The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-04
TO FARMERS AND OTHERS.
Good Speech TO a
of PennsyIvanians.

OF PennsyIvanians.
Major Mckinley made one of his best
speeches to the delegation from Washing
ton, jefferson and Greene counties Penn
sylvania, saying:
My Fellow-citizens-The presence of this
large body of people from a neighboring
State is a manifestation of their conf
dence in the Republican principles, for
which make due and grateful acknowl-
without remembering that in it is located
the college of Washington and Jefferson,
famous in the annals of our educational in
situations, which has sent from its walls
some of our most distinguished and illustri-
Gus citizens. No one can speak the name of
your county without remembering that it
was the birthplace of that matchiess states
man and illustrius citizen James C. Blaine.
Although he never reached the presidency
OF the United States he occupied for TWEEN
ty. years, and will ever continue to occupy,
a high place in the hearts and affection of
Il am glad to meet at my home repre-
sentatitves of every part of your popula-
once were-manufacturers and employees of
the Washington Steel and Tfn-plate Com
pany employees of the Anderson and
Eclipse mines-all your population, are
thrice welcome at my door step. Washing
ton county. like every other county within
the jurisdiction of the United States, knows
from sad experience that we have been I'M
der a Democratic administration for the
last three years and a half, and Washing
ton county, like every other county of the
country, is anxious to return to that policy
which for more than thirty years prevailed
In the united STATES, ana uIlueT WnIcn all
our people enjoyed unprecedented pros
perity, and under which our Nation made
its greatest strides in progress and devel-
opment. ca voice, What's the matter with
Greene county?) And Greene county is also
thrice welcome. Al! of Pennsylvania is vel
come. Pennsylvania seems to be of one
mind. (Cries of Wen give you 300, 1000,
Major.
the feweSt workshops has the least internal
the poorest farms and the least
prosperous farmers. We are favored in the
and climate. The statistics of the Depart
ment of Agriculture show that the value of
est farming and agricultural nation. of the
world. An extensive domestic market for
the surplus products of the soil, said Ham
ilton in 1870, is of the first consequence,
and never was of greater moment than
now James G. Blaine declared one hun
dred years later: The farmer knows that
the larger the home market the better his
prices, and that when the home markets
are poor his prices fall
Washington county farmers know quite
we'll, as the farmers in any other part of
our country, how much of their prosperity
being steadily. and constantly employed.
Every new factory that is started in Wash
ington county gives the farmer a new con-
sumner and helps to give him better prices
for the products of his soil. and whenever
the, mines; the Anderson and the Eclipse
and all other mines, are running full time
at good wages the market of the farmer of
Washington county is increased.
THE wisdom of the craftsmanship of Ham
iltOn and Blaine was unheeded in 1882. They
have not only deprived our agriculturists
of the protection they had against the i'm
of foreign wool, live stock and
farm products, not only taken from the
farmers the benefits of reciprocity and new
outlets for their surplus products, but they
now seriously propose to pay them for the
quantity they can sell at iessened
prices in the home market in dollars of de-
preciated value and cheat you in quality
their financial policy, as free trade
has cheated you in quantity.
General Grant, in his annual message to
Congress IN lSI0 said IF If T1aapca u foil 1
ure to provide necessary means to defray |
all the expenses of the government, and
Reputation of the public debt and
then / am still more opposed to
such kind OF revenue reform AS free sill
yer will undoubtedly add to the agricult-
ural, manufacturing and commercial dis
tress now so severe in all parts of the coun-
we are more than ever opposed to it
and to accepting the other defusion of
false finance. The farmers of the United
States are not to be rlisled. The working
men of the United States are not to be
and gives full pounds he is entitled to have
N return full dollars. When the working
employer, giving to that employer an hon.
est days work, he is entitled to be paid
n honest dollars that are unquestioned ev~
erywhere. When the miner puts his coal
On the dump Cf that is what you can it,.
lis ton of coal, a good honest ton. he is en-
tiled to be paid in good, honest dollars.
The farmers. they say, are always wrong
They said they were wrong in 1892 on the
question of protection, but it was the cities
mat We're wrong 1t was not the country
1T all Our farmers are intelligent and
hot dishonest. They have been honorable
patriotic, but devoted, self-sacrifcing and
Upright citizens. and they will vote for
heir own products. They are not to be a.
,eived by false teachings or false teachers
,ut this year, as ir every crisis of our
history, they win be found on
hem every temptation and manfully ssis-
ain the right as God gives them to see
he right. They are true sons of the no.
he men who founded the Republic. They
VIII resist every attempt to rouse class Or
prejudice or spirit.
Patrick Henry sounded the keynote of
MS campaign more than a century ago
ynen he said: The distinctions between !