizens. In his response Major
Mckinley said:
ut is indeed a kind and generous act of
comradcship that brings on this unpleus-
ant day the members of the Ohio Soldiers
and Sailors home, of Sanduskv, to this
city to pay me visit. My comrades, l
fully and heartily appreciate it, No body
of men who have visited me in the last
three months have given me more
pleasure or touched me more deeply than
my old comrades of the Sandusly home.
when you entered the service it was
not for fame you entered not for the pit
tance that was paid, you entered not for
glory or for popular applause, but you
entered the service from the purest and
highest motives of patriotism, that no
harm should come to your country. That
was the motive of every old soldier. Think
what the great army of which you were
part was willing to do. They We're will
ing to give life and health and strength
they were willing to die, that the Ameri-
can union might be saved
II have always been in favor of pension
ing the deserving and disabled soldiers of
the republic, and favoring their pensions,
l am now in favor of having their pen
sions paid in money whose value does
not depend upon mere fiat, and cannat be
i I i
ting down in pensions in chat way |
want the pensioners, who are amoug the
largest creditors of the government. great
or small, TO be paid in the best money in
the world, dollars worth one hundred
cents every day and everywhere"
A special train of ten coaches brought
the second delegation Of the day 1t
started from Walkertown Ind, and
picked up railroad men in all branches Of
the work, farmers mechanics and citizens
in general between that point and Chicago
Junction, o. The delegation was pre-
sented to Major McKinleyat the Taberna-
Gle by Judge w. L. Bonfeld, of Auburn,
Ind. In his response the candidate said in
part:
"Ihe farmers of this country must ap-
preciate and will appreciate, if they do
markets or decrease their markets or de
crease their competition either at home OF
abroad by destroying the credit of the
country. We cannot cut down the com
petition which they have in India and
Russia and the Argentine Republic or
increase consumption at home of their
products by cutting down the value of
the currency of the United States.
THE only way the farmers can be bene-
fted is by larger consuming class. The
mints will not furnish the farmer with
more consumers. He has the most
profitable market for his produce at
home. He is met in the markets of
the world by the products of other
lands beyond the sea. The only market
he can rely upon every day of the year is
the American market, and what he wants
to know is how to make that American
market the best He cannot doit by putting
out the fires OF our furnaces. He cannot
do it by taking business away from the
great railroad lines Of the country. He can
only improve the American market by fa-
voring policy that will put every man to
work who lives beneath our flag, and put
them at work at living wages, not the
wage scale of some other nation Of the
world, but the American scale, the best in
the world
THE farmer can no more increase the
value Of his wheat by diminishing the
value of the American dollar than he can
increase the quantity Of his hay by dimin-
ishing the wagon on which he hauls it,
The railroads of the country make busi-
ness They consume 5O,OOO,OJO tons of
coal year That is what you engineers
burn every year. 1t gives you employment
while you are burning it. 1t gives the
thousands of miners employment while
they are digging it,
Il see that the railways train service
has four distinct organiZatiOns-probab
more-that of the engineers dremen,
trainmcn and the Order of Railroad Con-
ductors, with other organizations aux
Hilary thereto among the switchmcn and
telegraph operators. am informed that
each of these organizations has "a depart
ment Of insurance, mutual in its charac-
ter and conducted and administered by
men of the respective organizations The
highest tribute to their business capacity
and honesty is found in the fact that not
one dollar has been lost or squandered
The trainmen have paid out nearly s., 5OO,-
600 The hremen have paid out nearly
S4,OOOOOO. The conductors have paid out
insurance amounting to nearly i2,5OO,O00,
while the engineers, which, | believe is
the oldest organization, have paid out
nearly S6,O0O,OOO
"The railroad men are investors and
stockholders in loan associations and have
savings in savings banks, or did have,
What a deep interest, therefore, the rail
road men have in the rightful sentiment
of the money question, Not only are they
interested In preserving integrity of their
savings for thcir old age or disqualihca-
tion and their insurance to their families
in times of accidentor death, but they are
interested in the present and future wages,
do not believe that the railroad men Of
this country will ever consent 20 having