The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1896-09-10
: DRAWS VERY WELL At HOME
OVER FIVE THOUSAND PEOPLE
FROM PENNSYLVANIA CALL
ON MAI. MKINLEY.
ARRAY|KG CLASS AGAINST Glass.
Maj. Mckinley Deprecates Appeals to
Passion and Preiudiceoby Cheap
Observation-Disclosures Were
Mostly Workingmen.

5000 people. The immense delegations
from Senator Quay's county in the morn
ing was followed by two train loads from
Pittsburg and vicinity, then excursions
of a Pittsburg newspaper at $3.50 in the
afternoon. In response to the presen-
tation Maj. Mckinley said:
1T is very great honor to have this
large body of citizens from the whole
state of Pennsylvania turn aside from
their accustomed occupations and pay me
this visit. This assemblage typifes the
idea of great American commonwealth
in that it represents the equality of all,
which lies at the basis of popular gov
ernment. 1t emphasizes The American
spirit. Here are workingmen in every
department of industry, professional
men, newspaper men-the native born
and naturalized citizens, all equal in
privilege and power before the law all
alike interested in the government of the
country and all with equal voice in con-
trolling and shaping the destiny of our
great republic. Here is II striking pro-
part of those who would divide our citi-
zenship into classes and striking con
dcmnation of such an un-American APP
peal to passion and prejudice. CChcers.)
Nothing can better stamp with disap-
prevail the attempt to array ciGss against
class than this great demonstration be-
fore me today. | have no sympathy
with such appeals, have you? Cries of
no, no. Patriotism is nobler senti-
ment. 1t eXalts but never degradcS. In
seeking to work the masses it would be
worthy on the part of all of lis to try to
get work for the masses. Tremendous
cheering and cries of hurrah for Nc
Kinley) Workingmen, that you should
have called on me this day, set apart by
your great commonwealth to celebrate
the worth and dignity and power Of
labor, is Il great honor which | CRATE
fully appreciate. (Renewed applause and
cries of hurrah for McKinley.) Labor
day is great national holiday is just
recognition of the Oldest and most hon
orable of all callings, Il calling which is
at the foundation Of every industry and
our national progress. Cries of that's
to the men who labor and an honorable
distinction worthily bestowed upon those
who toll.
Labor day, by act of congress, is made
a legal holiday. | congratulate you that
most states have accorded to Labor day
a separate and distinct recognition which
places it, in point of legal recognition,
with the days which commemorate mem
orable events of our own and the worlds
history. You are here today, not from
idle curiosity nor from any motive per-
ill ,.t, DE ,nr,
country, who in few weeks will be call
ed on through our constitutional forms
to determine what party shall control
the government for the next four years,
and what is more important, by what
principles and policies such party shall
be governed. (Applausc.) The repub-
lcan party stands today, as it has al
ways stood, opposed to the continuation
of an industrial policy which cripples in
dustries, rObs labor of its just rewards
and supplies insufficient revenues to run
the government. Cries of good, goodD
1t stands opposed to any change Ill our
financial policy which could put us upon
a silver basis and deprive us of the use
of both gold and silver as a currency.
(Cries of that's right) Involved in the
contest is that fundamental question,
whether we are to have Il government by
law. There are two things which deep
" and personally interest the working
man. They are work and wages. They
want steady work at good wages. They
are not satisfied with irregular work at
inadequate wages (Cries of no, no.;
they want the American standard APP
piled to both With steady work they
want to be paid in sound money. Cries
of good, good)
1--WE have learned that we can not in
crease work at home by giving to those
, abroad, and it is poor policy to keep our
men in idleness while we furnish employ
ment to those outside of our country who
owe no allegiance to this country and
who acknowledge no loyalty to its flag.
(Great applause) If a dollar worth less
than 100 cents is legal tender the
workingman will never get any other
kind. They will always get the poor
est, which will all pass current, and
then. when the price of the products
they buy advances. who will be cheated
cloud cries of the workingman.) who
will raise the workingmen's wages TO
meet the rise in the products they buy
(Cries of nobody.) He can not do 1t IN
aided and by himself; he does not wholly
control the pay roll of his employer; ne
must get somebody else,s consent Deiore
his wages can be raised, and he knows
is to get rise in wages. we can ilN
the law, the kind of money IN whlcn
wages are to be paid, and we VIII never
decree that they shall be paid in ANYTHING
short of the best dollars i'll purchasing
power recognized throughout the clyIi,
lied world. tremendous cheering ana
blowing of horns) When man is out
of a job he is usually out of money.
Laughter.) And to live, he must draw
upon his savings if he has any, Is not
that so. workingmen of Pennsyivanla
Cries of ycs.) If not upon his savings rs
then upon his credit. What the ldle
workingman wants is a job. That means
money to him. The mints, II they were
thrown wide open to the coinage OF every every
character of metal and were multiplied
a hundred fold in capacity, would neither
furnish the workingman a JOB restore
his exhausted savings or give Inn credit &c
Great applausc.) Nothing. my 1elloW
citizens, will accomplish that but v, WorKL
work at fair wages, and that VIII oh'S
come through confidence, restored by